Connor VlaKancic

Connor VlaKancic (independent) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Illinois. He lost as a write-in in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

Connor Vlakancic was born and raised in Aurora and rural DeKalb County, Illinois, close to the birthplace

of California Governor and U.S. President Ronald Reagan and raised in a pragmatic traditionalist farming

family environment where conscientious behavior and productive work was encouraged and respected.

Graduated from a private college in Chicago, his original career, in Silicon Valley, CA was in semiconductor design and production, creating multiple breakthrough fabrication processes. He achieved three U.S. electronics patents in his own name, starting entrepreneurial corporations. In 1994 was first time candidate for U.S. Representative in the 15th CD. He is the author of the original Contract with America that he described to U.S. Representative/GA Newt Gingrich which was his vision of a Congressional cabal of freshmen Congressmen that the GOP utilized to win a huge Congressional majority in the November 1994 General Election.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Revive Abraham Lincoln 1864 National Union Party to inspire and support rational pragmatic candidates to U.S. Federal elective office! I seek to resurrect the Abraham Lincoln 1864 “National U ion” political party to support alternate pragmatic republicanism breakaway candidates, evoking President Lincoln's name and history to mount an empowering alternative to current demonic political machinery. Specific “VoterMag.net” ballot system legislation “THE FAIL-SAFE BALLOT” that empowers them to define their opinion choices providing voters with a real reason to WANT TO VOTE, not simply access to how to vote.Achieve U.S. Federal legislation that allows business or civic organizations and public and private fraternal organizations to allow and encourage political campaign activity WITHOUT any threat or restriction of their 501C3 or 501C4 non-profit status.Achieve U.S. Federal legislation that promotes AND SPONSORS elementary school civic education in U.S. Government structure. Inform and encourage youth and student participation in electioneering activity. Provide 14 year to 18 year youth a new form of official sanctioned political activity opportunities.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

A Voter-Magnet to capture the many registered voters that are angry at Politics-as-Usual that deliberately

refuse to vote to demonstrate their disgust with derisive election rhetoric from corrupt political party

machines will create a voter community of conversation grounded in intellectual humility that respects the

dignity of each individual and cultivates a passion for truth and justice.

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What would be your top three priorities, if elected?

1) Congressional Malfeasance Oversight! Rep. Trey Gowdy has resigned as chairman of the House Oversight Committee. I will strongly seek 116th Congress nomination for this position. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/31/rep-trey-gowdy-r-s-c-announces-will-not-seek-re-election-in-november.html

2) Greater US Congressional legislative support of President Trump's efforts to reduce US Departments creeping growth of regulations.

3) Simple “Illegal Emigrant” resolution legislation for grown youth that were victims of their parents 'international human-trafficking smuggling'. For US Congress to pass legislation that provides these youths, now of senior teenager and young adult age, to be a legal certified “Registered Inhabitant”. These are people living in America, brought to United States without personal malice, are productive in value to America. Efforts to bequeath them U.S. Citizenship is unwarranted compared to their being legally conferred as a “Registered Inhabitant” is their single critical aspiration to live a stable life in America. U.S. Citizenship with electorate vote is not critical to their stability. In exchange for legal status as “Registered Inhabitant”, they pledge and agree and commit that they legally and irrevocably forgo any effort, at any time in the future, to achieve U.S. Citizenship [as has been EARNED by peoples born in other countries that labored through the US State Department mine-field of regulations to be awarded legal US Citizenship]. Furthermore, that they pledge and agree and commit that they legally and irrevocably forswear that their legal status as “Registered Inhabitant” precludes that they relinquish any effort, active or in any way clandestine, to achieve any form of legal or illegal immigration effort and status for members of their immediate or extended family members. Or in concert with any individual or ANY organization to achieve legal or illegal immigration effort and status for any person otherwise known or unknown to themselves. Stop Dreaming... Get real! As U.S. Representative from Illinois, I will pursuit U.S. Federal legislation that will provide “Registered Inhabitant” designation to persons that willfully volunteered themselves to DACA scrutiny.[2][3]

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about? Why?

Voter Empowerment - Advance Ranked-choice voting in Illinois state and US Federal elections for all US Congress legislators. https://[the profile publisher].org/Ranked-choice_voting_(RCV)Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many[3]

[the profile publisher] also asked the candidate a series of optional questions. Constant G. "Connor" VlaKancic answered the following:

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

President Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of our United States! Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld, a Swedish diplomat, economist, and author who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations from April 1953 until his death in a plane crash in September 1961.[3]

Is there a book, essay, film, or something else you would recommend to someone who wants to understand your political philosophy?

AMERICA'S WAY BACK - Reclaiming Freedom, Tradition, and Constitution by Donald J. Devine[3]

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

Communications in a direct personal positive manner. Always speak in a positive vernacular. Expressing firm thought and specific conviction. NEVER start a comment or statement with: "I don't think..." ALWAYS realize that answering a question with "yes" or "no" merely validates the opinion of what other people already think and all you have accomplished is that the other person has put you into an opinion "pigeon hole". Words matter... "NEVER" let your words be taken out of context![3]

What qualities do you possess that you believe would make you a successful officeholder?

Broad eclectic experience in pragmatic rational thought. Extensive experience as international traveler and international business experience as the face-to-face representative of the many major Silicon Valley, California companies where I have worked.[3]

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

Integrity in thought, word and deed. Understand the US Constitution in it's prognostication of America's evolution. Mindful of US Congress being a team play.[3]

What legacy would you like to leave?

To achieve US Congress legislation to legalize Alternate Graded Voting within all US Federal and states and territories.[3]

What is the first historical event that happened in your lifetime that you remember? How old were you at the time?

Maybe not the first, yet certainly the one I have mostly always liked the most. On September 12, 1962, President Kennedy delivered his speech before a crowd of 35,000 people in the Rice University football stadium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_choose_to_go_to_the_Moon[3]

What was your very first job? How long did you have it?

I mowed lawns with a hand push lawnmower. I learned it is smarter to mow grass more often, keeping its length within limits than to let it grow to a greater length that required a huge effort to cut it. Three hot humid Illinois summers.[3]

What happened on your most awkward date?

Was my first one. I got my Grandfathers car stuck in a back-road mud-hole.[3]

What is your favorite holiday? Why?

Flying General Aviation airplanes. I enjoy complex multitasking to exercise my mental cognitive skills. And a great way to travel to off-the-grid fishing locations.[3]

What is your favorite book? Why?

Lots of them[3]

If you could be any fictional character, who would you want to be?

Batman. However, since I can't be Batman, best to be myself.[3]

What is your favorite thing in your home or apartment? Why?

Family[3]

What was the last song that got stuck in your head?

I'm Dreaming of White Christmas.[3]

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

Long list, yet nearly perfect health. There is no wealth like good health![3]

What qualities does the U.S. House of Representatives possess that makes it unique as an institution?

U.S. House of Representatives was felt by the Founding Fathers as their finest creation.[3]

Do you believe that it’s beneficial for representatives to have previous experience in government or politics?

Yes, as in all things, breath of international professional experience especially international political experience. From first time in 2000, I have been a U.S. State Department international election observer with OSCE in Europe. The new emerging democracies evolving out of the breakup of Yugoslavia.[3]

What do you perceive to be the United States’ greatest challenges as a nation over the next decade?

Communications networks security.[3]

If you are not a current representative, are there certain committees that you would want to be a part of?

Chairman of the House Oversight Committee to replace Rep Trey Gowdy.[3]

If you are a current representative, why did you join your current committees?

N/A[3]

Do you believe that two years is the right term length for representatives?

Yes, our Founding Fathers wanted to keep Congressional Representatives on a short leash.[3]

What are your thoughts on term limits?

Not required with many more candidates on a November General Election ballot with Alternative Graded Voting to determine the 50+% elected person. AND identify the particular candidate that received to most LAST choice votes.[3]

What process do you favor for redistricting?

Illinois has 102 counties and only 18 US Congress Representatives. That is average of about 5.5 counties per district. Redistricting following county boundaries would hugely simplify the work of Registrar of Voters personnel.[3]

If you are not currently a member of your party’s leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives, would you be interested in joining the leadership? If so, in what role?

Chairman of the House Oversight Committee to replace Rep Trey Gowdy.[3]

Is there a particular representative, past or present, whom you want to model yourself after?

Abraham Lincoln, Illinois state Representative. The question does not ask 'where' representative.[3]

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