Working On Your Behalf

The Illinois Association of REALTORS® relies on Federal Political Coordinators to help protect the real estate industry.

FPCs + DC = Advocacy for REALTORS®
IAR's team of Federal Political Coordinators (FPCs) were at the nation's capital for NAR Midyear Meetings to make sure REALTOR® issues like sales tax fairness and the rural housing program get attention from elected officials.

• Photo Gallery
• Capitol Hill visits a success for IAR property advocates
• New Lawmakers Mean New Challenges on Home Ownership
• Roll call for FPCs: Visits begin with strategy session
• Illinois REALTORS® blanket the Hill; lobby for property rights
• Meet your Illinois FPCs
• IAR begins meetings on Capitol Hill at Sen. Dick Durbin’s office

2013 FPCs | Video: FPCs Protecting the Real Estate Industry

What is a Federal Political Coordinator (FPC)?

Key members of the Illinois Association of REALTORS® are assigned to maintain relationships with specific members of Congress to keep them up-to-date on REALTOR® issues. They stay in touch throughout the year in the member of Congress’s home district in Illinois as well as on Capitol Hill to promote, stop and seek amendments to proposed laws that help or hurt the business of buying and selling real estate.

Why should you care?

With property ownership as a building block to wealth and a stronger economy and property rights as paramount to personal liberty and a core value to our nation, we as an industry must stand up for these principals to keep both our county and our industry the strongest and best that it can be! FPCs work to make a difference in your day-to-day business.

Meet the 2013 FPCs

If you have questions about federal policy, the FPC program, or are interested in serving on a contact team please contact IAR Staff Executive, Sharon Gorrell, sgorrell@iar.org.

Illinois Federal Political Coordinators (FPCs) at the 2012 NAR Midyear Meetings in Washington, D.C.
Front, left to right: REALTORS® Pat Dalessandro, Sonia Anaya, Cedrick Hunter, Marilyn Glazer, Ginger Sreenan; Middle, left to right: REALTORS® Anthony  McDaniel, Doug Hartmann Sr., Dan Wagner, IAR CEO Gary Clayton and 2012 President Loretta Alonzo, Mike Drews, John C. Kmiecik, Ed Neaves, John Terrell; Back, left to right: REALTORS® David Hanna, Pat Callan, Max Mitchell, Eric Ryden, Pat McCarthy.