Looks like he did make some waves with chapters...
QUOTE:You may have received an email from Ed Martin, who has been employed for approximately 16 months by the National Eagle Forum board on which I serve. He made statements against me personally as well as Eagle Forum of Alabama. These statements from Mr. Martin are slanderous, libelous and without merit...... If Mr. Martin does not stop making these false statements, we will be forced to take further action on behalf of Eagle Forum of Alabama. /END QUOTE
http://alabamaeagle.org/2016/04/11/ed-martins-slander-against-eagle-forum-of-alabama
I have just released the following statement to the press and our members:"At 2:00 pm today, 6 directors of Eagle Forum met in an improper, unprecedented telephone meeting. I objected to the meeting and at 2:11pm, I was muted from the call. The meeting was invalid under the Bylaws but the attendees purported to pass several motions to wrest control of the organization from me. They are attempting to seize access to our bank accounts, to terminate employees, and to install members of their own Gang of 6 to control the bank accounts and all of Eagle Forum.
"The members of their group are: Eunie Smith of Alabama, Anne Cori of Missouri, Cathie Adams of Texas, Rosina Kovar of Colorado, Shirley Curry of Tennessee, and Carolyn McLarty of Oklahoma.
"This kind of conduct will not stand and I will fight for Eagle Forum and I ask all men and women of good will to join me in this fight."
I’ve been close to enough organizations to know that these skirmishes come and go. This may be the first at the Eagle Forum, I don’t know. What I do know is that Phyllis Schafley requested the resignation of her daughter and five or six others today.
They were the ones who voted Martin out.
Was their friction with other chapters over the fact Schafley endorsed Trump. Was any defense of her met with open hostility and charges that Martin was doing things he shouldn’t have been?
I don’t think Schafley would ask for her daughter’s resignation if she wasn’t a staunch supporter of Martin.
"The six board members calling today's telephone meeting won't tell me what the meeting is about, but I think it's an attempt to vote me out," Schlafly said. "It's disloyal and it's terribly shocking, and I'm completely depressed about it."I may be one vote short to win today," she conceded. ...
"I think the Con-Con issue is really diversionary," she said. "I've always been against Con-Con, from the very first the time the idea was raised. Everybody knows that."
Schlafly said the board meeting was called by only three members, and Eagle Forum lawyers are arguing that three members are not enough, according to the by-laws, to call a meeting of the board.
"This is a complete takeover attempt," she said.
"I think the leader of the coup is my daughter Anne Cori and her husband at Eagle Forum of Missouri," Schlafly said. "I think she and her husband want to take over the organization."