| CARL M. "MARTY" SWINNEY
Marty Swinney first became "interested" in politics around the age of seven when he asked his mother what the difference was between Democrats and Republicans. She answered by saying that Democrats were in favor of higher wages and higher taxes, but that Republicans were in favor of lower wages and lower taxes.
Apparently deciding that "nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin'" and that the equations cancelled each other , Marty Swinney didn't think much about politics until his mid-twenties when he was a recording volunteer for visually-handicapped college students and a friend slipped a book by Ayn Rand into his reading bin.
Marty Swinney became a founding member of his local Libertarian Party in 1974 and has served as its chairman, vice-chair, Tax Protest Day chair and editor of Let Freedom Ring, a monthly newsletter for local Libertarians, for several years. He has been a member of the Los Angeles County Central Committee since 1980 and, since that year, has ran for the state Assembly two other times, twice for California State Senate and three times for United States Representative, each time running unopposed in the respective Primary Elections, as he is now.
Marty Swinney is a contributing member of both national and state Libertarian Parties and has been for many years. He is also a member of the National Rifle Association (NRA), the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) and contributes regularly to law enforcement and firefighters' benevolent associations as well as to Hillsdale College. Marty Swinney is a past member of the California Transcribers and Educators for the Visually Handicapped (CTEVH), a volunteer organization which produces large-type books and tape recordings of college text books for visually-challenged college students and was named Volunteer of the Year in 1972 and has recorded over one million feet of magnetic tape.
Marty Swinney is dedicated to the ideals of human Liberty as enunciated in the works of our Founding Fathers and others such as Ludwig von Mises, Ayn Rand, John Stuart Mill and Thomas Paine. He believes in the ultimate goodness of humankind and studies philosophical texts regularly.
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