I have emailed 5 congressmen, my Govenor and I have only gotten somewhere with 1 congressman, Randy Forbes. The people that run Fannie and the other GSE’s belong in jail for the things they have allowed to happen. AMC’s should be required to be licensed an held to strict regulations, just like appraisers are. Loan Officers and, and loan processors should have federally mandated licensure requirements.
I have been a part of a group head up my George Dodd, another well respected appraiser, to help with a proposal that is one that would let appraisers be involved with a solution. Instead we are being ignored. Our solution was one that would allow individual people police and regulate ourselves rather than make the goverment spend more money. Instead they are going to allow the fox to watch the hen house.
I would love to see someone do the right thing and bring this up on a level that would actually let the public know what is going on. Every media outlook i have turned to has ignored us. From newspaper columnist to TV media, it is deemed unimportant to the establish their ratings. we have been locked out, and as small businesses, we support an enormous segment of the economy both in what we do, and the fact that we are part of and estimated 6 Billion dollars in fee work a year. The AMC’s will be allowed to send work to the lowest bidders, which bid low due to their willingness to cut corners and not do their due diligence.
I would be happy to share ebery thing I have to allow Ron Paul the chance to see what we are dealing with.

Woody Fincham
Certified Real Appraiser
Virginia Beach, VA

Barr Has Been Spending Freely

Former GOP Rep. Bob Barr (Ga.) announced his candidacy for the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination today, saying that Americans deserved a choice beyond what the Democratic and Republican candidates can offer.

But if Barr really is disillusioned with the two major parties, he hasn’t shown it with his wallet.

Barr, who helped manage President Clinton’s impeachment in 1998 and then lost his House seat following redistricting in 2002, nominally quit the Republican party in December 2006. Barr said at the time that the direction of the GOP had been “bothering me for quite some time” and called himself a “proud, card-carrying Libertarian.”

Since then, Barr has continued to exercise his inherent right to dole out campaign cash, and his political action committee — now known as the Bob Barr Leadership Fund — has contributed money to roughly two-dozen Republican members of Congress, according to Federal Election Commission records. Recipients of Barr’s largess have included some decidedly moderate, non-Libertarian types like GOP Reps. Christopher Shays (Conn.) and Deborah Pryce (Ohio) and Sen. Norm Coleman (Minn.).

Barr also gave $1,000 last year to the presidential effort of a former Libertarian nominee, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), just a few weeks after he gave money to another White House campaign — that of former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, who is now running for Senate. Further complicating Barr’s post-partisan (or bipartisan? tripartisan?) stance, his last recorded PAC contribution, made in February, went to … a Democrat: Rep. Tom Allen, a candidate for Senate in Maine.

Of course, Barr’s PAC has also given at least $8,500 to the Libertarian National Committee. So he’s got almost all of his bases covered. As of March 31, his committee still had $166,000 on hand. Maybe he’ll throw some cash the Green Party’s way, just to be fair.

By Ben Pershing | May 12, 2008; 5:00 PM ET