California Convention 2022
| 2022 Libertarian Party of California Convention | |||
| Convention | |||
| Dates: | 18-20 February 2022 | ||
| Venue: | Long Beach, California | ||
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| 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.
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 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.
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.
Elections
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.