b"2019-20 Officers, Directorscontinued 2020 Post WPMAEXPOOregon continued Rick ReeseWEDNESDAYMorningOFA Vice-PresidentKellerstrass Enterprises LLCGabe ZirkleSalt Lake CityWSCO Petroleum CorpJohn Richardson Portland Hone Oil Company, OgdenOFA Secretary/TreasurerDave McCann,WPMAs popular NBC Mark Gram WASHINGTON affiliate anchorman from SLC, UT emceed Jubitz Travel Center, Portland WOMAPresidentwith class. In behalf of WPMA Dave OREGON STATE DIRECTORS Chris Eerkes Sun Pacific Energy Incgave a grand welcome to the Oregon DJ BuiltaKennewick Fuels Association, newest member Ed Staub and Sons Petroleum/Ed's Trucking LLCWOMA1st Vice-Presidentof the WPMA family. The national Klamath Falls Steve Snideranthem was sung by Sylvia Alvarado Mark FitzSnider Energy, Sumner of Las Vegas, Nevada, while Nellis Air Star-Oilco, Portland WOMA2nd Vice-PresidentForce Base Honor Guard presented the Dave MaydewTodd DeckAcme Fuel Companynations colors with dignity. Father Ben Space Age Fuel, Clackamas Olympia Uhlenkott of St. Mark's Catholic Church in Aaron RedingWOMAPMAA Director Boise, Idaho, gave the sessions invocation. Petrocard Inc, Clackamas Steve Clark Jeff RouseGenesee Energy, Seattle WPMA President Dennis Campo presented the Carson Oil Co Inc, Portland Immediate Presidential Sponsor Recognitions. Receiving the Joe SacomanoPastWOMAPresident Jackson Energy, Meridian, ID Todd Shawawards were Alicia Logan for Chevron, Jack West for Federated Insurance, Ron TyreeJubitz Corp, Vancouver Brian Partee for Marathon Petroleum, Barbara Stoyko for Shell, and Tyree Oil Inc, Eugene WOMA Executive Director Kathy Chadey for Sinclair. Each sponsor was thanked for their outstand-OR Associate Board Directors Lea McCulloughing support of the WPMAEXPO. Dennis also recog-Marc BakerWOMA, Port Orchard nized Larry Hansen of Offen Petroleum as the 2020 Elliott, Powell, Baden & Baker Inc WOMA LobbyistWPMA Hall of Fame Recipient, for his exceptional Portland Dave Ducharme Ducharme & Associates Incsupport to the WPMA and state associations. FollowingUTAH Bellevue the awards the audience enjoyed insights by Keynote UPMRA PresidentWASHINGTON Paul Ryan. Here are just a few of his comments .Blain BoelterSTATE DIRECTORSHoliday Oil, West Valley City Dan AverillWe measure success in Congress, or progress, by how UPMRA 1st Vice-PresidentReisner Distributor Incmany bills you pass. Usually you pass about 500 - 600 Dave JardineAnacortesParkland USA, American Fork Brad Bellbills in a two-year term. We passed 1175 bills in a UPMRA PMAA Director Connell Oil Inc, Pascotwo-year term. More thanof those made it into law, & Immediate Mike Chandlerthrough the senate, which is a challenge.Past UPMRA PresidentChandler Enterprises Inc Carl HuntToppenish So, my whole point is, things can work. Our institutions RelaDyne West LLC, Blanding Travis Coulterstill stand. You turn on the TV, and you think its just UPMRA Executive Director Connell Oil Inc,Pasco crazy, its so polarizing, its awful, nothing gets done John HillCraig Eerkes UPMRA, Salt Lake City - thats not true. In 2017 and 2018 you Sun Pacific Energy Inc UTAH STATE DIRECTORS Kennewick had more laws passed . than had passed David BellJarrod Fransonsince Reagans first term. As a result of Bell Brothers Oil Co, Coalville Sun Pacific Energy Incthat, all these big things are happening. Stacey BettridgeKennewick So, where does that put us now? We still KB Oil, Cedar City Tom Hemingwayhave big challenges. Roy HallBroadway Truck Service Hall Oil Inc, Lewiston Spokane But all of these challenges that confront Larry HansenTrent Hemingwayour country and confront our economy Offen Petroleum, SandyBroadway Truck Service are totally surmountable, totally over-John HillamSpokane Valley come-able, if our politics allow for it. Maverik Inc, Salt Lake City Sean MasonDoug HyerMasco Petroleum, Aberdeen And that is my own very big concern Pilot Thomas LogisticsRobert Oganright now. If our politics will allow us to North Salt Lake Wenatchee Petroleumcome together and get things done, there Chane KellerstrassWenatchee is nothing that can stop us . Of that agenda, of those 1175 bills, 80% of Kellerstrass Enterprises LLC Rod Smiththose were bi-partisan bills. This wasnt just party line, ram it through. Salt Lake City RH Smith Distributing Grandview This was bi-partisan collaboration that got done. With Donald Trump as Jim Larson Wind River PetroleumBrian WhitleyPresident. Thats not the stuff you see on TV, when you turn on the TV.Salt Lake City Whitley Fuel, Okanogan We just had the most productive session of Congress in a generation. We Dustin LuntAaron Wilcox Jackson Energy, Provo Wilcox Oil Co, Longview just got all of these amazing policies donewhich is putting the country Brad RandallLaura Yelligin a really good place . but the question is, can our politics rise to the Tom Randall Distributing Co IncPetroCard Inc, Kent occasion, to where we can get the big things done that we need to get LaytonS6 www.wpma.com / Spring 2020"