Democratic candidate Jack Davis, no stranger to independent thought, has called for opening up ANWAR National Wildlife Refuge and coastal regions for domestic oil production as well as an increase in the nations nuclear power plants. He is also calling for investment in alternative energy and conservation.

“Those profiting from the status quo want you to be afraid. Afraid of nuclear energy, afraid of drilling in Alaska, afraid of drilling in shallow and deep water off our coasts. We don’t need to be afraid.”

While all three of those measures are being heavily pushed by the Republican Party, Davis’ own Democratic Party has come out staunchly against them. Davis’ two primary contenders are calling for increasing investment in alternative energy resource but I have yet to see definitive positions on nuclear energy or domestic oil production. Attempts are being made to get official responses from the campaigns.

Davis has a long history of supporting ideas and policies that run counter to the national and local Democratic Parties. A Republican for fifty years Davis left that Party because of its trade policies but has remained a vocal critic of illegal immigration, gun control laws, excessive taxation and pork-barrel spending.