SACRAMENTO, California, January 30, 2024  – The Libertarian Party of California (LPCA) announced that Independent presidential candidate, Dr. Cornel West, will be participating in a presidential candidate panel at the Libertarian Party of California’s Annual Convention, alongside Libertarian Party Presidential candidate, Mr. Jacob Hornberger. Earlier this month, the LPCA announced that Mr. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will also be a guest speaker and will participate in another presidential candidate panel, also featuring Libertarian Presidential candidates Dr. Michael Rectenwald and Mr. Mike ter Maat. California will be the first Libertarian Party state affiliate in the country to give Libertarian presidential candidates the opportunity to engage in dialogue with presidential candidates outside of the Libertarian Party. 

The LPCA Annual Convention will be held between February 23-25, 2024, at The Hilton Costa Mesa, 3050 Bristol St., Costa Mesa, CA 92626. Dr. West and Mr. Kennedy will be among many notable speakers at the convention, which will include economist, physicist, legal scholar, author, and anarcho-capitalist theorist Dr. David Friedman, son of the renowned Nobel Prize-winning Dr. Milton Friedman, as well as Libertarian National Committee Chair Angela McArdle, Founder and Chairman of Bring Our Troops Home Dan McKnight, as well as many others.   

Adrian F Malagon, Chair of the Libertarian Party of California, said, “I’m proud to have California be the first state affiliate in the country to give Libertarian POTUS candidates the opportunity to engage in dialogue with presidential candidates outside of the Libertarian Party. We need to demonstrate how our solutions compare to others.” 

Dr. West will be participating in Sunday’s second presidential candidate panel. Tickets to the Annual Convention, and both of the POTUS Candidate Panels, are available for purchase on the LPCA Convention website at:  https://ca.lp.org/2024-convention/