Hugh Esco

Hugh Esco is a founding member of the Georgia Green Party and he has served, on and off, as the state party's Secretary. Hugh ran for public office four times, once as an independent, three times with the endorsement or nomination of the Georgia Green Party; twice for the Georgia General Assembly and twice for Lieutenant Governor of Georgia.   

Hugh hosts and produces a podcast, accessible at:
https://consulting.campaignfoundations.com/btow

He lives in Roswell Georgia and operates a small business offering website hosting, application development, video production and marketing services for small businesses, non-profits, issue advocacy campaigns and Green Party candidates. 

Hugh has been engaged with community organizing efforts since the late 80s and active with the Green Party since 1989. He has held a variety of leadership roles in electoral campaigns in every election cycle since 1992, including municipal, congressional and presidential races. 

Hugh served multiple terms as the co-chair of the Committee on Bylaws, Rules, Policies and Procedures for the Green Party of the United States. In that role he authored and shepherded passage of the Rules for the national party's Quadrennial Presidential Nominating Convention, used in the last four Presidential cycles.

He has done legislative monitoring and advocacy work for the Green Party and a variety of non-profits and advocacy organizations, mostly at the Georgia General Assembly (17 regular sessions and the intervening special sessions), and also before municipal and county governing bodies and for a couple of campaigns seeking Congressional action. 

Hugh served on the Hill as a House staffer in the 109th Congress and has also done some contract work for members of the Georgia General Assembly. 

In addition, he worked throughout the 80s and early 90s in the film industry, mostly in the electrics department, on a couple of dozen pictures, but also on dozens of ads, industrial films and music videos. He has also worked in the IT industry for more than a decade, as a programmer and systems administrator. 

Hugh has developed, over the years, subject matter expertise in a number of areas of public policy, including waste management, transportation planning and funding policy, a variety of areas of election reform and over the past few years issues related to the commercial exploitation of women and children, gender medicine and the sex-based rights of women.