The Texas REALTOR® Strike Force Award is given to individual Texas REALTORS® who show extraordinary dedication to grassroots advocacy in support of the association’s positions, election activity, or TREPAC- and RPAC-supported candidates.

Examples may include, but are not limited to:

• Support for local or statewide issue campaign
• Efforts to increase voter turnout for supported candidates or issues
• Voter registration efforts, either consumers or Texas REALTORS®
• Candidate interviews
• Interaction with elected officials
• Activism within political parties
• Candidate recruitment and training
• Influencing public policy
• Promotion of local, state, or federal Calls for Action, including the Broker Involvement Program and REALTOR® Party Mobile Alerts (RPMA)

Award Policies

• Nominations may be submitted throughout the year
• PIC members and TREPAC Trustees are not eligible for the Strike Force Award
• All award winners are published in Texas REALTOR® magazine
• Multiple Strike Force Awards may be awarded to REALTORS® within the same local association
• Nominations for the Strike Force Award may be made by: Political Involvement Committee members
• TREPAC Trustees
• Local Associations, GADs, AEs
• Texas REALTORS® staff

PIC leadership will ratify decisions as nominees are submitted Winners will timely receive a framed certificate to acknowledge their exceptional efforts in grassroots advocacy

Grassroots Advocate of the Year

• At the end of the year, PIC leadership will select finalists from the pool of Strike Force winners to be considered for the Grassroots Advocate of the Year Award
• Grassroots Advocate of the Year will be determined by the full PIC and presented at Winter Meeting in February

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