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Brian Irving for NC Senate District 17

Biographical information:

Yankee by birth, Southerner by choice — American by the grace of God.

I was born in The Bronx, New York on January 2, 1949, and raised on Long Island. After graduating high school in 1967, I joined the U.S. Air Force and served 12 years as an enlisted man, mostly in the public affairs field. In 1980, I was commissioned a second lieutenant and served as a public affairs officer at bases in Italy, the United Kingdom and Florida, and North Carolina, where I spent five years at Pope AFB in Fayetteville.

During my first assignment to the Philippines, I met and married by wife of 40 years, Maria Elisa (Lisa) Quiambao.

When I retired after 25 years service in 1992, my wife and I choose to move back to Fayetteville and North Carolina. I decided to devote my second career to work in the non-profit field and to being a freelance writer. My jobs included working as communications director for the United Way of Cumberland County and as an administrative assistant for Catholic Social Ministries, and later St. Ann Catholic Church.

I also began my political career in Fayetteville, helping form a Libertarian Party chapter and running as the Libertarian candidate for Cumberland County commissioner (twice) and NC Senate District 21. I also ran twice for the non-partisan Fayetteville city council and was appointed to two terms on the Fayetteville City Planning Commission from July 2000 to July 2004, including two years a chair.

Lisa and I moved to Wake County in 2006 to be near our two married children, Annalisa and Daniel, and our six grandchildren. We live in Cary.

I earned a bachelor's degree in social studies from the University of the Philippines at Clark Air Base, a a master's degree in public administration from Webster University and a master's degree in pastoral studies from Loyola University (New Orleans).

Currently, I'm the state Libertarian Party communications director.

Platform:

I support reducing the size, scope and power of government at all levels and on all issues, and oppose increasing the size, scope and power of government at any level, for any purpose.

Issues:

• End Municiple Aggression
• Free, Fair & Open Elections
• Education Options, Not Roadblocks

Contact information:

Brian Irving

206 Clancy Circle

Cary, NC 27511

brian@libertypoint.org

(919) 538-4548

Visit Brian Irving's campaign website LibertyPoint.org.