Some Realtors Riled Up Over Rove Speech–headline; The Daily News (Galveston County, TX)
July 3rd, 2008Did I not hear somewhere that if you take a dashboard-size statue of Karl and bury it upside-down in your home’s sanitary sewer or septic system, you’ll be assured of unloading the property before the next news cycle?
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By Laura Elder
Published July 2, 2008
When political strategist Karl Rove speaks, a lot of people listen. Some heckle and a few throw things.So when island Realtors Karen Derr and Alice Melott heard the former adviser to President George W. Bush would be the featured speaker at the Texas Realtors Association’s convention in September, they were appalled, they say.
“What kind of message are we sending to the public we seek to serve by our very invitation to such an infamous politico?” Melott said in a letter to association leaders.
Melott, a Keller Williams agent, Derr and other area Realtors have launched an e-mail campaign to persuade the association’s leaders to strike Rove from the speaker lineup at the convention, which is set for San Antonio and is expected to draw about 2,000 members.
Derr, of Karen Derr and Associates Realty, which has an island office, said she fears Rove’s detractors would disrupt a convention that’s supposed to be about selling property, market conditions and legislative issues affecting the industry.
Images: (Rove) via futureupdate.files.wordpress.com via ftd,de; (doll) used before, but cf cite.
