RV Industry Association Relaunching Political Action Committee: RVPAC

Coming off a number of recent federal legislative and regulatory successes, the RV Industry Association is relaunching its political action committee--RVPAC. Why? Because actions of Congress can significantly impact RV Industry Association members’ ability to do business. Legislation can be passed that either advances or stifles the RV industry. To help ensure it is the former and not the latter that gets enacted into law, we need to be involved in the political process. One advocacy tool available to the association is RVPAC.

Corporations are prohibited under federal law from making contributions to candidates for federal elected office. However, U.S. law permits trade and professional associations to create political action committees, and the PAC can solicit and accept contributions from association executives and administrative personnel, as well as association member employees for use in supporting candidates' campaigns. But we must secure prior authorization from association members before their employees can be solicited.

Any individual at an RV Industry Association member company who has the ability to grant the authorization to RV PAC can sign the authorization form on behalf of his or her company. Typically, this individual is an owner, CEO, COO, vice president or senior executive. The prior authorization form can be found here.

Granting prior authorization does not obligate a company or its employees to support RVPAC – it simply gives the RV Industry Association permission to communicate in much greater detail about the PAC to certain employees (executives, managers, stockholders and their families) about the role RVPAC plays in advancing and protecting industry interests in Washington, D.C.  

In the coming weeks look for additional information about RVPAC after we obtain written authorization from our corporate members and then begin to solicit and accept contributions from employees of our member companies. All personal contributions to RVPAC from eligible donors are voluntary.  

For more information, contact RV Industry Association Senior Manager of Government Affairs Samantha Rocci at srocci@rvia.org.