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  • hodgepodge

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    Sep 3, 2009
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    Arnold, MD
    No Lawyers - Only Guns and Money has a post today about Wayne's influence on the NRA BoD elections.

    He links to a Gangster Capitalism podcast that I'm listening to.

    From No Lawyers:

    I have always felt that Wayne LaPierre seemed like an insecure person from the first time I saw him in person. That was at the NRA Annual Meeting in Charlotte in 2010 where he was walking the floor with a team of personal bodyguards. If there was anywhere he should be feel safe, you would think it was there.

    While I didn’t realize it then, his personal insecurity goes far deeper in my opinion.

    We have watched him force out Ollie North as NRA President and continue to harass him in court. Ollie, a long time board member, didn’t want to be a mere figurehead and that was a threat to Wayne.

    We watched him accuse Chris Cox of treason based upon innocuous phone texts. Chris had long been seen as the heir apparent when Wayne retired. It led to Chris resigning instead.

    We have watched him use subpoenas as a threat against both board members and outsiders.

    We have watched him take private planes and try to have the NRA buy him a mansion in Dallas because he was afraid for his personal safety despite his bodyguards.

    We have watched him surround himself with staff whose backgrounds made them utterly dependent upon him for their jobs. I’m talking about his personal assistant who is a prohibited person, his former chief of staff whom most found to be an incompetent, and even a CFO who had embezzled in his prior position.

    Despite all of this, I never thought Wayne would have to resort to rigging elections to the Board of Directors to preserve his position.

    I was wrong.

    The podcast Gangster Capitalism has been running a series about the NRA this year. They thought they had finished Season Two when they got a tip from Dezarae Payne and Michael Schwartz. Both had been active in the NRA Members’ Councils of California. It turns out the Members Councils were not really the grass roots activists fighting for the preservation of gun rights in California. Rather they became a tool to be used by Wayne to assure the election to the board of people supportive of him and keep him in power.


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    Bob A

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    Nov 11, 2009
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    So far, the actual election results from March are not released. NRA published a list of over 30 board members from the election with terms varyin from one to three years. The actual (approved by WLP, presumably) results will be released in September.

    The board is a farce. 30+ members are far too many to effectively set the course for the organisation, to say nothing of monitoring the adminisration. Wayne is well shielded.

    He really needs to be gone.
     

    Allen65

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    Jun 29, 2013
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    Anne Arundel County
    I'm surprised nobody's wondered out loud if Bloomberg might be paying WLP to destroy the NRA from the inside. It might be a better RoI than continuing to fund MDA.
     

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