Three NRA board members resign in latest sign of upheaval at gun rights group
Source: Washington Post
Three National Rifle Association board members who have raised concerns about reports of reckless spending and mismanagement by the groups leadership resigned Thursday, another sign of mounting dissent within the nations most powerful gun-rights group.
The three board members Esther Schneider of Texas, Sean Maloney of Ohio and Timothy Knight of Tennessee said they were stripped of their committee assignments after they asked questions about allegations of lavish spending by NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre and other financial excesses.
While our belief in the NRAs mission remains as strong today as ever, our confidence in the NRAs leadership has been shattered, they wrote in a letter to NRA officials Thursday obtained by The Washington Post.
NRA President Carolyn D. Meadows said in a written statement that the organization accepts the resignations.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/three-nra-board-members-resign-in-latest-sign-of-upheaval-at-gun-rights-group/2019/08/01/aad49bc0-b49d-11e9-8f6c-7828e68cb15f_story.html
Judi Lynn
(160,554 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,770 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,830 posts)Took them long enough.
This corruption is not the newest of news items.
Even Ollie North beat them to the punch.
Just imagine getting (rightly) called out on your dishonesty and ethics by Ollie North!
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Aint much left of the NRA, seems like - plus they all hate each other.
GOOD
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Making Wayne LaPierrre richer?
Disband. Now.
mpcamb
(2,871 posts)Journeyman
(15,036 posts)Let us hope the schadenfreude grows exponentially in proportion to our pleasure with it. May this canker sore on the body politic so wound itself it can never regroup.
Till then, the only "upheaval" I feel is the constant retching I experience whenever confronted by this organization's lies.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Everyone on that board is super rich. They dont bat an eye at lavish spending.
I think they have become aware of much worse activities that will come out eventually. Nyet?
skamaria
(329 posts)Rats know when a ship is sinking.