2009 Spring Board Meeting and Equality Convention

DC Members of the local Orange County, Long Beach, Palm Springs Steering Committee traveled to Washington DC and attended the March 2009 Equality Convention for a day of lobbying on Capital Hill and twodays of board meetings and HRC training. On the eve of the third night OCLBPS walked away with five outstanding awards at the annual HRC Equality Convention, National Awards Ceremony was held on March 7, 2009 at the Washington Convention Center.


Among them were:

-Excellence in a Ballot Initiative (Prop 8)
(His Excellency, Andy Linsky)

-Dinner Special Recognition Award-for Prop 8
(OC Garden Party)

-Outstanding Federal Club Co-Chair Team
(Tedd Lesch, Kevin Bass, Ed Todeschini,   Sandra Hartness)

-Federal Club Council Special Achievement Award
(Andy Linsky, Sandra Hartness)

And most exciting of all:

- Steering Committee of the Year (Andy Linsky, Sandra
Hartness, Tedd Lesch, Kevin Bass,
Ed Todeschini, Tom Dreher, Eric Kenney, Nick Veach, James Minor, Carin Jacobs, Jon-Eric Lehman, Chris Goodman )