Libertarian Party of San Francisco

Libertarian Party of San Francisco
General Information
Jurisdiction:	San Francisco County, California
Status:	Active
Officers
Chair:	Starchild
Secretary:	Jay Anthony
Treasurer:	Chris Mendes
Media
Website:	Website
Facebook:	Facebook
Twitter:	Twitter
Meetup:	Meetup

The Libertarian Party of San Francisco is a county organization of the Libertarian Party of California. The city and county of San Francisco are contiguous, with a unified government, so unlike the other county parties in California, the LPSF is directly concerned with a single municipality.

Activism

Some of the main activities of the LPSF circa 2018 include:

• Filing ballot arguments each year to be published in the San Francisco Voter Handbook distributed each election to several hundred thousand registered San Francisco voters (some free arguments selected as official ballot arguments by lottery, others paid arguments typically costing several hundred dollars each, based on the number of words).
• Operating an outreach booth for two days at San Francisco Pride festival each year
• Issuing voting recommendations on local ballot measures
• Leaders speaking at local schools
•  Hosting an annual panel discussion event (started out as a Tax Day event)
• Periodically running candidates for local office
• Publishing commentary on LPSF.org, principally about local political issues

Executive Committee

• Chair – Starchild

• Secretary - Jay Anthony

• Treasurer – Chris Mendes

History

Region Numbers

San Francisco was Region 38 of the Libertarian Party of California in the numbering system in which regions generally corresponded to counties.

San Francisco was part of Region 4 in the earlier 20-region numbering system.

Meetings

• 2nd Saturday each month, 3-5pm (currently as of December 2022 meeting at main SF library, corner of Grove and Larkin streets, by Civic Center BART station, 3rd floor Paley conference room)

Past Executive Committees

As of January 2022:

• Chair – Chris Mendes • Treasurer – Max Cranley

As of January 2021:

• Chair – Starchild • Vice Chair – Jeff Yunes • Secretary – Richard Fast • Treasurer – Greg Michael

As of 8 April 2017:

• Chair – Aubrey Freedman
• Vice-Chair – Starchild
• Secretary – Nick Smith
• Treasurer – Les Mangus

As of January 2018:

• Chair - Nick Smith
• Vice-Chair - Rebecca Lau
• Secretary - Aubrey Freedman
• Treasurer - Jawj Greenwald

The following are the Libertarian Party of San Francisco officers as of January 2019:

• Chair - Nick Smith
• Vice-Chair - Alex Mills
• Secretary - Ryder Meehan
• Treasurer - Rebecca Lau

Other past officers and appointed positions

Chair

• George O'Brien (?-1994?)
• Jerry Pico (c 1995)
• Starchild (1996-1998?)
• Chris Maden (2004?-2008?)
• Rob Power (2008-2012?)
• Aubrey Freedman (2012?—2018)
• Marcy Berry

Vice-Chair

• Mark Read Pickens (c 1995)
• Michael Spadacinni (~2005?)
• Starchild (2017—2018)
• Ron Getty

Secretary

• Mark Valverde (c 1995)
• Nick Smith (2016-2018)

Treasurer

• James R. Elwood (c 1995)
• Jawj Greenwald
• Les Mangus

Elections Director

• Anton Sherwood (c 1995)

Webmaster

• Rob Power
• Nick Smith

Other

Francoise Fielding, Media Relations
Starchild, Outreach Director
Speakers Bureau, libertarian speakers for classrooms or groups

External Links

• Libertarian Party of San Francisco
• newsletter

Address

2215 Market Street #6, San Francisco, CA, 94114

Former address: 520 Frederick Street, #17, San Francisco, CA 94117