Governor - Craig Bergland

Party: Green Party

Residence: Reno

Occupation: Casino worker, teacher, artist.

Age: 57

Contact information:

craig@bergland4governor.org.

www.bergland4governor.org

P.O. Box 20713, Reno, Nevada 89515

Education: High school graduate, several semesters college at UNR, College of the Desert, and Morrison College. Taught post-secondary education - gaming related at several institutions, and am a voracious reader.

Platform: Under my direction, Nevada will become energy independent within 10 years, and begin exporting power on the 11th. We will reduce our citizens' power bills by installing solar water heaters on our homes, windmills in Washoe Valley, full use of our abundant geothermal, and solar PV and focusing power plants both full-scale in the desert, and micro-scale for neighborhoods. I advocate the creation of Nevada Neighborhood Emergency Management Association, since FEMA is broke and broken. It is time for our farmers and ranchers to have the option of growing industrial hemp for their own direct diesel fuel substitutes, and bioethanol, paper, cloth and soil rebuilding. I am currently working to help bring the Nevada Hybrid car to our state, and this will enormously reduce our fuel use. We need a good statewide light rail system, both inner and intra-city. I will establish the Office of Emergency Technology, to research, promote, and expand both new and forgotten technologies, such as seen at the annual 'hit and miss' engine fair (tractor pull) south of Carson City. We will bring Green manufacturing to Nevada, and make it very comfortable for them to be here. We must work immediately to prevent the Lake Tahoe basin from igniting. We will open the DMV seven days a week, fix our unworkable traffic flow system, regulate DMV fees by miles per gallon, and encourage employers to allow 4 - 10 hour day work weeks to employees for an immediate 20 percent savings in fuel costs.