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Wayne LaPierre Resigns
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I would go with Tony Stark. Money, business savvy, popular, and owns more cool **** than Elon Musk.
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Need an Exec VP that can run it like a business and a spokesman that doesn't carry other economic, social or political baggage into it. Someone like Oliver North would be a good spokesman. LaPierre turned all the attack dogs loose, though, when North questioned the financial integrity of the NRA. I wouldn't bet on being able to bring him back to the fore as the public face of the organization.
Longtime NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre found liable in corruption trial - Washington Examiner
Jurors spent five days deliberating and came to their decision Friday, bringing an end to the six week civil showdown between the NRA and the government
www.washingtonexaminer.com
The New York jury found that LaPierre “violated his statutory obligation to discharge the duties of his position in good faith,” and that his actions cost the NRA $5.4 million. He has already paid more than $1.3 million back and was ordered to pay the rest back to the organization.
“This case is about corruption: misuse of funds spent on jets, black cars, five-star hotels, hundreds of thousands of dollars of suits, multimillion-dollar deals to insiders, payments to loyal board members, and pervasive violations of internal controls,” Connell told a jury in a packed New York City courtroom.
Twangbanger
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Longtime NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre found liable in corruption trial - Washington Examiner
Jurors spent five days deliberating and came to their decision Friday, bringing an end to the six week civil showdown between the NRA and the government
The New York jury found that LaPierre “violated his statutory obligation to discharge the duties of his position in good faith,” and that his actions cost the NRA $5.4 million. He has already paid more than $1.3 million back and was ordered to pay the rest back to the organization.
“This case is about corruption: misuse of funds spent on jets, black cars, five-star hotels, hundreds of thousands of dollars of suits, multimillion-dollar deals to insiders, payments to loyal board members, and pervasive violations of internal controls,” Connell told a jury in a packed New York City courtroom.
"...LaPierre, who announced his resignation just days before the start of the trial, billed the NRA more than $11 million for those private jet rides and spent more than $500,000 on eight luxury trips to the Bahamas over a three-year span.
Prosecutors said he also authorized $135 million in NRA contracts to a vendor who paid for LaPierre to go not only to the Bahamas but also to India, Greece, and Dubai and gave him access to a 108-foot yacht...."
I guess I didn't realize legislators in the Bahamas, India, Greece, and Dubai needed to be lobbied for our gun rights?
But how many lawmakers were his guests on the trips? I dunno."...LaPierre, who announced his resignation just days before the start of the trial, billed the NRA more than $11 million for those private jet rides and spent more than $500,000 on eight luxury trips to the Bahamas over a three-year span.
Prosecutors said he also authorized $135 million in NRA contracts to a vendor who paid for LaPierre to go not only to the Bahamas but also to India, Greece, and Dubai and gave him access to a 108-foot yacht...."
I guess I didn't realize legislators in the Bahamas, India, Greece, and Dubai needed to be lobbied for our gun rights?
Yes, supposedly the verdict is about internal corruption, SUPPOSEDLY! The fact remains that the sleazy Democratic AG used her platform to attack the 2nd Amendment in furtherance of the conspiracy by all Democrats to eliminate the 2nd Amendment by any means necessary. That includes, obviously, crippling one of the historically most powerful and successful gun lobby groups in the USA.
The Democrats and their woke misguided liberal sheeples are thereby edging closer to their communist utopian dream of gun registration and ultimately confiscation. Now maybe the NRA can rebuild and start anew by hopefully reincorporating in a more friendly Second Amendment State with new executives and a slimmed down Board of Directors that is not intimidated by any one person and driven by proper corporate governance principles for the benefit of the members of the NRA.
Yes, ultimately, LaPierre and the other executives had to forcefully be shown the door. Unfortunately it came down to litigation brought by a Democrat controlled State Government that is completely anti Second Amendment.
The Democrats and their woke misguided liberal sheeples are thereby edging closer to their communist utopian dream of gun registration and ultimately confiscation. Now maybe the NRA can rebuild and start anew by hopefully reincorporating in a more friendly Second Amendment State with new executives and a slimmed down Board of Directors that is not intimidated by any one person and driven by proper corporate governance principles for the benefit of the members of the NRA.
Yes, ultimately, LaPierre and the other executives had to forcefully be shown the door. Unfortunately it came down to litigation brought by a Democrat controlled State Government that is completely anti Second Amendment.
While no doubt the NY AG was trying to use her power and personal hate for guns to go above and beyond fighting any organizational corruption inside the NRA it actually worked out to our favor.Yes, supposedly the verdict is about internal corruption, SUPPOSEDLY! The fact remains that the sleazy Democratic AG used her platform to attack the 2nd Amendment in furtherance of the conspiracy by all Democrats to eliminate the 2nd Amendment by any means necessary. That includes, obviously, crippling one of the historically most powerful and successful gun lobby groups in the USA.
The Democrats and their woke misguided liberal sheeples are thereby edging closer to their communist utopian dream of gun registration and ultimately confiscation. Now maybe the NRA can rebuild and start anew by hopefully reincorporating in a more friendly Second Amendment State with new executives and a slimmed down Board of Directors that is not intimidated by any one person and driven by proper corporate governance principles for the benefit of the members of the NRA.
Yes, ultimately, LaPierre and the other executives had to forcefully be shown the door. Unfortunately it came down to litigation brought by a Democrat controlled State Government that is completely anti Second Amendment.
As Buz Mills stated it was sad when it took an anti gun AG to clean out the bad part about the NRA as any prior attempts WLP and minions got around it.
Fortunately a Judge saw through her and didn’t allow her to dissolve the organization so I am hopeful it will get back to being a great organization.
Don’t challenge the deeply held beliefs of those sucked into the lefts takedown of the NRA. It may destabilize the universe…
Until the NRA life members who elect the board have candidates to vote for for board membership who really want to clean house nothing is likely to change.
The NRA not being dissolved is good because it is the focus of the anti-gun crowd as being their enemy.
If the NRA does nothing to fight OR support anti-gun legislation it will not detract from the organizations which are actively fighting for gun rights. I have not donated to NRA since they lobbied for the ban on new machine guns.
I would prefer they go back to their roots of education, training, and competition and leave the politics behind. I would also like to see them mail the annual financial report to life members as they used to do before Wayne LaPierre became EVP.
The NRA not being dissolved is good because it is the focus of the anti-gun crowd as being their enemy.
If the NRA does nothing to fight OR support anti-gun legislation it will not detract from the organizations which are actively fighting for gun rights. I have not donated to NRA since they lobbied for the ban on new machine guns.
I would prefer they go back to their roots of education, training, and competition and leave the politics behind. I would also like to see them mail the annual financial report to life members as they used to do before Wayne LaPierre became EVP.
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This would work.
Let other 2A organizations that deal only with legal side fight for rights.
The other groups will need to get more active in state legislation in all states like the NRA ILA has been.
Maybe make ILA a totally different group removed from the NRA.
Are you a voting member?
Me too. Tried to get Adam Kraut elected several years ago.
Se must keep trying.
Right! The anti’s do not even know the names of other 2A organizations.
There are no organizations that are seriously fighting anti-gun legislation at even a modicum of what the NRA does with a national footprint. The others are mostly after the fact court challenges.
There will never be an organization that we agree 100% with. Look at what it is taking to take the republican party from the CoC types. I do not believe in abandoning the cause, I choose to fight for it.
And leave us with no national representation to the fed and state legislatures? Not for me.
This fraud that that they are using to bring down the NRA is chicken feed. This is a national organization fighting for one of the most contentious issues in our country from the swamp of corruption and politics. I have said before this is not your local club, there is no utopia when other are fighting for you.
Do any of you think Soros kills off organizations that waste his money, or rather he understands that some amount of grift goes with the territory? We have only heard one side of this and likely never will know the truth of what happened inside the NRA. Why? Because this all happened in the swamp, the truth will necessarily involve powerful people beyond the NRA.
These other 2A organizations, do we have any belief that their leaders even have McConnell”s or Schumer’s direct line? Bet they don’t but WLP did. It seems naive to me that we send representatives into the swamp to fight for us, which they have pretty well over the years but we fire them when they they act and do as a swamp creature…
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Why not just stop the fraud (your word)?
You're the first one to cry "normalcy bias," but your defense of NRA leadership is positively steeped in it.
You're the first one to cry "normalcy bias," but your defense of NRA leadership is positively steeped in it.
hear hear!
If the NRA had been a publicly traded company, he would have been fired years ago, regardless of popularity.
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