JAMES DAVIS FOR GOVERNOR
Rebuilding West Virginia for a Smarter,
Healthier, Cleaner - more Productive West Virginia
Democrat Candidate for Governor
Giving a voice back to West Virginia and uniting the major parties. I will not offer you excuses; I will guarantee you working solutions.
THE PROBLEMS
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I am a disabled veteran of the Army and the Navy,
living on a disability income that equals that of about minimum wage, (Yes, I
live in poverty, as does the greatest majority of people in this state that
holds a minimum wage job.). The military gave to me and paid for me a good
college education and now they are also paying me for the disability they gave.
I am grateful to the military for my very existence and greatly admire the young
men and women who have come after me, willing to give up their life for our
rights, freedoms, and liberties, as I was willing. These young men and
women offer their life so we can live free and enjoy our rights, freedoms, and
liberties. What can we possibly offer these brave men and women that
might show our gratitude for their incredible unselfish sacrifice?
I do not affiliate myself with any
political party; I am a non-partisan Democrat and that is not an
oxymoron. A leader, any leader, a
good leader should never be Partisan. More
often, a partisan leader, as instructed by the candidate’s political party,
ignores the other half of the citizenry. When
a partisan politician or candidate ignores or undermine the will of the people,
that politician or candidate no longer represent the people and the people
should no longer represent that politician or candidate. A citizen should never cast their vote in
a partisan manner, but cast their vote with great wisdom and for the candidate
that will represent all peoples involved. A
leader must be elected by the popular vote of all the people and that elected
person should speak and act in behalf of all the people. A leader must
always be a Mediator and a Negotiator, able to work
with every citizen and every party represented; history has proven that a
partisan politician cannot function to their full capacity as a partisan leader.
The
way other people look at us and what other people say about us is to the honor
or disgrace of the Governor and our Governors have given us our share of
disgrace and dishonor. We have been plunged into blindness of mind and
thought, death from our pollution, destruction of our land, and poverty to a
third world degree because our government no longer represent us, but
represent their own greed and ignorance. Because
of the squabbles, bickering, and divisions between the two major political
parties, their great ideas are lost or placed by the wayside and you, the
citizen, ends up getting what you already have a lot of...nothing. Because
of their nature, a Democrat cannot lead a Republican...the Republican will
rebel. A Republican cannot lead a Democrat...the Democrat will rebel,
(Consider our current governments' achievements of getting West Virginia placed
on the bottom of every bad list, in every category, in the United States and our
Justice System labeled #1 Hell Hole; being placed fifth on the top 10 worst
states to own a vehicle, number one in job mortality rate, number one in child
abuse death rate, number one in chronic childhood diseases and, you will more than likely, reach the same conclusion).
Since I do not affiliate myself with either party, I will not allow their
squabbling, bickering, and division making keep this state at the bottom of
every bad list in America. I will give a voice back to West Virginia and
our great ideas will be heard in government; we will use our ideas to benefit
the people of the state of West Virginia. With just a little cooperation
from our government, this state can rise from the bottom of every bad list
to the top, or above the top, of every good list.
The Republicans have great ideas when
it comes to business; the Democrats have great ideas when it comes to
taxes and the humanities. When the Republicans present great ideas to the
people, and since the Democrats did not generate the idea, the Democrats
undermine the Republican’s idea. When the Democrats present their great
ideas to the public, and since that great idea did not come from the Republicans, they do the
undermining...creating a vicious never-ending cycle of never accomplishing
anything of value or benefit to anyone. They cannot help it; it's just
part of their party’s mentality.
Since the Republicans can never come
to terms with the Democrats and the Democrats can never come to terms with the
Republicans...their greatest achievements will most likely always be: getting
this state located at the bottom of every bad list in America, further
degradation of our labeled #1 Hell Hole Justice system, which is the
concrete of this state, and continue overburdening our courts to where they
can deliver little or no justice. When the courts can only deliver the
amount of justice you are able to pay for, it destroys peoples’ lives and
livelihood.
Because
of our “Left Handed” insurance companies, we are fifth on the list of the
top ten worst states to own a vehicle. Until we restructure the insurance
system, we will continue to degrade even further down on the Top Ten Worst List. I know who has the #1 best insurance
company policies in America, I will implement their great system into ours, and
we will rise from the bottom of the worst list to the top of the best list.
These bottom lists positions are lists that our government seems to be very
proud of and our current government and past governments believe the people who
got us at the bottom of these lists deserve high honors and pay increases and
reelected back into office.
Since the Governor is elected by the people through popular vote and given the power
to speak and act in their behalf, the condition of
this state, the condition of this government, and the way others view and speak
of us is to the honor or shame of the Governor. So far, with this
administration and the administrations before it, we have experienced more than
our share of shame, disgrace, and disappointment. If the people allow this
form of government to establish itself or continue unchecked, this state will
plunge further to the bottom of all the bad lists and end up at the bottom of more
bad lists. Our government, as it stands today, is disgraceful and plagued
with greed and thievery and the people responsible must be removed from office
and held accountable and responsible for their deeds and actions while in
office.
I have excellent Democrat and
Republican ideas for this state, but if I run on the Republican ticket, the
Democrats will undermine everything I try to get done, and if I run on the
Democrat ticket, the Republicans will undermine everything I try to get done,
(again, take a close look at our current federal and state governments).
They cannot help their bickering and division making; it is part of their
political upbringing. We have
allowed this form of government to conduct business like this ever since our 7th
President, Andrew Jackson, created the Democrat party and his archrival the
Republican party; for over a hundred and forty-five years we have allowed these
two parties divide us and cast us into a non functioning system. Since
governors in this state cannot or will not fully function as a Democrat nor Republican, I will be the Mediator/Negotiator
of both parties and I will give a voice back to the parties and make their
divided voices one; I will take the Republicans' good ideas and I will take the
Democrats' good ideas, implement them as one great idea and present that idea to
the state for the betterment of all. With all parties working together, we
all will benefit and this state will start the long painful journey to recovery.
We need to rebuild our state and we
need to start the rebuilding now, not ten years or fifty years from now, but
right now. Every citizen of this state is going to have to get involved
and work hard. We have the technology, and money when used wisely, to make ourselves better...we really
do, and I will use that technology to rebuild our state, rebuild our educational
system so our children can get a safe education-the best and most affordable
education this country can offer, build and rebuild new jobs that will not
close, be outsourced or owned by an outside source, clean up our water and clean
up our air and create a Health Care plan that will be the best in the
nation. It only takes one person, or one very large dozer to move a
mountain, but a group of people can change the world. Other states look at
us with desecration, disgust and place us at the bottom of all their bad lists.
We need to stop allowing greed, greedy people and greedy business destroy our
state; we have to start using our intelligence to destroy the bad lists, bad
labels, and bad people, and turn other peoples bad comments around to where they will seek our
knowledge and guidance. We can create the best Educational System in the
country, we can create the best Health Care in the country, we can create the
best Justice System in the country, we can restore our land, clean up our water
and air to where it is the cleanest in the nation, and we can create the best
jobs in the nation; we can rebuild our business and banking systems and we can
regain our dignity. Can you afford
to allow our current government continue with business as usual?
MY PLAN FOR THE GREAT STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
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I was born and reared on the poor side of the tracks of West Virginia and
nothing has changed in that impoverished land. We do not have a banking
system, the greedy politicians collapsed it and it no longer exists; we have no Health
Care plan, we have a dumbed-down dangerous Educational System, we have
lost most of our Rights,
and we have nothing but minimum wage Jobs that pays below minimum wage
and offers no benefits. Our land is rapidly being destroyed by coal and
tree removal and we do not replenish our forests; our coal can never be
replenished and we treat coal as if it will last forever, our water is being polluted by coal and erosion, our air is being
polluted with tons of carbon from coal and car exhaust, and our health is the
worst in the nation because of the misuse of these resources. We
can use these resources wisely; we will use our resources wisely and in
doing so, rise to the top.
Here...we are #1 in Child Abuse
Deaths. More of our children die every year by abuse and
disease than anywhere else in the nation. We
lead the nation in Chronic Childhood Diseases and parents cannot afford
to buy their children medications to heal the diseases...we are told there is no
cure. I know how to stop the child abuse deaths and I will do so if the
people elected me as their Governor. I will be a Governor for the people
and my ideas will not rot by the wayside.
Here...Poverty dominates our every
existence. Greedy politicians control and dictate our Jobs, our Government,
our Land and our Lives. The politicians promise conditions will
improve with their administration...their promises quickly turn to rot and fall
by the wayside. This
is how it has been since we became a state 145 years ago and until we get these
people out of office and keep them out of office, it will remain so.
Here...we do not have a Health Care Plan; our elderly and our
children cannot afford to get sick, nor afford their dangerous over-prescribed
chemical medications. Our Government is constantly bickering and
creating divisions amongst themselves to keep from creating a Health Care
plan that the poor can afford. They say they do not have the money nor the
knowledge to
make it affordable unless they raise our taxes, yet they promise 14 new Coal to Liquid Plants,
at eight hundred million dollars per plant, that will take twenty-five years
before the first one starts producing and about ten years after that before
turning a profit for the owner, and the owner is not and will not be a West
Virginian. We do
not have to raise the taxes to have the best Health Care Plan in America
and we do not have to raise taxes to make it work.
Here...we have a dumbed-down
dangerous Educational System where our children graduate with
barely knowing how to spell their names and our teachers are the lowest paid in
the nation. When you send your child to school in West Virginia, you do
not know what condition your child will be coning home in or if your child will
be coming home, because our children are killing our children; our children are killing our
teachers; our teachers are killing our children; our children are abusing our
teachers; our teachers are abusing our children and the politicians place
Band-Aids on the fossilized system and call it New and Improved and try to
convince us that we have the best Educational System in the world.
Here...we have mockery Minimum
Wage Jobs that pay less than minimum wage and provide no benefits.
The few average paying jobs we do have lord themselves over us like plagues,
stealing our property and destroying it...crating a non-livable environment;
polluting our water with gallons of deadly mercury 2+ and other lethal chemicals
to where it is undrinkable; polluting our air with tons of deadly carbons and other
toxins where it is un-breathable; endangering and destroying our health and
bringing our way of life down to that of a third-world state or nation.
Here...our utility companies
embezzle and extort from us and tell us that as long as they do it to everyone,
it is legal; they charge us rates, that for the minimum wage earner is
unbelievably high, (they try to convince us that we have the lowest rates in the
nation) and when we pay their fee, if we can pay their fee, there is little to
nothing left to feed our children or buy their medications. The politicians
and utility owners tell us we have the lowest rates in the nation; for minimum
wage workers they are the highest in the nation.
Here...our government allows big
business to use our two greatest resources, coal and natural gas,
as a destructive force to devastate our land, put tons of carbon into our
air, put gallons of mercury 2+ into our water and degrade our health. It
does not have to be this way; we can use coal as a medicine to heal our
land, clean up our air, clean up our water, and keep us healthy and even to
protect ourselves. We can filter natural gas so it is "O" polluting
and use it as a source to charge electric cars (that we have had for over a
hundred years) and other electrical equipment when
there are no charging stations close. These natural resources should bring
us health and safety, not death and destruction.
Here...the politicians have
eliminated, or overwritten, or amended our Rights-Freedoms-Liberties
where they barely exist and tell us it is for our own good and they are
protecting us and we believe them when they say, 'You have Rights'! The
politicians have degraded our Justice System with ludicrous and worthless
laws to the point where it has been given the label #1 Hell Hole and
there is no longer justice in the Justice System. They have made
themselves exempt from the laws they force upon us to obey without question, and
they have turned our police into vigilantes where they can pick and choose upon
what and whom they want to enforce the law and what laws they want to enforce
and with our dumbed-down Education System, they believe there is no one
with the intelligence to know or tell the difference or understand what they are
doing. We are not sheep, nor idiots, nor stupid, nor live under a
communist regime; we no longer have to allow this form of government lead us
down all the wrong paths. We can return our government to a democracy that
is governed by the people and for the people; we can make our vote count and our voices heard. This November, it does not matter if you are a
Democrat or Republican, place your check mark beside my name, James Davis,
for Governor and we will return our government to the people and
for the people.
MY PROPOSAL TO YOU
This is my word to you, and it will be honored.
I
will not offer you excuses; I will offer you working solutions.
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I cannot do this job by myself, no one can, you will have to don your work
cloths, roll-up your sleeves and follow me to the capital and together we, the
citizens of West Virginia, will take back our state, take back our land, take
back our government, take back our jobs, take back our laws and rebuild it.
If you are tired of being forced to choose between "the lesser of the two
evils", now you have a choice, make an effort and make a change...vote for James Davis on the
ticket for Governor in November and I promise you, it will be a vote for a better life.
Make a contribution for a smarter, healthier, cleaner, -more productive West Virginia to:
James Davis for Governor
8 McKees Creek Road
Summersville, WV 26651
304-872-9696
DavisJms7@dslextreme.com