Scott Summers Running as Green Party State Treasurer Candidate

Former McHenry County College Trustee Scott Summers is running for State Treasurer on the Green Party ticket.

Last year he was the Green Party candidate for Congress in the 16th Congressional District.

On his campaign web site, Summers offers this “sampling” of “programs and outreach:”

* Enforce fiscal responsibility, including advocacy for a balanced state budget and debt reduction
* Champion “microcapitalism” through a program of home and community-based businesses, using microloans and microgrants
* Develop green-collar jobs and training programs
* Recognize that economy and ecology really are bound up as one: commit to a statewide “eco-eco” program of business and development
* Stand up for citizens, and work hard to rein in predatory financial practices and dubious lending schemes
* Foster financial education as early as grade school, and equip children and adults alike with smart money management skills for their personal lives

Here’s what he says about himself:

“Scott Summers has been an attorney for over twenty years. He concentrates in estate planning, probate, and business. In addition to his law degree from Northern Illinois University, Summers holds an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a liberal arts degree from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

“Summers has long been active in a wide variety of civic pursuits. Between 2005 and 2009, he served as an elected trustee at McHenry County College. Scott was a member of the Board of Visitors of Northern Illinois University’s College of Law between 1997 and 2004. During the 1980s, he was treasurer for three nonprofits: Harvard Community Memorial Hospital, Hospice for McHenry County, and a church in Woodstock, IL. Before becoming a lawyer, Scott worked as an executive in the public sector, including four years with the Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission.

“Summers also is the author of two ‘how-to’ volumes. Guardianship and Conservatorship: A Handbook for Lawyers appeared in 1996. Advance Health Care Directives: A Handbook for Professionals was released in 2002. Both titles are published by the American Bar Association.

“Born in Evanston and raised in Wilmette, Scott has resided in Chicago and Oak Park. For over thirty years, he and his wife and have lived on a small farm near Harvard, in far northern McHenry County. They are the parents of two adult sons.”


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