The Ventura County Democratic Party chose Brian Leshon as its new central committee chairman Tuesday night, party officials announced today.
Leshon lives in Ventura and owns an Internet marketing company. He has been the Democratic Central Committee’s acting chairman for the past month, since the last chairwoman, Jill Martinez, resigned her post. Leshon has also been first vice chairman for the past six months and is chairman of the committee’s communications subcommittee.
Leshon won the vote of 22 of the 29 Central Committee members who voted at Tuesday night’s meeting, according to a statement released this morning.
The Central Committee governs the local Democratic Party and has 44 members. Twenty-four are voted onto the committee in Democratic primary elections, and the rest serve because they have won Democratic nominations for office or are presidents of local Democratic clubs.
~ Tony Biasotti, the Ventura County Star
