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April 22, 2021 03:12 PM UTC
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Loren grew up where the good weed is.
Literally
I researched and commented on Loren/Ron’s dual identity a week ago, responding to a query by realist. If you’d paid attention, Pols, you could have scooped Awen at the Gazette.
As far as Loren/ Ron’s shady past, there are a number of court dates having to do with financial matters in his record. Someone with paid access to LexisNexus or other legal databases can dig those up.
And if his bio is to be believed, he was a CIA spook with a career in military counterintelligence, a fluent speaker of Arabic , who worked with Russians on nuclear inspection, and was an expert on use of drones in various middle eastern countries. . Perhaps he needed to move and change identities because of the spy history. Someone with access to military records could check up on that.
I see that Hanks’ old campaign websites have been scrubbed as of today. The Library of Congress still has a screen capture.
So does the Wayback machine: https://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20101104195912/http://hanksforcongress.com/
An early version of his campaign website appears to have been written by someone not fluent in English: https://web.archive.org/web/20210115170906/http://www.hanksforcongress.com/importance-of-law/
“Crowdsourcing” requires at least credit or a h/t where due.
I also found quite a bit of this some weeks ago, but I still marvel at the fact that most news media folks haven't even scratched the surface on who Hanks really is. For one thing, they consistently identify him as being from Penrose. As I've pointed out previously, the unincorporated rural "area" that calls itself Penrose has a different rep in the State House – Stephanie Luck. Do any Denver Post, Colorado Springs Gazette, etc, etc reporters read ColoradoPols? If not, they should. What kwtree has outlined should make a journalist just a bit curious about who Hanks really is (i.e What was he doing at the US Capitol on Jan 6th? Whose directions was he following? Why doesn't he reveal what part of Fremont County he lives in – it's NOT Penrose).
As noted before – this troglodyte lives in caves north of Canyon City.
trog·lo·dyte
noun: troglodyte; plural noun: troglodytes
(especially in prehistoric times) a person who lived in a cave.
a person who is regarded as being deliberately ignorant or old-fashioned.
What was Hanks doing at the Capitol on January 6?
His campaign website, archived by the Library of Congress, reveals a man who wanted to be a part of government in order to destroy government.
In 2010, under Obama’s presidency, Hanks wrote:
“The gravest threat to America is irresponsible leadership in Washingon, DC”.
In 2010, Hanks was at least thinking like the terrorists who stormed the Capitol in 2021. It will be interesting to see if he turns up in the Parler chats and FBI video archives. From viewing Hanks’ biography and claimed skill set, he could possibly have aided the insurrectionists with aerial surveillance.
Hanks is a conspiracy theorist and a nutcase. If you doubt this, read the“issues” page on his current campaign website. It’s one long rant demonizing “Marxist” Democrats, predicting election “surprises”, hatred for Bernie Sanders, complaints about the deep state and how they engineered a coup for Biden, whom he calls “a puppet for cloaked evil”. accusations against Jared Polis of fraud and assault, etc. “Unhinged” barely describes it.
Hanks uses a lot of the same language that the Oathkeepers do, about citizen-soldiers, i.e. militia, and loyalty to the Constitution. His issues page details how he marched through Westcliffe with the Custer “Patriots” on July 4. Like his fellow elected RWNJs Boebert and Lamborn, Hanks is sympathetic to and friendly with the militia groups of Custer, Chaffee and Fremont counties.
The public campaign issues page reads like something one would write at 3 am after drinking heavily and listening to Alex Jones and Jeannine Pirro yell all night. It’s difficult to imagine someone who thinks this way interacting collegially with fellow, Democratic legislators. I kept copies, btw.
Then there’s the actual text of what Hanks wrote to his constituents on January 7,2021 from Harper’s Ferry. 9News reported
on the Q theory Hanks promoted: that foreign nationals would drop in with new intelligence and stop the certification of Presidential election results. But there’s a lot more, all of it angry and false, about Antifa, (not Trumpers), attacking the Capitol, and ending “The state of our union is GRAVE”.
In sum, Ron//Loren Hanks is a dangerous conspiracy spreader and terrorist sympathizer, who has no place in the Colordo Legislature.
Ugh! Thought Patrick Neville and Dave Williams, and Lori (In)Saine were the bottom of the barrel and the Repugs couldn't do worse.
Ron/Loren Hanks comes along and says "Hold my Beer".
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Thank you.