The OfficialMont Newsletter of the Libertarian Party of Californiahly August 2000 Libertarians Elect National Officers in Anaheim: & Art Olivier for President & Veep ore than 1,100 delegates and describing Drug Prohibition as “a war on and attendees met for the the American people.” MLP National Convention Delegates voted to add language to the platform in Anaheim on June 30 to July 3. specifically opposing “hate crime” legislation. The Libertarian Party elected president and vice president A new “Family and Children’s Rights” plank nominees plus a new national was added (replacing the “Family Life” plank), chairman. The delegates also which explains the Libertarian perspective that selected other national committee families have a right to raise their children members including regional without government interference. The new plank representatives and made changes to underscores the notion that children have rights, the party platform. and deserve to be treated with justice — while also delineating the rights and responsibilities The theme was “America’s Future: of parents. Liberty, Responsibility, and Special events at the convention: Community.” • Peter McWilliams received a posthumous Champion of Liberty Award for his fight President: Harry Browne for medical marijuana. Vice President: Art Olivier • Michael Cloud was honored as the best Libertarian communicator. • Richard Rider won the Samuel Adams LNC Officers: award as Libertarian activist. LP Natl. Chair: James W. Lark • received the award for Lifetime LP Vice Natl. Chair:Dan Fylstra Achievement. LP Treasurer: Mark Tuniewicz LP Secretary: Steve Givot Media Coverage: LNC At-Large Members: • Potential audience of millions watched two Ken Bisson (Indiana) days of gavel-to-gavel coverage on C-SPAN. Art Olivier and his family celebrate his selection as Jim Turney (Virginia) • Seven talk-show hosts broadcasted live the LP Vice Presidential nominee. Eli Israel (Massachusetts) from the convention. Lois Kaneshiki (Pennsylvania) • Fox TV, the Fox News Channel, KABC-TV, Lorenzo Gaztanaga (Maryland) KNBC-TV, Orange County News, and Contents KCAL-TV covered the Convention. LNC Regional Representatives: • The Times, Worth, Maxim, the Government Horror Story Ed Hoch (Alaska) and Orange County Register, and The Christian Child Abuse Index, Page 6 Mike Dixon (Illinois), Region 1 Science Monitor, Associated Press and Reuters sent reporters. Scott Lieberman () and ▲ Calendar ...... 4 Joe Dehn (California), Region 2 Platform Changes: ▲ Convention ...... 5 Delegates removed a section from the “Women’s Sara Cotham (Indiana), Region 3 ▲ Chair’s Report ...... 3 Rights and Abortion” plank that listed specific Michael (“MG”) Gilson de Lemos ▲ Director’s Report ...... 6 laws and policies the party opposed, while ▲ (Florida), Region 4 keeping the statement that government should Exec Com Meeting Summary ...... 9 Richard Schwarz be kept out of the question [of abortion]. ▲ Letters to the Editor ...... 2 (Pennsylvania), Region 5 Delegates also voted to make additions to the ▲ LPC Contacts ...... 10, 11 Ken Lindell (Maine), Region 6 War on Drugs plank, specifically condemning ▲ Politics As Usual ...... 8 police profiling policies and civil asset forfeiture, Deryl Martin (Tennessee), Region 7 ▲ Web Sites...... 7 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Monthly 38: MEDICARE FOR PRIVATE SCHOOLS? FIGHTING ANTS – AND WASTE! August 2000 Some Libertarian advocates of this measure claim that Your recent articles in LPC Monthly regarding Editor: Betsy Mill Prop 38 “will result in a reduction in the tax burden California special districts did not talk about another Associate Editor caused by government-run public schools because per- avenue for Libertarians to get involved. I am the Joseph W. Dehn III pupil government expenditures are greater than the Program Manager for the Orange County Fire Ant Contributors voucher amount.” Authority, a division of the Orange County Vector Rodney Austin Their claim fails to consider the implications of Control District. We have 34 members on our Board Richard A. Bowen (1) additional spending for current private school of Trustees, but the program manager (me) has more Brian Lee Cross students, influence on the day-to-day operations, much like Mark Arner de France (2) “fully fund[ing] the demand for programs offered a city manager vis-a-vis the city council. Jerry Krim by the community colleges”, Our program is brand new and I was “given” 2.8$M Gail Lightfoot Paul Marsden (3) changing the funding formula for all K-12 to begin the program. I “returned” 1.4$M and our Juan Ros students, and program is on the way to being the first municipality Christopher Schmidt (4) giving the power to interpret that formula to the to eradicate the Red Imported Fire Ant. My job is Dennis Triglia Director of the Department of Finance. to put myself out of a job! Please read the text of the measure and draw your Richard A. Bowen, Program Mgr. OCFAA own conclusion. Mailing Address [email protected] LPC Monthly Even if the theoretical savings were possible, the BECOME A PERSUADER FOR LIBERTY! 4244 Mt. Hukee Ave. advertised application of that savings to tax reduction I call on all Libertarians to participate each and San Diego CA 92117 is pure fantasy. The state would experience the every day in the 2000 election by convincing voters increased spending for the vouchers (potentially E-mail Address to not only VOTE LIBERTARIAN but join in raising income taxes to pay for them), but it would be [email protected] convincing other voters as well.. up to the counties and school districts to realize the Gail Lightfoot, [email protected]

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Libertarian Party of California will be held on Saturday Wednesday, August 2, San Diego T and Sunday, August 26 and 27, at the Piccadilly Inn Harry Browne will be speaking at Hyatt University, Fresno. Regency La Jolla, 3777 La Jolla Village Dr., Saturday Seminars: Six speakers will share their experiences and 7 PM, no cost. insights, and answer your questions. People who have successfully done local outreach, electoral, activist, infrastructure, fund-raising, Wednesday, August 2 Hermosa Beach (1st Wednesdays) and membership projects. NRA Members’ Council of the South Bay. The California legislature will be voting on AB 273 which would require that all handgun buyers Sunday Chairs’ meeting: Sunday 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Meet with be licensed by the state’s Department of Justice. (Would mandate that other regional party officers and activists in a discussion of a variety all gun owners: pass a written test on firearm laws; pass a shooting of topics that affect regional parties. 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Hope to see you all here in Fresno! visiting Riverside County. The Libertarian Party of Riverside Rodney Austin, [email protected] County invites everyone to attend! Info: 7 PM, The Oaks Restaurant, 2986 N. Perris Blvd., Perris (909) 940-5080 (restaurant phone). August 26 – 27, Fresno Conference of Regional Parties to be held at the Piccadilly Inn University, Uncontrolled power will turn in Fresno. Minimum cost to attendees. Hosted by Rodney Austin, Northern Vice Chair. See article on right-hand side of this page. even saints into savages. September 15 – 17, Los Angeles Star Trek, Star date 5784.3 The Great Western Gun Show, which is advertised as the world’s largest firearms, blade and militaria show has returned to the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds (from Las Vegas). Web site: www.greatwesternshow.com. 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4 LPC Monthly August 2000 COMMENTARY Libertarians (the New American Patriots) Work to Reinstitute a Constitutional Government The Libertarian National Convention, June 27- July 3, 2000 • by Jerry Krim

Author Jerry Krim is a free-lance writer for MEDIA BYPASS. He notes: I was amazed at the purpose and somber approach the delegates displayed. I saw (maybe) six bottles of beer and zero drunks throughout the complete convention. This is, in my mind, a record for convention attendees and I’ve been to several hundred. Every delegate I spoke with gave me candid and honest dialogue. The concepts of choice, honesty, truthfulness and responsibility were intact within everyone to whom I spoke. Brother Jim Lorenz, Utah Chair (Emeritus), gave me a Libertarian ball cap which I proudly wore throughout the convention. t was a somber sunny day at the town present government is wreaking its havoc. Rousing pomp and ceremony was not an hall when the citizens assembled to They, as a group, have maintained for over order of the day during the nominations for Idiscuss the cruel abuses of the distant the past two decades that federal and state national elections; Libertarians are working government under which they lived. The governments have grown too large to serve quietly to correct their local and state attendees were men of means and intellect, our nation, honestly and fairly. Their governments – and they are succeeding true and honest in their principles, leaders arguments are all properly based in where they have sufficient numbers. They of their communities and had pledged their principle, natural law, and reason. seek judicial reform; the return of a Judicial lives, their property and their sacred honor Department and the fully informed juries to the task of choosing a lawful government However small in numbers, their voices and that are the cornerstone of our “government for themselves and their friends. In the final their opinions are growing stronger and by the People”. Political reforms, where the end to this saga, these fifty-six fine-minded more understood to the People all across State Constitutional Laws are sacrosanct men were persecuted, jailed and tortured, the nation. Their philosophy is probably and their governments are again and eventually lost their families, their embraced by many more than their party “government of the People,” are proposed. farms and properties, and their lives. These membership – most likely by a factor of Executive rule by the wasteful federal were the men who had eventually signed ten times the present participation. An bureaucracy would be devolved back into the Declaration of Independence, the uninitiated public easily absorbs the true a smaller group of republican form of organic document that formed this great solidity and reason encompassed in their government representatives who would nation. philosophy and arguments. The law, or respect the rights of the People again in constitutionality, of the issues is sound and federal (and state) “government for the For five days a similar group met in historically correct. True patriots, such as People”. Anaheim, California, to discuss these same the Libertarians, do not exist in the halls of principles, these same complaints and the government where the “republicrats” have Libertarians are rights abiding, choice simple facts that government was again totally run amok. The Fourth Estate, totally driven, principled and honest in their abusing the People whom had given it only controlled by government, will never tell thinking. They are focused and diligent limited powers to represent them. The you the truth about their solutions for a American Citizens that want a better life Libertarian National Convention was a nation foundering into the third millennium. for their children, families and neighbors. meeting of men and women who know the Tom Jefferson warned that we had nothing Our great nation’s future progress will principles of law; they are educated, mostly to fear but “ignorance” itself. Libertarians depend upon your ultimate participation – entrepreneurs, and they know of the are attempting to correct that fallacy of dynamic or static – in restoring unconstitutional manner in which the good representative government. constitutional government.

Libertarian Candidate in Parade! Dennis Triglia (candidate for State Assembly District 78) participated in the 26th annual San Diego Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade on July 22, 2000. He got lots of applause including someone yelling, “At last - another party! Go Libertarians.” There were over 110,000 people at the parade.

The driver is Buddy Coyle and the passenger in the front seat is Rick Charboneau. Rick was waving signs “End the Drug War” and “Enact Prop 215 NOW.” Some supporters waved “Triglia for Assembly” signs on the sidelines. The parade was followed by a two-day festival in Balboa Park in downtown San Diego. Dennis went on both days and distributed Libertarian literature. August 2000 LPC Monthly 5 AROUND THE STATE

CA’s “False Child Abuse Central Index” LPC Director works against emember 1692, when leaders of Salem, Massachusetts August 11 Deadline for drew up lists of hundreds of “suspected” witches, then Rhanged 19 women and “pressed” another to death after Operation Breakthrough sham trials? PHONE HAS BEEN RINGING OFF THE HOOK! The California Child Abuse Central Index now contains more than TWO MILLION names of suspects and victims The response to Operation Breakthrough has JUAN ROS been excellent. The phone has been ringing off the hook with potential candidates who Or, back in the 1950s, when U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy received our mailing and are interested in running for Special District accused thousands of army officials, media employees and public seats! In fact I had to turn on voice mail because I kept getting personalities of communism as chairman of a subcommittee on interrupted with calls and wasn’t getting any other work done! investigations? McCarthy’s charges were never proven, but his Operation Breakthrough Accomplishments: “blacklisting” drove many people from public office, destroyed • Mailed out 9,696 Operation Breakthrough letters to registered social standing, and ruined careers. Libertarians in 25 counties on July 14 • Received over two dozen responses in the first 24 hours In 1965, the state of California resurrected public hysteria by • Telephone follow-up to potential candidates began week of creating a list of “suspected” child abusers, without providing July 24 any notice to suspects. The Child Abuse Central Index now • One previously unknown Libertarian officeholder discovered: contains more than TWO MILLION names of suspects and Bruce Gordon of the Rancho Santa Fe Community Services victims, and serves as the foundation of state health officials’ District (San Diego County) frequent claims that child abuse has reached epidemic proportions. Also: The list has effectively PUNISHED hundreds of thousands of • Juan & Alex organized the Titus Street office Californians by damaging their careers, reputations, finances and • Juan appeared on two television shows since the convention child custody - ALL WITHOUT CONVICTING SUSPECTS OF and several talk radio shows, including KVTA in Ventura ANY CRIME. The “victims” who normally receive lifelong listings along with suspects, stand to be similarly punished as Two Operation Breakthrough bugs to report: adults, because they are considered to be potential abusers when (1) In San Diego an unknown number of registered Libertarians they grow up. received letters saying they were eligible to run for the San Diego “County Water District.” It turns out the SD Registrar Mark Arner de France, a 42-year-old career journalist, was falsely of Voters had a typo in the list of Special Districts they gave accused of molesting his two young sons by an anonymous person me, and that office should have read “Cambridge County in October 1997, during a post-divorce custody battle. He Water District.” submitted to an investigation and was promptly told by the investigator that he had been cleared. However, he sought records (2) In Riverside County, letters were sent urging Libertarians to of the investigation in court and six months later learned that the run for the Ortega Trail Parks and Recreation District — an investigator had added his name to the state’s index as a suspected agency that was abolished a year ago by Libertarians! (Good child abuser. Arner filed a $20,000 lawsuit against the county and job, Gene Trosper and co.!) forced officials to review the records, admit they made a mistake, While these sorts of hiccups are to be expected, overall the mailing and to remove him and his children from the index. seems to have gone smoothly. Filing closes on August 11. Let’s run as many Libertarian candidates as we can! He has since volunteered hundreds of hours of his time to quantify how many other people have similarly been listed, and publicly pushed for new state laws to require others to be notified of listings in writing, and to be given hearings to challenge their listings years at the San Diego Union-Tribune. Before that, Arner reported without having to go to the expense of a lawsuit. Arner’s story for the Blade-Tribune in Oceanside, the Green Sheet newspapers has been covered this year by several newspapers, two radio in Murray, Utah, and edited the Millerton News in upstate New stations and by Fox6 television news. York. Arner is remarried and shares equal custody of his two sons with his former wife. Arner’s comments about the Child Abuse Arner has worked for 20 years as a reporter or editor for five Central Index are being made in Arner’s capacity as a private different newspapers in California, Utah and New York. He has citizen, not on behalf of his employer. reported 15 years for the Union-Tribune Publishing Company, and has specialized in transportation for the past eight of those Mark Arner de France San Diego member, Coalition of Parent Support Continued in next column Mark & his family can be viewed at http://twistnews.com/ 6 LPC Monthly August 2000 AROUND THE STATE NOTEWORTHY WEB SITES! Thank You! CALIFORNIA LIBERTARIAN PARTY GROW THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY To join our Monthly Pledge Program or http://www.ca.lp.org/ Great ideas skillfully assembled by Kristi contribute to Operation Breakthrough, or Stone at http://www.GrowTheLp.org make a donation, please contact Juan Ros LIBERTARIAN PARTY NATIONAL at (818) 782-8400, or e-mail: http://www.lp.org LP CONVENTION REPLAYED [email protected]. 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August 2000 LPC Monthly 7 AROUND THE GLOBE POLITICS AS USUAL Narcs Posed as Census Workers life-threatening or resulting in hospitalization or permanent Two St. Paul police officers investigating an alleged drug house disability according to a senior biological weapons and vaccine posed as US census workers. The US Census Bureau manager said expert for the Food and Drug Administration. that she was “just awed” by the officers’ duplicity and that she The New York Times and San Diego Union-Tribune, July 13, 2000 was checking with the regional office in Kansas City to determine whether impersonating a census worker constitutes a federal Fungus Among Us: the Weed offense. Ramsey County public defenders, who informed the Under pressure from the US, Colombia has reluctantly agreed to Census Bureau of the ruse by the officers, questioned whether it take the first step toward developing a powerful biological herbicide was legal or ethical. St. Paul Star Tribune, June 30, 2000 against the coca and heroin-poppy fields that are spreading across its countryside. The Colombian government’s uneasy support for Poverty-Stricken Democrats Get Cash the project came as President Clinton was about to sign a bill The Los Angeles City Council voted to give $4 million to help providing $1.3 billion in aid to Colombia to fight drug traffickers cover a shortfall facing organizers of the Democratic National and the insurgents who protect their trade. Convention in August. Los Angeles Daily News, June 24, 2000 The New York Times, July 6, 2000 Anthrax is NOT the Only Enemy Never on Sunday Pentagon officials acknowledged the failure of their ambitious The Italian manual of commercial law is 500 pages long and is policy to inoculate all military personnel against the deadly anthrax absurdly complicated. Two examples: hairdressers must open at 9 virus. At a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee, AM and shut at 7 PM and must be closed on Mondays; and in Rome, witnesses described blunder after blunder in the Pentagon’s two- mark-down sales can occur only in February and mid-July to mid- and-a-half year program. The most severe was a shortage of the August. The San Diego Union-Tribune, June 20, 2000 vaccine caused by the mismanagement and financial problems of the only company licensed to produce it – a company in which a Drug Czar Turns Script Writer former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff controls an 11 percent Over the last two years, the drug office has paid scriptwriters and $ stake. Of the 2 million doses given since 1990, 1,404 adverse networks about 22 million for “programming content” – placing reactions have been reported. Of those, 73 were considered fatal, anti-drug messages WITHIN their shows, allowing them to run commercial advertisements in place of government-sponsored anti- Paid Advertisement drug ads. Drug czar Barry McCaffrey told reporters that he is planning to expand the use of financial incentives for TV networks who broadcast anti-drug themes in sit-coms and dramas to include Hollywood movies. 6.9¢ The San Diego Union-Tribune, July 12, 2000 or less Per Minute Small Business Administration Yields BIG Shaft An audit of the SBA’s program to certify the minority status of ✔ 24HoursaDay-AlltheTime federal contractors revealed that nearly half of its spending may ✔ Under5centsinCalifornia Under5centsinCalifornia have been improper. The SBA spent $22 million on the program ✔ NoMonthlyFeesorMinimums over the last two years, but it has certified only about 3,100 ✔ Six-SecondIncrementBilling companies nationwide–a tenth of the number it anticipated. ✔ CallingCardsfor14cents The Los Angeles Times, July 1, 2000 ✔ Free800Lines(SameRates) ✔ GreatService(Fiber-OpticLines) ✔ SuperbInternationalRates Paid advertisement ✔ ForBusinessandHome Politicians Should Sell CONTRACT INSURANCE Commercial To Us—Not Tax Us. T-1Lines: T-1Lines: Please contact me for a free prospectus 3.25¢Interstate or my booklet is $2. Thanks, 2.51¢inCalifornia Dave Hollist (909) 980-4198 [email protected] Libertarian Candidate for President ContactRichardRider P.O. Box 1414, Alta Loma CA 91701 PlustheCALP http://i.am/trading getsacutoftheaction! 800/914-8466

8 LPC Monthly August 2000 NEWS Summary of LPC Executive Committee Meeting July 4 Meeting in Anaheim, California he Executive Committee of The Executive Director appointed to study the question of the Libertarian Party of provided a written report establishing policy in this area and report TCalifornia met in Anaheim on covering media, legislation, back at the next meeting. 4 July 2000. campaigns, the Operation Breakthrough candidate It was decided to delegate to the Operations The minutes of the 18-19 March recruiting project, region Committee the selection of candidates for meeting were approved with development, fund-raising, presidential elector, with the restriction that corrections. There was discussion of and the new office. they be either a member, contributor, or the level of detail that should be elected officeholder. included in the minutes. JOE DEHN The Membership Chair presented a report on ideas There was a discussion of Operation $ The Chair reported on fund-raising Regional for improving membership Breakthrough. An 21,000 expense line and and matters relating to the new office, corresponding dedicated revenue line were Representative growth, with emphasis on including the hiring of the new recovery of lapsed added to the budget for this project. administrative assistant and purchase of members. There was discussion of new new computer hardware. There was discussion of a complaint by procedures to encourage regions to contact Edison McDaniels that he had been The Northern Vice Chair reported on lapsed members and the possibility of a excluded from the presidential primary progress in region activation, a generic contest among regions for the highest ballot. campaign brochure project, and plans for retention rate. The Committee approved a number of the region conference in August. The The Committee voted to take positions on all Southern Vice Chair reported on campaign, changes to the standing resolutions, mainly seven measures currently qualified for the deletion of items that no longer seemed membership, and publicity activities of November statewide ballot: in favor of various regions. needed in light of changes in the Bylaws or measures dealing with the definition of fees, membership practices. The Treasurer presented financial privatized public works contracting, drug statements as of 30 June. There was treatment, and school vouchers; and in Other items briefly discussed included: the discussion of the results of the recent fund- opposition to measures dealing with possible split of Mono/Inyo back into raising letter which was mailed to a selected legislator retirement plans, veterans bonds, separate regions, a web site set up by the contributor list. There was discussion of and a lower vote requirement for school Secretary, and the modified open-primary expectations for revenue and expenses for bonds. A resolution in support of the school legislation that may appear on the the rest of the year. voucher measure was adopted. November ballot. There was discussion of modifying the The Committee heard a presentation The next meeting is scheduled for 16 budget to allow printing of more issues of concerning an incident in which the Chair September in the San Jose area. the newsletter; instead, the Committee decided to exclude someone from attending ______decided that only the October and the 1998 convention. A subcommittee This is a summary of the meeting and is not December issues will be printed. consisting of Ted Brown, Steve Cicero, intended to be a complete record of business. Frank Manske, and Aaron Starr was Paid Advertisement c SaltPointLodgeBar&Grill Restaurant IRS Stands for SeaFood Steaks It’s Really Stealing! Pasta SolariumBar HotTubs INTAXICATION: Fireplaces Euphoria at getting a refund from the $60ºº–147ºº IRS, which lasts until you realize it 800956-3437 was your money to start with. 23255N.Highway1•JennerCA95450•17MiNorthofJenner Submitted by Brian Lee Cross

August 2000 LPC Monthly 9 REGIONAL CONTACTS LPC OFFICERS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Butte County (R04) LA: Antelope Valley (R68) Chair Regional Reps Chair: Cullene Lang Co-Chair: Greg Bashem Mark Hinkle East Bay (R-01) [email protected] (530) 894-2691 [email protected], (661) 942-2843 17545 Chesbro Lake Dr. Frank Manske (510) 329-3046 Del Norte County (R08) www.lplac.org/68.htm Morgan Hill, CA 95037 [email protected] Contact: Ronald Thompson LA: Central (R64) [email protected] Chair: Mark Selzer (408) 921-0414 Jeffrey R. Sommer (Alternate) (707) 464-5937 [email protected]. (323) 469-5372 (408) 778-1115 (fax) (510) 537-3212 East Bay (R01) www.lplac.org/64.htm [email protected] [email protected] (Alameda, Contra Costa) Northern Vice Chair LA: Long Beach/South Bay (R66) Los Angeles/San Fernando Chair: Scott Campanaro Rodney K. Austin Chair: Audrey Carlan Valley (R-61) [email protected] 4515 E. Washington Ave. [email protected] Bernard Zimring (818) 785-0384 www.busthead.com/eastbaylp/ (310) 377-8273 Fresno, CA 93702-2429 [email protected] El Dorado/Alpine (R09) www.lplac.org/66.htm (559) 255-5561 Chair: Thomas Frederiksen (801) 382-3282 (fax) Kit Maira (Alternate) LA: Pasadena/Glendale (R63) [email protected] Chair: Charles (Karl) Lembke [email protected] (818) 361-5775 (530) 621-2031 [email protected] [email protected] Southern Vice Chair www.opine.org/alpine (818) 352-3406 Ted Brown Orange County (R-30) Fresno County (R10) www.lplac.org/63.htm Brian Lee Cross (714) 532-1755 9152 Arcadia Ave. Chair: Jonathan Richter LA: San Fernando Valley (R61) San Gabriel, CA 91775 [email protected] [email protected] Chair: Erich Miller (626) 614-0630 (559) 434-8274 (559) 264-8875 (fax) [email protected] Bill Hajdu (Alternate) www.valleylibertarians.org (626) 286-7837 (fax) (714) 499-9153 x9143 (818) 708-7925 [email protected] [email protected] Glenn County (R11) www.lplac.org/61.htm Contact: Harold White Treasurer LA: San Gabriel Valley/East (R67) San Diego County (R- 37) [email protected], (530) 934-7349 Chair: George White Eric Lund Stephen Cicero (760) 754-1887 P. O. Box 276513 Gold Country (R03) [email protected] [email protected] (Alamador, Calaveras, Tuolumne) (909) 305-0291 Sacramento, CA 95827-6513 Michael McGinty (Alternate) Chair: Albert J. Segalla www.lplac.org/67.htm (916) 362-0855 [email protected] (209) 728-2887 [email protected] (619) 602-4767 LA: Southeast (R65) [email protected] Humboldt County (R12) Chair: David Bowers Secretary Chair: Frederick J. Mangels [email protected] Sandi Webb Santa Clara County (R- 43) [email protected] (562) 862-6083 4250 Yukon Ave. Jascha Lee (408) 267-6740 (707) 443-6568 www.lplac.org/65.htm Simi Valley, CA 93063-1634 [email protected] www.wcinet.net/~freddym LA: West (R62) (805) 526-0958 Allen Rice (Alternate) Imperial County (R13) Chair: Eric Fine [email protected] (408) 267-1142 Chair: Charles A. Phillips, Jr. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (310) 836-0276 LP OFFICES (760) 356-4525 www.lplac.org/62.htm www.opine.org/imperial.html Madera/Mariposa National: The Libertarian Party At-Large Reps (R20) 2600 Virginia Ave. NW, Ste. 100 Inyo/Mono (R26) Chair: Jonathan Ira Zwickel Lori Adasiewicz (916) 457-4796 Washington, DC 20037 Chair: Wayne Ball [email protected] [email protected] (202) 333-0008 [email protected] (760) 873-5735 (559) 645-5512 www.opine.org/inyomono www.opine.org/maderamariposa.html (202) 333-0072 (fax) José Castañeda (626) 458-5862 [email protected] [email protected] Kern County (R15) Marin County (R21) Chair: Ric Pinkerton Chair: Tammy Austin State: Libertarian Party of California Joe Dehn (650) 858-1842 (661) 397-4935 [email protected] 14547 Titus St. #214 (650) 857-1209 (fax) [email protected] (415) 339-7887 Panorama City, CA 91402-4935 [email protected] www1.iwvisp.com/kernlib www.sirius.com/~pagangas (818) 782-8400 Bruce Dovner (310) 327-9005 Lake County (R17) Mendocino County (R23) (818) 782-8488 (fax) [email protected] Chair: Connel Murray Chair: Ed Kuwatch [email protected] [email protected] Aaron Starr (805) 583-3308 [email protected] (707) 277-7076 (707) 459-3999 Executive Director [email protected] www.lake.ca.lp.org www.mendocino.ca.lp.org Juan Ros Elizabeth Brierly (1st Alternate) (818) 782-8400 Lassen County (R18) Merced County (R24) (408) 272-3191 Contact: David Eaton (818) 782-8488 (fax) Contact: TBA, www.lassen.ca.lp.org [email protected] [email protected], (209) 723-7099 [email protected] Los Angeles County Modoc County (R25) Administrative Assistant John Scott Ballard (2nd Alternate) (also see following regions) Chair: Rodger Rosie Contact: John Howard Alex Goldburt (909) 885-7799 [email protected] (530) 233-4277 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (562) 865-4089, www.lplac.org 10 LPC Monthly Updates shown in bold, italic August 2000 REGIONAL CONTACTS (cont.)

Monterey County (R27) Sacramento County (R34) San Mateo County (R41) Solano County (R48) Chair: Mark Dierolf Chair: Gene Frazier Chair: Jack Hickey Chair: R. Allan Eddy [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (707) 548-1939 (831) 753-0507 (916) 332-4805 (650)368-5722 www.freesolanocounty.com http://mclp.w3.to www.sacto.com/lps www.california.com/~lpsm/ Sonoma County (R49) Napa County (R28) San Benito County (R35) Santa Barbara County (R42) Chair: Bill Schoeffler Contact: William H. Crain Chair: Kate Woods Contact: Colin Hayward [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (805) 966-2629 http://members.aol.com/lpsonoma (831) 693-4531 & (831) 693-4532 www.sblp.org (707) 224-5535 Stanislaus County (R50) Nevada County (R29) San Bernardino County (R36) Santa Clara County (R43) Chair: Don DeGroat Chair: Jon Petersen Chair: Steve John Chair: Marv Rudin [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (209) 527-1493 (909) 391-2749 (408) 736-5626 / 738-1353 (fax) (530) 272-9320 / 272-9259 (fax) Sutter/Yuba (R51) www.livingfree.org/nclp/ www.lpca.com www.sc.ca.lp.org Chair: Todd Herman Orange County (R30) San Diego County (R37) Santa Cruz County (R44) [email protected] Chair: Bill Todd Contact: Richard Rider Chair: O. Robert Welch (530) 673-2208 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] http://home.otn.net/hermanto (714) 957-6833 (858) 530-1776 / 530-3030 (fax) (831) 338-4612 Tehama County (R52) www.lpoc.org www.sdlp.org www.santacruzlp.org Chair: Ross Crain (530) 527-2676 Placer County (R31) San Francisco County (R38) Shasta County (R45) Trinity County (R53) Chair: Priscilla Falconi Chair: David Molony Chair: Steve Preszler Chair: Jeanne Simmons [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] (916) 784-1140 (415) 516-3151 Chair (530) 222-3338 (530) 623-3185 www.americanliberty.org/Placer.html (415) 775-LPSF Party www.shasta.ca.lp.org www.trinity.ca.lp.org www.lpsf.org Plumas County (R32) Sierra County (R46) Tulare County (R54) Contact: Mark Corley Contact: Daniel Howe San Joaquin County (R39) Contact: Bill Adasiewicz [email protected] [email protected] Chair: Carole Brow (530) 288-3288 (559) 735-0304 (530) 284-6499 [email protected] [email protected] (209) 759-3733 www.plumas.ca.lp.org Siskiyou County (R47) Ventura County (R56) http://home.inreach.com/ewhite Chair: Glenda Thomas Chair: Saul Rackauskas Riverside County (R33) San Luis Obispo County (R40) [email protected] [email protected] (805) 987-5567 / 987-1828 (fax) Chair: Gene Trosper Chair: Ed Moss (530) 436-2687 www.ventura.ca.lp.org [email protected] (805) 489-4568 www.siskiyou.ca.lp.org (909) 244-2630 www.lpcslo.org Yolo County (R57) www.lprc.org Chair: Eric S. Lund [email protected] (916) 362-0855 IMPORTANT INFORMATION LPC Monthly Online Option Renewing Your Membership Want to get the news from LPC Monthly sooner? Save trees? Renewal notices are sent to members whose expiration date is You can use two new services that let you turn your hardcopy coming up. Just return your dues payment in the accompanying subscription into an online one. First, an e-mail notification envelope and your membership at the national, state, and local level service lets you know when a new issue is available online. will be renewed for one year. Second, if you no longer want to receive the hardcopy version Address Changes you can ask for it not to be mailed. Let the LP know if you move! Send your address change notice to the national office (or do it online at http://www.ca.lp.org/lpc- Making your subscription an online one is simple. Just use the member-services.html). If you are moving out of state but want to form that has been provided for this purpose on the LPC member continue as an LPC member or continue subscribing to LPC Monthly, services page at: please also notify the state office so we can make the necessary http://www.ca.lp.org/lpc-member-services.html arrangements to keep you on our list. Fill in the information, including your e-mail address, and you’ll start Address Labels receiving a notice of each issue by e-mail instead of the hardcopy. The address label on your newsletter provides important information relating to your membership. On the line above your name, you You also have the option of getting the online notice but still will find a nine-digit number. Please mention this number in any receiving the hardcopy. Simply subscribe to the LPC’s correspondence relating to your membership. On the same line you announcement list by sending a message to will also find a two-digit number identifying the LPC region with [email protected] which you are affiliated. See the listing above to find out the name of with “subscribe” in the subject line. your region and who to contact for information about local activities.

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