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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thanks JP. I agree – we had excellent testimony! Everyone who testified did a fantastic job!! The Senate Republican’s Chief of Staff sent me a note complementing you all on
the great testimony. He just happened to be watching it on TVW.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Carrie Tellefson, JD, President<br>
Sound Government Solutions<br>
253-576-9908 (cell)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Jp Kissling <jpkissling@fitico.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 6:53</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">PM<br>
<b>To: </b>'1 WLTA Legislative Committee' <legislativecommittee1@washingtonlandtitle.com><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Carrie Tellefson <carrie@sound-gov.com>, George Peters <execdirector@washingtonlandtitle.com>, Jim Blair IV <JBlair4@figtitle.com><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Thank you HB 1115 and SB 5111 hearings today <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I cannot begin to tell you how proud I am of our committee today. The amount of knowledge and passion for our industry and the consumers we serve was on full display today. I wanna a give a special thanks to Carrie, Sam and all the speakers
we had from our industry and from outside our industry as well. We have a lot of work ahead of us but, I think we did amazing work today. I feel we have a better position at the end of the day then when the day started and its because of all of you. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Starting at 1:27:51 <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://tvw.org/video/house-finance-2025011523/?eventID=2025011523">https://tvw.org/video/house-finance-2025011523/?eventID=2025011523</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The Senate video to follow. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:14.0pt">~George Washington</span></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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