{"id":29078,"date":"2025-01-12T12:44:51","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T17:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=29078"},"modified":"2025-01-12T12:44:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T17:44:51","slug":"nra-2025-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=29078","title":{"rendered":"NRA 2025 elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t feel the need to waste a lot of time on the <a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=34963\" target=\"_blank\">NRA&#8217;s internal follies<\/a>.  That is <a href=\"https:\/\/nraindanger.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">adequately covered<\/a> elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Ballots for voting members will go out this week in the February magazines and a number of incumbent directors are up for re-election.<\/p>\n<p><center><strong>Fuck them all.<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n<p>All of them either actively participated in the malfeasance and management misadventures or passively stood by and let it happen.  They pissed away more than $200 million on stupidity so egregious it will be talked about in business and law schools on how not to run a corporation.  It will take a generation or more to recover.  I have not seen the slightest bit of regret from any of them.  I believe some are even proud of their actions.<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of newcomers willing to step up and try to rebuild the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nra.org\" target=\"_blank\">Association<\/a>.  Read their bios, ask them questions, and support those you feel are competent and ethically sound.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ssb_list_wrapper\"><li class=\"fb2\" style=\"width:135px\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunpoliticsny.com%2F%3Fp%3D29078&amp;layout=button_count&amp;action=like&amp;show_faces=false&amp;share=true&amp;width=135&amp;height=21&amp;appId=307091639398582\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden;  width:150px; height:21px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/li><li class=\"twtr\" style=\"width:90px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=29078\">&nbsp;<\/a><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/li><li class=\"gplus\" style=\"width:68px\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=29078\"><\/div><\/li><li class=\"ssb_linkedin\" style=\"width:64px\"><script src=\"\/\/platform.linkedin.com\/in.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">lang: en_US<\/script><script type=\"IN\/Share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=29078\" data-counter=\"right\"><\/script><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t feel the need to waste a lot of time on the NRA&#8217;s internal follies. That is adequately covered elsewhere. Ballots for voting members will go out this week in the February magazines and a number of incumbent directors are up for re-election. Fuck them all. 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