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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOllie North vs Wayne LaPierre. Trouble in Paradise.
Oh they are coming apart at the SEAMS.
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Atticus
(15,124 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)irisblue
(33,023 posts)comradebillyboy
(10,175 posts)NRA Chief Wayne LaPierre Claims NRA President Oliver North Is Extorting Him
The Wall Street Journal first reported the existence of LaPierres letter.
North purportedly told a LaPierre assistant that he wouldnt 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 lobbys longtime advertising firm responsible for some of its most hair-raising campaigns.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)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 NRAs 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 thats 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.
Liberal In Texas
(13,574 posts)Just saying.