Texas Realtors Launch Campaign To Protest Rove’s Upcoming Speech At Statewide Convention
Texas Realtors Launch Campaign To Protest Rove’s Upcoming Speech At Statewide Convention
The Daily News of Galveston County, Texas reports that former top Bush aide Karl Rove is scheduled as the keynote speaker at the Texas Realtors Association’s convention in San Antonio this September. When local realtors Karen Derr and Alice Melott heard the news, “they were appalled.”
In fact, Derr, Melott, and other area Realtors have “launched an e-mail campaign to persuade the association’s leaders to strike Rove from the speaker lineup.” “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.
Another associate noted Rove’s inability to meet the Reators’ ethical standards and stated his intention to protest Rove’s presence at the convention:
“Rove definitely does not embody the ethics we want the public to associate with Realtors,” said Bill Hammond, an agent with Karen Derr and Associates Realty. [...]
Hammond said he plans to organize a protest of Rove at the convention. He also said the association’s dues should not be used to pay Rove’s speaking fees, which in some cases are as high as $40,000.
The realtors are concerned that Rove would disrupt the convention. “We don’t need that kind of atmosphere at the meeting,” Derr said. Indeed, Rove tends to attract protesters whenever he appears in public:
– At George Washington University speech last March, Rove was interrupted by a group of protesters who unfurled a banner reading “War Criminal.” One a student asked Rove why some of his detractors believe he is a “fundamentally bad human being.”
– Under heavy pressure from students, New England prep school Choate Rosemary Hall has decided to cancel Rove’s address at its commencement ceremony.
– Rove spoke to a hostile crowd at the University of Iowa last March where students and local citizens protested his appearance at the university and “staged a mock trial” for Rove inside the student union before the speech.
Realtors association chairman Randy Jeffers said that he has no plans to withdraw the offer to Rove to speak at the convention, saying he is proud that the organization will feature “one of the most influential and controversial people in public policy today.”
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Ah, now we see some sanity, as realtors recoil from the thought of Rovian stench fouling their convention.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:34 pmGiving this protest from a few headline-attention doesn’t change its futility.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:36 pmRove is “one of the most influential and controversial people in public policy today”
But not in a good way.
Time to recall Randy Jeffers.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:37 pmI hear Mann Coulter is available!
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:39 pmAgrh…
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:39 pmThose Ned Beatty images are returning. Please show no more images of this pigmallion…
Oops. KKKarl Rove seems to be coming smack up against free market forces in his speaking career.
Realtors in Texas! recognize his toxicity to their reputation if he is associated with their organization.
Ah well, there’s always Wingnut Welfare.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:41 pmrozerze Says:
Stand in a dark closet and cry much?
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:41 pmWill Karl squeal like a pig?
Does Jeff Gannon know the answer?
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:42 pmAs a compromise, Rove could, instead, volunteer to sit in a dunk tank to raise funds for victims of waterboarding.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:42 pmJauzus, when some of the TEXAS RE folks are jettisoning the BushCo scumbags, things are really changing! Maybe there is hope for that state after all.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:42 pmHe is a traitor to the USA for colluding to out a CIA operative ( and by extension blow her cover and risk other CIA operatives) and for systematically politicizing the Department of Justice of the United States.
And as such should not be welcomed anywhere.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:43 pmHey Rog2,
Wanna bet this is more than a ‘Giving this protest from a few headline-attention doesn’t change its futility’. Whatever TF that means.
But you will see more on this, just wait. And while we are discussing KKKarl, are you one of his groupies?
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:45 pmSo association chairman, Randy Jeffers, is an un-American, fascist administration supporting, 20something percenter- so what he says goes, huh? Weak. No real American would want to listen to the lies of that un-American mellonhead.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:46 pmrozerze Says:
Giving this protest from a few headline-attention doesn’t change its futility.
this comment doesn’t make any sense.
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why do you keep changing your name?
do you have trouble remembering how to spell it?
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maybe rove could speak to
a convention of trolls.
that would be interesting.
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good luck.
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July 2nd, 2008 at 12:47 pmRealtors association chairman Randy Jeffers said that he has no plans to withdraw the offer to Rove to speak at the convention, saying he is proud that the organization will feature one of the most dishonest and evil people in public policy today.
Isn’t that a bit closer to the truth, Mr. Jeffers?
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:47 pmThrowing rotten tomatoes at this POS is oh, so quaint.
However, pelting Rove with poo is appropriate.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:53 pmupside99 Says:
for your sake, though it was implied, I should have said protest from a few people….regardless, rove isn’t going anywhere, like it or not.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:54 pmHowever, pelting Rove with poo is appropriate.
Makes me wish I’d developed the “shit-gun”.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:55 pmrove isn’t going anywhere
Other than straight to hell, where he’ll be welcomed by all.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:55 pmAfter Bush leaves office and after what Rove did to a CIA covert agent, if I were Karl, I’d pay someone else to start my car every time.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:56 pmpelting Rove with poo is appropriate
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after all, part of his nickname is TURD!
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:57 pmrozerze Says:
for your sake, though it was implied, I should have said protest from a few people….regardless, rove isn’t going anywhere, like it or not.
this comment doesn’t make any sense.
have you been drinking?
?
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:58 pmRog2, you still didn’t answer my question: Are you one of his groupies or not? Simple yes or no will suffice.
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:58 pmRealtors association chairman Randy Jeffers said that he has no plans to withdraw the offer to Rove to speak at the convention</e
I smell a kickback…
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:59 pmBTW; as for Rove being ‘turd blossom’
what further proof than this to the saying
YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT
July 2nd, 2008 at 12:59 pmthis comment doesn’t make any sense.
have you been drinking?
Probably just home schooled, by a drunk, bible thumping, gun-wielding coward…
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:01 pmCan I buy a dart board with this evil f__ks face on it?
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:05 pmDieNowForPeace Says:
Probably just home schooled, by a drunk, bible thumping, gun-wielding coward…
it’s the bad spelling (he keeps
forgetting how to spell his own name)
and the confusing sentence structure
that are strong indicators of fetal alcohol syndrome.
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roz, your thoughts?
?
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:06 pmRove should not be allowed in polite society in general.
This is one of Jeffers lame excuses is using to keep Rove: Jeffers said he has received about 17 angry e-mails about Rove’s speaking engagement. The association has 90,000 members.
I agree with the Derr and Melott that it sends a poor message about ethics and Realtors. Plus their anger is justified in that their registration fees are paying for his speaking engagement which could cost upwards to $40,000. Of course, they have not disclosed how much he is being paid yet for this event.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:19 pmjoe cantwell,
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:24 pmBTW, I never realized who you were until I saw you (3rd time?) on TCM the other day.
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McCain campaign lists Texas as a battleground state. Latest has McCain up only 9%—-while Kerry allegedly lost by 23%.
rozerze Says:
Giving this protest from a few headline-attention doesn’t change its futility.
In other words, rog, “if rape is inevitable, you should just lie back and enjoy it,” right…?
OK. That’s so you.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:28 pmKay@#28! Priceless merchandising idea!
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:32 pmI’m gonna get rich selling Rove/Darth/Chymp dartboards, with an extra large bullseye!
‘Methinks it would be well worth it to pay the S.O.B.
$40,000.00, to STAY AWAY.
Send him over to those Methodists who’re trying to prevent
the George Bush Library (cess-pool) from being on the
SMU campus. . . . .Rove is head of the movement to get Bush’s
Library there.
Better still, maybe Bush’s Library should be with HIM, down
on his 90,000 acre ranch in Paraguay. He’s thinks he’ll be
happy and safe down there.
Didn’t mean to diverge toooooooooooooooooo much.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:37 pm#33;
How ’bout Dart(h)boards?
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:40 pmAhh, Ms Kay, you’re a born Madison Avenuer.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:42 pmthank you!
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:44 pmWhoa, talk about the price of real estate going down in Texas.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:45 pmRealtors saying that Rove is too unscrupulous….next it will be used car salesmen….then bankers…but the right wing fake christians will always heap their man love on this puss-gut.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:47 pmI thought maggots at some point split their skin and flew away. Hasn’t this fatfck maggot been around long enough?
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:50 pmSeems fitting that a bunch of realtors with a lot of time on their hands as a result of the housing crash should get to pay for the privilege of listening to one of the architects of the current economy. Then again, with the oil companies in Houston maybe Texans like $4.00 a gallon gas.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:52 pmYeah, it wouldn’t look good for the crooked Realtors, mortgage brokers and turd to be seen together.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:55 pmAnd he is still running free because……
Oh forgot, congress lost it’s job description somewhere.
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:59 pmUrp…just LOOKING at that face makes me want to heave a whole sackful of cookies. What could Rovey possibly say that would have any relevance to the realtors? He can’t defend Bush’s policies about the housing market – see how many foreclosures are happening in JUST THIS MONTH ALONE! He can’t possibly talk about Iraqi real estate…that would just be so…colonial. He must be going to regale them with tales of all of McCain’s houses and what they’ve done for the realtors who actually got paid in beer instead of money.
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:07 pmIf they do have him, I hope that they will clearly denote their differences and actively disavow what he says.
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:13 pmLike THAT’S going to get across. Denoting the differences pales when you’re in the position of…bending over to give Karl his speaking fee and listen to his drivel.
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:21 pmIt appears to me that the mighty Foo Bird has been flying over republiscums and now they have to wear it!
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:39 pmEverywhere he goes he will be greeted with protesters. This will be no different.
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:42 pmGo to Hell, Turdblossom!
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:44 pmYeah, realtors! Rise up and skim this scum off the bottom of your pot!
For that matter, threaten Fox that if they don’t get that worm off the screen you’ll turn their channel off and leave it off. The world would be a better place if everyone did that.
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:50 pmKay @ 28, you need a rectangular board to hane room to show the codpiece as a target.
Can Bally develope a pin ball game where you build up points killing terrorists?
When we bomb Iran, ITT Technical Schools will need marketing help for their new programs in Mortuary Science and Cemetary Management.
Who in Hollywood will film the next porn hit, “Dubya does DC”?
July 2nd, 2008 at 2:52 pmI have an announcement to make:
Rove is a fu ckwad.
Thank you for your attention.
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:01 pmIt’s amazing what an economic downturn will do to cause people to suddenly find their intgegrity.
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:02 pmunder no circumstances should you go to you tube and search “squell like a pig” Well other than you are free to view what you would like which is of course a cool thing for the most part. Ugh he is so visually unappealing. I mean I know that is sort of shallow and all but…. How do you spell eewww?
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:07 pmI hope the San Antonio September meeting of the realtors is mobbed by people protesting Rove’s appearance. Rove deserves to be shunned.
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:09 pmJust what a tanking real estate market needs – a cheesy speech from the chief architect of their failed economy . . . sorta like the National District Attorney’s Meeting getting an address on ethics by Alberto Gonzales . . .
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:35 pmPlease let the Association know how poorly this reflects on realtors in all the states. This is a national organization. They don’t like having problems with the public’s perception of their adherence to ethics. During a real estate downturn is not a great time to have this kind of controversy.
Contact page for Texas:
http://texasrealtors.com/web/2/111/
National contacts:
July 2nd, 2008 at 4:37 pmhttp://www.realtor.org/infoexp.nsf?OpenDatabase
It is certainly a robbery to pay Tubby McTreason Rove, a criminal, any money or even a peso for speaking engagements! Good for Texas Realtors to protest Rove’s speaking engagement.
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:02 pmMr Jeffers states Karl Rove has not been indited but just wait untill GWB gets out of office & can’t pardon him… HE’S TOAST!!! Talking about the slimebag of all slimebags. If he was so innocent why was he forced out!?!? This is a no-brainer! and thank goodness someone has the sense and guts to stand up & speak out about this!
July 2nd, 2008 at 11:48 pm