Above: Christopher David Borcik / Below: Donald Kenneth Allen
VP candidate for Independent (aka Unaffiliated) (2008)
Running mate with nominee: Donald Kenneth Allen (b. 1947)
Popular vote: 236 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
Donald K. Allen, a veterinarian in Youngstown, Ohio and Independent candidate for President met Christopher D. Borick, an airline pilot in Fayetteville, Ga. and a fellow Independent candidate for President at the Independents' Day forum at the University of Cincinnati April 5-6, 2008. Within the week Borcik withdrew from his campaign and became Allen's running-mate.
Allen's website listed his Presidential priorities--
As President I Will:
1. Complete a secure border fence on our southern border.
2. Sign The Fair Tax Bill to rejuvenate economy.
3. Establish “loser pays” litigation reform and work tirelessly for real tort reform.
4. Transition our monetary system to a specie-backed currency and close the Federal Reserve System.
5. Seek to overturn Roe vs. Wade and return the decision to the States.
6. Work to establish term limits for Congress.
7. Promote oil drilling everywhere in the USA and its territories while encouraging development of all other energy providing systems.
8. Use increased oil royalty revenues from 7. to fund Social Security, while removing SS funds from Treasury to a real trust.
9. Close the UN Headquarters in New York and move it to Geneva.
10. Revoke Most Favored Nation status from China.
11. Withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement and renegotiate all trade agreements.
12. With respect to the First Amendment’s law to not establish a National Religion, allow coexistence of religion and education throughout the Nation.
13. Establish compulsory National Service to include a Civilian Conservation Corps and other non-military and military options.
14. Strictly enforce Article II to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
This will include preventing the Supreme Court from usurping legislative powers and the legislature from overstepping its authority through misinterpretation or expanding on the Constitution’s written word.
15. Privatize all Foreign Aid.
16. Require initial and random drug testing of all federally-elected officials.
17. Ban access to Congressional offices and grounds of all professional lobbyists, political action committees, corporate representatives, and special interest groups. Allow individual citizen continued access to their elected representatives and senators.
18. Create an “Opportunity Scholarship” to ensure that all American citizens who so desire may get a college education tuition-free.
Allen also brought up the issue of puppy mills, no doubt reflecting his on experience as a healer of animals: "As President, I would appoint a secretary of agriculture that would effectively shut down puppy mills through true enforcement of existing law and national educational exposure of this despicable business. Instead of working from the bottom up, I would effectively mandate the dismantling of commercial interstate puppy trade from the top. This would be a no- or low-priority issue for any other candidate."
Allen was a registered write-in in Illinois, Maryland, Ohio, and West Virginia. Ohio accounted for 212 of their 236 popular votes.
Borcik, now based in Utah, is running for President as an Independent in 2020 according to his website https://borcikforpresident.com/
Election history:
2000 - US House of Representatives (Ga.) (Write-in) - defeated
2008 - US President (Independent) - withdrew
2020 - US President (Independent) - pending
Other occupations: US Navy, airline pilot, flight instructor
Notes:
Born Catholic, converted to LDS
