Posted on 05/07/2018 1:09:04 PM PDT by Ennis85
Oliver North, the controversial retired Marine and former Reagan White House aide implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal, is on track to be the next president of the National Rifle Association (NRA).
The organization on Monday announced that North will replace Pete Brownell in the role “within a few weeks.”
The head of the NRA, Wayne LaPierre, called the appointment “the most exciting news for our members since Charlton Heston became President of our Association.”
Heston served as the group’s president from 1998 to 2003, famously shouting, “From my cold, dead hands” as he held a rifle aloft during the NRA convention in 2000.
“Oliver North is a legendary warrior for American freedom, a gifted communicator and skilled leader," LaPierre said in a statement. "In these times, I can think of no one better suited to serve as our President."
North is stepping down from his position as a commentator on Fox News effective immediately, the NRA said. He will take over the gun rights group “as soon as his business affairs [are] put in order,” it added.
In a letter to the NRA’s board of directors expressing his support of the pick, Brownell said that LaPierre recommended reaching out to North, referring to him as “a warrior amongst our board members.”
“Wayne and I feel that in these extraordinary times, a leader with his history as a communicator and resolute defender of the Second Amendment is precisely what the NRA needs,” Brownell wrote.
Brownell will not serve a second term as president of the group so that he can “devote his full time and energy to his family business,” he said.
NRA spokeswoman and conservative commentator Dana Loesch also expressed support on Monday for North, saying on Twitter that he is “the last person that anti-gun advocates would want as
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Ha! Lurch has THREE purple hearts! And a silver star, too. Quite an accomplishment for three months in country./s ............................... Can you imagine what he could have become if a VC OBM sampan collided with his river boat in the dark while they were partying. He would have become a real hero. s/ s/
Lurch PTSD: Parks in handicap space. Guy in wheelchair calls him out on it. Answers: “Do you know who I am?”
He’ll pop up after the next school shooting.
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