Soloflex founder runs third party bid
From our weekly issue dated February 24, 2010
He started the Soloflex exercise equipment business at 33 years old, and now, several years later, Progressive Party candidate Jerry Wilson wants to be Oregon“s next governor.
Wilson was the guest during the Wednesday, Feb. 17 talk show on Grants Pass-based KAJO Radio. Running as a third party candidate has its disadvantages, Wilson said, adding that he gets “completely ignored by the press.“ But he said that it also allows him to speak more freely about issues.
Political insiders speak in platitudes, Wilson said, to avoid offending anyone.
“They really are told not to say anything,“ Wilson said. “So you never really hear anything from them.“
Wilson elaborated on a series of executive orders that he would implement if elected to the state“s highest office. That included the issuing of pardons for persons convicted of consensual crimes. That stance is consistent with Wilson“s longtime and very well-known public disagreement with the War on Drugs.
“People should be able to choose their own poison,“ he said. “People should be able to live the lives that they want to live, so long as it“s not hurting anybody else. It just seems like a matter of basic freedom to me.“
Another of his would-be executive orders is to disband the state“s public employee unions.
“They have way too much power,“ Wilson said.
Wilson said he also would establish publicly funded elections, ban political contributions to office holders and candidates and institute single-payer health care and legal services.
“I would basically put doctors, dentists and health care providers on the state“s payroll,“ Wilson said. “Same thing for lawyers.“
Other Wilson proposals include the founding of a state bank to make zero-interest loans to develop Oregon“s infrastructure, the elimination of all taxes and fees on businesses and banning genetically modified organisms and high fructose corn syrup.
Violent criminals often suffer from “testosterone poisoning,“ Wilson said, which could be remedieded through castration.
“It doesn“t do any lasting harm to the people, it just changes their attitude,“ Wilson said, adding that such a policy could be a better deterrent than prison.
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