Donald L. Vance: Résumé Constitution Party Congressional Candidate Illinois District 18

Darrell Castle/Scott Bradley: Constitution Party President/Vice President candidate

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Chad Koppie: Constitution Party US Senate candidate for Illinois

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Darryl Glenn: Republican Party US Senate Candidate for Colorado

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Petition: “Congress … officially recogniz(e) Black Lives Matter as a domestic terrorist organization.”

http://support.horowitzfreedomcenter.org/declareblm/

Petition: National Petition to Slash U.S. Funding of the United Nations

https://secure.giveworks.net/ccagw/slashUNfunding/PAU5820

“Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.” ~ William Penn


Restore the Constitution
Take Back the Nation

I am a Christian, Constitutionalist, conservative.

Work history:

1) Paperboy at the age of 12

2) After school, part time grocery clerk at local A & P from age 16-18

3) Summer time factory work at Caterpillar Tractor Company, East Peoria, Illinois summer of 1966 and summer of 1967

4) Teacher at Cissna Park High School, Cissna Park, Illinois from 1970-1971

Teaching American government, American history, and P.E. Coaching varsity baseball, fresh-soph basketball, freshman basketball, and assistant track coach. The varsity basketball team was the last District school to win a basketball game winning the District and Regional tournaments. (After that year, Illinois switched from all schools in one division to a two division system. District tournaments for the smallest schools were eliminated.) Cissna Park was the last District school to lose a basketball game losing to Danville in the Sectional. Danville finished 3rd in the State that year. [school population 200]

5) Teacher at St. Charles High School, St. Charles, Illinois from 1971-1980

Teaching American government, American history, economics, and consumer economics at various times [school population 2400]

6) Owner of Gunslinger Tax Consultant LLC from 1980 - 2010

June, 1980 - June, 2004 in Tucson, Arizona [After moving back to Illinois some clients wanted me to continue doing their returns even though I was living in Illinois. I officially retired in 2010 after the Obama Administration applied requirements for preparers at the federal level which I had no intention of following.] 

7) Owner of Gunslinger Publications L.C. from 1997 - the present

Author of The Black Sword: The Secret U.S. Army in Vietnam © 2008

Author of Constitution Workbook for Gunslingers © 2011

Author of Constitution Answerbook for Gunslingers © 2011

Author of Bible Questionbook on Homosexuality for GODseekers © 2013

Author of Bible Answerbook on Homosexuality for GODseekers © 2013

Author of The Bold Church of Jesus, the Christ: The Bold Church and the Holy Spirit Questionbook © 2013

Author of The Bold Church of Jesus, the Christ: The Bold Church and the Holy Spirit Answerbook © 2013

Author of The Bold Church of Jesus, the Christ: The Church Individually and Collectively Questionbook © 2013

Author of The Bold Church of Jesus, the Christ: The Church Individually and Collectively Answerbook © 2013

Planning on writing Books 2-6 in the The Black Sword series. In 2017: theme of politics concluding with the 2016 campaign. In 2019: theme of education. In 2021: theme of family. In 2023: theme of the church. In 2025: theme of politics after the 2016 election.

Education history:

1) Graduated from Morton High School, Morton, Illinois in 1965

2) Graduated from Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois in June of 1969 with a Bachelor of Science in social science with a certificate to teach middle school - high school [I also had a certificate to teach middle school - high school in Arizona although never used.]

3) Graduated from Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois in January of 1971 with a Master of Science in political science [Actual course work was finished in August of 1970. At that time, the graduation ceremony was not until January at the end of the fall semester.]

4) Illinois real estate license in 1972 [I took the course to learn about the real estate market before buying our first house.]

5) Arizona real estate license in 1981 [I took the course to learn about the Arizona real estate market before buying additional Arizona houses. I flew into Tucson for a long weekend and bought a house before we moved to Tucson]

6) Taught myself to do tax preparation work

7) Taught myself to write books

8) Taught myself to publish books

9) American Constitution class at Pima Community College, Tucson, Arizona in the summer of 1997

10) Economics class from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona in the fall of 1999

11) Learned about Texas State government, Texas federally elected officials, and presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz while living in Texas from June of 2013 through August of 2015. I supported Senator Ted Cruz for President as the best hope for restoring the Constitution as written and amended.

Civic, political history:

1) Elected to the Marana School Board, Marana, Arizona in 1982 [Arizona has five member boards of education. I was elected in the cycle that elects two of the five members. There were five candidates running. Both incumbents were defeated and I received the largest number of votes of any of the candidates. At the time, I was the youngest candidate ever elected to the board (from what I was told). I had lived in Arizona for about two and one half years.]

Member from 1983 - 1986 (Clerk of the Board 1985)

[During these four years, the school district built 3 elementary schools, 1 middle school, and 1 high school. Through my board motion our school district was the first district in Arizona to move girls’ softball from the winter months to the spring and girls’ basketball from the spring to the winter months. After the Tucson Unified School District also changed, the change in seasons became the standard for the State.]

2) Manager for girls’ and boys’ little league softball and baseball

Girls’ softball in 1983 and 1985 (9-12 year olds)

Boys’ baseball in 1984 and 1986 (9-12 year olds)

3) Volunteer for American Cancer Society during most of the 1980’s

4) Independent candidate for the Pima County Board in 1984

I was challenged off of the primary ballot for lack of enough nomination signatures. I was supposedly eight short. Later, two different employees of the clerk’s office told me I had enough signatures. Some registration cards were conveniently lost to keep me off the ballot in what would have been a 3 candidate primary. (Long story that will be in a future book based upon The Black Sword) I spent $1,000 in the general and received 7% of the vote.

5) Democrat candidate for the Arizona House of Representatives in 1986

Arizona elects two representatives and one senator from each State District. The District had a Democrat incumbent and a Republican incumbent. I won the second spot on the ballot in a three way primary. The incumbent came in first. I defeated a lawyer/doctor in the primary by 43 votes. None of the political experts gave me a chance of winning the primary. Both incumbents won the general election.

6) Democrat candidate for the Arizona House of Representatives in 1988

Two weeks before the filing deadline for the primary, the Democrat incumbent called me and said he had decided to run for the State Senate. He asked me to run for the State House of Representatives taking his place on the ballot. In the three way primary, I received the most votes and was on the ballot. Of the four candidates—the incumbent Republican and a Republican challenger, two Democrat challengers—I was the only candidate that was pro-life. Our internal polls showed I was a solid second in the voting. I made a strategic mistake deciding not to campaign on my pro-life position. When newspaper endorsements occurred, the major paper—extreme Left Democrat—stressed my pro-life position as the reason not to vote for me. Both Republicans won.

I promised that if I ever ran for office again, I would boldly proclaim my pro-life position throughout the campaign. I am pro-life without exception. Every abortion is government sanctioned murder. Abortion must end. In the 2000 election, I decided the Democrat Party could not be saved from within. The Party had left me. I only vote for pro-life candidates. Government sanctioned murder of innocent unborn babies is the American Holocaust!

7) Worked to recall the Governor of Arizona 1989 [The recall was successful but the General Assembly impeached and convicted him before the recall election.]

8) Worked to successfully stop a sales tax increase to finance a Tucson cross-town freeway in the 1990’s

9) Worked to successfully stop a sales tax increase to finance a Tucson rapid transit train system in the 1990’s

10) Wrote a political blog “Political Discussion; Christian Values” July 2005 - June 29, 2015 when Google locked me out of all my blogs.

http://votevance2016.blogspot.com/2016/07/google-business-giant-locked-me-out-of.html

In 2014, I wrote the following blogs:

http://votevance.blogspot.com ~ campaign website for write-in candidacy for Texas Congressional District 19. It was a precursor to running in the Republican primary in 2016. Aaron Shock’s resignation and Darin LaHood’s election changed the District and State from which I would run.

http://christiangunslinger.blogspot.com ~ pro-life

http://christiangunslinger1.blogspot.com ~ political discussion

http://christiangunslinger3.blogspot.com ~ political discussion

http://christiangunslinger5.blogspot.com ~ traditional marriage and family

http://christiangunslinger7.blogspot.com ~ 2014 elections

11) Morton Tea Party member including being the group’s first Treasurer

12) Successfully urged the Morton Village Board to ban video poker gambling machines within the village of Morton as allowed by State law [Morton is the only downstate municipality that I know of to specifically do so.]

13) Organized and participated in the “Forty Days of Prayer for Life” in 2012 in conjunction with our church and other local area churches in relation to the abortion clinic located in Peoria, Illinois. 2012 was the first time our church participated.

14) 2014 write-in candidate for Texas Congressional District 19

15) Constitution Party Congressional Candidate Illinois District 18

I am a Christian, Constitutionalist, conservative.


Restore the Constitution
Take Back the Nation

For Life, for liberty

Don L. Vance

“With a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.”