Asher Escoffier

Asher Escoffier is the current chair of the National Union Party and a representative in the house of representatives from Ohio. He was the speaker of the house when he was a Democrat and from 1996 until 1998 when the Democratic Party lost their majority and the Republicans were able to elect their speaker candidate to the house. He also is a board member of Abendstern Corp. and founder of Century Vision Corporation.

## Physical traits

Escoffier is a white male with brown hair and blue eyes. He is of Quebecois and Hebrew ancestry although the Quebecois part is more noticeable. He tends to wear a pair of aviators, grey dress pants, a belt, white dress shirt, red tie, a suit jacket in a shade of blue, black dress shoes, and a pin either saying vote or promoting a political campaign. His facial expressions range from mildly annoyed to smug smile on his face.

## Character traits

He is known as a professional and kept together politician who knows how to navigate the political space with relative success and is seen as charismatic by some. He occasionally has a short temper but very rarely shows it. Most of the time in office he tries to argue in a professional and calm manner and tends to be a popular candidate among the people.

## Political Stances

Asher Escoffier describes himself as a social liberal and a social democrat. He believes in equal rights of all including LGBT people and highly favors socially progressive legislation. He is an economic center-leftist preferring a model similar to the European nations including universal healthcare, public transportation, and enhanced public education. He says that his views are partly inspired by FDR and calls himself a New Dealer a lot. When it comes to foreign policy, Asher Escoffier supports tightening ties with NATO and the UN. He tends not to support foreign intervention unless it is to protect US allies like the NATO nations and Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia, and New Zealand. He is against tariffs and likes freer trade though is also conscious of companies moving out of America and taking away jobs from workers for cheaper pay overseas. He tries to acknowledge that fact and try to find common sense solutions to solve that. He supports environmentally friendly policies like nuclear energy as an alternative and carbon taxes.

## History

Asher Escoffier was into local politics in the 80s until eventually he joined the Democratic Party in 1988. He ran as a representative for the US House in 1992 and won in the state of Ohio. He also founded the Congressional Progressive Caucus and was their first chair. In that same year, he launched the National Union Association as a collaborative group for centrist, center-left, and center-right politicians to work together on. He saw the same success in 1994 and in 1996. In 1996, the former Democratic speaker Dan Marino ran and won the presidency. Escoffier was the most popular Democratic house candidate so he won the speakership in a landslide in 1996. Though in 1998, the Democrats lost the majority and the Republicans convinced some Libertarians to vote their speaker into power, so Escoffier had to resign from the speakership. That same year of 1998, Escoffier announced the transformation of the NUA into the National Union Party, just after the Movement for Popular Democracy and Green Party formed. He left the Democrats on good terms and went to become chair of the NUP. He still supports Dan Marino for reelection in 2000.