California Convention 2022

2022 Libertarian Party of California Convention
Convention
Dates:	18-20 February 2022
Venue:	Long Beach, California
Media
Website:	Website
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The 2022 Libertarian Party of California Convention was the 50th annual convention of the Libertarian Party of California, held 18-20 February in Long Beach.

This convention made a number of changes to the LPC Bylaws and Convention Rules, most notably the elimination of a separate state Platform. There were elections for members of the Executive Committee and the Judicial Committee, as well as for California's representative and alternate on the LNC, and California's delegates to the 2022 National Convention.

Reports

The following reports were heard on Saturday morning:

• Chair
• Vice Chair
• Secretary
• Treasurer
• Budget Committee
• Financial Standards Committee

Platform

The report of the Platform Committee recommended adoption of a change to the Bylaws to say that the national Platform serves as the LPC's platform, and to eliminate the Platform Committee. The report also contained approximately 100 proposals to amend the state platform by deleting each existing plank and adding new planks, most of which would be simply references to existing national planks, plus a few "California-specific" planks.

A minority of the members of the Platform Committee, disagreeing with this approach, made their own report of the traditional type, proposing modification of existing planks along with a few new ones.

• Platform Committee (majority) Report
• Platform Committee Minority Report

The convention voted not to consider the minority report, voted that consideration of the bylaws amendment proposed by the Platform Committee was in order even though it was being presented during the time assigned for the Platform Report, and adopted that amendment, along with a second proposal to make related changes to the convention rules and one amendment from the floor to remove a reference to the Platform Committee from another section of the bylaws.

The result of these actions was to eliminate the existing Platform and Platform Committee, making the rest of the proposals relating to the Platform moot.

Bylaws

In addition to the amendments mentioned above relating to the Platform, the convention considered proposals contained in the report of the Bylaws Committee along with several others which had been presented with advance notice.

• Bylaws Committee Report
• additional proposals with advance notice

Elections

Secretary

Chris Edgar	98
Jillian Olsen	77

Northern Area Coordinator

Adrian Malagon	31
Mark Hinkle	23

Central Area Coordinator

Matthew Butts	22
Brent Olsen	16

Executive Committee At-Large

Chris Minoletti	118
Michael Lema	108
Jia Christopher	101
Gary Alvstad	100
Jessica Tewksbury	96
Wendy Hewitt	61
Zach Foster	59
Rajani Maiatico	43
Dennis Belillo	29
Richard Fast	4 (write-in)
David Naranjo	2 (write-in)
Dave Schrader	1 (write-in)
Victoria Lapacek	1 (write-in)
Adrian Malagon	1 (write-in)

Executive Committee At-Large Alternates

Terry Miller	109
Victoria Lapacek	99
Richard Fast	23
NOTA	3
Zach Foster	1 (write-in)

Judicial Committee

Loren Dean	100
Susan Aquino	96
David Bowers	94
Elishiva Levin	84
Loren Springer	77
Avens O'Brien	45
Jon Prosser	45
Aaron Starr	42
David Naranjo	35
Kevin Shaw	31

Judicial Committee Alternates

Tom Nichols	83
Matt Hartley	80
Kurt Shultz	23
NOTA	2
Joshua Clark	1 (write-in)
Carrie Eiler	1 (write-in)

LNC Regional Representative

Carrie Eiler	69
Tim Ferreira	31
Richard Fast	7

LNC Regional Alternate

There being only one candidate, Joshua Clark was elected by voice vote.

Non-Business Events

The following speakers were featured during various events associated with this convention:

• Dave Smith - Friday evening reception
• Joel Salatin - Saturday breakfast
• Justin Amash - Saturday lunch
• Jo Jorgensen - Saturday keynote
• Cara Schulz - Sunday breakfast
• Hannah Cox - Sunday lunch
• Whitney Bilyeu - Sunday keynote

Affiliate Support Session

A discussion for leaders of county organizations, moderated by Kevin Moore, was held after the end of the Saturday business session.

National Chair Candidate Debate

A debate among three candidates for National Chair -- Steve Dasbach, Tony D'Orazio, and Angela McArdle -- was held Saturday evening before the banquet.

Training Sessions

A program of affiliate and candidate training was offered on Monday at the same location.