LOVESalem endorsement for Governor in 2010

While reserving the right to endorse others should they prove worthy, it seems doubtful that any other announced or prospective candidates will ever in a million years be able to bring themselves to propose a platform of such clarity, brilliance, and simplicity:

LOVESalem heartily endorses Jerry Wilson for Governor in 2010 and encourages you to consider him carefully:

Here’s what I will do:

1. Establish an Oregon Infrastructure Bank: Before we can rebuild our infrastructure and re-tool Oregon for serious manufacturing we need a credit resource with capital sufficient for the job. Conventional financing means everything we build will cost more than if we provide our own credit and make it available without usury (excessive interest). We don’t have to play at someone else’s money-changing table. We can set up our own table. It’s easy to charter a state bank. It will be a first order of business to insure full employment, loans being available exclusively for capital projects in Oregon. This bank would be modeled much like the Bank of North Dakota, the nation’s only state owned bank.
2. I will pardon all Oregonians ever convicted of a “victimless” crime and strike the laws forbidding the manufacture and sale of hemp, our state’s most valuable agricultural product. It’s a practical business decision. If you knew prohibition was to soon end wouldn’t you run out and get yourself a Budweiser distributorship? Hemp is the most versatile carbohydrate, a renewable resource to make clothing, food, paper, lubricants and thousands of other products. Rising income taxes, the source of 88% of our state’s revenue would fill our coffers. What about the Feds? Well, they can kiss our bootlegging ass. The right to plant is primordial, pre-constitutional and inviolate.
   
   
3. Allow Juries to judge the law: One would think this wouldn’t be necessary as it’s already in our constitution but the lawyer’s union usurped the citizens as the rightful ruler of society in 1905 by fooling us (with their legal mumbo-jumbo) into believing that THEY are the rulers of society! They are now[,] but a single executive order can fix that!
   
   
4. Campaign Finance Reform: One gets the crime out of government the same way one gets the crime out of prohibition; by taking the money out of it. We cannot have paid shills of special interest telling us how to live. How ridiculous!
   
   
5. Legal Reform: It doesn’t take three lawyers to resolve one dispute. Resolving civil disputes without prejudice is a first duty of government. Since ignorance of the law is no excuse and legal knowledge is available only to lawyers it’s a necessary function of any government to provide that service from tax revenue, like highways. This reform would offer all members of the bar who chose to participate a guaranteed and substantial income to serve the public, a single-payer legal system. The contempt of the public towards the bar today is intolerable. Everyone should respect and trust the “priests” in our church of state. This would insure it. It would also put an end to frivolous lawsuits. The clergy must serve the public interest first, not the commercial marketplace.
   
   
6. Healthcare Reform: Access to medical and dental care for all is a moral issue. A Single-Payer system is the most cost-effective way to deliver it. You’ll never be sold anything you don’t actually need and what you do need you will be paid for from state income taxes. If you want cosmetic surgery or other elective procedures, you pay for it. Pharmaceuticals will be procured at world market prices, a few cents on the dollar of what we’re paying now. What about the Federal law saying that is a crime? What are they going to do, put us ALL in jail? I think not.