Hugh Esco
 Your Green Party Candidate
for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia




How to reach me!
   Where I Stand on the Issues!
   My Record of Community Service
   My responses to candidate surveys!
   Press Releases from my Campaign!











Why I am running
for

Lieutenant Governor:

 I believe our state needs:






    
   
  • someone who will aggressively advocate
   for the progressive politics
    
   that will materially improve the conditions of our lives.
    
   
    
   an     
   independent political movement 
   that will re-energize democratic participation
    
   in our communities. (I've worked the last 9 years to promote
   such a movement). 
    
   
    
   the     
   values  of a Green
   politics:
   
   
    non-violence, social justice,
   participatory democracy,
    
   ecological integrity and real community. 
    
       
   
   
    
   
   
    • 




Let me
hear from you!

 Your vote, financial contributions
and

volunteer energy are needed and appreciated.



 




   
GGP Message and Fax: 800/
   447-6694

   Hugh's Beeper: 404/ 737-6350

   
   hesco@greens.org







Paid for by the Committee for a Just and Sustainable Future --
1998 

Richard Robbins, Treas., P.O. Box 5332, Atlanta GA 31107 















I
believe we must: 



Democratize Elections 

Let's get private money out of public policy making so government
serves people, not profits. Let's increase the voice of women, racial
and political minorities through proportional representation. Let's
open the ballot so it serves as a marketplace for our ideas,
not just ideas acceptable to the corporations.



Free the Motor Fuel Tax 

Let's use this public money for the transportation needs of all the
people, rather than profits of the asphalt/ auto/ petroleum lobbies.
Let's fund projects for pedestrians, cyclists, the elderly, the
differently-abled.



Prevent Pollution 

Let's restore a public trust of stewardship toward our planet,
replacing a corporate agenda of waste and greed with a commitment to
sustainable life. Let's protect and restore Forests and Green spaces.
Let's ban incineration, reduce reliance on landfills, implement zero
pollution discharge, promote organic food production, expand
wilderness areas and agressively pursue a goal of Zero Waste by
2020.



Provide Health Care for All 

Let's provide universal, single-payer, comprehensive and holistic
healthcare that replaces the corporate system of illness treatment
and removes the profit motive and a scarcity mentality from
healthcare decisions.



Implement a Restorative Justice System 

Let's institute a restorative system of justice to heal our
communities and promote public safety. Let's end mandatory minimum
sentences, eliminate the causes of domestic violence, and treat
addiction as a health rather than a criminal justice problem.



Protect the Rights of Working People 

Let's insist that employment and economic development be rooted in
and accountable to our communities. The right's appeal to racism and
a self-serving individualism must not distract us from the
destructive corporate policies of downsizing, plant closings,
union-busting, poverty wages, welfare-bashing and prison labor.



Protect Human Rights for All 

Let's ensure a right to affordable housing, holistic health care, a
healthy environment, a publicly funded education relevant to our
children's future, and a violence and discrimination-free
society.










A
record of community service:








    
   
  • Project
   South: The Institute for the Elimination of Genocide and
   Poverty - member of the team
   which researched and wrote the first two editions of
   Who
   Owns Georgia Politics?: The Role of Private Money in Public
   Elections.
    
   
    
       Green
   Party - served in various
   capacities at the local, state and national levels, currently a
   second term founding member of the Coordinating Council for the
   Georgia Green Party, organized in 1996.
    
   
    
       Atlanta
   Bicycle Campaign
    - founding board member, served
   three terms. Developed Project BUG to support the organization of
   Bicycle User Groups in every jurisdiction of metropolitan Atlanta
   to build grassroots participation in transportation advocacy
   efforts.
    
   
    
   Georgia Environmental Project - 18 months of providing technical
   and organizing assistance to communities under attack from
   incinerator and landfill proposals. Coordinated the 3RCS Campaign
   to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Compost & Survey.
    
   
    
   
    • 












To reach the Georgia
Green Party , link here!





Here
is how I've responded to candidate surveys: 




   
The
   Sierra Club, Georgia Chapter 

   
   
The
   Georgia Equality Project
   

   
   
The
   Georgia Container Recycling
   Coalition 

   
   
NGCSU
   Political Science Student Assn Voter's Guide





 












Here
are some of the press releases:




   
Esco
   Says We Need a Party of Our Own
   May 27th, 1998

   
   Police Escort Green Candidates
   June 14th, 1998

   
   Greens Challenge Election Law 
   June 27th, 1998

   
   Esco to Clean Up Political Litter
    July 28th, 1998

   














Here
is the press coverage:




   
Read our first endorsement by a Daily Paper in Georgia:

   
   
Green
   Party Candidates Offer Clear, Uncompromising Choice by Hank
   Johnson

   
   
published: Athens Daily News/ Athens Banner Herald ,
   Sunday, November 1, 1998

   
   
 
   
   

      
THE GREENING OF GEORGIA: 3
      write-in options for Nov. 3
      
      

         
Richard Fausett , The Flagpole, October 7,
         1998

         
         
 

      

      

      
      
Green
      Candidates Optimistic
      
      

         
Wayne Crenshaw, The Johnson (County)
         Journal, July 29, 1998

      

      

   

   
   
 














Hugh Esco 


 for Lieutenant Governor
of Georgia