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JimP
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I personally believe that they need new leadership and that Wayne should step down.
Colorado Cowboy
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Time for a new leader that can turn things around.
I don't think so that's what they are doing now, they had the attorney general from New York on the news.
buckbull
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well the evidence they have against Wayne is pretty damning. I would guess some kind of plea deal will be made. Good riddance I say.
Colorado Cowboy
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The sad thing is that the Board of Directors hires him. The Board is elected by the Life (and above) Members. The Board is packed with his supporters and the rest is history. I have several friends who tried to get elected to the Board and it ended up being almost impossible. I am a Benefactor Life Member (have been over 70 years) and the NRA has drifted away from it's core mission and into politics and we are suffering from it.
Lou (Louis)
Member
Member.
I don’t think a billion emails per day is a good fundraising model
I don’t think a billion emails per day is a good fundraising model
JimP
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JimP
Administrator
I doubt that it will change very much with new leadership.
I didn't notice much difference from the last few leaders.
But some priorities may change.
buckbull
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Good riddance. I hope this is a wake up call and they turn things around. Im guessing not since the shady shit has been going on for so many years its engrained in the culture.
JimP
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The problem that I see is once a organization gets large enough and they start taking in very large sums of money there is going to be corruption, I don't care who it is.
Take a look at just about any non profit group and you will see that the vast majority of the money that is given to them is spent on overhead with less than 10% actually going to what you think.
Many years ago a 2nd Amendment group tried to strong arm me into donating more money. They claimed that they had documents that I had signed saying how much I was going to give them and that they were going to hold me to it. After I threatened to go to their states attorney general did they back off. I'm not going to name them but they are a well known group.
But back to the NRA there are a lot that complain that they are doing very little for hunting. Well, hunting isn't about what they are fighting for. I also don't know just what is required for them to step in when anti gun laws are passed. I know that here in Colorado that Rocky Mountain Gun Owners is the group that is taking all the Colorado laws to court and not the NRA, but after I looked into them I decided not to join them.
In the end a person just needs to do their homework on what groups they want to join and donate money to.
Take a look at just about any non profit group and you will see that the vast majority of the money that is given to them is spent on overhead with less than 10% actually going to what you think.
Many years ago a 2nd Amendment group tried to strong arm me into donating more money. They claimed that they had documents that I had signed saying how much I was going to give them and that they were going to hold me to it. After I threatened to go to their states attorney general did they back off. I'm not going to name them but they are a well known group.
But back to the NRA there are a lot that complain that they are doing very little for hunting. Well, hunting isn't about what they are fighting for. I also don't know just what is required for them to step in when anti gun laws are passed. I know that here in Colorado that Rocky Mountain Gun Owners is the group that is taking all the Colorado laws to court and not the NRA, but after I looked into them I decided not to join them.
In the end a person just needs to do their homework on what groups they want to join and donate money to.
Lou (Louis)
Member
Wonder if there is a website out there that gives you percentages (ie, where a donated dollar goes- the cause, salaries, etc) on different organizations?
buckbull
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There is.
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