N.R.A. President Tries to Oust Wayne LaPierre in Widening Crisis

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: New York Times



INDIANAPOLIS — Turmoil wracking the National Rifle Association is threatening to turn the group’s annual convention into outright civil war, as insurgents maneuver to oust Wayne LaPierre, the foremost voice of the American gun rights movement.

The confrontation pits Mr. LaPierre, the organization’s longtime chief executive, against its recently installed president, Oliver L. North, the central figure in the Reagan-era Iran-contra affair, who remains a hero to many on the right.

Behind it is a widening crisis involving a legal battle between the N.R.A. and its most influential contractor, Ackerman McQueen, amid renewed threats from regulators in New York, where the N.R.A. is chartered, to investigate the group’s tax-exempt status. With contributions lagging, the N.R.A. is also facing an increasingly well-financed gun rights movement, motivated by a string of mass shootings.

Mr. North asked Mr. LaPierre to resign on Wednesday, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times. He said he had also created a committee to review allegations of financial improprieties that threaten the N.R.A.’s status as a nonprofit organization.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/26/business/nra-wayne-lapierre-oliver-north.html

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[cureautismnow]

1. The only way to settle it is with a duel.

Except they should make it a Battle Royale.

[Kurt V.]

2. maybe they'll strap on 6 shooters.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Live by the sword, die by the sword.

[Maxheader]

4. 20 paces...turn and shoot..

F*&king cowards would be running the other way after 10...

[Rebl2]

12. Like that idea

[Bob Loblaw]

25. Gatfight. Gatfight.

nt

[Haggis for Breakfast]

5. WHY is the NRA a tax-exempt organization ?

I realize that it's members worship guns, but how is it that they are tax-exempt when they are so active in politics ?

Anybody know ?

[llmart]

6. Two biggest scumbags fighting for head honcho at a scumbag organization.

I really don't care, do u? Maybe it will get so heated that they can pull a gun on each other.

[keithbvadu2]

13. They don't trust their own members with guns. Their conventions are gun free for attendees.

They don't trust their own members with guns.

Their conventions are gun free for attendees.

The NRA knows its members.

[llmart]

18. Their members have shit for brains.

I wouldn't trust them either.

[My Name is Url]

7. Yes, My Pretties

Tear yourselves apart!

[Cold War Spook]

8. Oliver North testified in a televised meeting with Congress about Iran-Contra.

It was by far the weirdest Congressional meeting I ever saw. It was supposed to be in a different room where he could show slides. They needed to move it to a bigger room. The room it ended up in was too light, I think because of the shades. When North started to testify, every time he talked about a different slide, which they could not see, he used his clicker. No one in the room thought that was odd. I could not figure out if he was making a joke or was just weird.

[melm00se]

9. one of the most misunderstood things about the NRA

is the fact that there are 2 separate and distinct aspects of the NRA.

There is the NRA and the NRA-IL.

The NRA is the gun safety arm and overarching organization. The NRA-IL is the "Democrats are coming for your guns" arm.

The overarching NRA is getting fed up with LaPierre's doom and gloom ranting and have realized that LaPierre is the reason that the NRA is hemorrhaging members (he is the reason that I left and was vocal about it when I resigned my membership).

[maxsolomon]

24. Guess what? When Oliver North is your champion, not many care.

They're one and the same to the vast majority of Americans, who are fed up with the poison they spew.

NRA-ILA = Institute for Legislative Action

[DrToast]

10. Thoughts and prayers!

[Hugin]

11. Thoughts and prayers.

Hmm... NRA-Republicans-McConnell-North-Iran/Contra-Barr-Trump-Russians. No, Hugin. Don't go there.

[keithbvadu2]

14. The NRA Is Being Sued Over Its Relentless Telemarketing Campaigns

NRA Cuts More Operating Costs-and Lavishes Executives With Perks

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/nra-money-executive-perks-pay-cutting-costs/


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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NRAsolicitations
comment from a blog (DU I think)

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.

[yellowcanine]

15. Ollie would know about "financial improprieties"

Slimeball comingled personal funds with Iran/Contra funds and made up some stupid story about using spare change to buy a used car.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

16. Reads like a mafia internal spat.

I think the mafia appoints "committees" to solve issues as well........

[LuvLoogie]

17. In Arena 2: Dog Shit and Rotting Flesh vie for most maggots.

Fuck. Them. All.

[Gore1FL]

19. An NRA Civil War?

I hope they come armed.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. Could be interesting

[Ruby the Liberal]

21. Pity the NRA Convention is a gun free zone

A duel would raise enough in pay-per-view to fund some of the legal bills.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

22. David Hogg weighs in

Link to tweet

?s=20

[OriginalGeek]

33. Lol

I like that kid. He does good work.

[Paladin]

23. LaPierre vs. North?

I sincerely hope they both lose.

[Nitram]

26. I'm looking forward to seeing the NRA crash and burn after being duped by a Russian operative

and taking millions in illegal foreign donations.

[Me.]

27. ...

[LonePirate]

28. This is certainly a nice way to start my weekend! Thanks for this news.

[LastDemocratInSC]

29. A solution they would love, right down their warped alley

Pistols (or machine guns) at 30 paces.

[Turbineguy]

30. LaPierre is responsible for the deaths of more Americans

than Hitler.

[Polybius]

34. I wouldn't go that far

Without LaPeirre (and even without the NRA), there still wouldn't be a total ban on handguns, so therefore there would still be many deaths.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States

In 2012, there were 8,855 total firearm-related homicides in the United States, with 6,371 of those attributed to handguns.

[jmowreader]

31. I was always under the impression...

...that “NRA President” was kind of a honorary thing, and LaPierre was the real head of the group.

[Paladin]

32. MSNBC is reporting that Ollie North has been ousted. (nt)

[BumRushDaShow]

35. Yup.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142308805

[Turbineguy]

36. It was his 2nd greatest honor to serve.

[Progressive Jones]

37. I am thoroughly enjoying the self-destruction of the NRA. nt