By: Robert Owens, J.D.

DELAWARE, OHIO – Christian Patriot.  Constitutional warrior.  Hardline America first, anti-globalist.  Ohio State Representative Kris Jordan was all of these things, achieving a 100% rating in the New American’s State Legislature Freedom Index.  Lifelong Delaware County resident and longtime political activist David Williams commented “Kris Jordan was a true statesman, and his sudden loss is a stunning shock.”

Kris Jordan was a 16 year veteran of the Ohio General Assembly, having served in both the Ohio Senate and Ohio House.  Immediately prior to his death, Kris was in the process of developing the Ohio Freedom Caucus, launching a Business & Professional legislative roundtable and writing articles on international financial institutions.  That work interrupted, Kris was laid to rest on March 3 having just turned 46, his death attributed to complications of diabetes.  Kris leaves behind 3 young children.   

Kris’s unyielding, unwavering allegiance to his oath of office forced him to be a “No” vote on many Republican bills, especially budget related bills.  Kris was fond of saying, “If any part of the final bill is unconstitutional, it’s all unconstitutional.”  This fact cost him friends and leadership opportunities and was exploited by his political rivals.  Democrats would berate him for his rejection of WOKE policies and Republicans would attack him for “Voting with the Democrats”.  Of course, Kris was voting “No” because the bills in question had unconstitutional provisions in them, and the Democrats were voting “No” on the same bills because they did not have enough unconstitutional provisions in them. 

Kris Jordan believed that the purpose of the Second Amendment was to be a check against tyranny.  Toward this end, Kris was a major reason Ohio saw the introduction of a concealed carry bill that was improved upon over many years relentlessly until Ohio became the 21^st state to pass a Constitutional carry bill.  Kris was a staunch supporter of the Federal Firearms Law Nullification act, a bill that would use the Constitutional doctrine of nullification to make Ohio the 8^th state to invalidate all federal gun laws.  “Kris Jordan was a real supporter of the second amendment” said Rex Gore, owner of Black Wing Shooting center, a state of the art firearms center located less than 10 minutes from Kris’s home.  Fellow Pro 2^nd Amendment candidates for elected office would often come to Kris for advice.  As to campaigning, Kris would always stress the importance of trigger discipline in political photos, “Keep your booger hook off the bang switch!” he would say with a big smile.  After one trip to the range with his new .338 Lapua, Kris joked that his rife would give any liberal lifelong PTSD.

Among many pieces of cutting edge constitutional legislation, Kris was especially proud of what he called the “escrow bill”, which he first introduced into the Ohio General Assembly in 2011. The escrow bill was a form of nullification in which all citizens of the State of Ohio would send their federal tax dollars to Columbus, care of the Treasurer of the State of Ohio.  Those funds would be placed in an escrow account while the legislature of the State of Ohio would determine what monies are due and payable to the federal government for them to properly exercise their duties under Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution.  Then, a sum of money for only those proper duties in line with the proportion of Ohio’s population would be remitted to the federal government with the balance being refunded to the people of Ohio. 

About 20 years ago, this writer was a newly installed volunteer Chapter leader of the John Birch Society.  A local county commissioner was taking heat because he had the audacity to use his office as a bully pulpit to criticize the display of obscene “Art” on the main street of a small town in his County.  I approached him to discuss this and congratulate him for taking a stand.  In the process of this conversation, I listened to this young man named Kris Jordan talk of his pride in America’s heritage of liberty.  I listened to him express an interest in financial institutions in particular.  Understanding his hot button, I obtained for him a copy of two books, “The Law” by Frederick Bastiat and “Rise of the House of Rothschild” by Count Egon Caeser Corti.  God blessed Kris with a keen intellect and he was a reader.  Kris also especially liked “5000 year Leap” by Cleon Skousen.  In short order he was hot on the trial of exposing the anti-American globalists that are at the epicenter of so much that ails our nation.  In 2013 Kris was a featured speaker at the John Birch Society National Council Dinner in Columbus, Ohio. 

As Kris began to have children, he explored the entire vaccine issue with great care and dedication, running into Dr. Sherry Tenpenny.  Her research was a gamechanger.  Kris was a dedicated warrior for medical freedom and was absolute warrior against the COVID lockdowns, vaccine mandates and all of the bad and unconstitutional policies that flowed therefrom.  Kris was well aware of the real issues at play, having read “Unrestricted Warfare” by Communist Chinese Colonels Liang and Xiangsui.

Kris Jordan’s track record of obedience to the Constitution allows us to say that he transcended the title of politician; Kris Jordan is properly considered a Statesman.