Montana GOP Congressional Candidate Visits Montgomery for Christmas

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, TX -- It’s not often that a Montana Congressional Candidate visits Montgomery County, Texas, but this one does. Stacy Zinn, a candidate for the 2nd Congressional District in the upcoming Montana GOP Primary in June, was visiting her father Stan Zinn, for the Christmas holiday, and attended The Lone Star Honor Flight Veterans Breakfast Group’s weekly gathering near Lake Conroe, on December 27th. She, along with her father, were on hand to wish the Veterans Happy Holidays, and to say hello to his friends. Stacy is a no nonsense woman, and men will underestimate her, finding out how many different ways she can defeat them with just her thumb. In reality, it’s only five.

Zinn’s father, Stan, a U.S. Marine during the Vietnam War, was Director of Personnel in Tarrant County, Fort Worth, in the early 1970s. And at the behest of the County Commissioners Court, implemented a program to end nepotism in the hiring of Tarrant County employees. He was also in on the stopping of the ‘Little Red Gas Pump’, which prevented privileged county employees in taking advantage of Tarrant County petrol islands, by driving different family cars to work daily to fill their gas tanks. Although Stan was hated by county employees, he did the right thing and maintained the straight and narrow path. It was a path he impressed upon his daughter to fight for what is right and to never give up in life. And In a room full of combat veterans, Zinn more than held her own.

Stacy was born in Denton, while her father finished his last year at the University of North Texas. She grew up in Duncanville and attended high school there, before going off to UT-Arlington for her Bachelors Degree, and obtaining her Masters at Texas Tech.

Zinn chose a career in private security and in the 1990’s, when she was working as an executive protection agent in overseeing the security of high-profile individuals and families. In 1999, Stacy started the process to join the DEA, and her first assignment after finishing the academy was in 2001 along the Southern Border in El Paso. She worked with the FBI in undercover operations against the very dangerous Mexican drug cartels. The duty did come with many risks, such as death threats, and the risk of being harmed on any operation. Stacy was used to being on missions as the only woman on the team, and won the respect of her comrades.

In 2005, Zinn found herself in Afghanistan as a member of a Foreign Deployed Advisory and Support Team (FAST), a tactical team that helicoptered into the mountains, located drug labs, gathered evidence, destroyed the labs, and quickly relocated back to their evacuation landing zones, before their presence could be detected. Stacy spent a total of three years and four deployments in Afghanistan in fighting the opium trade, which of course proceeds went to funding the Taliban and Al Qaeda. She escaped brushes with death, like being shot at by the narco-terrorists in Afghanistan during her tours.

Following her tours in the Heart of Asia, and after the birth of a child; Zinn, her husband and daughter, spent a long tour, over five years, in Lima, Peru. Her duties in South America involved the reduction of drug trafficking in the country, where she trained the Peruvian Narcotics Officers in drug interception programs.

With numerous assignments under her belt, Stacy was assigned to Montana in 2014, initially as a supervisor of a Tactical Diversion Squad. And within a few years, she was the Head DEA Agent in Montana; the first female to hold the position. The state may be unassuming in regards to the drug trade, but it's a growing enterprise, and Mexican Cartels have been making in-roads in the end-user state.

“She has always been athletic, and a go-getter,” said Stan Zinn, Stacy’s father. “I’m very proud of her, and her achievements.”

Zinn, being a resident-agent in charge, came to love Montana, and after her retirement from the DEA in October, she was asked to place her name in the hat for the GOP Primary of the Eastern District of Montana. Stacy always kept tabs of the drug users who overdosed and died in Montana, as well as the young who were known to be involved in the drug trade, taking it as a personal loss seeing that lives have been ruined by the use and distribution of drugs.

Since DEA mandatory retires agents at 57, Stacy had no intention of just sitting around, and twiddling her thumbs. She still, fit as a fiddle, wants to contribute to better our society. Zinn is all about securing our Southern Border, reducing inflation, balancing the budget, and restoring America’s confidence and strength on The World’s stage.

“I still have that fire in my belly to make a positive difference in The World,” said Zinn. “I just can’t sit back and drink lattes all day.”

Zinn sees The World in a lot of chaos, and she is most definitely right. With her National Security and foreign service background, as well as serving the people of Montana in her drug enforcement role, she is more than capable of taking on the congressional task in representing Montanans from the Eastern District as their Representative in Congress.

Stacy appeals to the MAGA and to the Establishment Republicans who support Trump. Montana is not as fractured in the GOP as it is in the battleground states. She said that Republicans by fracturing themselves, by not adhering to their core principles, the risks to the country’s future of security and success on The World’s stage could be catastrophic.

“I’m running for the People of Montana,” said Zinn, who is far from being wealthy like some of her GOP opponents. “I’m looking for voters who have not necessarily been involved in politics before. I’m looking to bring their voices to center-stage to make Montana an even greater place than it already is.”

Zinn is a big supporter of Montana Veterans. Her father Stan served in Vietnam, and she has lived with his service all of her life. And with her many tours in dangerous situations around The World while in The DEA, she definitely empathizes with Veterans who have been boots on the ground in combat zones, and have seen the dangers that that kind of duty entails.

Stacy’s attitude towards jobs for Montanans is ‘bring ‘em on.’ She didn’t mince words in her displeasure when she saw Jon Tester vote against The Keystone Pipeline. Anyone that puts Montana jobs at risk should be defeated.

“You can’t be beholden to Washington, and leave the people of your home state in the lurch,” said Zinn. “There is a price to be paid for that.”

Zinn noted that illegal migrants in Montana are being labor trafficked. You see employees in restaurants for several weeks, then they disappear. It’s an interesting theory, and can be seen here in Montgomery County at several restaurants. Securing the border is of prime importance because unvetted immigration causes problems with reduced work opportunities for low income legal Americans with their competition who undercut their wages. Crime and drugs run rampant, especially in areas where illegal immigrants congregate, and there have been countless cases of Americans being killed by illegals. Then you have military age men, from Africa and the Middle East, all of which could be potentially involved in terrorism. President Biden’s mess has wasted so many trillions in tax dollars, and that goes for his failed foreign policy as well.

In education. Zinn supports reforms that are traditional The simple education of our kids, and not their indoctrination with gender fluid identities, and other concepts that make one and one not equal two. She supports schools challenging students with actual academic standards, and critical thinking skills. Schools to her have continually dumbed down students to where U.S. 9th graders ranked against World schools, have America well outside the top ten in science, and 30th in math. That might be OK to Democrats like Jon Tester, but when you see Asian countries, who have expectations in their students, when Democrat teachers unions and school boards leave our students by the wayside, it really ruins lives in Our Country, making the U.S. ever more dependent on foreign talent.

There is no doubt that Stacy Zinn has her heart in the right place when it comes to Montana. She is a tough lady destined for even greater things. Her father believed in her, and she believed in herself to do the hard, because many in her class would be doing the easy. There will be many in Montgomery County looking to support her as she vies for the Montana 2nd Congressional seat in the GOP Primary this summer. With her record, Stacy has proven herself in tough situations. She deserves a nod from Montanan Republicans in the East District. And it's too bad she can’t take out her opponents with just her thumbs.