It was straight out of a 1930's-era movie. Jack Davis at a Greece gas station, paying people the difference between the current cost of gas and the $1.50-a-gallon price it stood at when Bush was inaugurated.
Quickly. What came to mind just now? For me and everybody else I've told about this, it was two words: "Buying votes". It felt like a time-warp. But then I remembered that they didn't even have TV back in the days when this sort of thing happened. I expected to see Jack wearing a white suit and a broad-brimmed strawhat as he tossed money into the crowd, a big cigar clenched in his teeth. Reality came rushing back, however, and I had to accept that a millionaire candidate was giving people money as part of his campaign. Is that even legal? It wouldn't seem so.
This makes Jack Davis seem disconnected, at the very least. A wealthy elitist tossing ducats into the crowd in an insulting attempt to garner publicity at the expense of honesty and respect for the voters. In addition to believing this sort of antiquated stunt serves as serious campaigning, Jack Davis says that drilling in the Alaskan National Wilderness Refuge is one of the answers to the current cost of gasoline. He'd have you believe that while at the same time hoping you are so ill-informed that you don't know that we won't see a drop of that oil for nearly a decade. Our own government's Energy Information Administration says ""Seven to 12 years are estimated to be required from an approval to explore and develop to first production from the ANWR Area." http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_publications/arcti... Even then, it would reduce the cost of a barrel of oil by a whopping 75 cents. And all that if we allow profit bloated oil companies to sell us back the oil they took from America's national park.
It can't be said that Jack Davis is ignorant of economics, though. He currently holds up to $35 million worth of oil and energy stocks. I'd be buying people some gas, too. But, I wouldn't be trying to buy their votes.
I remember Jack arrogantly waving his three million dollars at our Genesee County committee function last winter. He never addressed the issues that effect us -- he just said that he would spend his 3 million to defeat his primary and general election opponents. He then walked out before dinner was served. Needless to say he did not win over any in attendance with that performance.
His gimmick in Greece was just another display of arrogance. He snarled up traffic and wasted more fuel with a long line of cars idoling. Not to mention the police presence paid for on the tax payers dime. This was political theater at its finest. 
