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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 07:18 PM Aug 2019

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 group’s leadership resigned Thursday, another sign of mounting dissent within the nation’s 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 NRA’s mission remains as strong today as ever, our confidence in the NRA’s 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

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Three NRA board members resign in latest sign of upheaval at gun rights group (Original Post) Zorro Aug 2019 OP
Probably leaving due to fear ol' Wayne LaPierre is likely to flip out and do a mass shooting. n/t Judi Lynn Aug 2019 #1
The arsonists are looting the valuables before they torch their business. Midnight Writer Aug 2019 #2
Took them long enough. keithbvadu2 Aug 2019 #3
GOOD. ADIOS. Leghorn21 Aug 2019 #4
The NRA's "mission"? B Stieg Aug 2019 #5
Get their addresses and phones. They'll be back in front of congressional committees. mpcamb Aug 2019 #6
Can't say I'd characterize this as "upheaval." Seems more "comeuppance" to me . . . Journeyman Aug 2019 #7
Don't believe for a minute that is the real reason. GulfCoast66 Aug 2019 #8
Precisly! skamaria Aug 2019 #9

keithbvadu2

(36,830 posts)
3. Took them long enough.
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 08:00 PM
Aug 2019

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!

Journeyman

(15,036 posts)
7. Can't say I'd characterize this as "upheaval." Seems more "comeuppance" to me . . .
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 09:02 PM
Aug 2019

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)
8. Don't believe for a minute that is the real reason.
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 10:09 PM
Aug 2019

Everyone on that board is super rich. They don’t bat an eye at lavish spending.

I think they have become aware of much worse activities that will come out eventually. Nyet?

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