Jennifer Hicks
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Jennifer Hicks (Republican Party) ran for election for Attorney General of Nebraska. She lost in the Republican primary on May 10, 2022.
Hicks completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jennifer Hicks was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Arkansas, Little Rock in 1997. She earned a graduate degree from Truman State University in 2000. Her career experience includes working as a homeschool parent. She has also worked as a claims adjudicator for Social Security Disability. Hicks is a 4H volunteer.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Nebraska Attorney General election, 2022
General election
General election for Attorney General of Nebraska
Mike Hilgers defeated Larry Bolinger in the general election for Attorney General of Nebraska on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Mike Hilgers (R) | 69.7 | 434,671 |
 | Larry Bolinger (Legal Marijuana Now Party)  | 30.3 | 188,649 | |
| Total votes: 623,320 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Attorney General of Nebraska
Mike Hilgers defeated Jennifer Hicks in the Republican primary for Attorney General of Nebraska on May 10, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Mike Hilgers | 67.2 | 151,709 |
 | Jennifer Hicks | 32.8 | 73,906 | |
| Total votes: 225,615 | |||
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Legal Marijuana Now Party primary election
Legal Marijuana Now Party primary for Attorney General of Nebraska
Larry Bolinger advanced from the Legal Marijuana Now Party primary for Attorney General of Nebraska on May 10, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Larry Bolinger | 100.0 | 912 |
| Total votes: 912 | |||
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Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Jennifer Hicks completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Hicks' responses.
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My husband and I moved to Nebraska from Arkansas in 2004 so that he could take a job which would enable me to stay home with our first child, who was a year old at the time. We now have three teenage boys, all homeschooled. I can proudly say that I have raised three young men who have strong conservative values and the courage of their convictions. They know that standing up for what they believe in can come at a cost, for they have each experienced it firsthand. (One example is that my oldest was forced to withdraw from Peru State College and give up his full-ride scholarship because he would not wear a mask to attend class.) Witnessing them having to face such consequences—and seeing that things in the world are only getting worse and not better—is what motivates me to overcome my strong desire not to be anywhere near the political swamp and to enter into the fray to fight on their behalf. It is to protect my kids from further losses of freedom and opportunities that I am running for office. I have decided to insert my own voice and to remind the government that following the U.S. Constitution is not optional and that the government exists to serve the people—not the other way around.
- Our vote is our voice in government. Without that, we are not free people.
- The government exists to serve the people—not the other way around.
- “There’s nothing I can do," should NEVER be an acceptable answer for any leader to give.
Election integrity is my top concern. Our vote is our voice in government, and control of our elections in no longer in the hands of we the people. Big Government (which includes both state and federal levels) collaborates with Big Tech to control our elections--and they do not permit us the oversight necessary to ensure that votes are being counted accurately. "We the People" have been cut out of the process completely. Our ability to have a say in our government at the ballot box has been reduced to nothing more than political theater, and so many of the problems that we are now facing are a direct result of who it is that was installed into the highest office in our country. The insecurities that currently exist in our elections is very much an emergency, and voters deserve to have their constitutional right to a free election upheld by those currently serving in office. (But they are failing us.) "We the people" have a right to know that our next election in May will be secure. The way we secure it is by voiding the contract that the State of Nebraska has with the company Election Systems & Software, for that is the point in our elections where the federal government (in collaboration with Big Tech) has taken hold of our elections. I entered the political arena because no one in government is echoing my voice. I have no representation in government, and so that is why I have become a candidate and why I believe election integrity is vital to whether or not we remain free.
I believe that if the office of the Attorney General is to be at the "intersection of law and public policy," then it should mean that it is the role of the Attorney General to provide oversight of the execution of legislation meant to address the needs of the public--which reflect the political leanings of the time in which they are written--to ensure that policy is not set which would infringe upon the rights of others in the practice of it.
Absolutely! I have been appalled that our current Attorney General (as well as other attorneys general throughout the country) have not done more with regard to taking on issues of medical freedom and election integrity. I also believe that AGs across our nation should have taken action over American citizens being held as political prisoners and being denied their rights following accusations made against them with regard to their presence at our nation's capital on January 6, 2021.
Our current AG has not been responsive to requests from the people (and has made it clear that he does not work for the people, but instead for the state) when he has been asked to look at the constitutionality of how our elections are being conducted in Nebraska. The overreach of the federal government into our elections is something that the AG should have addressed. He still should--before the primary in May. The people deserve to have the transparency necessary for them to know that their votes are counted as they are cast. Our vote is our voice in government. Without that, we are not free people.
Our current AG has not been responsive to requests from the people (and has made it clear that he does not work for the people, but instead for the state) when he has been asked to look at the constitutionality of how our elections are being conducted in Nebraska. The overreach of the federal government into our elections is something that the AG should have addressed. He still should--before the primary in May. The people deserve to have the transparency necessary for them to know that their votes are counted as they are cast. Our vote is our voice in government. Without that, we are not free people.
I believe that all experience has the potential to be beneficial and to inform a person's actions, whether in his or her job, or in all other things. What is LEARNED from experience determines whether or not that experience brings with it a benefit, so I don't believe that time spent inhabiting a role in government or politics is necessarily beneficial. Senator Biden has almost half a century of previous experience in government and politics under his belt. (Let's go Brandon.)
There are so many people whom I consider role models, but one who has played a significant role in guiding me as I began to get actively involved in politics is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ? His writings about civil disobedience took on new meaning for me as I found myself faced with the choice of acquiescing to put on a mask that I believe to be nothing more than a measure of social control--or to hold to my beliefs and defy the "rules" by refusing to wear one. I never have worn one, but when masks were first becoming "required "(and then mandated), I made the decision--directed by God--that I would not submit to wear one. I often found myself being the only person in a busy store who was not wearing one. Throughout much of the COVID-19 response, I would find strength and courage in the writings of MLK, Jr. In his "Letter from Birmingham Jail," he wrote "there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.. ... A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law." Medical mandates (both masks and vaccines) threaten to push us backwards toward a return to prejudice, segregation, and denial of equal access to services to those who fail to submit to irrational demands of a tyrannical government. Increasingly--and not just isolated to issues regarding medical freedom--there has been a failure of our government to defend the rights of the people. The overreach of government has not been limited to issues of medical freedom. More and more, our government is failing to follow the U.S. Constitution, and I firmly believe that Dr. MLK, Jr. was right when he proclaimed it to be the duty of a citizen to disobey unjust laws. Peaceful civil disobedience is warranted when rights are denied.
"The Constitution of the United States with Index, and The Declaration of Independence," published by the National Center for Constitutional Studies is what I would direct people to read if they want to better understand my political philosophy.
Freedom is the legacy that I hope to be able to leave my children. It saddens me tremendously that my teenage kids live in a world with fewer freedoms than I had when I was their age. The shutdown of our country over the CCP virus and the consequences of the failure of our elected Republicans to demand that the November 2020 election be proven to have been conducted fairly has led to a rapid erosion of freedoms, and it has come at a great cost to our children in so many ways. The reason I am running for office is so I may do all that I can to ensure that the future for my kids is one in which they will live as free people and not as subjects to their government.
My legacy to the world will be the three wonderful boys that I have had the privilege to call my sons. They are conservative patriots, just like their mom.
My legacy to the world will be the three wonderful boys that I have had the privilege to call my sons. They are conservative patriots, just like their mom.
Three historical events come to mind at the moment that I recall having a lot of emotion tied to when they occurred. One was the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion in 1986. I was eleven at the time, and my classmates and I watched it on TV from school. We went from being excited to watch the launch to suddenly devastated at what had occurred. It was very sad to see. Another event that I was surprised to have felt so impacted by was the death of Princess Diana in 1997. I was not one to follow the goings on of the royal family, so it wasn't for that reason that her death still stands out in my mind. No, the reason it stands out in my memory is because I learned about her death on the internet, and that was the first time that I realized just how much the internet had changed the way and the speed with which information was being shared. We have grown accustomed to receiving our news in what is close to "real time" now; and we are also now used to seeing people's reactions to the news on display in an interactive way. But back then, it was not yet the norm, and it was that event which drew my attention to how things were changing. I was 22 at the time. And finally, of course, I will never forget the chaos and confusion of the morning that the twin towers fell in 2001. I was just starting my day at work when the news came in. There was a lot of confusion and fear. And, of course, tremendous sadness at the loss of life. I was 26.
My first regular job was working at Hardee's. I don't recall precisely how long I was there (just under a year, perhaps) before I moved out of my parents' house and went on to wait tables and work as a skycap (curbside baggage check) at the airport to pay my way through college. (I never took out a loan and paid as I went, so I was able to graduate debt-free.)
"Bad Reputation." (Joan Jett)
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2022 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on March 11, 2022
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