2008 December Newsletter - Alaska Association of Realtors

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Annual RPAC Report By Art Clark RPAC Chairman Real Estate Brokers of Alaska Anchorage Congratulations and thank you to all of our members on another successful year for the Alaska Realtors Political Action Com- target goal on the State level. However, we were down from last year’s in percentage of goal and actual contributions. Unfortunately we were also down in member participation. This is somewhat understandable with the current state of the national economy. Hopefully we can all work on the rest of membership to help us increase the participation from the remainder of our membership. At the State Convention this year we had another wonderful and lively auction event that were already in the process of spending. At the Convention the ARPAC Trustees met and endorsed and sent contributions to candidates for many of the State House and Senate races. A quick word on how we arrive at the deci- candidate. We generally take into consideration the comments and recommendations of the local Board, from their interview process. Occasionally the ARPAC Trustees will decide to endorse a different candidate, based upon past help in our issues and/or the candidates’ viability to win the race that he/she is running. but who did win their race. This year the candidates that we endorsed won between 85 to 90% of their races. Of the candidates we endorsed, were Democrats. All of the candidates we supported were the ones that we thought would best be in favor of our issues in Juneau. In many of these cases we have already had very strong support from these people in the past. Nationally, NAR has lobbied for maintaining the Mortgage Interest Deduction, maintaining banks out of the real estate industry and we continue to press for health care insurance availability for our membership. On the state level we have been successful in enacting legislation to safeguard principal residences from eminent domain procurement by municipal entities and continue to work toward eminent domain protection for second and recreational properties. We continue to be vigilant in ensuring that the legislature does not take action to make purchase price disclosure a requirement for buyers and sellers at closing. Please remember, we cannot continue to have the impact in our state and federal legislative branches without your continued support. We also need to have more support from more of our membership. This is YOUR Real Estate career. One of the best ways to maintain and enhance YOUR career is to invest in the Realtor Party by donating to the Alaska Realtors Political Action Committee. Looking forward to another great year in 2009. We also, at times, give contributions to candidates that we did not previously endorse, 14 Alaska REALTOR® • December 2008 newsletter.indd 14 11/24/2008 12:23:48 PM
2008 Alaska RPAC Contributors ANCHORAGE Lisa Conner $1,000 Lisa Conner Sandy Eherenman Helen Jarratt Mark Korting Naomi Louiver Charlie Sandberg Gordon Schadt $500 Jonathan Bryan Tari Flannery Renate Houser Diane Johnson Eva Loken Don McKenzie Rex Tomlinson $250 Art Clark Michael Droege Lisa Fallon Barb Huntley Peggy Kelly Dan Lee Elise McCollough Michael McLane Janelle Pfleiger $99 Anita Bates Charles Blalock Dwight Bowden Mary Cox Ray Dahl Bert Dozark Jerry Dewhurst Julie Erickson Tiffany Fales Sabrina Fernandez Connie Giddings Connie Heyworth Bonny Hochstein Peter Jarratt John Lindsey JD Mechem Mike Messick Barbara Michelson Sallie Nickerson Barbara Ramsey Anchorage Continued Mike Rogers Jennifer Shaw Chris Swires Margaret Tovrea Stephanie Tri Perry Underwood Susan Westlund Denny Wood FAIRBANKS $1,000 Wes Madden Jaquie Rosenthal Dave Somers Judy Somers $500 Melissa Bidwell Scott Rosenthal Joni Schneider $250 Amy Krier $99 Sally Atwood Jason Ballek Melissa Bidwell Paul Brodale Eileen Cummings Ryan Danhauser Gerrie Duffy Gene DuVal Roger Floerchinger Audrey Foldoe Camen Haman Rich Kelley MT Killion Heather Lambert Zeb Mabie Kirk Maynard Audra McGhee Grace Minder Kelli Powers David Pruhs Traci Schachle Doug Somers Angie Tallant Jessica Thomas Rodney Wakefield KACHEMAK $1,000 Gina Pelaia $500 Rhonda Johnson $250 Debra Leisek $99 Angie Newby KENAI $1,000 Judy Cloud $99 Dale Bagley Debbie Bagley Louise Barnes Gail Blazer Fred Braun Gail Caldwell Esther Chambers Judy Cloud Les Crane Dorothy Cunningham Dave Feeken Glenda Feeken Penny Furnish Kelly Griebel Febra Hensley Chris Hough Anna Johns Dave Keating Kim McDonald Myla McFarland Linda McLane Diane Melton Deb Milam Ed Oberts Joe Rogers Linda Poindexter Mark White KODIAK $250 Keri Kaune $99 Bonnie Aulabaugh Bob Brodie Beth Davis Elouise Lenhert Phyllis Seaton VALLEY $1,000 Kathryn Clark Uli Johnson Janice Strong $500 Jean Kay $250 Brad Cole Gary Gearhart DeAnn Gleason Russell Joyce Mark Lee Holly Stinson $99 Shana Ackles Roger Aldrich Suellen Appellof Robert Bickel Shane Blattler Pat Check Paddy Coan Patty Coleman Anne Curtis Larry Ficek Steve Gilroy Kibe Lucas Debbie Murphy Sherri Mulhaney Jerry Moses Susan Price Krystal Rogers Jo Sonerholm Shelly Woodke SOUTHEAST $500 PeggyAnn McConnochie $250 Roger Porto Carole Winton $99 Duane Gates Sue Nix Cami Seward Larry Spencer Roger Stone December 2008 • Alaska REALTOR® 15 newsletter.indd 15 11/24/2008 12:23:50 PM
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