Callum Wayne

**Executive**
Secretary of State
(11/12/2020-1/12/2021)
Secretary of Defense/Homeland Security:
 (9/14/2020-11/14/2020)
Attorney General:
 (8/5/2020-9/12/2020),
(12/14/2020-12/16/2020 (Acting))

**Libertarian Party**
LNC Chair:
 (9/5/2020-11/1/2020)
LNC Vice Chair:
 (8/9/2020-9/4/2020), (12/8/2020-1/5/2021)
LNC At-Large Representative:
 (7/9/2020-8/8/2020, 11/1/2020-12/7/2020, 1/5/2021-Present)
Chief Whip:
 (7/12/2020-8/2/2020)

**Other**
Reporter for The Liberty Ledger:
 (7/24/2020-Present)

### Awards

President's Medal for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service (awarded by President Colbert August 12th, 2020)
Presidential Medal of Freedom (awarded by President Cade September 11th, 2020)

President's Medal for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service (awarded by President Ian October 12th, 2020)

President's Medal for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service (awarded by President Lilburne November 11th, 2020)

President's Medal for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service (awarded by President Ian December 12th, 2020)

**Callum "Gavelsmasher" Wayne** is an American politician, engineer, and journalist, who most prominently served as Secretary of State and Chair of the Libertarian National Committee (LNC). His key pieces of legislation include the Fourth Amendment Restoration Act, Addiction is Not a Crime Act, State Guard Sovereignty Act, Foreign Tax Reform Act and the Afghanistan Withdrawal Act. He has also instituted sweeping reforms in the Departments of State, Defense, Homeland Security, and Justice to increase transparency, financial accountability, restore peace abroad, and to protect the rights of the citizens. He was later elected to Senate in January 2021 and served as Senate Minority Leader starting in February 2021. Mr. Wayne has served in a multitude of positions including Secretary of State, Defense, Secretary of Homeland Security, Attorney General, LNC Chair as well as several other Libertarian Party Leadership positions. Mr. Wayne is to date the only individual to serve in the Cabinet under seven consecutive administrations. He has been a consistent advocate of peace at home and abroad, civil liberties, and free markets.

## **Early Life and Political Career (Until August 2020)**

### Start in Politics

*"This city (Philadelphia) is where liberty started. This is where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were drafted and signed. Those documents have preserved liberty for generations, and since then, this country has weathered and survived many storms because of their protections. We will continue to prosper by fighting to preserve that liberty that our founders gave us."* -Campaign Rally for Senate, November 1st, 2020

Wayne was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, where he continues to live to this day when not working on government affairs in Washington DC. After graduating high school, he attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a focus in Finance. All the while, he maintained a passionate interest in politics and history that gives him a near encyclopedic knowledge of certain topics.

Upon starting his term in the House of Representatives in June 2020, he quickly got to work. He advised and co-sponsored several bill in the House, as well as authoring three of his own that ended up being signed into law. The Libertarian Leadership quickly took note of his activity, and he was elected in July 2020 to an At-Large Representative Seat on the LNC and appointed Chief Whip shortly thereafter. During his tenure as Whip, all Libertarian Representatives were certain to receive timely voting analysis and recommendations for all matters coming to a vote before the House.

In July of 2020, while still in his freshman term as a Representative, Wayne received the Libertarian Party nomination for Senate is his district. While his campaign received broad support, he was unable to capture the seat. The seat was won by future President Ricca.

### Journalism

*"The American intervention in the Yemen conflict has concluded with President Lilburne's Executive Order #79, along with the coalition blockade. Relief organizations will now be able to flow much needed food supplies into the famine ridden country. After almost six long years and being hard hit from the Corona-virus pandemic, Saudi Arabia may be considering its own exit strategy. Peace may finally be on the horizon for war-torn Yemen."* Story on the End of the Yemen Involvement, November 2nd, 2020

In July 2020 The Capitol Tribune was purchased by the Libertarian Party and rebranded as The Liberty Ledger. Wayne immediately joined the fledgling newspaper as a reporter. He wrote some of the first stories covered by the news outlet, including the Interview of Democratic Party Leader LaDarion Jones, the ANTIFA violence in Mechanicsburg, PA, and coverage of the end of the Yemen Conflict. In August of 2020, he moderated an in-depth Presidential Debate between Senator Ricca and Vice-President Jacob. The following month, he moderated another Presidential Debate between President Cade, House Speaker Ian, and Senate Majority Leader Schlorp.

## **Executive & Party Leadership (August 2020 - January 2021)**

### Executive Branch

*"This order, when enacted, will permanently close all remaining detention camps outside of the boundaries of the United States & the District of Columbia. All operations will cease within the prisons, and all prisoners will be transported back to the United States or country of convict for a fair trial."* -Department of Defense Order #8, September 19th, 2020

During the administration of President Colbert in August 2020, Wayne was nominated by the President for Attorney General to replace Attorney General Megazord, who had recently resigned. He was confirmed by an overwhelming majority of the legislature. During his tenure as Attorney General, he instituted sweeping reform and argued multiple cases in front of the Supreme Court. President Ricca recognized his work and kept him on in his administration. After the assassination of President Ricca, he continued to serve as a senior member of the cabinet under President Cade.

In his tenure as Attorney General, he issued five cabinet orders. Within the Department of Justice, he instituted an audit and ensured financial accountability, ended warrant-less mass surveillance, ended the prosecution of victimless crimes, forbade the execution of no-knock warrants, ended the prosecution of gun ownership crimes and crimes related to file sharing and 3D printing of firearms, eliminated the death penalty, and ended solitary confinement in the Bureau of Prisons and redirected the funding to increase educational opportunities for inmates.

Following the end of President Cade's term in September 2020, President Halpert assumed the Presidency. Recognizing his achievements in the Department of Justice, the President nominated him for Secretary of Defense, overseeing the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security. He was once again confirmed by a large margin. Recognizing his achievements in office, President Lilburne, who succeeded President Halpert at the conclusion of his term, elected to continue to have him serve in the position.

In his tenure as Secretary of Defense, he has issued five cabinet orders as of this writing. Within the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, he instituted an audit and ensured financial accountability, ended warrant-less mass surveillance, ended the prosecution of victimless crimes, forbade the execution of no-knock warrants, permanently closed all overseas detention centers and returned any inmates to facilities in US borders to ensure the protection of the rights of the detained, released a pathway to clear privatization of airport security, and expanded upon President Collin Matthew's previous order to re-integrate transgender individuals into military service.

While advising the Presidents in the various administrations, his input worked to decrease funding in the Department of Defense by over 25% and the Department of Homeland Security by over 7% to conserve the money of the American taxpayer. He also wrote the Foreign Tax Reform Act as part of President Lilburne's tax reform plan, eliminating the long-standing double taxation of Americans citizens living abroad. In addition, he worked in the administrations to ensure the pardons of Ross Ulbricht, Eugene V. Debs, Mollie Steimer, Samuel Lipman, Hyman Lachowsky, Jacob Abrams, Chelsea Manning, and Julian Assange.

Having been recognized for his experience in the executive, President James appointed him to Secretary of State, a post that he held through the Presidencies of Ian (in his second term) and Smith. In that time, he worked with Canada to collaborate on the Great Lakes Oil Spill, mediated disputes between China and India in their border conflict, worked with the Ian Administration to sign a Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia, began a joint effort with South Korea to collaborate on cyber-security, worked with President Smith to sign the Treaty of Ottawa as part of a global effort to reduce the use of landmines, and oversaw, in part, the withdrawals of US armed service members from Iraq and Libya.

### Libertarian Party Leadership

*"We've come so far as a party, and I see great things ahead for us. But I want to take this time to thank those who have come before. Rest assured. This is a party of the people and all your contributions are not forgotten. Let's give all these fine individuals a hand for all they've done to advance the cause of Liberty!"* -Farewell Address as LNC Chair, Libertarian National Convention, October 30th, 2020

In August, Wayne was elected Vice-Chair of the LNC. He quickly got to work building the party and improving its structure. Among the reforms in this term were the restructuring and clarification in the bylaws of party elections and creating the party's Judicial Committee to give third party accountability to the actions of the National Committee. He also laid the foundations of today's LNC Conventions by chairing, along with fellow LNC Member Smith, the pioneering LNC Convention System of the September Convention. It that contained three days of activities including speeches, debates, elections and games. He also developed the tabling system that allowed PACs, and later candidates, to purchase tables at the convention for increased exposure.

By September, the body of the Libertarian party elected Wayne LNC Chair, a position he held for two terms until early November when he decided not to run for re-election. As Chair, many more reforms and progress was made within the party, including the endorsement of candidates inside and outside the party based on policy over party, ensuring the party's financial support of the its nominees, and allowing new members of the party to run for seats on the LNC. As a result of the cross-party negotiations under his chairmanship, two Libertarian-led Presidential tickets received endorsements from other parties as well as multiple candidates for Speaker of the House.

He also carried out voting reform in the party. At his suggestion, a tie-breaking method was codified into the bylaws. Likewise, in the November LNC elections, he carried out the first ever Libertarian Party ranked choice vote in its history.

During his term, a group of new members of Congress wished to form the Constitution Party but did not have the numbers to do so, and were being denied autonomy within the other parties. As Chair, he issued a memorandum stating that they could form their own caucus within the party should they wish to join. They promptly did so, creating the new party caucus system of the Mises Caucus, the Pragmatic Caucus, the Left Caucus, and the Constitution Caucus that still exists today.

By the time his final term as chair had concluded it was rumored he had banged so many gavels during all the LNC meetings that he was given the nickname "Gavelsmasher".

## **Senator (January 2021 - Present)**

### First Term

*"Finally, I see H.R. 27 as troubling in that law enforcement is barred from intervening in a strike unless "violence at such an action is widespread without government involvement".  It should not take widespread violence to merit government involvement. If there is imminent threat to anyone's life on either side, threat of bodily harm or threat of property destruction, let alone actual action taken towards any of those, it would necessitate that the Federal government stand down unless such threats are widespread. Because of this, I could not vote for the bill in its current form."* -Senator Wayne giving an address on the Senate Floor, February 16th, 2021

After previously running for Senate in July 2020 and November 2020, Callum Wayne ran a third time and pulled off an upset victory over Franz Ricca, the brother of former President Ricca, in a close race decided by ranked choice with multiple elimination rounds, to serve as District 1's Class 1 Senator.

In the Senate, he submitted approximately one bill a week, covering such matters as Federal Reserve Transparency, Military Withdrawal from Countries Abroad, Second Amendment Issues, Due Process Reform, Presidential Succession and Civil Asset Forfeiture.

After Senator Ian decided not to run for re-election and Senator Helvin resigned, Senator Wayne rose to lead the Schlorp Caucus as Minority Leader. He has served in this position since February 12th, 2021.