President’s 2017 RPAC Circle ANNUAL CONFERENCE March 5–8, 2017 • Maui 2 | 2017 RPAC President’s Circle Annual Conference #RPACPCConf Table of Contents President’s Welcome .............................................................................................4 Program Agenda .................................................................................................... 5 Speaker Bios ........................................................................................................... 8 President’s Circle & Platinum R Investors By State ....................................... 20 Hotel Map............................................................................................................ 27 Welcome 2017 RPAC PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE ANNUAL CONFERENCE Welcome to beautiful Maui! Known as the Valley Isle, Maui has bragging rights on a number of fronts. It’s credited with having some of the world’s most beautiful beaches, and the Road to Hana is said to be one of the world’s most scenic drives. On top of that, Maui is known as one of the world’s best whale-watching places. That’s a lot of “world bests,” which makes Maui a fitting place to celebrate your world-class commitment to the REALTOR® Party and the REALTORS® Political Action Committee. The President’s Circle has some bragging rights of its own. For instance, the number of President’s Circle Investors has now grown to a record-high 1,125. And, nearly 700 of you are here at this conference, making this 14th annual President’s Circle Conference the best attended ever. Thank you! Your enthusiastic investment of time and resources is revolutionizing our grassroots advocacy. You are leading by example – and that’s the best way. I don’t have to tell you, that your work as President’s Circle Investors is important – now more than ever. In this time of political change and transition, the REALTOR® Party and RPAC must rise to new heights in 2017 to ensure REALTORS® interests at all levels are protected and promoted. I have no doubt that with your leadership, we can do that. As you hear from our great lineup of speakers, I hope their messages spark new ideas about how we can expand our legislative and lobbying efforts from city councils, to state houses to the Nation’s Capital. Thank you for being here. Thank you for your leadership. Thank you for all you do. William E. Brown 2017 NAR President 4 | 2017 RPAC President’s Circle Annual Conference #RPACPCConf 2017 RPAC PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE ANNUAL CONFERENCE Program Agenda SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 2017 12:00 – 5:00pm Registration Desk 8:30 – 9:30am 2016 Election Aftermath: Location: Haleakala 2 The Mood of the Country, featuring Dr. Frank Luntz 5:30 – 7:30pm Welcome Reception Location: Haleakala Ballroom Location: Molokini Gardens Introduction by Phil McGinnis, 2017 RPAC Trustees Federal Disbursement Committee Chair MONDAY, MARCH 6, 2017 9:30 – 9:45am BREAK 6:30am Buffet Breakfast 9:45 – 10:15am 2017 Legislative Update Location: Haleakala Ballroom with NAR Chief Lobbyist Jerry Giovaniello 7:00am – 1:00pm Registration Desk Location: Haleakala Ballroom Location: Haleakala 2 Introduction by Kevin Sears, 2017 NAR Vice President 7:00am – 1:00pm President’s Circle Computer Lounge 10:15 – 10:45am The Supreme Court of the Location: Gardens 2 United States and Campaign Finance, Past, Present, & 7:00 – 7:15am Welcome Message from Future, with NAR Associate 2017 NAR President General Counsel Ralph William E. Brown Holmen & Stanford Law Location: Haleakala Ballroom Professor Jeffrey Fisher Introduction by Location: Haleakala Ballroom Charlie Oppler, 2017 Introduction by Kevin Sears, REALTOR® Party Director 2017 NAR Vice President 7:15 – 8:15am Lessons on Leadership, 10:45 – 11:00am BREAK featuring Deborah Roberts Location: Haleakala Ballroom 11:00am – 12:00pm Lone Survivor: A Tribute Introduction by Hagan to Courage, Honor, and Stone, 2017 RPAC Trustees Patriotism, featuring Fundraising Committee Chair Marcus Luttrell Location: Haleakala Ballroom 8:15 – 8:30am BREAK Introduction by Kenny Parcell, 2017 REALTOR® Party Fundraising Liaison Afternoon Free time & Dinner on Your Own 6 | 2017 RPAC President’s Circle Annual Conference #RPACPCConf TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2017 6:30am Buffet Breakfast 10:45 – 11:45am Lessons Learned in Location: Haleakala Ballroom Congress, with Speaker John Boehner 7:00am – 1:00pm President’s Circle Computer Location: Haleakala Ballroom Lounge Introduction by Tracy Kasper, Location: Gardens 2 2017 REALTOR® Party Member Involvement Liaison 7:00 – 8:00am Political Outlook, featuring Ana Navarro 11:45am – 12:00pm Closing Remarks with Location: Haleakala Ballroom 2017 NAR President-Elect Introduction by Kaki Lybbert, Elizabeth Mendenhall and 2017 RPAC Major Investor 2017 NAR President Council Chair & William E. Brown Anita Colletti, 2017 RPAC Participation Council Chair Afternoon Free Time 8:00 – 8:15am BREAK 5:30 – 7:30pm Closing Reception Location: Molokini Gardens 8:15 – 9:15am What’s the Fuss About the Founders? featuring Joseph Ellis WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2017 Location: Haleakala Ballroom Introduction by Carol Griffith, 2017 REALTOR® Party 12:00pm Check-out Disbursements Liaison 9:15 – 9:30am BREAK 9:30 – 10:30am Economic Panel featuring NAR Chief Economist Dr. Lawrence Yun and Dr. Ken Rosen Location: Haleakala Ballroom Introduction by Beth Peerce, 2017 NAR Vice President 10:30 – 10:45am BREAK #RPACPCConf 2017 RPAC President’s Circle Annual Conference | 7 Speaker Bios 8 | 2017 RPAC President’s Circle Annual Conference #RPACPCConf Speaker Bios John Boehner A former small businessman, John Boehner served as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives where he led the drive for a smaller, less costly, and more accountable federal government. The second oldest of 12 brothers and sisters, John grew up mopping floors at his family tavern and playing football at Moeller High School. While working to pay his way through Xavier University, he met Debbie – his wife of 41 years – and started his own small business. He and Debbie still live in the home where they raised their two daughters: Lindsay and Tricia. John got involved in state and local politics after seeing firsthand how high taxes and red tape impact entrepreneurs. Then in 1990, the voters sent John to Congress where he took a strong stand against pork- barrel spending and, as part of the “Gang of Seven,” exposed corruption in the House establishment and forced politicians to live by the same laws as everyone else. John’s reputation as a reformer grew as he helped craft the Contract with America and fought for the first balanced budget in a generation. As Chairman of the Education & the Workforce Committee, he wrote legislation to expand school choice, strengthen America’s pension system, and reduce government spending. As Republican Leader, he led the opposition to jobs-killing laws like “cap and trade” and ObamaCare while promoting better solutions to the challenges facing American families. On January 5, 2011, Boehner’s colleagues elected him to serve as Speaker of the House for the 112th Congress. Armed with the Pledge to America – a new governing agenda that reflects the priorities of the American people – Speaker Boehner focused on removing government barriers to private- sector job creation and economic growth, cutting government spending, reforming Congress, and rebuilding the bonds of trust between the American people and their representatives in Washington. #RPACPCConf 2017 RPAC President’s Circle Annual Conference | 9 Joseph Ellis Joseph J. Ellis is one of the nation’s leading scholars of American history. The author of nine books, Ellis was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers: the Revolutionary Generation and won the National Book Award for American Sphinx, a biography of Thomas Jefferson. His in-depth chronicle of the life of our first President, His Excellency: George Washington, was a New York Times bestseller. Ellis’ newest book, The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789, was released in Spring 2015. Ellis’ essays and book reviews appear regularly in national publications, such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. Ellis’s commentaries have been featured on CBS, CSPAN, CNN, and the PBS’s The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and he has appeared in several PBS documentaries on early America, including “John and Abigail [Adams]” for PBS’s The American Experience and a History Channel documentary on George Washington. Ellis has taught in the Leadership Studies program at Williams College. He previously taught at the Honors College at the University of Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College, and the United States Military Academy at West Point. He lives in Amherst, MA with his wife, Ellen Wilkins Ellis and three dogs. He is the father of three sons. 102 | 2017| 2017 RPAC RPAC President’s President’s Circle Circle Annual Annual Conference Conference #RPACPCConf Jeffrey L. Fisher Jeffrey L. Fisher is a professor at Stanford Law School and co-director of its Supreme Court Litigation Clinic. His academic and Supreme Court work runs the gamut of federal constitutional and statutory matters. Professor Fisher has argued 31 cases in the Supreme Court. Among his recent successes is Riley v. California, in which he persuaded the Court to hold unanimously, and for the first time, that the Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement officers to obtain warrants before searching the contents of seized smartphones and other digital devices.