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Ollie North vs Wayne LaPierre. Trouble in Paradise. (Original Post) nolabear Apr 2019 OP
Well, obviously, this calls for a duel: 12 gauge double-barrels with 00 buckshot at 3 paces. nt Atticus Apr 2019 #1
Right? I'll sell tickets! nolabear Apr 2019 #2
🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 irisblue Apr 2019 #3
Here's a bit more detail from TPM comradebillyboy Apr 2019 #4
Ohhhhhh...a damaging letter! nolabear Apr 2019 #6
Money troubles create more drama and the NRA is like Days of our Lives. sarcasmo Apr 2019 #5
Both are the lesser of two evils. No one to cheer for in their feud. keithbvadu2 Apr 2019 #7
History repeats? The "Purge" led to the "Night of the Long Knives." Liberal In Texas Apr 2019 #8

comradebillyboy

(10,147 posts)
4. Here's a bit more detail from TPM
Fri Apr 26, 2019, 08:42 PM
Apr 2019
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/nra-chief-wayne-lapierre-claims-oliver-north-is-extorting-him

NRA Chief Wayne LaPierre Claims NRA President Oliver North Is Extorting Him

The Wall Street Journal first reported the existence of LaPierre’s letter.

North purportedly told a LaPierre assistant that he wouldn’t send the supposedly damaging letter if he resigned his position as head of the organization and called off an April 12 lawsuit filed in Virginia against Ackerman McQueen, the gun lobby’s longtime advertising firm responsible for some of its most hair-raising campaigns.

keithbvadu2

(36,806 posts)
7. Both are the lesser of two evils. No one to cheer for in their feud.
Fri Apr 26, 2019, 11:00 PM
Apr 2019

The NRA Is Being Sued Over Its Relentless Telemarketing Campaigns

When begging for bucks goes wrong.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-nra-is-being-sued-over-its-relentless-telemarketing-campaigns

The NRA has employed InfoCision since 2012 under a contract that grants the fundraising company up to 65 percent of the funds it raises on the NRA’s behalf. InfoCision gets between $2.50 and $3.75 for each “completed call” to potential NRA donors, and up to half of the regular payments for new or renewed NRA memberships.
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If those high fees are unavoidable, they can also have the effect of obscuring, for a potential donor, exactly where his or her money is going. Many of those speaking with an InfoCision fundraiser, after all, will not know that a majority of their donation is not going to the charity that fundraiser is representing.

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I had a coworker who was a big time gun owner who kept a gun in every room in the house just in case someone broke in (lots of problems with that idea, may be worth a blog article someday, but that’s what he did). He even went so far as to start buying more guns for each room after a school shooting, like home invasion and mass shooting are correlated somehow. He had let his NRA membership lapse and refused to renew it because he got tired of nonstop requests for donations. To him all the membership did was give the NRA to badger him for more money with phone calls, and direct mailings. If the
organization is as strapped for cash as it appears, those solicitations may have gone way over the top and people are simply tired of being badgered for money and are choosing to let their membership to lapse.

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