FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: John Kabateck, California State Director, john@kabstrat.com
or Tony Malandra, Senior Media Manager, anthony.malandra@nfib.org

SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 10, 2025—California’s largest small business association today announced a new vice-chair of its leadership council and chair of its PAC committee.

Beth Booth, co-owner, along with her husband, Marshall, of Spaces Renewed, a residential design-and-build firm in Oceanside (San Diego County), will serve as vice chair of the California Leadership Council of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). Last year, Booth journeyed to Washington D.C. to help lobby for keeping the 20% Small Business Deduction from expiring at the end of 2025. A story with a two-minute, YouTube video can be read and heard here. Booth has been an NFIB member since 2018 and can be reached at 760-637-2175, bbooth@spacesrenewed.com.

Paul Cramer, president and COO of Star Milling in Perris (Riverside County), will take over as chairman of NFIB California’s PAC committee. In that role, he will direct NFIB California’s endorsements for the legislature and state constitutional offices. Star Milling manufactures pet and animal food which is distributed on the West Coast, Hawaii, and exported to many countries in the Pacific Rim and Mexico. During the pandemic and continuing since, Cramer has been NFIB’s go-to source on supply-chain disruptions. Cramer has been an NFIB member since 2011 and can be reached at 951-657-3143, paul_cramer@starmilling.com.

Max A. Ordonez of Whittier (Los Angeles County) will continue to serve as chairman of NFIB California’s Leadership Council, which consists of 18 small business owners representing 13,000 NFIB members from all corners of the state. Ordonez is president and CEO of Whittier-based IMM Management, a fractional CFO firm. More about Ordonez can be read here. He has been an NFIB member since 2007 and can be reached at 714-600-5692, maxordon@gmail.com.

“We are very thankful to have Beth Booth and Paul Cramer agree to take on new roles in our association,” said John Kabateck, state director for NFIB in California. “Together with Max Ordonez, we have a formidable team of small business policy advocates whose work will benefit every Main Street enterprise in the state.”

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