Former president to speak to mortgage brokers

The Johnson County Sun

George Bush will be speaking next Thursday evening in Overland Park - Bush 41, that is, not his son, the 43rd president. And for $100 you may be able listen to his keynote address over dinner.

The former president will be speaking during the annual convention of the Kansas Association of Mortgage Brokers in the ballroom at the Overland Park Convention Center, and organizers are expecting at least a couple hundred of the 1,000 available seats to be available for the general public.

According to Susie Mize, KAMB executive director, Bush is scheduled to attend a 6:30 p.m. dinner next Thursday and to speak for about 30 minutes, starting at 7 p.m. Those not registered for the convention but wishing to attend Bush's speech are directed to e-mail Mize at director@kamb.org for more information.

The cost will be $100, Mize said, "but that includes dinner, of course."

Interested parties can also try to call Mize at 492-5262. But because she is the association's only staff person and is almost single-handedly putting next week's convention together, she warned, she's likely to be hard to reach by phone over the next few days.

She made her convention-organizing job even more difficult than usual, Mize acknowledged, by booking the former president as the keynote speaker.

"I went out on the Internet a year and a half ago and got hold of the person who books him," she said. "It was too late to book him for last year, so I tried last summer for this year. And as it turns out, he'll be in Detroit that morning, and so they worked it out to where he could come through here on his way back to Texas."

Bush will address the local convention crowd about the mortgage industry, of course, but will also share some of his experiences as president with the KAMB crowd.

The KAMB boasts about 440 members, Mize said, and the Thursday dinner portion of its convention is expected to attract about 750 members and guests.

The two-day convention will begin on Wednesday with a fund-raising golf tournament at the Deer Creek golf course and a casino night back at the convention center. On Thursday, the activities will continue with a trade show featuring more than 80 mortgage-related exhibitors between noon and 4:30 p.m.

On of those exhibitors, First Magnus Financial, is helping to underwrite Bush's appearance.

 

 

 

 

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