Lieutenant Governor - Thomas Jefferson

Party: Independent American

Place of residence: Elko

Contact information:

P.O. Box 5242

Elko, NV 89802

(775) 738-9693

Incumbency: Candidate for office

Platform : Coming to Nevada from southern Utah in 1955, Dorothy and I made the Ely area our base, until 1972 when we settled into the job of raising our four daughters who eventually became Elko High School graduates. I became involved with the constitutionalist Independent American Party in 1974. Having survived many political campaigns, several years lobbying in Carson City on right to life issues, public land and water rights issues, protesting the Governor Guinn unnecessary and highly selective tax increase, I led the "Axe the Tax" initiative, helped with the Jarbidge Shovel Brigade to insure public access and worked to curtail the adverse affects of the "USA Patriot Act," through Elko City and County resolutions.

I now find myself looking at the prospect of the most exciting job a Nevadan can hold, the Lt. Governorship of the state of Nevada. In Nevada, besides the responsibility of serving as President of the Senate, the position is charged with promoting tourism and industry. The industry part of this job is the one that whets the imagination. Think of the possibilities, the promotion of an Eastern Nevada oil refinery in order to get Nevada oil on the market to help reduce our international fuel dependency and to create a new and lasting industry for rural Nevada.

More possibilities for industry include: Helping to promote mineral development in East Central Nevada with the promotion of a world class, clean as possible, mill, smelter and refining complex to handle the rich ores of this region.

The Lt. Governor can promote the move away from nuclear waste storage to a move to reprocess the waste into useable fuel products for the financial good of the state and in order to greatly reduce all forms of state and local taxes. The French have already done it. The Japanese have done it. We invented peaceful nuclear uses and we can do it.

The promotion of my "20 years in the making" tax plan can eliminate all other forms of State and local taxes and bring great investments to our state.

Presently and since 1960, the Bureau of Land Management's greatest claim to fame has been to make Nevada safe for multi-national corporations to the exclusion of the general citizen population. We need to permanently reverse this trend with the enforcement of the Nevada Lands Act.