Kenneth Kilgo

Kenneth Kilgo

For

Alabama House of Representatives District 12

2010

Kenneth Kilgo was born in Cullman County and raised on a chicken farm near West Point in the Spring Hill community. After graduating from West Point High School, he went to college and worked in the field of “electrical construction” in Birmingham.

In 1981 Kenneth married, and enlisted in the U.S. Army. His wife of 28 years, “Karen Jones Kilgo,” currently works at the Air Traffic Control Tower for the Federal Aviation Administration in Huntsville, Alabama. They were married just one week prior to Kilgo reporting to Fort Sill Oklahoma for active duty with the U.S. Army. Kenneth and his wife Karen traveled throughout the U.S. and Europe on various assignments with the Army. They spent 12 years in Europe, and their daughter, “Nicolette” was born in Florsheim, Germany. This was during their final assignment where he served as the “Senior Enlisted Advisor” for the “Defense Threat Reduction Agency”-European Operations from 1995 through 2001.

“We feel that we have been very successful in upgrading our community facilities, infrastructure and business climate, while enhancing the quality of life for all our citizens. The town looks drastically different than it did 3 years ago. (Sidewalks, curbs, gutters, new property) We have broken ground on our sanitary sewer project, and Jack’s Family Restaurant’s Inc. We have tried to ensure that we meet the day to day needs of a small town, and still think strategically and look to make West Point better in the future for our children and grand children. We will do the same for the citizens of District 12.”

“I am disturbed about the trends in our national government in Washington, as well as our state government in Montgomery”. I am a conservative Republican, and I believe in basic conservative Republican principles;

· Pro-life

· I believe and support the 2^nd Amendment

· I believe in a smaller but more effective efficient government

· I support small businesses with a fair tax rate that provides an opportunity to prosper and help their community

· I support education

“Legislators have an obligation to include the community leadership in the appropriations process. No need to worry about “alternative” methods of helping the community if there is constant open, honest dialogue between the state delegation, and municipality leadership. I will respect our government and make it work!”

“I want to represent the people of this district in the Alabama House of Representatives in a manner that reflects the moral and ethical value system of the vast majority of District 12 constituents”.

Kenneth Kilgo

Kenneth Kilgo announced his candidacy for Alabama House of Representatives District 12, at the Republican Breakfast meeting in May, 2009.

Kilgo was the senior arms control inspector/escort/negotiator in the “U.S. Theater of Operations”, in Europe. He was responsible for making decisions on the U.S. Arms Control Policy in a hostile territory. He deployed on more than 50 diplomatically sensitive arms control missions in the former Soviet Union, and Warsaw Pact nations. Kenneth wrote the U.S. policy on “Arms Control Inspections”, in support of the “Dayton Peace Accord.”

Kilgo, served as an advisor to the warring factions of the former Yugoslavia. He was also in charge of the first U.S. mission in Kosovo supporting the Kosovo Diplomatic Observer Mission.

Kenneth Kilgo, was elected to the West Point town council in 2004, and has served as Mayor since November 2006.

Kenneth and Karen at the “Meet Senator Jeff Sessions” dinner held in Cullman