Jeff Mallan

Party: Libertarian

Age: 66

Job: President, Artful Expressions Ltd.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In Hawaii since 1986, arrived from Apple Valley California

Lives: Kapa'a

Contact: 808-822-2396, info@freedominourtime.org

Web site: www.freedominourtime.org

Job history past 10 years:
As president and project director of Artful Expressions, I have concentrated on setting up merchant accounts for businesses and specialized in web development.

Ever run for public office? When? Outcome?
I have run for Federal offices in every election cycle since 1988 in Hawaii, except once for Hawaii County Council in 1994. I helped to advance interest and votes with the libertarian agenda.

Other civic experience or community service:
The Kauai College Community Orchestra. The Kauai Piano Trio and The Kauai String Quartet.

Anything else you'd like voters to know about you?
I play the 'cello. I love to play and listen to chamber music.

1) Why are you running for office?
To help to restore the constitution and to restore accountiblity in government, our monetary system and within the social fabric. To turn around the thrust towards miliarism and nationalism with our foreign and domestic policy.

2) Should the U.S. set a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq? Explain.
Yes. Withdraw immediately. Withdraw from all military outposts throughout the world and protect our own borders from foreign agression. Change the interventionist paradigm and commit to peaceful interaction. Reduce militarism as a method of resolving conflict.

3) Should the federal government impose stricter fuel- and energy-efficiency standards on cars, appliances, etc.?
No. Allow and remove restrictions, for example, from oil, coal and gas to enter the continental United States from such places as the northern slope of Alaska. Plenty of fossil fuels are available, domestically, but our politics subsidize countries like Saudi Arabia, who accept payment in dollars. Allow the development of renewable fuels through tax breaks, with less favoritism to oil interests.

4) How would you get affordable health care to more Americans?
Reduce the government monopoly on health care. Remove subsidies to the healthcare industry. Allow the marketplace to offer more choices to the consumer, including alternative forms of medicine. Free competition among insurance companies would engender lower prices, bringing a higher quality of health care less expensively.

5) Do you support the restriction that only U.S.-flagged cargo and passenger ships may serve Hawai'i? Why?
No, Protectionist policies like these only help particular companies, subsidizing them to the detriment of Hawaii consumers by artificially inflating prices and disallowing goods that would benefit the people of Hawaii.

6) Do you support a Native Hawaiian recognition bill?
I support sovereignty for Hawaii, not The Akaka Bill. The effect o the Akaka Bill would be OHA, supersized. The difficulty would be to determine just exactly who is Hawaiian. It would be similar to the dependency caused to a large amount of Native Americans by putting them on a reservation. A plebicite to determine whether Hawaii should secede from The United States would be more appropiate.

7) What changes, if any, would you make to the No Child Left Behind education law?
Eliminate the program. Now it is underfunded, resembling a mockery of education. It ties teachers up with paperwork, taking away from class time. It forces students to study for tests, encouraging conformity, while discouraging individuality and free thinking.

8) What's the No. 1 piece of legislation you'd work to pass in 2009?
Accountiblity. Remove the limited liablity privilege from corporations and politicians, so they would be as accountible as everybody else for their actions. Restore accountiblity within the monetary system by backing currency with a valuable commodity like gold. Prosecute the current executive for high crimes and misdemeanors while in office or after their departure from office.