Robert "Bob" Risdon Schwartz (born September 17, 1950) is a healthcare and political figure who resides in Nashville, Tennessee.
Schwartz began his education in public schools in Holland, Michigan before his family returned to the Detroit area in the 1960s.
TCMA founder Bob Everhart described the song in an on-line review as: "An astonishing rendition of what country music has always been...." Schwartz' public career in politics stopped for many years after graduate school.
He founded and chaired a grassroots organization called Music Row 4 McCain that generated networking and media attention for McCain/Palin.
He also drafted language that was approved on a voice vote of the full Committee emphasizing the importance of prevention and early detection in health policy.
[4] He also served as Membership Chair for the group and, in that role, worked to bring trainers from Leadership Institute, the Arlington-based conservative think tank where he had previously studied, to two training workshops in Nashville.
Schwartz began investigating a run against long-time incumbent Democrat Jim Cooper in Tennessee's Fifth Congressional District in 2009.
[5] Cooper, the wealthy son of a former Tennessee Governor, announced his intention to run for re-election to a ninth term in Congress.
Largely as a result, he was a Delegate to the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa garnering more votes in Tennessee's Fifth Congressional District than Gingrich or eventual party nominee Mitt Romney.