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[FONT="]A Grave Injustice[/FONT]
Dear Friend,
I am writing you about a grave injustice. If you are an NRA member you need to know about it.
A group of conspiracy nuts lead by a discredited Frank Gaffney is out to destroy an important leader of the gun rights movement. They have filed a recall against NRA Director Grover Norquist that will appear on the NRA election ballot that is just going in the mail. I have known Grover Norquist for many years and have worked side by side with him to protect our gun rights.
I sit on the American Conservative Union board of directors with Grover and the board investigated these allegations by Frank Gaffney and found them to be totally false. This is pure character assassination.
I urge you to vote NO on this stupid and harmful recall.
Please read the below statement from former NRA president Sandy Froman.
Thank you in voting NO with me on this recall.
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[FONT="] Alan M. Gottlieb[/FONT]
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VOTE “NO” ON THE RECALL PETITION ON YOUR NRA BALLOT – KEEP GROVER NORQUIST ON THE NRA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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I am writing to let you -- my friends and fellow NRA members -- know that I OPPOSE the recall petition that will appear in the upcoming March ballot issue of your NRA magazine. This is the first time a recall petition has appeared on the ballot. The petition asks you to vote on whether or not to recall Grover Norquist from the NRA Board of Directors. Please vote “NO” and tell other NRA members to vote no.
I’ve been a member of the NRA Board of Directors for almost 24 years and I served as NRA President from 2005-2007. I have known Grover Norquist for over 15 years -- since he was first elected to the Board in 2000. I consider him a good friend and a fellow warrior in the fight for our Second Amendment rights.
Grover is best known as the Founder and President of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR). Yet he is also an outspoken advocate for gun owner rights and the NRA—whether speaking in public, on television or through his writings, such as his 2009 book entitled Leave Us Alone: Getting the Government’s Hands Off Our Money, Our Guns, Our Lives. Grover is an active, engaged NRA board member. He regularly attends and contributes at board meetings and he participates on NRA committees, lending his valuable intellect and experience to our cause. Grover also hosts weekly meetings at ATR’s office in Washington DC where conservatives meet to discuss issues of mutual concern; I and other NRA board members are always invited to attend to network and brief other conservatives about NRA issues.
Although I live far from Washington, DC, I also have had the opportunity over the past 15 years to get to know Grover outside of NRA board meetings. I have attended political gatherings at Grover’s home, I have met his parents, his wife and his children. Grover has travelled to Southern Arizona to speak to gun owners and NRA members, and I have gone shooting with Grover -- he is an enthusiastic shooter and a good marksman!
Grover and I are both members of a national organization of conservatives, where he has presented talks and moderated panels on a wide variety of conservative policy issues. Over the years, I have talked with Grover for hours and hours about how to make NRA bigger, better and stronger, and about the importance of freedom and less government intrusion in our lives. Never once has Grover said or done anything to suggest that he has anything but the best interests of gun owners, NRA members and the NRA at heart.
Unfortunately, however, for over ten years, Grover has suffered disparaging attacks on his character and patriotism by a man named Frank Gaffney. Various individuals and organizations investigated these allegations many times and found no basis for them. The continuing disparagement, though highly annoying, got little traction until a well-known radio talk show host publicly endorsed Gaffney’s charges after which Gaffney and his associates were able to get a recall petition onto the NRA ballot.
When you consider the people supporting Grover Norquist -- people whose patriotism cannot be questioned, like President Reagan’s former Attorney General Edwin Meese, former NRA President David Keene, the Leadership Institute’s founder Morton Blackwell, Former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff – it will become clear that Mr. Gaffney’s allegations are contemptible and unworthy of credence.
Now it is up to you and me, as NRA members, to vote NO on the recall petition and KEEP GROVER NORQUIST ON THE NRA BOARD OF DIRECTORS. For more information, go to http://www.grumpydoug.com/no_on_grover_recall.htm
Sincerely,
Sandy Froman
Former NRA President and Current NRA Board Member
Tucson, Arizona
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