RAGFL Meet Your Mayors Breakfast

Last Friday (July 11th) the Leadership Team met in Fort Lauderdale for the annual Meet Your Mayors breakfast. This has become the largest gathering of mayors and commissioners in the area. Twenty-six cities and municipalities were represented; mostly by the mayors, but some commissioners attended. The event is sponsored by the Realtor Association of Greater Fort Lauderdale; President Randy Bates led off with introductions and 2004 National WCR President Brenda Ghibaudi followed with an inspirational message. Rick Barkett, CEO then emceed the rest of the meeting. That took strong will and an easy going style to keep 26 politicians brief and on point; which Rick did very well.


The biggest issue that came up was when Sec. Summer Greene asked them to indicate their support for Amendment 5 by standing up; only 5 stood. The others gave varying reasons for not supporting the amendment. The primary reason was cutting school funding; however President Chuck rose to the occasion to clarify the concerns and to speak directly to the funding sources outlined in the amendment. Great job Chuck and very passionate.

Realtor Assoc of Martin County endorsement

I've got a lot of blogging to do and I'm going to break this down into several posts. I've been quite busy since my last post. As always, I'm posting the endorsement letters as I receive them. I received the posted letter from President David Derrenbacker and EVP Dawn Mitchell informing me that the Realtor Association of Martin County (District 3) are supporting and endorsing my candidacy for President Elect of the FAR 2009. I had a chance to spend some time with them at the NAR Midwinter meetings in May. The District 3 Meet the Candidates was one of the most attended events so far this season. It's good to see the high level of involvement that their members have in the political process of both FAR and the government.

Thanks again President Dave and EVP Dawn.