LIHUE — Jeff Davis, known commonly by his radio show host name, “The Solar Guy,” has announced his run for governor as a member of the Libertarian party. “I’m throwing big stones at a very glass house,” he said. If
LIHUE — Jeff Davis, known commonly by his radio show host name, “The Solar Guy,” has announced his run for governor as a member of the Libertarian party.
“I’m throwing big stones at a very glass house,” he said.
If elected, Davis said his goals are extensive — campaign finance reform via state-funded elections, getting rid of the Jones Act to lower shipping costs, doing away with the genetically modified crop industry, promoting food security, implementing a “true energy policy,” legalizing and regulating marijuana, and pinpointing what is causing Kauai’s coral disease outbreak.
Davis is convinced that everyone, except perhaps those who are already on the government payroll, are fed up with the system in Hawaii. His Honolulu-based radio show has given him a platform to get his message out and he intends to continue to do just that. It is his first run for public office.
“Our whole social fabric is very tenuous, our education system is low, our voter turnout’s the worst in the world, because the fix is in — The Democratic Socialist Banana Republic of Hawaii,” he said.
“I can’t live with myself if I don’t come out and try and do what I have to do, and I just happened to find myself in a position where I’ve got a platform,” he added, speaking of his radio show.
Davis, 57, came from California to Hawaii in 1978. He has worked in construction and in the solar industry for more than 20 years.
One of his major gripes is that corporate America has taken over the election process. He wants it fixed. Instead of hiring new people every four years to paint the leaves of the tree green, it is time to address “the poison water at the roots,” he said.
“I want to take special interests and corporate money out of the election process,” he said.
Marijuana? Davis says “regulate it like wine.”
GMOs? He wants to get rid of them in Hawaii in order to allow farmers to grow food once again.
“Hawaii’s prime ag lands are too valuable to be growing seeds to ship out,” he said.
Ultimately, Davis said the residents of Hawaii should know there is a guy out there who’s not afraid to come out and tell the truth. The key to that, he said, is getting enough poll numbers so that he can get in on the upcoming gubernatorial debates.
As for Kauai, Davis’ motto is “a chicken in every pothole.” And his goal is to give the island its government, and prime ag lands, back.
Bottom-up government, not top-down; Farming, not experimentation, he said.
“This is one of the easiest fixes because it is such a small island,” he said. “We’re going to support the ecology and the environment of Kauai. We’re going to treat Kauai as the Pearl of the Pacific, in the sense that it’s not overdeveloped.”
