Chairman’s Message: Our voice at the Capitol – Texas REALTORS®-2021十大正规彩票app

By Marcus Phipps

April 01, 2023

We are the strongest trade association at the Texas Capitol.

Allow me to offer a heartfelt thank you to the 3,500 Texas REALTORS® who came to Austin for REALTOR® Day at the Texas Capitol and our NAR Riding with the Brand event. It was an exciting day from start to finish!

The sea of purple on the south lawn of the Capitol was an amazing sight. The Purple Solution was in full force! You were excited, and you were equipped to carry our message to our lawmakers throughout the day. I hope you got to take some pictures with the NAR Riding with the Brand bus, and that you supported the REALTOR® Relief Foundation by entering the drawing to win that beautiful motorcycle. If this was your first time or your 20th to attend REALTOR® Day, I trust that you found a renewed passion and empowerment for that “R” that you represent.

I hope also that you will join me in thanking our amazing and tireless Texas REALTORS® staff who worked endless hours arranging our legislative meetings and providing us with custom talking points for each of the 181 members of the legislature. This preparation and message crafting gave us the perfect opportunity to have authentic conversations with our friends in the Capitol. Our policy positions are never Blue. They are never Red. They are based on policy, not politics. They are based on fixed principles, not shifting sands. Our diverse membership encompasses the broadest of personal and political beliefs, but our policy positions are based on the preservation and enjoyment of private property rights. We are the Purple Party. Our advocacy and our policy positions are the Purple Solution.

Because of our vast membership, our excellence in grassroots advocacy, our strategic TREPAC raising and disbursement of funds, and our strong policy development and delivery, we are the strongest trade association at the Texas Capitol. Our 150,000-plus members speak with one voice on issues that are important to all Texans, protecting the rights of private property ownership. That unified voice gives us direction and purpose. It gives us a clear path and boundaries to observe, and we stay in our lane.

With our unified voice, we continue to have great conversations with lawmakers about property taxes, housing affordability, infrastructure, HOA reform, TREC, sustainability, and private property rights. Sometimes members ask us to support or oppose legislation that would take us out of our lane. We simply cannot do that. Our strength is in our unity. If we step out of our lane, we leave members behind. We don’t all share the same views on issues outside of our lane, so we must stay in our lane at all times in order to have the greatest impact on the issues where we all can agree. We will not take up a policy position that will divide our membership. It dilutes our overall message and diminishes our power.

The power is in the purple! Regardless of how you vote … regardless of your personal, religious, or political views, you as a REALTOR® will always agree with the Texas REALTORS® policy positions. They’re about you! They’re about your clients, your neighbors, and the land upon which all things are built. Thanks for being a part of the Purple Solution!

Marcus Phipps is 2023 chairman of Texas REALTORS®.

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