Bill Kintner (born November 22, 1960, in Cincinnati, Ohio)[2] is an American politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska.
In an interview with the Lincoln Journal Star, Kintner said he's not interested in knowing about his birth parents; he considers his adoption to be a "blessing".
[2] He attended Wright State University, playing college baseball until an injury ended his amateur career.
[2] He started as a volunteer for the presidential campaign of Ronald W. Reagan and worked for a year for the Louisiana Republican Party in Baton Rouge, before moving back to Ohio and, after he married, to Nebraska.
[8][9] Kintner rejected calls for his resignation and paid a $1,000 fine to Nebraska Accountability and Disclosure Commission in 2016 after he admitted to engaging in mutual masturbation on Skype with a woman who tried to blackmail him.
[13] In January 2017, Kintner faced criticism for a retweet suggesting that demonstrators at a women's march weren't attractive enough to be sexually assaulted.
Kintner quickly released a statement saying, “By retweeting a message, I was not implying support for putting women in fear of their personal safety.
"[14] He also blamed the backlash at a "liberal activist campaign" and his political opponents, specifically Sen. Ernie Chambers of Omaha.
[15] Immediately following the response from the retweet controversy, Speaker of the Legislature Republican Jim Scheer planned to introduce a motion to expel Kintner and believed he had the necessary votes.
"[12] The Lincoln Journal-Star newspaper summarized, "Months after a cybersex scandal first threatened to end his legislative career, and after years of complaints about his behavior in office, Bill Kintner was undone by a tweet.
[17] Kintner is married to Lauren (née Hill) Kintner,[2] who was an assistant attorney general under Don Stenberg, a director of policy research for former Governor Dave Heineman,[5] and, as of 2016, served as chief policy adviser to Governor Pete Ricketts.