by The final seat on the NRA Board of Directors was filled yesterday as the election for 76th Director closed. Charlie Hiltunen of Indiana won 389 to Tom King’s 194 with a smattering of votes for the rest of the candidates who did initially win a seat on the Board. Charlie was part of the NRA 2.0 Team and had many volunteers handing out his cards, buttons, and other campaign materials. Not only that but I rarely saw Charlie as he was out campaigning. King, as well, campaigned hard and had numerous members of the Old Guard helping him campaign.
The results are below. With Hiltunen’s election, NRA 2.0 or the reformers took 20 out of 30 available seats. We go into Monday’s Board meeting with a significant majority so long as those who have supported reform in the past don’t go wobbly.
The full results are as follows:
Charles Hiltunen … 389
Tom King … 194
Greer Johnson … 43
Kim Rhode … 29
Lucretia Hughes Klucken … 28
Frank Tait … 22
Isaac Demarest … 22
Charles Rowe … 16
Gene Roach … 12
Steven Dulan … 11
Jeffrey Fleetham … 10
Lane Ruhland … 10
Ronald Schmeits … 10
David Mitten … 9
Regis Synan … 8
Richard Todd Figard … 6
Mark Shuell … 5
TOTAL 824
That’s another for the Reform Team. 20 out of 30 this time plus 4 last time… well, 24 out of 76 isn’t a majority but 1/3 should be enough to start forcing visible votes and make the other 2/3 show where they stand.
Next year is going to be our last chance to be purely focused on “playing offense” before we have to start defending the seats we’ve taken, so forcing votes on Reform issues or otherwise boxing Team Wayne in having to defend “against the will of the members” actions/inactions will make good ammunition for our “Third Boat” squad to use in their campaigns.
John et al, please don’t discount the use of “Good Cop – Bad Cop” strategies with the courts as a stalking horse to make arguments with the rest of the Board about “we can either do things NOW on our terms or wait and let the courts force us to do ’em on THEIRS and guaranteed we won’t like the results if Judge Cohen decides we’re out of compliance with his terms and gives James a rematch.”