Nebraska Senator Bill Kintner: Porn Star?

Remember the furor over Hillary and her emails? Did she send them on a private  server? Get them on a private server? Read and forward them on a private server? Remember how the GOP went nuts about that? All that makes me wonder why most of them are so silent about this …

Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts is urging — when he should be demanding — the resignation of state Senator Bill Kintner after allegations arose that Kintner made, and exchanged, a sexually explicit video of himself using his state computer.

Apparently last summer — yes, a year ago now — Kintner asked the Nebraska State Patrol for help with computer problems, for "what he believed to be a potential internet scam that occurred while [he] was in Massachusetts using his state computer." And that’s when the patrol found the homemade porn starring Bill Kintner.

The patrol turned over its investigation to the Accountability and Disclosure Commission last November, and now, nearly a year later ADC Director Frank Daley, who declined to comment further, said the commission is expected to weigh in during a meeting this week.

No wonder nothing gets done. It’s taken a year to look at the porn, investigate the porn, find that the porn was made and distributed by a government official on a government computer.

And Governor Ricketts isn’t so clean either; he allegedly learned of the investigation "shortly after" Kintner contacted the State Patrol last summer. In fact, Ricketts says he spoke by phone to Kintner last summer and urged him to resign if the allegations were true. Ricketts now says he was forced to keep mum while the investigation was ongoing.

The year-long investigation.

Investigators haven't described the video or said whether a permanent copy was ever obtained, but another state senator, Bob Krist, said he contacted the State Patrol last fall — again, almost a year ago — after a woman offered to sell a “sexually explicit” video of Kintner.

In an interesting twist, Bill Kintner has been married for about seven years to Lauren Kintner, Governor Ricketts’ chief policy adviser; and that may explain why Nebraska Democrats are denouncing Ricketts for his handling of the situation:

"It is not enough for Sen. Kintner to resign in shame. Anyone that knew this information and continued to let him sit in office must also resign. Did Governor Ricketts or his staff look the other way so they had [Kintner's] vote in the Unicameral?" — Jane Kleeb, chairwoman-elect of the Nebraska Democratic Party

Of course it makes perfect sense that Bill Kintner is considered one of the Nebraska Legislature's most conservative senators who says his parents taught him “the moral absolutes of Christianity, and I just applied those to everything."

Well, except The Gays, undocumented immigrants and his own porn-making abilities.

Kintner says that women are life’s greatest mystery because “no one understands them. They don't even understand themselves.”

He once likened his fellow senators to monkeys; he is staunchly anti-LGBT and has opposed same-sex marriage, gay adoption, and transgender rights. And he is one of those elected officials who think Christians should let The Gays know that their business isn’t welcome by providing them with “bad service.”

Last year, when arguing against a path to citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants, Kintner called the immigrants “wetbacks;” a class of fourth graders was in the senate chamber at the time. And in June of 2015 Kintner posted a photo of a beheaded woman on Facebook to express his support for the death penalty.

It seems Bill Kintner has an opinion on everything except his own amateur porn career because, on that topic, he’s not talking.

Go figure. It’s the typical GOP hypocrisy; we’ll investigate and investigate and investigate the Democrats but one of our own? Keep him around because we need his vote … unless this gets real ugly, then, and only then, will we throw him under a bus.

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ISBL Asshat of the Week: Nebraska GOP State Senator Bill Kintner

Some folks get on an anti-LGBT tear and there’s just no stopping ‘em …

Days after voting to kill a proposal to protect LGBT individuals from discrimination in Nebraska, Republican … of course … state Senator Bill Kintner took to the radio to explain that gays don’t deserve protected class status because … “men in dresses.”

Oh, but he did. Kintner argued that there are no problems with discrimination in Nebraska and that the US Constitution allows people to violate gay individuals’ civil rights, and that businesses should be able to “make it known” if they don’t want to serve LGBT people by providing them with bad service.

Oh, but he did. And then he dared Nebraskans to vote him out of office if they don’t like his positions on LGBT equality:

“When there’s a majority of people in our state that thinks [LBGT rights are an] important issue, and thinks that they want representation to do that, it’ll happen. There were 40,000 people who elected me to represent them … they sent me down here to do this job.”

To hate; to legislate hate; and, well, to be a dick. Of course, Kintner’s comments are coming at a time when states everywhere are passing, or trying to pass, so-called “religious discrimination” laws that allow people to discriminate against LGBT Americans because the Baby Jeebus said so, though where in the Bible that speech occurs, I have no idea.

And Bill Kintner is the worst of a large, sad, pathetic, hate-filled bunch because he says LGBT individuals don’t deserve a protected class status and then explained it like this:

“So if you get an employee who is habitually late — he’s just not a very good employee — and you sit him down and say ‘Joe, you’re late too often, you don’t get your work done on time, you’re not doing the job right, you’ve gotta straighten up or we’re going to replace you. And he says, ‘You know, I feel like a woman today. Now we’ve got a whole problem if you’re trying to get rid of him.”

Oh, but he did. And when he was confronted with his stupidity by radio host Matt Tompkins, who reminded Bill Kintner that transgender people don’t choose their gender identity, Kintner said:

“Let’s think about Bruce Jenner. Because he wears a dress, does that make him a woman? Of course it doesn’t. Of course it doesn’t.”

First off, dick, her name is Caitlyn, and maybe you should educate yourself about gender identity before you flap your lips again … like that’ll happen.

Tomkins then reminded elected official Kintner that the First Amendment doesn’t grant anyone the right to discriminate against other people and violate their civil rights, something the Constitution also protects, and Kintner said that it does: discrimination is in the Constitution:

“Well, if you have a restaurant, and they’re not overtly discriminating but, you know, they’re kind of making it known that you know, we don’t like men sitting around in dresses, you now, that stuff takes care of itself. Word will get out that this place doesn’t serve everyone. It doesn’t give everyone equal treatment. If you’re a man wearing a dress it takes you an hour to get waited on, and for everyone else it takes 20 minutes … that’s called bad service.”

It’s called discrimination, and when we pass laws against Asshattery, and how Asshats should not be treated equally, I will be standing at the front of that protest line arguing that, while I don’t necessarily agree with asshats, and I don’t really understand asshats, asshats are people, too. And they deserve to be treated equally and hopefully reeducated so they stop saying stupid things … even though that is their right.

I’d still call them out on being an asshat, but, hey, no one’s perfect.

Bill Kintner, the ISBL Asshat of the Week.

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