by The members of the NRA just sent a clear message to the Board of Directors. They want reform and they want it now. The old ways of doing business just won’t cut it anymore.
Jeff Knox posted this to Facebook approximately an hour ago.
The Four for Reform candidates – Jeff Knox, Dennis Fusaro, Phil Journey, and Rocky Marshall – got on the ballot thanks to the many members who signed their petition. Even with the shenanigans from the Nominations Committee of padding the ballot, all four were successfully elected to full 3-year terms.
Additionally, Rick Ector who bucked the Cabal by endorsing Wade Callender to be the next EVP was elected to a full 3-year term.
I have not seen who else was elected. I did see a comment from Gina Roberts on the Members Take Back Our NRA Facebook page that she did not win election. It will be interesting to see who will be running for the 76th Director.
As soon as I can obtain a complete list, I will post it.
Now for a word of caution. This was a great win for the members but there is still a lot of work that needs to be done. Moreover, it must be borne in mind that the Board is just too damn large with 76 members and even five members committed to reform will have a hard time changing things. It will take time which, to be honest, the organization doesn’t have a lot of to spare.
One final note and this is not related to the Board election. Judge Phil Journey is the lead individual plaintiff in a Federal lawsuit along with the attorneys general of 21 states challenging the new ATF rule that redefines “engaged in the business” of firearm sales. I will have more on that suit in another post.
The stupidly gigantically large board is a FEATURE, not a bug! That is to say, it’s designed that way to make it next to impossible for an group of reformers to have any meaningful impact, and also, being so large, it’s much too cumbersome to take meaningful action and so everything is done by “cabal” and by “executive committees” run by a much smaller more powerful elite.
This organization will never reform as long as that board remains so damned unwieldy.
Well, that’s our first Higgins Boat onto the Normandy beaches… who’s ready to go in as reinforcements next year?