Eric Borregard
Green | Michigan
Candidate Profile
Far Left
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
Madonna University, Livonia, Bachelors, 2007-2015
Oakland Community College, Farmington Hills, Associates, 1975-1985
Harrison High School, Farmington Hills, Graduate, 1971-1974
WORK & MILITARY
EB Graphics LLC, President, 2000-2026
EDU Staffing, Guest Teacher, 2011-2024
Prudential Chalet Real Estate, Sales Agent, 2004-2014
Artech Inc., VP & President, 1981-2000
William International Corp., Sr. Illustrator, 1979-1981
AFFILIATIONS
Candidate did not provide
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
Candidate did not provide
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
MI State House, 2012-2024
U.S. Senate, 2002-
ENDORSEMENTS
LIBERAL (1)
Green Party of Michigan
SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS
LIBERAL
GIVEN BY CANDIDATE (4)
Sami Makhoul (2024)
Howie Hawkins (2020)
Jill Stein (2016)
Jeff Irwin (2014)
RECEIVED BY CANDIDATE (0)
OTHER INFORMATION
QUESTIONNAIRE
RIGHT TO LIFE
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not receive taxpayer funds from federal, state, or local governments (including Title X grants).
Strongly Disagree
Under what circumstances should an elective abortion be allowed?
All
Human life deserves legal protection from conception until natural death.
Strongly Disagree
The lives of human embryos created through artificial methods ought to be protected from purposeful destruction.
Strongly Disagree
The Comstock Act, which bans interstate transportation of abortion-inducing drugs, should be enforced.
Strongly Disagree
ECONOMY
What is your position on the minimum wage?
The minimum wage should be $25 an hr. The top 20% of Americans own 80% of the nation’s wealth. That’s why the Green Party is for no wars for oil and a $1000.00 a month Universal Basic Income instead, for the 50% making less than $65K a yr.
Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.
Disagree
When capitalism and market economies are not regulated and managed with the general welfare of all the people in mind, it ultimately leads to environmental and social dystopias. This is the path humanity finds itself on now as we enter the 6th Mass Extinction era.
List your top 3-5 priorities to eliminate government waste.
People need to stop voting for neoliberal Democrats & Republicans who are all bought & paid for by the corporate & wealthy special interests. Large media companies and corporate advertisers need to get out of the two-party debate business; the Michigan SOS needs to be prosecuting this unreported corporate in-kind political contribution. We need Campaign Finance Reform & Rank Choice Voting to make elections fairer. We need to do away with primary elections they are a waste of taxpayer's money.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
What does "separation of church and state" mean to you?
The separation of church and state was really designed to protect the churches from the government. I mean do you really want the government to dictate what you believe in.
Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.
Neutral
In some cases yes and some cases no.
HEALTHCARE
What most closely matches your view on healthcare: A) Healthcare for all should be guaranteed and funded by the government with no private healthcare option. (includes "universal healthcare," "medicare for all," etc.) B) Healthcare insurance funded by the government should be available for all who want it, along with private healthcare options. C) Medicaid and Medicare should remain available, but no other taxpayer-funded programs are necessary. D) Taxpayer funded health care should be abolished in all forms, and Medicaid and Medicare should be defunded.
A) Healthcare for all should be guaranteed and funded by the government with no private healthcare option. (includes "universal healthcare," "medicare for all," etc. The corporate health system run by the giant insurance companies is greedy, selfish and evil.
The government should keep a database of people with various ongoing medical illnesses to assess the economic burden of treatment.
Strongly Disagree
Medical data should be kept for medical treatment, not patient economic class mistreatment.
NATIONAL SECURITY
The Chinese Communist Party poses serious military, cyber security, intellectual property, and global economic threats to the United States.
Agree
Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?
The U.S. has a long history of genocide against its native peoples & a history of racism and apartheid against Latino and Black Americans. We as a country are still trying to get over this. The state Isreal is a bigoted apartheid state. Joe Biden should not have sold Isreal the weapons that encouraged the genocide there. These bombs helped to kill 76K people, 21K of which were children. This sends a bad message about what America stands for. Not only domestically but around the world.
IMMIGRATION
I support the existence of sanctuary cities to protect undocumented persons.
Agree
This as a concept shouldn’t even exist. But it just goes to shows you how hate filled and dystopian the divisions between the Democratic and Republican parties have become
EDUCATION
I support eliminating the U.S. Department of Education and giving control back to states and communities.
Neutral
If the U.S. Department of Education exists just to loan shark to young 18-year-olds and their parents; putting them deeply into debt, making them indentured servant to corporations, ruining their lives for decades, maybe this department should go. Vote Green Party for free college tuition and student loan forgiveness instead.
Foreign governments should be prohibited from funding American education.
Disagree
This question is dumb and paranoid.
VALUES
Government should recognize and support the fundamental right and essential duty of parents to direct their child's health and educational well-being.
Agree
Attempts to physically or socially transition a child to the opposite sex constitute child abuse.
Disagree
A person's sexuality is not just physical.
Marriage is a God-ordained, sacred and legal union of one man and one woman. No government has the authority to alter this definition.
Strongly Disagree
A person's sexuality is not just physical. This question assumes there is an imaginary being that has some how been magically put in charge of all marriages, which is a ridiculous notion.
I support the expansion of gambling in my state.
Disagree
Gambling is a constantly flushing toilet in Michigan where poor naïve people throw their money and lives away. The State of Michigan once hunted down gangsters for the gambling rackets and put them in prison. Now Michigan is the racket and the gangster combined. So, this is just more of that social dystopia I talked about earlier
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
People should be free to believe whatever they want, as long as the don’t use those beliefs to harm or control other people. As far as God goes, it’s all imaginary, he, she, or it doesn’t exist, it is only space and time that are defining our reality.
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Strongly Agree
A library card, student ID or recent utility bill should be all you need.
EQUALITY
Reparations should be given to people on the basis of race.
Strongly Agree
The descendants of Black chattel slavery are due reparations because of centuries of unpaid labor, systemic economic exploitation and historic racism that generationally denied these American’s as much inherited wealth. This is why the Green Party supports a $1,500 a month reparations payment to the U.S. descendants of Black chattel slavery
Biological males should not be allowed to participate in women's sports or occupy biological women's spaces whether it be bathrooms, locker rooms, sorority houses, women's shelters, or prison.
Disagree
The problem with this question is it assumes you agree males should be made superior to females. School sport programs traditionally are sexist in nature. Providing disapportionatly more funding to male programs over the female ones. The school’s unequal attention given males in elite sports serves to instill a sense of superiority, dominance and bullying in the males at the expense of female students. This sense of male superiority cultivated by schools carries over in society, life and this.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Man-made climate change is a global threat and requires urgent political action.
Strongly Agree
This question is so outdated and naive, it assumes the planet can still be saved with some kind of magical government intervention. So far governments around the world have only made the problem worse with every year that goes by.
What do you believe is the most reliable energy source that will supply the growing demand for electricity?
Solar, wind power is also solar because it's the sun that’s creating wind.
ABOUT YOU
When you consider your views on a wide range of issues from economic and social matters to foreign policy and religious liberty, which of the following best describes you overall?
Choose not to answer
Progressive
Have you ever been penalized for sexual misconduct in either civil or criminal court? If so, please explain.
No
Have you ever been convicted of a felony? If so, please explain.
No
CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY
What should be the goal of the criminal justice system?
Rehabilitation not punishment.
Government has a responsibility to protect children from sexual exploitation during online activities.
Agree
Parents need to take more responsibility by keeping AI and the internet away from their children in the first place.
Sharia law should not be accepted or incorporated in any form within the legal framework of the United States.
Neutral
I never studied this so really don't know.
2ND AMENDMENT
What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?
Repeal of the 2nd amendment. There are two steps in amending the Constitution. (1) Proposing and (2) ratification. Proposing an amendment can be done in one of two ways; either (a) a two-thirds vote of both houses of congress or (b) upon the application of the legislators of two thirds of the several states a convention shall be called in each one for proposing amendments. Ratification is done by three-fourths of the several states. So a Michigan statewide ballot proposal is how you begin this.
