{"id":34475,"date":"2024-07-11T13:19:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T13:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=34475"},"modified":"2024-07-11T14:14:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T14:14:29","slug":"hopes-for-reform-at-nra-dashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=34475","title":{"rendered":"Hopes For Reform At NRA Dashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:1149,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/groups\\\/309304408832668\\\/posts\\\/381916494904792&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1150,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/groups\\\/309304408832668\\\/posts\\\/386728894423552&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1151,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\\\/nyscef\\\/ViewDocument?docIndex=66QHAfIKFF339S\\\/6KFKbQg==&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20240722204101\\\/https:\\\/\\\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\\\/nyscef\\\/ViewDocument?docIndex=66QHAfIKFF339S\\\/6KFKbQg==&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 13:32:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 16:13:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-23 00:49:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 23:36:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 23:36:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1152,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/cdn.thereload.com\\\/app\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/07\\\/P-JourneyMotion-to-Intervene.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:1153,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/thereload.com\\\/nra-board-member-asks-new-york-judge-to-remove-groups-president-law-firm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250430073509\\\/https:\\\/\\\/thereload.com\\\/nra-board-member-asks-new-york-judge-to-remove-groups-president-law-firm\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 13:33:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 16:13:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 16:13:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>When the NRA Board of Directors meeting ended on the Monday after the NRA Annual Meeting many, including me, had high hopes that reform was finally coming to the organization. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2024\/05\/21\/an-interesting-day-in-dallas.html\">Reformers had won two<\/a><\/strong> out of three of the officer positions, the EVP, and a majority on the Nominating Committee. This was on the heels of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2024\/05\/02\/2024-nra-board-election-results.html\">resounding victories<\/a><\/strong> of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2024\/05\/01\/four-for-reform-elected.html\">Four for Reform<\/a><\/strong>. Doug Hamlin, the new CEO and EVP, started <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2024\/05\/21\/change-has-come-quickly-in-fairfax.html\">making good changes<\/a><\/strong> and signaled a new <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2024\/05\/23\/hamlin-reaches-out-to-staff-today.html\">openness<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2024\/05\/29\/now-on-to-nra-committee-assignments.html\">as I noted at the end of May<\/a><\/strong>, how newly elected NRA President Bob Barr handled committee assignments would be the key to showing the court in New York just how much the NRA had changed and embraced reform. I went on to add that Charles Cotton and David Coy must not be allowed to serve on the Audit and Finance Committees respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I began to be more than a little concerned when it came out that Barr had made <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/309304408832668\/posts\/381916494904792\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cotton the new chair of the Ethics Committee<\/a><\/strong>. That was the harbinger of more to come as it became obvious that Barr had ignored his mother&#8217;s warning about running with the &#8220;wrong crowd&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, Barr&#8217;s appointments to the Audit, Finance, Ethics, Bylaws and Resolutions, and Legal Affairs Committees were <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/309304408832668\/posts\/386728894423552\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>NRA President Bob Barr has announced some committee assignments:<\/em><br><br><strong><em>Audit<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Charles Cotton &#8211; Chairman<br>E. Wilkinson \u2013 Vice Chairman<br>Charles Beers<br>Curtis Jenkins<br>Rocky Marshall<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Bylaws &amp; Resolutions<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Carol Frampton \u2013 Chairman<br>Charles Cotton \u2013 Vice Chairman<br>Scott Bach<br>Bob Barr<br>Larry Craig<br>Joel Friedman<br>Jim Wallace<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Ethics<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Charles Cotton \u2013 Chairman<br>Joel Friedman \u2013 Vice Chairman<br>Clel Baudler<br>Jay Printz<br>Barbara Rumpel <br>Mark Vaughan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Finance<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>David Coy \u2013 Chairman<br>Ron Schmeits \u2013 Vice Chairman<br>Joe Allbaugh<br>Bill Bachenberg<br>Isaac Demarest<br>Patricia Clark<br>Allan Cors<br>Charles Cotton<br>Joel Friedman<br>Curtis Jenkins<br>Carolyn Meadows<br>Bill Miller<br>Buz Mills<br>Amanda Suffecool<br>Mark Vaughan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Legal Affairs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Sandra Froman \u2013 Chairman<br>Scott Bach \u2013 Vice Chairman<br>Bob Barr<br>Charles Cotton<br>Carol Frampton<br>Charles Hiltunen<br>Curtis Jenkins<br>John Sigler<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thing you will notice is that Charles Cotton is on every single one of these important committees and retains his chairmanship of the Audit Committee to go with his newly appointed chairmanship of the Ethics Committee. The next thing you notice is that David Coy has retained his chairmanship of the Finance Committee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only one of the Four for Reform members to be appointed to any committee was Rocky Marshall who was appointed to the Audit Committee. I find this disappointing as their election is being used by the NRA in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\/nyscef\/ViewDocument?docIndex=66QHAfIKFF339S\/6KFKbQg==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">its court filings to assert that things have changed<\/a><\/strong> and no special monitor was needed. While Rocky&#8217;s appointment is good and proper, why was not Jeff Knox put on Bylaws and Resolutions as he probably knows more about the Bylaws than any member of that committee. Likewise, would not it have been wise to put Judge Phil Journey, the only jurist on the Board, on the Legal Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the exception of the Finance Committee which has has four known reformers on it (out of 15 total members), the remaining committees have one and perhaps two known reformers on them. If Barr wanted to signal to the members of the NRA and to Judge Cohen that things had changed at the NRA, this certainly was not the way to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While I don&#8217;t have a crystal ball on what will happen in the remedial phase of the New York trial, I think the odds are better than even that a special monitor will now be appointed to oversee the NRA&#8217;s finances. It should be noted that this monitor will have nothing to do with functions and programs of the NRA including its political functions. While this will put me at odds with some friends on the Board who are reformers, I think that the special monitor will be a requirement if the NRA is ever to crawl out of the morass it finds itself in. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> I can fully understand the frustration that Judge Phil Journey must have felt that caused him to file a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.thereload.com\/app\/uploads\/2024\/07\/P-JourneyMotion-to-Intervene.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">motion to intervene <\/a><\/strong>in the New York trial. That was on July 3rd and he obviously saw things that are now only coming to light. It has been suggested to me that the appointment of Charles Cotton to head the Ethics Committee was specifically meant to go after Judge Journey for having the temerity to break ranks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stephen Gutowski has more on Journey&#8217;s motion <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thereload.com\/nra-board-member-asks-new-york-judge-to-remove-groups-president-law-firm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/strong> along with the NRA&#8217;s denials.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the NRA Board of Directors meeting ended on the Monday after the NRA Annual Meeting many, including me,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":11,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6426,26,6862,5862],"class_list":["post-34475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bob-barr-2","tag-nra","tag-nra-committee-assignments","tag-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34478,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34475\/revisions\/34478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}