The wrong kind of Republican
for New Jersey

Every week until the election, we feature one of the four candidates challenging the extremist Scott Garrett.

Full Name: Gregory Pason
Party affiliation: Socialist Party USA
Website: www.pason2004.org
38 years old. Resident of Rochelle Park
Anti-racist activist and co-Chair of the NJ Local of the National Writers Union
Married to Andrea Pason for 16 years w/ one son, Trevor (10 years old)

Candidate's statement:

Greg Pason supports:

• Healthcare for All -- a socialized heathcare system under workers and community control.
• Economic Justice -- a guaranteed minimum income, steeply graduated income tax and the elimination of regressive "sin" and sales taxes.
• Abolition of the WTO, NAFTA, IMF -- and other pro-capitalist/pro-corporate "free-trade" agreements.
• Abolish the USA PATRIOT Acts -- and other repressive "anti-terrorism" legislation.
• Reform the Criminal Justice System and Abolish the Death Penalty -- Jobs not prisons. Stop criminalizing victimless crimes.
• Mass Transit -- expand the national rail system and nationalize the airlines. Retire diesel buses and build environmentally-friendly mass transit.
• Workers' Rights -- stronger labor laws and the abolition of Taft-Hartley.
• Education -- stop funding schools through state property taxes and start funding them through the federal income tax. Also, provide free post secondary education.
• Peace and Anti-Intervention -- U.S. out of Iraq, and support the self determination of the Palestinian people. We must end all U.S. military subsidies to Israel.
• Public Works -- a new Works Progress and Civilian Conservation Corp program.
• Political Democracy -- public financing of campaigns and a constitutional right to vote, so voters can not be disenfranchised because of past convictions or discriminated against because of their ethnicity or the color
  of their skin.

Fifth District Challengers:

• Victor Kaplan (Libertarian Party)
• Gregory Pason (Socialist Party)
• Tom Phelan (New Jersey Conservative Party)
• Dorothea Anne Wolfe (Democratic Party)

Featured Candidate Archive:

• Gregory Pason (Socialist Party)
• Victor Kaplan (Libertarian Party)
• Tom Phelan (New Jersey Conservative Party)
• Anne Wolfe (Democratic Party)