GOP tackles climate change

When he hung up the phone at his Washington office one day last year, Tucker Eskew wondered about the conversation he had just completed.

The former spokesman for Gov. Carroll Campbell, a Republican, had been asked to help an environmental group fight against global warming, long-considered a Democratic cause championed by the likes of former Vice President Al Gore.

“That was certainly a new and different prospect for my business,” said Eskew, now a political strategist and consultant. “But I went from, ‘You’ve got to be kidding,’ to ‘I’ve got to think about this.’”

Today, Eskew is one of three former Campbell advisers hired by Environmental Defense to map strategy for stemming global warming.