"When the house is on fire, you don't call the plumber — you call the firefighter. When the economy is failing, you don't call a politician. You call an economist."
Announcing in 2009, Khavari made a straightforward case: Florida had enormous economic potential and enormous economic problems, and the people who helped create the mess weren't going to fix it. His plan proposed using ordinary banking rules through a new Bank of the State of Florida — earning billions a year for the state treasury, saving homeowners thousands a year, covering the state's investment losses, and then cutting taxes. No higher taxes. That was the whole pitch, and he took it around the state as an independent candidate for Governor in 2010 and again in 2014.
In 2016 he ran for Miami-Dade County Mayor, bringing the same lens home: sea-level rise, the Turkey Point nuclear plant, and the future of the Biscayne Aquifer. The campaigns ended, the argument didn't — it became the books above, and the promise in his old slogan, Economic Security for All Floridians, is still the promise that runs through every one of them.
