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Posted on 04/29/2019 10:18:26 AM PDT by jazusamo
INDIANAPOLIS — Legendary rocker Ted Nugent, a National Rifle Association board member, says the board owes it to the gun-rights group’s rank-and-file members to provide more information about its finances and activities.
“Whether you’re a family or a company or…a civil rights organization, accountability is job one,” Mr. Nugent said in an interview this weekend at the NRA’s annual meetings. “We’ve been less than accountable at the NRA - not as unaccountable as the government or the media, but we’re better than that.”
The NRA is facing scrutiny from New York’s attorney general over its nonprofit status. It has sued its own ad agency and has posted troubling financial numbers in recent years, leading to unprecedented turmoil over the last week.
Mr. Nugent, one of the NRA’s most prominent members, says the board, which is meeting on Monday to discuss next steps, owes transparency and accountability to dues-paying members who believe in the mission of the organization.
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Also glad people want transparency. I’m sure NY State’s motives are NOT pure.
Agreed!
Mrs. Alaska and I were discussing the NRA dispute this morning and agreed it was about internal power and money.
I want it solved, and don't want internal squabbles getting in the way of my gun rights or President Trump's next election.
Fix it boys and let's get on with important stuff.
Amen to that. I loved the “I am the NRA” series of ads from a few years ago. Would like to see these continued.
BUMP!
Nugent's right and proceeding positively.
The NRA must survive, be strengthened, and remain both educational AND political, without being a personal fiefdom for well meaning insiders.
Is the corruption now in EVERY entity in the United States? It appears that way.
The lesson here is that any organization that deals with millions of dollars grows to a size where corruption takes hold.
Our governments (federal, state and local) are no different and why our Founders wanted to keep them as small as possible.
As an NRA member, it has seemed for a long time (to me) that Wayne LaPierre has seen himself as larger than the NRA membership. A good first step would be to award him a Trumpian “Thank you for your service” and a gold watch.
I want this thoroughly looked into but have a feeling you’re right.
No one is indispensable.
Great for Ted Nugent speaking out on this, but per the NRA's own bylaws, the board of directors, of which Ted Nugent is one, has almost zero real power, which also goes for the current "President," Col. Oliver North. The positions are basically window dressing, with the real power to make day-to-day operational decisions vested to Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre for NRA, and Executive Director Chris Cox for NRA-ILA.
The problem is two-pronged: Wayne LaPierre has grown the NRA into a political powerhouse and has done a lot of good work. But LaPierre needs a continual crisis and boogyman to maintain a constant state of panic among the rank and file NRA membership, so he is more interested in promoting problems as fundraising tools, than he is interested in solving those problems.
Which brings us to the board of directors who have no real power. The Board has become an Old Boys (and Girls) Club that is more interested in cross-pollinate each others' businesses than in actually running the NRA.
The real issue at hand today is the NRA's P.R. firm Ackerman-McQueen has done a fantastic job in promoting the NRA brand through NRA TV with homegrown celebrities such as Colion Noir, Dana Lasch, and Dan Bongino, but at the expense of bleeding the NRA dry.
Those are the issues, but I have no easy answers.
“Is the corruption now in EVERY entity in the United States? It appears that way.”
We live in a post-moral society. When society decides to hate morality then it embraces immorality and, predictably, is shocked when people commit immoral acts.
Really, our society has endorsed all manner of perversion and society has denounced the hallmarks of traditional culture such as dignity, morality, honesty, integrity, trustworthiness, heterosexuality, family values, avoidance of debt, and etc. and then they wonder why the country is going to hell.
With regards to the NRA until they sort this out I will not be making any more donations.
And I’m a Patron member saying this.
Megan
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NRA should fire LaPierre and re-hire Ollie.
Bring the Nuge on as an honorary VP/spokesman...or, some capacity.
An influencer!! That’s it :-)
Ted would be a great leader of the NRA.
Yep, exactly. Just like in Texas where the Lt. Gov has the real power and the Governor itself is nearly a ceremonial position.
I agree.
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