Karen Dell Kinnison, December 1, 1967 (Houston, Tex.) -
VP candidate for Independent (aka Non Affiliated aka Unaffiliated) (2016)
Running mate with nominee: Andrew Daniel Basiago (b. 1961)
Popular vote: 79 (0.00%)
Electoral vote: 0/538
The campaign:
Andrew D. Basiago, an attorney with an office based in [Washington State trivia alert!!!] Vancouver, Wash. filed for President as an Independent with the FEC in Aug. 2015.
Basiago's 2016 campaign website offered some thought-provoking statements on the introductory homepage--
Andrew D. Basiago: One Man in the Name of Truth
Andrew D. Basiago is a prominent figure in the Truth Movement.
For more than 10 years, he has shared with the American people the true facts of our great nation’s accomplishments in time travel and Mars visitation.
He has done so as one who served bravely in the two secret U.S. defense projects in which time travel on Earth and voyages to Mars were first undertaken.
As a result of his courageous advocacy as a crusading lawyer, Andy is credited with ending the time travel and Mars cover-ups by the US government on behalf of the American people.
This arduous work in the vineyards of the Truth Movement represented historic breakthroughs in America’s understanding of our past and our prospects for the future.
Today, Andrew D. Basiago is running for President of the United States with a New Agenda for a New America.
He has vowed that if elected President, he will lead the American people into a bold, new era of Truth, Reform, and Innovation as great as they are great.
Join us in supporting Andy in his quest to establish a Presidency as honest, just, and ingenious as the American people
Besiago contended the US government had a secret operation called Project Pegasus, administered by the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency between 1962-1972. Among other things, the Project developed technologies that allowed for teleportation and time travel. Besiago claimed that he himself had been a child "guinea pig" in these experiments, selected in part due to his alleged IQ of 168. As part of this process he said he visited Mars, met aliens, and experienced time travel.
He said he was present at the Gettysburg Address and went forward to the year 2045. Apparently a young Barack Obama also visited Mars as part of the same experiment.
Besiago has inside information that he, Andrew Basiago, will be US President by 2028.
His lengthy platform included--
Advanced Technologies
The President should reveal life-advantaging technologies kept secretly by the US government.
Quantum Transparency
The President should declassify and reveal the technologies in America’s time travel arsenal.
Presidential Honesty
The President should ask living Presidents to admit they were given foreknowledge of their destinies.
Truthful Government
The President should establish a permanent Truth process within the United States government.
Intelligence Reform
The President should transform the CIA by transitioning it to “open source intelligence.”
Pardoning Snowden
The President should pardon Edward Snowden and give him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Extraterrestrial Disclosure
The President should end the ET cover-up in a live, televised address to the American people.
Atomic Transparency
The President should disclose the fact that atomic explosions on Earth attracted the ETs.
Extraterrestrial Contact
The President should craft an ET contact policy that anticipates a diversity of ET visitors to Earth.
Moon Transparency
The President should answer questions that the American people have about NASA’s lunar program.
Mars Transparency
The President should disclose the existence of the secret US presence on the Red Planet.
Space Transparency
The President should declassify the secret space program and treaties with off-planet civilizations.
Reinvestigating 9/11
The President should appoint a new 9/11 commission and release the 28 classified 9/11 report pages.
Missing Trillions
The President should search for the $2.3 trillion that went missing the day before 9/11.
Cosmic Truth
The President should launch a new International Geophysical Year to resolve cosmic mysteries.
Sasquatch Protection
The President should list the Sasquatch under the provisions of the Endangered Species Act.
Government Transparency
The President should ask Congress to make the Freedom of Information Act less restrictive.
Global Abolition
The President should lead an international campaign to free the world’s 27 million slaves.
Banking Reform
The President should require the banks that were saved by the people to do right by the people.
Banning Chemtrails
The President should issue an Executive Order banning all chemtrail spraying by US agencies.
Police State
The President should dismantle the tyranny being brought down around the American people.
Defense Policy
The President should only use force to defend the country and oppose crimes against humanity.
Economic Boycott
The President should organize international economic boycotts to end barbaric acts by nations.
Ending Homelessness
The President should implement nationally Utah’s plan of providing the homeless shelter first.
Ending Hunger
The President should create a federal system of food banks distributing expired grocery store food.
Equal Rights
The President should act decisively to provide equal rights to women in the US work force.
Foreign Aid
The President should end foreign aid to all countries and use the money to aid Americans in need.
Banning Fluoride
The President should ban fluoride from the American water supply on the grounds it is a toxin.
Genetic Integrity
The President should act decisively to protect the integrity of the global genome from ruin.
Health Care
The President should seek to create a comprehensive, single-payer health care insurance program.
Immigration Reform
The President should impose a temporary, across-the-board moratorium on immigration.
Monetary Reform
The President should abolish the Federal Reserve and begin printing United States Notes.
First Nations
The President should seek $100 billion to improve living conditions for Native Americans.
Nuclear Policy
The President should seek a moratorium on nuclear power until nuclear plants are made safe.
Nutritional Reform
The President should fight “diabesity” with a focus on the glycemic index of the American diet.
Police Brutality
The President should end the epidemic of police violence through federal prosecution of local police.
Superpower Cooperation
The President should pursue a policy of “constructive engagement” with the nation of Russia.
Opposing Transhumanism
The President should seek legislation protecting the sanctity of human life from transhumanism.
Peace Economy
The President should spend half of the defense budget on elements of the peace economy.
Religious Tolerance
The President should promote tolerance towards adherents of the major monotheistic religions.
Medical Ethics
The President should uphold medical ethics and protect the right to not be vaccinated.
Legalizing Narcotics
The President should end the war on drugs legally and begin a war on addiction medically.
Freedom Sharing
The President should extend the protections of the Bill of Rights to foreign nationals in America.
Military Justice
The President should seek to place military justice under the federal district courts.
Livable Wage
The President should raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour so as to establish a livable wage.
Forest Protection
The President should rescind the “let burn” policy and return to traditional forest fire fighting.
Social Security
The President should protect Social Security from being cut, privatized, or eliminated.
Opposing Fascism
The President should abolish the post-9/11 agencies of repression of the American people.
Reducing Toxicity
The President should launch a new program to remove toxins from the air, water, and land.
Congressional Reform
The President should put before the American people a plebiscite to reform the US Congress.
Electoral Integrity
The President should protect the electoral process from both candidate fraud and voter fraud.
Online Liberty
The President should protect the right of the people to be free from spying by the government.
Gun Control
The President should sponsor gun control prohibiting gun ownership by the violent and mentally ill.
Presidential Dignity
The President should restore dignity, honor, and reserve to the Presidency by his own example.
Electoral Reform
The President should abolish the Electoral College but restore paper ballots to prevent digital scams.
Presidential Eligibility
The President should introduce legislation defining “natural born” citizen under Art. 2, Sec. 1, Cl. 5.
Decriminalizing Marijuana
The President should decriminalize marijuana and launch an initiative to exploit its many positive uses.
Corporate Democracy
The President should pass legislation to democratize major corporations doing business in America.
Economic Democracy
The President should foster the Five Givens: food, shelter, health care, education, and employment.
Demanding Philanthropy
The President should urge America’s billionaires to build a bold, new national system of solar roads.
Coastal Defenses
The President should fortify our coastal and territorial defenses from terrorist infiltration and attack.
Mentoring Compassion
The President should inspire a dispirited nation by being the leading example of compassion-in-action.
Public Water
The President should make the right to water a civil right and the privatization of drinking water illegal.
Good Neighbors
The President should begin a new guest worker program allowing Mexicans to work in America.
Ending Fracking
The President should ask Congress to make the natural gas exploration technique “fracking” illegal.
Military Preparedness
The President should ask the Secretary of Defense to assess the fitness of America’s citizen soldiers.
Promoting Self-Reliance
The President should ask Congress to legalize all forms of self-reliant natural resource management.
Banning Aspartame
The President should ban aspartame, also known as Nutrasweet, as a dangerous dietary toxin.
Political Representation
The President should ask Congress to make five inhabited US territories states of the United States.
Dolphin Protection
The President should ask Congress to protect dolphins and halt US naval activities harmful to dolphins.
Academic Debt
The President should declare a federal debt jubilee in which all academic debt would be forgiven.
Tesla Teleportation
The President should set as the nation’s chief technical goal achieving global teleportation.
Grid Security
The President should spend $2 billion to retrofit the US electrical grid against an EMP event.
Energy Independence
The President should seek energy independence via solar and wind energy development.
Energy Innovation
The President should address peak oil by launching a crash effort to find a new energy source.
New Energy
The President should make America the world’s leader in cold fusion research and development.
Food Security
The President should build desalination plants in California to preserve our food security.
Disaster Planning
The President should act to craft a national disaster plan responsive to looming Earth changes.
Guaranteed Income
The President should seek to fund a Guaranteed Minimal Income for all American citizens.
Park Safety
The President should require the National Park Service to create a missing persons database.
Participatory Democracy
The President should put before the American people a vote to end the political parties.
One Tax
The President should seek a bold and revolutionary new tax plan predicated on the One Tax.
Internet Legality
The President should call for the creation of an Internet court for claims arising online.
Primary Caregivers
The President should create a subsidy program for primary caregivers of family members.
Power Sharing
The President should propose that Southern Hemisphere nations join the UN Security Council.
Federal Wireless
The President should promote a federal wireless network that is free, fast, and universal.
Protecting Humans
The President should extend environmental protection to human beings in their environment.
Federal Planning
The President should create a nationwide regime of federal land use planning in America.
Greening America
The President should promote new measures intended to achieve the greening of America.
Education Innovation
The President should ask the Department of Education to launch a digital textbook program.
Presidential Outreach
The President should begin a tradition of upon being sworn in contacting all foreign heads-of-state.
Technical Proficiency
The President should ask the Office of Technology Assessment to investigate the computer industry.
Internet Neutrality
The President should introduce Internet neutrality legislation to make the Internet free for all users.
Space Security
The President should expand the US presence in space to protect us from planetary catastrophe.
Global Awakening
The President should go before the United Nations and urge a world of universal human prosperity.
Police Monitoring
The President should sponsor legislation making technical surveillance of the police required by law.
Reviving Manufacturing
The President should launch an urban and technical renewal project focusing on Detroit, Michigan.
Security Innovation
The President should fund smart filter technology to eliminate abuse from the TSA screening process.
Intellectual Development
The President should foster global development by promoting daily per capita egg consumption.
Alternative Media
The President should shun the mainstream media as incompetent and embrace the alternative media.
His website included this message, Thanksgiving 2015: "I would especially like to thank my chief-of-staff Karen D. Kinnison for her actions above and beyond the call of duty these past 12 months. Running for President is a difficult path to tread, and without the true friendship and hard work of Karen, this candidacy would have hung up its hiking boots long ago. Karen, I am eternally grateful."
Kinnison had also served as his speechwriter and campaign coordinator since 2014. Her VP selection was announced in Aug. 2016, although filed with the FEC in July. Besiago told one interviewer--
I have asked my chief-of-staff, Karen Dell Kinnison, of Kentucky, to be my VP running mate because as my chief-of-staff on this campaign Karen has consistently demonstrated a love of country, high character as an individual, and high intelligence. She has repeatedly given me phenomenal, morally centered political and strategic advice and been the bulwark of my campaign. She also, I must acknowledge, pulled “a Cheney” when she came to me and said, “Why don’t you select me for your VP?” She’s a wonderful person who has provided me the best possible colleagueship and guidance as a Presidential candidate and as a human being. I think she would make a truly great Vice President — and President — of this country in the event that I should leave the Presidency.
The Basiago/Kinnison ticket were write-ins for Alaska, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Utah, Washington, and West Virginia. Not all of these states reported their write-in votes beyond a lump sum.
Due to health-related reasons, Basiago decided not to run in 2020.
Election history: none
Other occupations: poet, author, President of Kinnison Communications
Notes:
Kinnison's novel The Birth of the Future (2010) has the following description on Amazon: "After the death of her father, a woman enters into communication with invisible forces - both the dead and the unborn. Her father's ghost, her unborn child, dead poets and other invisible entities begin to take on a stronger presence in her life, as her own high-risk pregnancy progresses to the point of delivery. Her journey continues beyond that moment of birth, reaching 500 years into the future to a descendant of the child she bore - one who now walks on the red planet, Mars."
