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Salma Hayek?

Bitch is ugly.
Salma HeeHaa is more like it.

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I wonder how that is actually set up. Can the BoD actually vote to fire him?

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It is sad how much you all hope for the demise of the NRA.

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Ill support Salma twice...one for each boobie.

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wayne ain't evp just cause he says he is, he can be hired and fired

I refuse to believe he has a retirement forever clause that can't be over ridden for cause

if that's the case, then I declare myself, dex357. executive vice president for life, and wayne, you are fired

chris, clean out your desk, these folks will see you out

marion, go home, your cats are hungry

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Wow, look at all you lapping up bullshit in an article based on "According to someone we've spoken to".    An anonymous source from a low level website, must be legit.

It is sad how much you all hope for the demise of the NRA.

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When the NRA BOD Executive Committee is a bunch of people your friends at AckMac helped get elected to the BOD as your rubber stamp men, your contract can be pretty much whatever you want.

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The BoD needs to change and needs new faces on it.  Change enough of the BoD and they will replace Wayne (during a non-critical time).

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Shit, I’ve been under a rock.

LaPierre is being forced out?

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Wow, look at all you lapping up bullshit in an article based on "According to someone we've spoken to".    An anonymous source from a low level website, must be legit.

It is sad how much you all hope for the demise of the NRA.

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I voted for Salma Hayek.

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Yeah, that points to complete dysfunction on the board if they challenge the appointed leader as they go into their largest public and media event of the year.  What happens if Wayne says F the BoD and doesn't show up for the events he is supposed to be at?  If he was as pissed as the article claims that could happen.  Media everywhere will run headlines about how the NRA is fractured and falling apart.  It would project even more weakness on the NRA. That would cause a decrease in membership and a loss of what little influence they have with the legislators.  No one is going to support an organization that appears to be imploding.  That is also why I think the people here cheering for that to happen are not really on our side.

The BoD needs to change and needs new faces on it.  Change enough of the BoD and they will replace Wayne (during a non-critical time).

In late 1996, Knox came to LaPierre and told him to fire the NRA's influential consulting firm, Ackerman McQueen, whose staffers have high-level Republican Party connections and tend to oppose the gun fundamentalists. LaPierre said yes and did nothing. Six months later the lucrative contract was still in place. So Knox said: Wayne, I've warned you. Now I'm going to take your job.

It wasn't so easy. It turned out that LaPierre and his board allies and Ackerman McQueen had gone and changed the locks on the old revolutionary.

Finely oaked red wine and pungent cheese and Cuban cigars in the Hollywood Hills, and bull that flowed late into the evening. That's how NRA board member John Milius recalls plotting the counter-coup against Neal Knox. Milius has a broad belly and beard, and the look of a man always ready to be in on the next joke. He's a B-list movie director and an A-list screenwriter. A Zen anarchist with Republican libertarian tendencies. And he became a key agent of Knox's fall and the rise of today's NRA.

In early 1997, Knox had a majority on the board, and he had LaPierre and the consultant contract in his gun sights. Milius huddled with Col. Robert Brown, publisher of Soldier of Fortune magazine, and Anthony Makris, an NRA consultant from Ackerman McQueen. To describe these men as political moderates would be to insult them; but they were pragmatists.

Under Knox, they believed, the NRA had veered too far to the right, courting the militias and losing legislative battles. In 1995, a Republican House voted for the Brady Bill, which imposed background checks on gun purchases. Not to mention they realized that Ackerman McQueen's million-dollar contracts were at stake.

"We were facing a genuine and extremely well-organized coup d'etat." Milius pauses to cut, wet and light his Cohiba cigar, and wedge it between his teeth. "So we used our best techniques: lying, cheating and disinformation. I didn't tell the truth for weeks."

Makris and Milius invited a Knox loyalist to dinner in Los Angeles and seemingly conspired to bribe LaPierre into leaving. The loyalist got well-lubricated and so pumped; this plan was great! The next day Milius leaked the plot to LaPierre, who rose publicly and proclaimed himself shocked! -- shocked! -- that a Knox ally would try to buy him off.

LaPierre, in fact, gamed the moment perfectly. Privately, board members had for several years warned him about playing the dutiful son to Knox. The executive vice president knew just when to pull away from Knox's embrace.

The coup de grace was administered at the Seattle NRA convention in 1997. LaPierre needed a guardian angel; he got Moses. Charlton Heston (who is also represented by Makris) was elected to the board and then surprised many members by announcing he would run against Knox for first vice president. Heston beat Knox by four votes. LaPierre took the stage to cheer Heston and declare that he didn't intend "to stand by and let the NRA be turned into the John Birch Society."

For Knox, it was like storming the Winter Palace again only to find himself surrounded by the Russian army. "I had no idea there was a candidate out there with the horsepower to take me out. Then I get there and see Heston . . ."

Brown shrugs when asked about Knox's downfall. Brown's got a buzz cut, jutting chin and perpetual squint, and an I-gargle-with-rock-salt voice. He's a dead ringer for Gen. Buck Turgidson in "Dr. Strangelove." He's romantic only about shooting.

"Knox made his move a little too early, and, at risk of strategic oversimplification, he got his [expletive] ass kicked." Brown wags his eyebrows and snaps a salute. "That's war, buddy."

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At some point the NRA stopped being a gun rights organization and became a cash cow for the elite.

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So to clarify, if the article is true you would support removing those board members who tried to remove WLP because of the timing? Worried more about short term press coverage than removing WLP?

ANYTIME is a good time to remove WLP and the cat lady. If they frog marched him off the stage in the middle of an nationally televised live interview with Hannity it would be a good time.

Nothing will change at the NRA until he and his quisling supporters are gone.

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Based on a conversation I had with a highly respected Board of Directors member who wishes to remain anonymous. That of the group that spoke with Wayne LaPierre, two of the people that asked for his resignation were fellow NRA Boards of Directors members and get this, employees of Ackerman McQueen. Yes, the very same advertisement company that the NRA is currently suing over financial irregularities.

The Board of Directors as a whole has not met about this yet, but my contact does inform me that there are a number of members that do wish for Wayne LaPierre to resign but he doesn't know which way the Board would vote at this time.

It appears that this is possibly a repeat of 1997 all over again.

For those that don't know, Neal Knox (the man who lead the 1977 coup against the NRA to make it into a civil rights organization instead of a sports shooting one) was seeking to remove Wayne from his position because of a question of out of control spending relating to Ackerman McQueen. Yes, this has been brought up before.

To give you an understanding of how honest the NRA was under Neal Knox. The NRA didn't endorse President George H.W. Bush in 1992 because of his open support for the push of an Assault Weapons Ban. But remember, the NRA right now is backing President Donald Trump even though he illegally banned Bump Stocks and is pushing Red Flag laws.

In a 2000 article by the Washington Post titled, CALL TO ARMS. It gives you a better understanding of the potential power play that is going on behind the scenes.

The difference, is now it appears that Wayne LaPierre isn't getting the backing from Ackerman McQueen. Instead he is fighting them instead of protecting them. Will Wayne learn the vital lesson that many have over the years? Don't ever bite the hand that feeds you.

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I saw Wayne's speech at the last convention and his delivery and he himself looked old.  We need someone who has energy and passion to not give that inch.

He actually looked like he had dementia to me. We need a smart fire pisser to get in there with passion to fight.

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It is 1999 all over again.  I wish Neal Knox had lived to see this.

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Adam Kraut for NRA EVP!!!

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My personal feelings on this is unless the majority of the BoD backs this. He isn't going anywhere. Especially if the two BoD members that requested he resign are Ackerman McQueen employees. Wayne LaPierre with assistance from Marion Hammer csn spin this as an attempted coup by Ackerman McQueen, an outsider.

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This! Hoping this is 150% legit!!!

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This.
If the question involves Salma Hayek, the answer is ALWAYS Salma Hayek.
Op should be punched in the dick for misspelling her name.

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Col. Oliver North is technically an employee of Ackerman McQueen. Hell, Colin Noir and Dana Loesch are Ackerman McQueen employees and they're the public face of the NRA at the moment.

Back in 1997, Wayne LaPierre's was a subcontracted employee of Ackerman McQueen through her business Mercury Group.

Wayne defended Ackerman McQueen in 1997 and they backed him. He is was pretty much them. So something has changed bigtime. He literally is biting the hand thst feeds him.

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Col. Oliver North is technically an employee of Ackerman McQueen. Hell, Colin Noir and Dana Loesch are Ackerman McQueen employees and they're the public face of the NRA at the moment.

Back in 1997, Wayne LaPierre's was a subcontracted employee of Ackerman McQueen through her business Mercury Group.

Wayne defended Ackerman McQueen in 1997 and they backed him. He is was pretty much them. So something has changed bigtime. He literally is biting the hand thst feeds him.