2020 Libertarian National Convention
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The JW Marriott Downtown Austin Luxury Hotel in Austin, Texas will be the site of the 2020 Libertarian National Convention.
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| Date(s) | May 21–25, 2020 |
| City | Austin, Texas, United States |
| Venue | JW Marriott Austin[1] |
| Chair | Daniel Hayes |
| Keynote speaker | Larry Sharpe |
| Voting | |
| Total delegates | 1,046 delegates[2] |
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The 2020 Libertarian National Convention will be an event in which delegates of the U.S. Libertarian Party will choose the party's nominees for president and vice president in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The convention will be held from May 21–25, 2020, at the JW Marriott Downtown Austin Luxury Hotel in Austin, Texas.[3][4]
Contents
Nominations and balloting
Chairman election
Libertarian National Committee At-Large representative Joshua Smith is again running for the position,[5] in addition to author and businessman Todd Hagopian.[6] Incumbent LNC chairman Nicholas Sarwark has not formally announced his intention to run for the position again.
Theme
In early 2019, the Libertarian Party held a contest, allowing members to decide the 2020 convention theme, charging $5 a vote.[7] On April 11, it was announced that the winning theme was "TANSTAAFL",[8] an acronym for "There Ain't No Such Thing As a Free Lunch", a libertarian economic concept popularized by American writer Robert Heinlein and subsequently Chicagoan school economist Milton Friedman.[9] The phrase was also embodied in the Libertarian Party's first logo, adopted in 1972, in an image known as the "Libersign".[10]
The theme contest raked in $24,007 for the LP to gear towards convention expenses.[8]
Convention speakers
Planned speakers
According to the convention website, the following notable people are scheduled speakers:[11]
- Patrick M. Byrne, founder and former CEO of Overstock.com
- Jim Cantrell, CEO and co-founder of Vector Launch, Inc.
- Laura Ebke, former Libertarian Nebraska state legislator
- James P. Gray, jurist and 2012 Libertarian vice-presidential nominee
- Lisa Jaster, engineer and U.S. Army soldier
- Larry Sharpe, 2018 Libertarian nominee for Governor of New York (keynote speaker)
- Joel Trammell, entrepreneur
Controversy
Black Guns Matter founder and 2019 candidate for Philadelphia City Council At-Large Maj Toure was initially chosen to be the convention's keynote speaker. However, in November 2019, convention chairman Daniel Hayes rescinded Toure's invitation, pointing to tweets perceived as transphobic and anti-immigrant.[12] Larry Sharpe, host of The Sharpe Way and 2018 Libertarian candidate for New York Governor was later selected to replace Toure as keynote speaker.[13]
Delegate allocation
Delegates to the convention will be allocated based on the number of sustaining members of the national Libertarian Party per state, as well as the percentage of the vote cast by state in the 2016 presidential election for Libertarian presidential nominee Gary Johnson. Delegates will vote for changes to the national party's platform and bylaws, on members of the Libertarian National Committee and on the party's 2020 presidential and vice-presidential nominees.[14]
See also
- 2020 Democratic National Convention
- 2020 Green National Convention
- 2020 Republican National Convention
References
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