Hello folks...
all four million of you...
I'm Shane Roth (aka Apexnerd) and I wonder if you know who is deciding how to spend that dues money of yours... LINK
Turns out that there are 76 people on the Board of Directors of the NRA... many you have never heard of... but a few notable celebrated names jump out...
- Tom Selleck (actor)
- Ted Nugent (rock star)
- Oliver North (retired Marine/pundit)
- Karl Malone (retired basketball player)
- R Lee Ermey (retired Marine/actor... the Drill Sergeant from Full Metal Jacket and countless other roles)
- Larry Craig (yeah, THAT Larry Craig... Mister Wide Stance)
- Grover Norquist (Mister Tax Pledge)
The infamous advertisement referencing President Obama's kids..? Guess who gives (or denies) the green light for things like that?
The Board of Directors.
It's a board that directs things... mostly money.
That Board is supposed to work for you. You don't work for them.
I checked the NRA website and found that the annual dues are about $35 per year... there are other fee structures that bring the annual costs down... so I'm going to guess that a typical NRA member is on the hook for... no less than $25 per year.
$25 x 4,000,000 = $100,000,000 a year.
And that doesn't account for other fundraising efforts... just membership dues.
As members in good standing of the NRA, you are supposed to be able to decide who goes on the Board or Directors. The NRA has made it a bit more complicated than that, but the fact remains that... parli-pro shenanigans aside... (you can read about the details of such shenanigans here. LINK )... as dues paying members you have sufficient standing to apply pressure to the NRA to change the composition of its Board of Directors.
It is pretty obvious that the folks in the driver's seat of this rig are showing impaired judgment.
And it does reflect on you, as the membership of the NRA, how the Board of Directors and CEO of this organization conduct themselves.
This handful of bubble-boys is making the NRA membership look like a bad Jeff Foxworthy joke.
And if you sit quietly as members and allow it to continue... you have no one to blame but yourselves.
So, pretty please, with sugar on top... do something about your Board of Directors, and your CEO.
Remind them who the are supposed to be working for already.
It's your money they are spending on these absurd ads.
Are you okay with that?
One more thing... (...something I already mentioned on Facebook...)
...if you can't over throw your own Board of Directors, then how exactly are you going to overthrow the Government?
Hugs!
Apexnerd
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