The endorsement meeting for the Arizona Green Party CD7 candidate will take place on June 14th, 2025 at 10am. Click the link below to join:

https://www.azgp.org/cd7_special_endorsement_meeting

This meeting is open to the public but only Green Party members can vote to endorse or oppose.

To become a candidate seeking endorsement, submit the AZ Green Party Candidate Endorsement Questionnaire at this link.

For general information about running for office, visit this link.

SWING, GARY (GRN)

Write-In Candidate

Phone Number:
720-357-4260

Email Address:
[email protected]

Twitter:
https://x.com/swinggary2

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/RunFromCongress/

Website:
https://boilingfrogparty.wixsite.com/2020

Statement:
Uphold the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawing war. Abolish nuclear weapons. Reduce US military budget by 90%. Close all foreign military bases. End foreign military aid. Fund humanitarian aid to end world hunger and secure drinking water worldwide. Abolish US Senate. Elect Congress by hybrid proportional representation to secure fair, inclusive multi-party representation in government. Switch to a parliamentary system. A chief executive with strictly limited authority should be selected by a unicameral Congress, subject to removal on a plurality vote of no confidence. Each generation should create its own Constitution. Support a national initiative and referendum process, public campaign financing, campaign spending limits, ballot access reform, and verifiable ballots. Support fair trade policies, freedom of travel and migration. No border wall. Abolish the CIA and Selective Service System. Establish a universal basic income. Use carbon taxes to include environmental impacts in true cost pricing. End corporate welfare. Medicare for all. Subsidize family planning programs. Support international agreements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Stop subsidizing fossil fuels and nuclear energy. Convert to solar, wind, hydroelectric and geothermal power. Decentralize energy production. Stop subsidizing petrochemical agriculture and animal farming. Apply cruelty laws to farmed animals. Legalize cannabis nationwide. Support equal rights for all.

Questionnaire Responses

Pronouns:
He/Him

Please provide a brief biography of your background, experience, and qualifications.
Perennial candidate, on the ballot 13 times, including 7 times as a Green Party candidate. Former co-chair Denver Region Greens. Former National Advisory Board member, Center for Voting and Democracy (now called Fairvote). Former spokesperson for Best Democracy, an election reform group advocating for proportional representation. Former Vice Chairman of Colorado Coalition for Fair and Open Elections, which represented 8 alternative parties lobbying Colorado's state legislature for ballot access reform. BA in Political Science and Master's Degree in Public Administration at the University of Colorado. Thru hiked the 800 mile Arizona Trail in 2013. "Triple Crown" backpacker, completed the Appalachian, Pacific Crest, and Continental Divide Trails. Completed the Colorado Trail, Alabama Pinhoti Trail, Ozark Highlands Trail, Ouachita Trail, and Lone Star Trail. Climbed more than 1,000 mountains, including all 637 Colorado summits over 13,000 Feet. Spent six months trekking around New Zealand by myself.

How does your campaign help build the AZ Green Party?
Establishes a Green Party presence in the 2025 Congressional vacancy election in CD7.

How does your campaign advance our 10 Key Values?
Advocating for a nonviolent, humanitarian foreign policy, Medicare for all, proportional representation in legislative elections, universal basic income, and transition to an environmentally sustainable economy.

How does your campaign help empower marginalized communities?
Advocacy for universal basic income and proportional representation to secure, inclusive representation for a politically diverse population.

What are some of the main policy issues that your campaign is focusing on?
Opposing war and foreign military aid, advocating for proportional representation, transition to an environmentally sustainable economy, universal health insurance, ballot access reform for Arizona.

What level of campaigning are you expecting to do?
Zero dollar campaign budget, answer candidate questionnaires, respond to invitations. Campaign Facebook page and X account.

How much money does your campaign anticipate fundraising and how?
$0. I don't intend to solicit or accept campaign donations.

What other groups or organizations are you seeking endorsements from?
None at this point.

What other groups or organizations have endorsed your candidacy?
None at this point. The New Progressive Alliance (now defunct) endorsed previous campaigns.

What forms of support does your campaign need from the AZGP?
Posting information or links concerning my candidacy would be good. I don't have a currently updated website. Assistance developing a free campaign website would be appreciated.

Describe your campaign's current digital and/or traditional media presence
Facebook and X pages. Tucson Sentinel has mentioned my filing as a write-in candidate. Ballotpedia candidate survey.

Website


Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/RunFromCongress

Twitter
@SwingGary2

Instagram
inactive, but cross-posted from Facebook

Other Social Media


I support a living wage for all workers and their freedom to form unions and engage in collective bargaining.
Yes

I support a comprehensive Green New Deal.
Transition to an environmentally sustainable economy is essential, including true cost pricing that incorporates environmental impacts in the prices of new goods and services. Transition to renewable energy and sustainable agriculture. Encourage reduction of animal agriculture. Details of Green New Deal may need some work.

I support election law reforms such as Public Election Funding, Ranked Choice Voting, Same Day Voter Registration, Transparent Verifiable Paper Ballots
Yes, I support hybrid proportional representation, parliamentary government with strictly limited executive power, public campaign financing, campaign spending limits, national initiative and referendum, ballot access reform.

I support a ban on coal mining, horizontal hydraulic fracturing, and the development of commercial shale gas pipelines.
Yes

I support land use and development that is ecologically sound, to protect our air, water, land, and animals.
Yes

I support ending the failed "War on Drugs". I recognize the opioid crisis as a health issue, not a criminal one.
Yes

I support fully funding public and vocational education, pre-k through college.
Yes

I support healthcare, including dental, mental, and vision, as a human right.
Yes

I support policies to eliminate poverty statewide.
Yes

I support a progressive tax code and oppose corporate personhood.
I oppose corporate personhood. I support a universal basic income and pollution taxes to establish true cost pricing that incorporates the cost of environmental impacts.

I support the peace movement and demilitarization, while recognizing the need for self-defense.
Yes, Restrict the US military to non-offensive defense of US territory, end foreign military aid. Support humanitarian foreign aid. End permanent membership on the United Nations Security Council and eliminate veto power over United Nations resolutions.

I support progressive criminal justice reform.
Yes

I support eco-socialism and reject capitalism as unsustainable for the wellbeing of the people and our planet.
I support steady state (environmentally sustainable) economics as developed by Herma Daly and expressed by Thomas Cech in the GPUS platform. I support Buddhist Economics as explained by E.F. Schumacher.

Finally, I will strive to consciously confront barriers such as discrimination based on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability and all other forms of discrimination, all of which act to deny fair treatment and justice
Yes

QUINTANA, EDUARDO (GRN)

Write-In Candidate

ENDORSED by
The Green Party of Pima County

Phone Number:
520-360-8710

Email Address:
[email protected]

Twitter:
https://x.com/quintana4cd7

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/quintanaforaz/

Statement:
We live In the richest country in the world. There's no reason why kids are hungry, homeless. without health care, while the taxes that we provide for people's needs are instead used to murder innocent women and children in Palestine. I have no words to convey the utter outrage that I feel seeing my money misused to bomb, starve, burn children, bulldoze their houses, hospitals, schools and carry out an illegal occupation and genocide. How can anyone turn away from this horrific slaughter paid for with our tax dollars? I am running on a platform of people, planet and peace: defend our democratic rights, provide food, shelter, health care and a safe, clean environment for all, defend women's rights, enact reparations for slavery, protect Oak Flat and stop Copper World, oppose nuclear war, tax the rich, cut the military budget and close down the 800+ military bases worldwide, oppose apartheid Israel who does not share our values and starves millions of people to death, enact the real Green New Deal, bring System Change rather than Climate Change. We must end the genocide in Gaza by cutting off all funding to Israel immediately. Free Palestine!

Questionnaire Responses

Pronouns:
He/Him

Please provide a brief biography of your background, experience, and qualifications.:
I was born in Durango, Mexico ,one of six kids but Tucson is my home. I live in a co-housing community designed to exist in balance with nature. I am a past president of the Machinist Union local 933 and retired from Raytheon. I got drafted in 1969 and have been a labor organizer and social justice activist ever since when not helping to raise my three kids. I resisted racism against Mexicans in Texas, resisted the Vietnam war, organized against apartheid in South Africa, police brutality in Houston, U.S. intervention in Latin America in the 1980s, nuclear power, the Iraq wars, built solidarity with Phelps Dodge Copper Strike, fought TCE contamination in Tucson and against destruction of the Santa Rita's by Hudbay. Now, I work to stop the genocide of Palestine and break out of the media blackout.

How does your campaign help build the AZ Green Party?:
My Campaign will help organize a political alternative to the corporate- controlled two- party system. My Campaign will champion peace, an end to the genocide in Gaza and permanent wars, Medicare For All , solutions to the climate crisis and usher in a period that respects people, planet and peace.

How does your campaign advance our 10 Key Values?:
My platform is based on Grass-Roots Democracy, Environmental Wisdom, Social Justice, Peace and Non-Violence.

How does your campaign help empower marginalized communities?:
My platform supports women's rights, reparations for slavery, trans-rights, immigrants, and members of the Muslim communities that are being bombed with our tax dollars.WE are a voice for the voiceless.

What are some of the main policy issues that your campaign is focusing on?:
We support an immediate end to this cruel deportation regime. We also support an immediate end to the genocide in Gaza. We support cutting funding to Israel, closing military basis. We support Medicare For All and women's rights. We also support restoring all the funding that has been cut from programs that people rely on to live.

What level of campaigning are you expecting to do?:
I hope to break out of the news blackout that the corporate media has been carrying out against Green, Party candidates in an attempt to suppress our message.

How much money does your campaign anticipate fundraising and how?:
Not more than $5000

What other groups or organizations are you seeking endorsements from?:
Movement organizations that agree with our program.

What other groups or organizations have endorsed your candidacy?:
None so far. We are soliciting endorsements.

What forms of support does your campaign need from the AZGP?:
Social Media Shares, Re-tweets.

Describe your campaign's current digital and/or traditional media presence:
x.com/Quintana4CD7
FB in progress"

Website:


Facebook:


Twitter:
Yes, x.com/Quintana4CD7

Instagram:
NO ACCOUNT YET

Other Social Media:
NONE YET

I support a living wage for all workers and their freedom to form unions and engage in collective bargaining.:
Yes

I support a comprehensive Green New Deal.:
Yes

I support election law reforms such as Public Election Funding, Ranked Choice Voting, Same Day Voter Registration, Transparent Verifiable Paper Ballots:
Yes

I support a ban on coal mining, horizontal hydraulic fracturing, and the development of commercial shale gas pipelines.:
Yes

I support land use and development that is ecologically sound, to protect our air, water, land, and animals.:
Yes

I support ending the failed "War on Drugs". I recognize the opioid crisis as a health issue, not a criminal one.:
Yes

I support fully funding public and vocational education, pre-k through college.:
Yes

I support healthcare, including dental, mental, and vision, as a human right.:
Yes

I support policies to eliminate poverty statewide.:
Yes

I support a progressive tax code and oppose corporate personhood. :
Yes

I support the peace movement and demilitarization, while recognizing the need for self-defense.:
Yes

I support progressive criminal justice reform.:
Yes

I support eco-socialism and reject capitalism as unsustainable for the wellbeing of the people and our planet.:
Yes

Finally, I will strive to consciously confront barriers such as discrimination based on race, class, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability and all other forms of discrimination, all of which act to deny fair treatment and justice:
Yes