{"id":35781,"date":"2025-10-30T18:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=35781"},"modified":"2025-10-30T18:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:44:17","slug":"charles-cotton-resigns-from-nra-bod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=35781","title":{"rendered":"Charles Cotton Resigns From NRA BOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:231,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/jeff.fleetham\\\/posts\\\/pfbid02jZFyC7woPkrGGY9JwheAkH2F2gxsQYBao7HZAJvS2qrrzd5tV325fLr1sZac3Xjml&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;:232,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/strongnra.com\\\/jeff-fleetham&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251214080727\\\/https:\\\/\\\/strongnra.com\\\/jeff-fleetham\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 02:04:05&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 13:02:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 13:02:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I had heard rumors of this earlier today but I just received an email from NRA Secretary John Frazer confirming that former NRA President Charles Cotton has resigned from the NRA Board. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Board member and past President Charles Cotton has resigned from the Board and Executive Council, effective immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom King was the next runner-up in the 2025 election, but has declined to serve.&nbsp; Jeff Fleetham has accepted the position and will fill the vacancy until the adjournment of the 2026 Members\u2019 Meeting.&nbsp; Mr. Cotton\u2019s term would have expired in 2026, so no additional candidate will be elected to fill the vacancy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>As to why Cotton resigned, there is no official word. However, he had no committee assignments and did not attend the September Board meeting in Virginia. Additionally, he was not re-nominated for the 2026 Board election by the Nominating Committee nor did he apparently gather enough signatures to make the ballot by petition. He does remain a current trustee of the NRA Foundation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fleetham had attempted to run by petition for the 2026 Board election according to his earlier posts on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jeff.fleetham\/posts\/pfbid02jZFyC7woPkrGGY9JwheAkH2F2gxsQYBao7HZAJvS2qrrzd5tV325fLr1sZac3Xjml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/strong>. However, he did not gather enough signatures to make it on to the ballot. In the last election, he was part of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/strongnra.com\/jeff-fleetham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strong NRA ticket<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-1-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35782\" style=\"width:416px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-1-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-1-940x940.png 940w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-1-1320x1320.png 1320w, https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/image-1.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">From Facebook<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:33px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Fleetham is a resident of Mesa, Arizona. According to his official bio in last year&#8217;s election, he was a 2016 and 2020 RNC delegate for President Trump. He served on the Arizona Register of Contractors for a number of years as a director. His business background is in the construction industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will serve the remainder of Cotton&#8217;s term which expires at the close of the Meeting of Members in Houston.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had heard rumors of this earlier today but I just received an email from NRA Secretary John Frazer&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":496,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5635,7245,12],"class_list":["post-35781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charles-cotton","tag-jeff-fleetham","tag-nra-board-of-directors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35781","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=35781"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35783,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35781\/revisions\/35783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}