by Being stuck in “no man’s land” or betwixt and between can be a hard place to be. I bring this up because I stumbled across an oddity concerning the candidates for the 2025 NRA Board of Directors.
On one side, you have the avowed and acknowledged reformers who can be found at ElectANewNRA.Com. There are 28 of us on that list including two – Paul Babaz and Charles Brown – who are running as write-in candidates.
On the other side are those endorsed by the cabal. We know who they are thanks to an ad that they plan to run. You can see that ad below with commentary disputing some of the claims.
If you include the two write-in candidates, you have a total of 51 people running for the Board in this cycle. 28 of these candidates are from the reform slate and 16 endorsed by the cabal as seen above. Obviously, 28 plus 16 does not add up to 51.
What you have are seven candidates left out in “no man’s land”. They are Steve Dulan, Greer Johnson, Lucretia Hughes Klucken, Kim Rhode, Gene Roach, Lane Ruhland, and Mark Shuell. All but Kim Rhode are on the ballot due to being nominated by the Nominating Committee.
Steve Dulan, Greer Johnson, and Kim Rhode currently are on the Board of Directors with Johnson and Rhode assuming their spots due to vacancies on the Board. Interestingly, both Dulan and Rhode voted to keep the Special Litigation Committee at the September meeting of the Board of Directors which should have endeared them to the cabal.
Of the seven, I have only spoken with Mark Shuell. He seems reform minded and has been active in the Facebook group Members Take Back the NRA. Thus, I can see why the cabal has distanced themselves from him. Additionally, he has been endorsed by Jeff Knox which is pretty much the kiss of death when it comes to the cabal.
It would be interesting to know the dynamics of the cabal’s decision to leave these seven out in the cold. As I said, I can understand Mark Shuell but not the rest. You have two that voted to keep the Special Litigation Committee (Dulan and Rhode), you have a close associate of former NRA President Carolyn Meadows (Johnson), and you have one that was on the NRA’s witness list for the NY trial (Klucken). I can’t speak to Roach or Ruhland other than to say they were nominated by the Nominating Committee.
As always, if new information comes to light, I will report on it here.