Morton Irvine Smith is the great, great grandson of pioneer James Irvine, after whom the City of Irvine, California, was named. He comes from a long line of patriots, he says, including Rev. William Smith, friend of founding fathers George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
“I don’t speak to politics. I speak from my heart, with 270 years of patriot blood. My message seems to resonate with people on a level that kind of takes them out of the meanness of the politics and the swampiness of the policy,” Smith, 55, told The Epoch Times.