Colorado Politics with Ron Hanks

Ron Hanks is running for Congressional District 3 in the State of Colorado.

Ron Hanks is a combat veteran who served in the military throughout the world and across the United States. Looking forward to retirement our out-of-control government forced him back in to public service because Ron could not stand idly by doing nothing.

Ron retired from the U.S. Air Force at the end of 2017 after more than 32 years of active and reserve service, serving as an enlisted man and as a commissioned officer. He worked as a linguist in Desert Storm and during multiple operations, including Northern Watch, Southern Watch, and Earnest Will. During the Global War on Terror, Ron served as an intelligence officer, performing duties in Iraq, Kuwait, and United Arab Emirates.

Ron served in several other capacities during his career, to include as a treaty escort for foreign inspectors from Russia and other countries, as a counterdrug officer in Kazakhstan working to stop the flow of drugs out of Afghanistan that funded the Taliban and Al Qaeda, and as a badged, credentialed counterintelligence agent.

When not deployed or in uniform, Ron worked fracking in the oilfields of North Dakota, witnessing first-hand the benefits of American energy independence, the merits of hydraulic fracturing, and the spirit and know-how of Blue-Collar America.