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Gold Key Season Opener Hits Home Run for BUILD-PAC
The 2005 Gold Key Spring Board Dinner Dance took place at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Friday, April 15. The dinner, which kicked off the 2005 baseball theme, was a great success.
 Club members were greeted with “Take Me out to the Ballgame” and sat at tables adorned with baseball themed floral centerpieces. Members danced through the evening to the tunes of a six-member band. A great time was had by all.
BUILD-PAC has an ambitious $4 million goal this election cycle. To help meet this goal Mak Koebig, the 2005 Gold Key Club Chairman, thought a baseball theme would help create some excitement around achieving the goal. "The Gold Key Party turned out to be quite an affair and went into extra innings. Build-PAC was the big winner scoring base hits and getting a number of new rookies into the game and we look forward to the continuing competition and the next big game in Reno. We have a long way to reach our goal, but I am confident, after the success of this meeting that we will do it," commented Koebig.
Consistent with the baseball theme, Koebig created a baseball-themed recruitment competition among BUILD-PAC MVP’s; the Capitol, Platinum and Gold Key Club members. The BUILD-PAC MVP’s who recruited a New Gold Key were named BUILD-PAC All-Stars and were recognized at the Gold Key Spring Board Dinner Dance last Friday night. There were five BUILD-PAC MVP’s who entered the competition, each recruiting one New Gold Key member.
The first BUILD-PAC All-Stars are:
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Bob Hanson (MN)
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Lance Johnson (AZ.)
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Bruce Kevil (NE.)
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Dorothy LaFitte (SC)
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Peter Merrill (NM)
The Gold Key Club is off to a great start, beginning the year with a record 900 Gold Key Club members. At the end of Spring Board there were 27 New Gold Keys. Gold Key Chairman, Mak Koebig is confident we will have 1100 Gold Keys by the end of the year.
The BUILD-PAC All-Star competition will continue through Fall Board. Look for more details in upcoming issues of BUILD-PAConnection. For more information contact Wendy Perez, BUILD-PAC finance manager, at 800-368-5242 x8289 or e-mail wperez@nahb.com.
Photo: Gold Key Chairman Mak Koebig with BUILD-PAC Chairman Earl Sharp at the Gold Key event.[return to top]
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My fellow BUILD-PAC officers and I are proud to announce the launch of BUILD-PAConnection, BUILD-PAC's first electronic newsletter. Each BUILD-PAC contributor for whom we have an e-mail address for will receive the newsletter on a bi-weekly basis. BUILD-PAConnection will feature articles on fundraising, events, Congressional races and political news. In addition, in each BUILD-PAConnection issue we will recognize the names of all Gold Key, Platinum and Capitol Club members.
Capitol Club Members were welcomed with open arms to the world-renowned Watergate Hotel on Saturday, April 16, where they experienced an evening of culinary delight.
While the Capitol Club members enjoyed their conversation, laughter, food and wine, comedian Jimmy Tingle made an appearance. He closed out the dinner with a special performance of political and social satire.