With this year’s NRA BoD ballots just out, I thought I’d see if any of the longtime old hands had any thoughts about who’s more likely to support Doing What Needs Doing to boot Frenchy Fudd and start getting the house in order. Personally, based on the reports at Save the Second right now I’m leaning toward “bullet voting” for Buz Mills and write-in Frank Tait and Rocky Marshall, but I welcome additional thoughts.
I will be voting for no more than five candidates, in order to maximize the effect of my support for them by withholding support for everyone else. (Sorry, Kim Rhode. 
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The board is already stacked with Wayne’s people, and with 76 board members there is little chance anything will ever get done. It’s just too many people to be effective at controlling the org.
I’m just over it at this point. The NRA as it stands today needs to die before it can be reborn into something that will be effective.
My vote this year was as follows: I got a sharpie and wrote across my ballot that I will no longer support the NRA until Wayne and the entire executive staff are replaced and the BOD is reduced to 21 or fewer seats. Then I fed the renewal shit to my shredder and sent $100 to GOA
Right now we have 15 Wayne Assremoras, 15 active resisters and everybody in between just goes whichever way the wind blows. I’m paid-in-full Life, and the money stopped as soon as it was paid off.
The board is structured to prevent any class of candidates from exercising effective control of the organization. Again, this is by design.
- the larger a board, the less effective any individual member. NRA board has 76.
- The board members are elected 25 at a time, for three year terms (+1 for an internal candidate). This slows turnover and prevents changes in governance
- The NRA Nominating Committee effectively selects the entire ballot. Yes, members can petition candidates. The bar is high to do so. None are listed this year.
- The Nominating Committee selected… 28 to fill 25 seats. Bullet voting sends a message, but only a message.
This prevents cohorts from organizing the board into an effective governing body. The size, the rotation, and selection methods allows insiders to control the board, even if seats are held by outsiders. They may be good people, have good intentions, but they are still preselected because they are unlikely or unable to disrupt the status quo.
This doesn’t even get into the bylaws. Or the legal liability an NRA board member might incur that prevents outsiders from initiating change. We’re just getting to the gate.
The organization is structurally corrupt. If WLP were gone tomorrow, the organization would only be as good as the officers who replaced him and his associates. That would only last so long.
My point being, for any change to occur we need the acquiescence of the NRA insiders, as well as the body of an intentionally fractured board to achieve it.
I know I’m 100% Ronnie Barrett. Everyone else needs looking into.
They can nominate DEEZ NUTZ for all I care at this point. CROOKS & CAPITULATORS.