NRA stays mum on whether it will ask Craig to resign from board

NRA stays mum on whether it will ask Craig to resign from board

While forces on both sides of the political divide are pushing for Idaho Senator Larry Craig's resignation after Minneapolis-St. Paul airport police accused him of soliciting sex in a public toilet, there is no indication to date that the National Rifle Association will ask the Republican Senator to step down from its board of directors.

The NRA refused to respond to multiple requests over the past two days from the Huffington Post to comment on whether Craig would be asked to resign from the group's board. The senator is a NRA life member, and has served on its board since 1983.

But while the pro-Second Amendment membership organization declined to comment, the head of one of the gun lobby's chief opponents argued it had long been clear that Craig should not serve on the NRA's board.

"Our position has long been that it was a conflict of interest to be both on the NRA's board and serve as a US Senator pushing NRA's agenda," Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, told the Huffington Post on Friday. "So I think our position is the same - he ought to resign from one or the other."
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Craig should stay as the NRA's gay token and Ted Nugent should go for threatening Obama, Hillary, Boxer and Feinstein with a death by black rifle machinegun.

can not make a decision? Whats news?

Do you think he'd still be willing to be the whacked out voice of the NRA if they let people who engaged in same-sex sex be on the board?

Now ask yourself who will matter more to the NRA after Craig is stripped of his power?

instant decision on this? Hmmmm, that's quite a surprise!