Posted on 11/14/2012 2:10:52 PM PST by AAABEST
In a development that shocked veteran talk show host Tom Gresham of the nationally-syndicated Gun Talk Radio program, the Wounded Warrior Project “declined an interview request on Gun Talk Radio because it's a firearms-related show,” the program reported yesterday on its Facebook page.
“I'm stunned at your email saying that the WWP doesn't participate in an interview or activity related to firearms,” Gresham emailed the charity’s public relations director, Leslie A. Coleman. “Inasmuch as there are 90 million gun owners and most of them support wounded veterans, I think they would be shocked to hear that they are, by way of their hobbies, somehow not worthy of helping with the Wounded Warriors Project.”
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
They’re just like the NRA in that respect.
The use swag to drive new donations.
Not that I’m against it, but it becomes what they’ve admitted to as “branding” and at some point it becomes counterproductive.
Wounded Warrior redux: WWP now ‘Clarifying our approach’
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