Halo composer Marty O’Donnell is running for Congress and claims he’ll win because he’s a “gamer”

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Marty O’Donnell is trying to go from composing music to composing legislation as he’s running for the U.S. House of Representatives. Announcing his campaign for the 3rd congressional district in Nevada, O’Donnell is running as a Republican.

Marty O’Donnell has worked on video games such as Myth, Halo, and Destiny and began his career writing television and radio jingles. He was fired in April 2014 by Bungie, eventually filing a lawsuit claiming he was terminated without cause and had pay withheld for vacation and sabbatical time. That lawsuit was settled eventually.

O’Donnell is challenging Democrat Susie Lee and he’s parroting the current favorite talking points of Republicans like blaming our problems on big government, railing against “undocumented” immigrants, and longing for “old-fashioned family values.”

When chatting with The Epoch Times, O’Donnell said:

I’m a gamer, so I intend to win. And I’m not going to lose because somebody thinks they can spend more money than me, because they can’t.

Not sure anyone enters into these things with the intention to lose… but sure.

In a recent interview, O’Donnell said he split his interests when he was 9 years old and was a fan of both Ronald Reagan and Paul McCartney.

On why he’s running he believers you need people from different backgrounds.

You don’t want 10 engineers making the game. You want an engineer, an artist, an animator, a composer, a writer, a designer—you want people who just approach the world differently. You don’t want all designers. You don’t want all composers. They would be horrible.

Most of the time, you only want one composer.

He see that what’s happening with the US government right now as nothing compared to developing video games.

What I see happening in Congress is like a walk in the park compared to making Halo 2.

O’Connell has a tough opponent in Lee who was first elected in 2018 and received 52% of the vote when she was re-elected in 2022.

Source: Graphic Policy