WHY I AM RUNNING FOR THE NRA BOARD & MY PLATFORM FOR NRA’s RECOVERY AND SUCCESS

I am running to return to the NRA Board of Directors because I love the NRA, and I fear for her continued well-being.

To be painfully blunt, our beloved NRA is not what it once was, nor what it should be and could be today. Over the past few years, it has been used, abused, spindled, and mutilated.

But thankfully, times are changing and many of those who caused that damage are now gone, including their leader.

The NRA Board has changed dramatically over the last few years, and that is definitely a good thing.

But those new people on the NRA Board need help from those of us who have served before – I can help, and I want to help.

It is my honor to have been nominated by both the NRA Membership by Petition and the NRA’s Nominating Committee.

I have the history, the knowledge and experience those new Board members will need if they are to be successful in bringing the NRA back to the strong and powerful organization it once was and can be – and must be again – in the years to come.

It is time for an NRA Board of Directors that understands that the NRA belongs to The Members - not to the staff, not to the Officers (paid and unpaid), and certainly not to the Board itself.

When I was NRA’s President during “The Glory Days” some 16 years ago, I was sometimes called “The Members’ President”, but not always as a compliment. My focus has always been on The Members. Since I left the President’s Office in 2009, too many others have been focused elsewhere, and we have seen the results.

It is time for both the NRA Board and the NRA Staff to refocus on The Members – The Members deserve it, it is your right to expect it, and the well-being of the NRA and our sacred Second Amendment both demand it.

There is a blue sky at the end of that long, dark tunnel – a blue sky that bodes well for the future of the NRA – and, I can help.

The time is right, and the cause is just. Together, we CAN – and we MUST -save the NRA.

I have devoted much of my life to the NRA, competitive shooting, and to the defense of the Second Amendment and the individual citizen’s Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

I am seeking to return to the seat I once held on the Board because I have the education, training and years of corporate experience, both inside NRA and in the private sector, that our new “NRA 2.0” will definitely need to fully reform, repair and recover.

To fully recover, our NRA will need highly qualified and proven leaders with both knowledge and experience who can help “the new blood” on the Board understand and appreciate what our NRA has been, can be, and should be once again – America’s leader in the fight for individual freedom.

I encourage you to explore this website, check out my record, see who I am, and what I have accomplished. You will find that I have the broad base of experience the NRA so desperately needs for a better and brighter future.

Now is not the time for steep up-hill learning curves and on-the-job training. Now is the time for experienced leadership with a clear view of the future, a firm set of goals and objectives, and the will and skill to fight for what is right for the NRA, The Members, and our nation.

My “platform” is based upon what I call “The Seven R’s” –

Reform, Recover, Repair, Revive, Replace, Rebuild and Restore.

I believe that all of these things can happen, and must happen, if our beloved NRA is to survive, recover, grow, and prosper.

Our members need and deserve a strong and effective NRA - and so does our great nation. America needs a strong and effective NRA!

The NRA was once a political powerhouse, a legal juggernaut in the courts, and a source of pride for every NRA member – it can be so again – and it MUST be so again.

American Freedom is under attack and only the NRA can repulse that attack – we have done it before and together we can do it again!

          But I need your help, and I need your vote.

Here is my Platform. These are my goals and objectives.

MY PLATFORM FOR NRA’S FUTURE SUCCESS:

REFORM - RECOVER - REPAIR - REVIVE - REPLACE - REBUILD

                                           and

                                      RESTORE
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Reform – Reform, modernize and streamline NRA’s business model and business operations with transparency and integrity. Strengthen the Bylaws to clarify the Board’s control and authority.

Recover – Recover financially, organizationally, legally & politically from the damage inflicted upon NRA over the past 10 years. Recover the money owed to NRA by former executives, the State of New York, and others.

Repair – Repair the damage done to NRA’s image and relationship with its members, our clubs, our donors,

Replace –Replace the employees lost and the programs abandoned over the past 10 years.

Rebuild – Rebuild NRA-ILA, Membership, and General Operations, including Competitions, Education & Training, and our network of NRA grassroots clubs and State Associations.

Restore – Restore NRA’s position as America’s leader in Competitions, Education, and Training with transparency and integrity, and NRA’s position of leadership in Second Amendment Advocacy in Congress, State Legislatures, and in the Courts.