Members: Now Is A Perfect Time to Complete the NASBP SuretyPAC Prior Approval Form
Members: Now Is A Perfect Time to Complete the NASBP SuretyPAC Prior Approval Form
Now is the perfect time to authorize the NASBP political action committee, SuretyPAC, to solicit voluntary contributions from the executive and administrative personnel of your agency for this calendar year.The SuretyPAC is critical for providing support to those candidates for Congressional office who support surety industry interests. SuretyPAC disbursements are an effective means to assist NASBP in gaining access to members of the U.S. Congress and in influencing federal legislative decision-making. This already has been and will continue to be a busy legislative year for NASBP. The changes to the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Bond Guarantee Program described in the President’s Stimulus Package are prime examples how NASBP continually seeks to shape federal legislative priorities.
Please note that SuretyPAC can solicit funds only from NASBP members that have given the SuretyPAC permission to solicit their employees for contributions and remember that an agency cannot have approved authorization by any other trade association during that calendar year.
Howard Cowan of the Howard Cowan Bond Agency, Inc. of Lubbock, Texas recognizes the SuretyPAC Prior Approval Form as an important part of the SuretyPAC efforts. “Help assure that NASBP will continue to be able to make its voice heard by law makers by signing the SuretyPAC Prior Approval Form,” Cowan said. “The SuretyPAC is the only PAC that is looking out for surety interests and that is 100% devoted to representing the surety industry,” he added.
“Our agency’s commitments indicate how strongly we feel about being involved in the political process and are testaments to NASBP members, like the late Jack Curtain, that we must be activists in promoting the role that surety plays in good government,” Cowan said.
By signing this Prior Approval Form your agency is not obligating anyone to give to the SuretyPAC; you are only authorizing the SuretyPAC to request voluntary contributions. You may restrict who within your company may be solicited, and an area is provided on the Form for you to designate specifically those individuals from whom contributions may be solicited.
To access and complete the SuretyPAC Prior Approval/Authorization Form, click here. Please direct any questions about the SuretyPAC Prior Approval Form to Khoffman@nasbp.org.
For more information about the SuretyPAC, click here.
