May 1998
Two businessmen say in magazine: "I'm a libertarian"
Two more prominent business executives have announced that they are libertarians -- one the union-fighting CEO of a supermarket chain, the other the head of a money management fund.
In two separate articles in the April 6, 1998, issue of Forbes magazine, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey and investment guru Marty Zweig both identified themselves as libertarians.
* Mackey: He's the "bushy-haired" head of the $1.4 billion Whole Foods organic grocery chain, and joked that "of Whole Foods' 10,000 employees, in the last election 9,998 voted for Bill Clinton, and two -- including him -- voted Libertarian."
* Zweig: He controls $4.5 billion in mutual funds and was asked by Forbes if he was a Democrat. Zweig said, "No! No! I'm a Libertarian. I'm a conservative in the Milton Friedman sense, [but] on social issues I think the conservatives are nuts.
