Slowpoke_Rodrigo
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April 27 Neal Knox Report -- My NRA Benefactor wife said "Hallelujah"
when I told her this morning that I had not been reelected to the NRA
Board of Directors.
I've heard from three other candidates who didn't make it,
and I doubt that any of our 13 did.
This comes as no surprise. We raised and spent about $3-
4,000; the establishment spent close to $40,000 for the two ads in
the NRA magazines and perhaps that much again in mailings. The ads
said "Do Not Vote For" our 13 -- and most did not.
In my Jan. 17 column for the Feb. 20 Shotgun News, I said that
I suspect most of the money for those ads came from NRA contractors
who may have believed they had to contribute to keep their
contracts -- and that I had said as much to Past NRA President Jim
Reinke, who is co-chairman of the group that placed the ads.
Jim argued that there's nothing wrong with an NRA member who
has an NRA contract from contributing to Wayne LaPierre's
supporters. Maybe not, but the amendments to the Bylaws and NRA
Charter proposed in 1997 and 1998 to require disclosure of such
contributions were vehemently opposed by those who placed the ads.
That column, which was posted on Shotgun News and my web pages
about Jan. 20, reported that again this year the Nominating
Committee candidates endorsed by those ads were not solicited for
contributions to their own election.
That's no longer correct. One of the Nominating Committee
candidates who had not been solicited received a solicitation letter dated
Jan. 15 -- but not mailed until Feb. 18. The solicitation letter
thanked him for his previous contributions -- though he has never
contributed. Can you say "Attempted coverup?"
There will be an election of the 76th Director by all members
attending the Charlotte Annual Meeting May 20. I intend to
support whomever among our slate of candidates received the most
votes in the mail election -- even if it is me.
The establishment candidate will be Louise Mandrell of the
Mandrell Sisters, who plays a mean fiddle and shoots sporting
clays. I personally gave her an NRA Life Membership in 1995
on behalf of the association, in appreciation for her doing a
performance during the Phoenix meetings.
If I'm the candidate, my slogan will be: "Not a pretty face."
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Predictably, both Bill Clinton and Al Gore have jumped on the
National Zoo shooting to beat the gun control drums -- and never
mind that handguns have been prohibited since long before that 16-
year-old shooter was born.
Citing the 7 kids shot, Clinton said "our country still has
too much violence and too much crime," It certainly does, Mr.
President, and neither D.C.'s gun laws nor the national 1968 Gun
Control Act did a blessed thing to stop it -- in fact, violent
crime skyrocketed after those laws were passed.
Gore said that new handguns should be sold only with trigger
locks, and that handgun purchasers should be required to have a
photo identification license -- neither of which could conceiveably
have had the slightest effect on what happened at the zoo.
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A year after vetoing a preemption law prohibiting cities from
writing gun ordinances, Arizona Gov. Jane Hull yesterday signed a
"compromise" generally prohibiting local governments from
regulating possession, transportation, carrying, sale or use of
guns and ammunition.
The new law, which will go into effect in July, will allow
local governments to prohibit people without licenses from carrying
guns in designated and posted areas of parks, preserves or schools,
Also, guns could be prohibited from municipal buildings if gun
owners are provided a secure place to leave them.
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Slowpoke Rodrigo...he pack a gon...
Vote for the Neal Knox 13
I'll see you at the TFL End Of Summer Meet!
when I told her this morning that I had not been reelected to the NRA
Board of Directors.
I've heard from three other candidates who didn't make it,
and I doubt that any of our 13 did.
This comes as no surprise. We raised and spent about $3-
4,000; the establishment spent close to $40,000 for the two ads in
the NRA magazines and perhaps that much again in mailings. The ads
said "Do Not Vote For" our 13 -- and most did not.
In my Jan. 17 column for the Feb. 20 Shotgun News, I said that
I suspect most of the money for those ads came from NRA contractors
who may have believed they had to contribute to keep their
contracts -- and that I had said as much to Past NRA President Jim
Reinke, who is co-chairman of the group that placed the ads.
Jim argued that there's nothing wrong with an NRA member who
has an NRA contract from contributing to Wayne LaPierre's
supporters. Maybe not, but the amendments to the Bylaws and NRA
Charter proposed in 1997 and 1998 to require disclosure of such
contributions were vehemently opposed by those who placed the ads.
That column, which was posted on Shotgun News and my web pages
about Jan. 20, reported that again this year the Nominating
Committee candidates endorsed by those ads were not solicited for
contributions to their own election.
That's no longer correct. One of the Nominating Committee
candidates who had not been solicited received a solicitation letter dated
Jan. 15 -- but not mailed until Feb. 18. The solicitation letter
thanked him for his previous contributions -- though he has never
contributed. Can you say "Attempted coverup?"
There will be an election of the 76th Director by all members
attending the Charlotte Annual Meeting May 20. I intend to
support whomever among our slate of candidates received the most
votes in the mail election -- even if it is me.
The establishment candidate will be Louise Mandrell of the
Mandrell Sisters, who plays a mean fiddle and shoots sporting
clays. I personally gave her an NRA Life Membership in 1995
on behalf of the association, in appreciation for her doing a
performance during the Phoenix meetings.
If I'm the candidate, my slogan will be: "Not a pretty face."
------------
Predictably, both Bill Clinton and Al Gore have jumped on the
National Zoo shooting to beat the gun control drums -- and never
mind that handguns have been prohibited since long before that 16-
year-old shooter was born.
Citing the 7 kids shot, Clinton said "our country still has
too much violence and too much crime," It certainly does, Mr.
President, and neither D.C.'s gun laws nor the national 1968 Gun
Control Act did a blessed thing to stop it -- in fact, violent
crime skyrocketed after those laws were passed.
Gore said that new handguns should be sold only with trigger
locks, and that handgun purchasers should be required to have a
photo identification license -- neither of which could conceiveably
have had the slightest effect on what happened at the zoo.
-------------
A year after vetoing a preemption law prohibiting cities from
writing gun ordinances, Arizona Gov. Jane Hull yesterday signed a
"compromise" generally prohibiting local governments from
regulating possession, transportation, carrying, sale or use of
guns and ammunition.
The new law, which will go into effect in July, will allow
local governments to prohibit people without licenses from carrying
guns in designated and posted areas of parks, preserves or schools,
Also, guns could be prohibited from municipal buildings if gun
owners are provided a secure place to leave them.
------------------
Slowpoke Rodrigo...he pack a gon...
Vote for the Neal Knox 13
I'll see you at the TFL End Of Summer Meet!