Dear Bev,

For the past 12 years, our state bankers association colleagues across America have worked to scour all the Congressional races to find races that are razor close, with someone who has been a great friend of banking (or opponent who is a horrible enemy), where money may very well determine the outcome.

When we find one of these critical races, we work together to ask everyone we know who cares about improving the policy environment for banking to donate whatever amount they can to each of those races in the final weeks of the campaign. 

After much time and debate, we have identified 2 critical House races – Zach Nunn (IA), David Schwiekert (AZ) and 1 Senate race – Eric Hovde (WI)!  Each of these candidates have been tremendous friends of the industry and are in “toss-up” races. 

Please go to friendsoftraditionalbanking.com to learn more about each and to donate whatever amount you can directly to these candidates and then share this invitation to those you know who care about banking.

We call this coordinated effort “Friends of Traditional Banking” and it is really starting to have an impact! Just do the math. We have 20,000 friends who have signed up. If each of them contributed just $50, that’s $1 million! But most of our friends contribute much more and that makes a huge difference in the final weeks of a really close race!

This is one of the most powerful tools the banking industry has. The difference between having these three candidates in Congress or losing these races is ENORMOUS! So please take 5 minutes, right now, to go to friendsoftraditionalbanking.com and contribute to each one of these candidates and then share this invitation with others who care about the future of our industry. 

Thank you for all your support!

Chris Furlow, Texas Bankers Association

Scott Meier, Wyoming Bankers Association

Mark Mangano, West Virginia Bankers Association

Rose Oswald Poels, Wisconsin Bankers Association

Chris D'Elia, Vermont Bankers Association

Howard Headlee, Utah Bankers Association

Colin Barrett, Tennessee Bankers Association

Karl Adam, South Dakota Bankers Association

Fred Green, South Carolina Bankers Association

Patricia Octeau, Rhode Island Bankers Association

Scott Bruun, Oregon Bankers Association

Adrian Beverage, Oklahoma Bankers Association

Mike Adelman, Ohio Bankers League

Phyllis Gurgevich, Nevada Bankers Association

John Anderson, New Mexico Bankers Association

Mike Affuso, New Jersey Bankers Association

Ryan Hale, New Hampshire Bankers Association

Richard Baier, Nebraska Bankers Association

Rick Clayburgh, North Dakota Bankers Association

Sam Sill, Montana Bankers Association

Eric Bennett, Mississippi Bankers Association

Jackson Hataway, Missouri Bankers Association

Joe Witt, Minnesota Bankers Association

Josh Steirman, Maine Bankers Association

Ramon Looby, Maryland Bankers Association

Ballard Cassady, Kentucky Bankers Association

Doug Wareham, Kansas Bankers Association

Randy Hultgren, Illinois Bankers Association

Amber Van Til, Indiana Bankers Association

Stacey Satterlee, Idaho Bankers Association

John Sorenson, Iowa Bankers Association

John McNair, Community Bankers Association of Georgia

Kathy Kraninger, Florida Bankers Association

Janeen Jackson, District of Columbia Bankers Association

Tom Mongellow, Connecticut Bankers Association

Jenifer Waller, Colorado Bankers Association

Kevin Gould, California Bankers Association

Paul Hickman, Arizona Bankers Association

Scott Latham, Alabama Bankers Association

Yuri Morgan, Alaska Bankers Association

(Together this group forms the Advisory Council of Friends of Traditional Banking. Associations are listed by names for identification purposes only.)