Jeff Peckman

Jeff Peckman earned a high school diploma from Abraham Lincoln High School. His career experience includes working as an entrepreneur.[1]

Who are you? Tell us about yourself.

On March 1, 1954, I was born in Paola, Kansas, about 17 hours after the Castle Bravo nuclear blast lit up the South Pacific. Living on a farm my first five years sparked my curiosity about the wonders of nature. That led to my life’s mission as a “solutionist”.

At age ten, I vowed to find and promote the best solutions to the world’s problems. I enjoy developing innovative strategies to elevate life on Earth, like Archimedes “lever” to “move the world”. My pioneering initiatives created headlines worldwide, even setting local news media records. [See “In the News” at my website.]

Over the last 28 years, I’ve conducted three candidate campaigns and three ballot initiative campaigns. These brought me good endorsements from well-known and influential community leaders. [See my website “Endorsements” page]

Many of the solutions I’ve promoted are extraordinarily affordable and effective. So, they’ll appeal to the full spectrum of voters. These solutions are in areas such as economic development, health, education, energy, public safety, criminal justice, agriculture, homelessness, environmental quality, world peace, counterterrorism, and even disclosure of UFO secrecy. [See my “SOLUTIONS BLUEPRINT”]

I intend to make Colorado a global leader in new economic engines that will not only solve global problems but are predicted to have trillions of dollars in economic impacts over the next 25 years. I just like being helpful wherever possible.

Please list below 3 key messages of your campaign. What are the main points you want voters to remember about your goals for your time in office?

Increasing the coherence in government and society, through coherence principles and technologies, realizes the axiom, “A rising tide lifts all boats”. It benefits all areas of government responsibility. This is vital because a “virus of incoherence” plagues much of humanity. As a result, society has devolved. Government mirrors the collective consciousness of the People. To improve government, and evolve our society to a higher level, more coherence is needed on our collective consciousness. This idea is explained by Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist: "When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."Colorado automotive engineering students could build a car largely out of cow manure that could beat a Tesla in a Formula One race! Seriously! A Colorado-based coherence technology coverts methane into hydrogen and the new “wonder material” graphene. They can use the graphene throughout the car and use the hydrogen for fuel.

This same core technology could achieve Colorado goals for reduced emissions, in two years, without more EVs and tax-funded incentives, and regardless of U.S. policies. They haven’t been achieved in the last 17 years under Democratic leadership. That’s because the Democratic Party does not want to solve air pollution and climate change problems. It just wants to milk these problems to get votes and campaign donations.The “Butterfly Effect” can be engineered to improve the function of government and elevate the quality of life for all people. 700,000 children under age five die each year from air pollution. Colorado has the solution to largely solve this global problem within five years.

Too much is invested in exploiting problems instead of preventing and solving problems. As Buckminster Fuller said, in various ways, “You never change anything by fighting it; you change things by making them obsolete through superior technology.” The new model I intend to create, and be remembered for, will be based on coherence as a fundamental operating principle and a goal worth attaining. This is critical for breaking through the two-party stranglehold on America.

What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?

I’m passionate about every area of public policy where I can offer affordable and effective solutions to major problems, uplift humanity, and be a good steward of Mother Earth’s natural resources. My “SOLUTIONS BLUEPRINT” describes many of the areas I’ve already tried to help over the last 55 years and would continue to help as Governor of Colorado.

These areas include agriculture, education, health, environmental quality, climate change, technology, criminal justice, public safety, counterterrorism, world peace, homelessness, economic development, green building materials, clean energy and government budgeting; truth in politics, news, and public relations; and Disclosure of UFO/UAP/extraterrestrial secrets.

Who do you look up to? Whose example would you like to follow, and why?

Nikola Tesla and Buckminster Fuller stand out. They both had an unwavering life-long commitment to uplifting humanity through the application of technologies and systems they invented themselves. They were virtually unbounded in their thinking. They put human life above personal financial and political gain.

What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?

They should have inspired and inspiring vision and leadership, kindness, friendliness, wisdom, discernment, courage, truthfulness, humility, empathy, compassion, thrift, respect, fairness, dedicated service to humanity, commitment and persistence.

Additionally, they should have the knowledge of how to use the principles of coherence, leverage, and the “Butterfly Effect” to achieve the highest benefits for the People and natural resources with the least use of financial resources.

Finally, they should have bold, yet affordable goals to achieve an upward spiral of quality of life for as far as that spiral can reach.

What do you believe are the core responsibilities for someone elected to this office?

The core responsibilities for the Governor of Colorado are specified in the state constitution and statutes. They include enforcing all laws, approving or vetoing legislation, managing the budget, appointing heads of agencies, commissions, boards, and departments, declaring a state of emergency when needed, and being Commander-in-Chief for the state’s forces, etc. They also need to work with local and federal levels of government.

What legacy would you like to leave?

I would like my legacy to be:

- That I “enlightened the People generally”, in a different practical way than what Thomas Jefferson envisioned through an academic approach. That means championing greater coherence, both as an organizing principle of good self-government, and also specific underutilized coherence technologies that bring unprecedented benefits for virtually all areas of human concern.

- That I inspired the People to embrace a more solution-based economy instead of the problem-based economy we’ve had for so long.

- That I broke through the stranglehold that the major two-party duopoly has had on the People of Colorado, the U.S.A. and beyond.

What is something that has been a struggle in your life?

My biggest ongoing struggle has been convincing elected leaders to apply the most effective and affordable solutions within their area of responsibility to benefit the most people as soon as possible. I now understand why career politicians are inherently incapable and unwilling to prevent and solve major problems. That’s why I’m running for governor myself.

Governors have many responsibilities, which vary from state to state. Which of those do you personally consider the most important in your state?

The most important responsibility is to execute all of the constitutional and statutory duties with the most efficient and effective use of authorized funding, while also providing a bold and inspiring vision for achieving the highest quality of life possible for the residents of Colorado.

In most states, governors have the power to make line-item vetoes. If that is true in your state, what would be your philosophy for how and when to use this power?

Government has gradually deteriorated into a kind of Rube Goldberg machine. It expends maximum resources in overly complex systems to produce minimum results. My philosophy for line-item vetoes would be to measure each line item against the principle that it should provide the biggest and best benefit for the buck to the people of Colorado as quickly as possible. The state budget should not be used to return or solicit political favors.

My current philosophy is still in accord with a proposed Colorado statute ballot initiative I drafted in 1999 and presented to the Colorado Legislative Council in a public meeting. I would apply that whenever the opportunity arises.

The essence of the initiative was described in the “Declaration” as follows:

“Section 13. Appropriations – perfection of state budget criteria (1) Citizen declaration. (a) The citizens of Colorado hereby find and declare that:

(I) To improve the quality of life at the least expense for all the people in Colorado, government should be based on the prevention of problems and on the improvement of every area of human concern with the most effective and cost-effective programs available.

(II) Many highly effective and cost-effective programs continue to be under-funded, ignored, and even obstructed by elected and appointed officials at every level of government for purely political reasons.

(III) Taxpayer money is wasted on ineffective and costly programs, and the citizens of Colorado continue to suffer or be deprived of a better quality of life because lawmakers are often under the influence of special interests who benefit financially from the continuation of problems in all areas of life for individuals, society and the environment.

(b) The citizens of Colorado, therefore, hereby declare that in any state budget request, including emergency spending measures, priority in appropriations shall be given to the most efficacious and cost-effective programs, according to peer-reviewed scientific studies, that may best achieve the goal of the requesting department, agency or institution.”

Under what circumstances should the governor of your state be able to use emergency powers?

A state of emergency can and should be declared when a disaster has occurred, or when a serious or immediate threat exists to public safety, health, or infrastructure, and to help local officials as needed. If must be done under legislative oversight.