Platform Committee

The Platform Committee met in Las Vegas on February 15-16th and adopted a series of recommendations for our party platform.

If the Committee's recommendations were all adopted by the national convention delegates, it would result in an entire replacement platform that would fill topic coverage gaps in our current platform but do so with a shorter, less detailed, but still boldly libertarian document. To accomplish that, the Platform Committee has recommended that delegates delete all current planks and section introduction text (leaving only the Preamble and the Statement of Principles) and adopt 27 replacement planks.

The language of these proposals may look familiar to you. That's because we constructed the planks with language recycled from previous platforms.

The Committee adopted this approach in order to increase the likelihood of achieving the 2/3 vote necessary to adopt new planks at convention.

In a few places the Platform Committee realizes that recycled language may not be sufficient for what we'd like to accomplish. So in those places we'll present you with two options: one with language recycled from previous platforms, and another with some new language that the Committee recommends to fill a need.

The Committee has additionally recommended a modification to the Statement of Principles, and that change can also be seen in the above linked document.

For blog discussion of Platform Committee proposals, please visit: http://www.lpplatform.blogspot.com

The Platform Committee can be reached by email at:
PlatformFeedback@lp.org

Platform Committee members are: David Aitken, Steven Burden, Audrey Capozzi, Robert Capozzi, Steve Dasbach, Bruce Dovner, Donny Ferguson, Dan Grow, Henry Haller, Brian Holtz, John Howell, Viki Kirkland, Hardy Macia, Alicia Mattson, Adam Mayer, Guy McLendon, Jon Roland, Bonnie Scott, Norma Skoog, and Glenn Tatum.

The Platform Committee will meet again in Denver on Thursday, May 22nd in advance of the national convention.