{"id":35599,"date":"2025-07-18T19:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=35599"},"modified":"2025-07-18T19:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T19:01:15","slug":"nra-nominating-committee-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=35599","title":{"rendered":"NRA Nominating Committee Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:376,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\\\/nyscef\\\/ViewDocument?docIndex=aSsxCwZ35i0OW9fgkukAnA==&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20241212060435\\\/https:\\\/\\\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\\\/nyscef\\\/ViewDocument?docIndex=aSsxCwZ35i0OW9fgkukAnA==&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 03:36:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 03:28:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 06:56:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 20:51:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-01 20:51:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:377,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\\\/nyscef\\\/ViewDocument?docIndex=zLkHjt\\\/jQZ\\\/XA199Nr9HIw==&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;:378,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.nrapublications.org\\\/nomination&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;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Bear in mind that the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\/nyscef\/ViewDocument?docIndex=aSsxCwZ35i0OW9fgkukAnA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Final Judgment<\/a><\/strong> mandated that the Nominating Committee should &#8220;endeavor&#8221; to find 20 additional candidates for the board who were <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/iapps.courts.state.ny.us\/nyscef\/ViewDocument?docIndex=zLkHjt\/jQZ\/XA199Nr9HIw==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">qualified (5+ years as a Life Member and conflict free)<\/a><\/strong> and who had not served more than one term of office on the Board prior to 2022. In other words, Judge Cohen didn&#8217;t want to see the same old 25 or so people being nominated for the Board of Directors year after year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part of the nomination process approved by the court was for the Nominating Committee in consultation with the officers to develop a list of attributes that they were seeking in candidates for the Board. I reached out to Buz Mills who is chair of the Nominating Committee for this list of attributes. With his permission, here is the list that was developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following attributes were identified as skills particularly desired over and above those normally evaluated:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gap Analysis:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Insurance \/ risk management experience<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finance \/ Investment review<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Competition Shooting<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Membership organizational experience<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Gun Collectors<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Minorities (Hispanic, Black, Asian)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Younger individuals with business or program background<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Other qualifications desired:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ability to communicate effectively<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>High level of passion for the NRA and our advocacy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Availably to dedicate a great deal of time to the Association<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Availability to commit to extensive travel<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Great social media skills<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Industry professionals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Media influencers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you know of someone who be a great Board member,<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrapublications.org\/nomination\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> nominate them!<\/a><\/strong> Nominations have to be in to the Nominating Committee by August 3rd in order for nominees to fill out the requisite paperwork and for the Nominating Committee to evaluate it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you would like to run by run by petition, you need to request the petition (and nomination) package from the Secretary\u2019s Office. I would send an email to Laura Green, the Assistant Secretary, at\u00a0<strong><a href=\"mailto:lgreen@nrahq.org\">lgreen@nrahq.org<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to request it. She will send you the packet and will set up your online link to your petition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As I have said before elsewhere, the Board will only be as good as those we have on the ballot. To be brutally honest, write-in candidates have little to no chance of being elected. I could be wrong but the only person I know of who got elected by way of a write-in vote was the late Charlton Heston and that was almost 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bear in mind that the Final Judgment mandated that the Nominating Committee should &#8220;endeavor&#8221; to find 20 additional candidates&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":212,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7109,6897,26],"class_list":["post-35599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2026-nra-board-election","tag-nominating-committee","tag-nra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35599","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=35599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35601,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35599\/revisions\/35601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}