17 candidates have entered the running for the position of governor of Idaho. Daniel Fowler is among the many in the race as a Republican candidate.
“I’m a 9-to-5, paycheck-to-paycheck person,” Fowler said. “I don’t have any lobbyists supporting me, I don’t have donations coming in to me, I’m doing everything out of pocket.”
Fowler says a large part of his campaign stems from the fact that he wants to give a voice to the every-day Idahoan.
“I want to look out for people like me, people that are working,” Fowler said. “Because the government is supposed to be for the people. You’ve got these rich people in these government offices, and they tend to forget about us.”
Fowler admits that he hasn’t put too much time into his campaign due to his day job but says he has a plan for the future.
“I do want to bring industry back to Idaho,” Fowler said. “We had logging back in the day; we had mills back in the day. But there’s also a lot of things we can bring in, too. We can get trades here, welding, we can start doing more manufacturing and stuff in Idaho.”
Fowler says the first thing he would do if elected governor is eliminate waste.
“There’s quite a bit of wasteful spending,” Fowler said. “We can save millions just by cutting out the travel vouchers and stuff like that for lobbyists and start putting it back into things that we do need here like fixing the roads, getting construction moving quicker on the roads.”
He also stresses the importance of Idaho education.
“Idaho is not very high when it comes to education scoring and I want to make sure we fix that,” Fowler said. “I know that Brad Little just passed vouchers, and I think vouchers are great, but I think it’s a band-aid. In the long run, it’s going to cost Idaho way more money to utilize those vouchers than it is to just fix the schools and put education where it belongs.”
Registered Idaho voters will find Daniel Fowler’s name on the ballot during the primary election on May 19th.