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Cattledog

(6,338 posts)
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 11:49 AM Mar 2019

NRA's Wayne LaPierre warns that group may be "shut down forever" thanks to Democrats.



National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre issued a stark warning that the group may be forced to shut down due to financial woes in a fundraising letter to supporters.

LaPierre wrote in a four-page letter that the group may be forced to shutter “very soon,” The Daily Beast reported. The NRA chief blamed the financial woes on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who last year directed state regulators to "urge insurance companies, New York State-chartered banks, and other financial services companies licensed in New York to review any relationships they may have with the National Rifle Association."

LaPierre wrote that Cuomo’s “tactics are already working.”

“Right now we’re facing an attack that’s unprecedented not just in the history of the NRA, but in the entire history of our country. And if this attack succeeds, NRA will be forced to shut down forever,” LaPierre wrote.

“And let me be clear,” he added. “Cuomo’s tactics are already working. One by one, more and more banks and insurance companies across the country are knuckling under to Cuomo’s threat — and telling NRA they won’t do business with us — because they don’t want to be targeted and crushed by Cuomo’s strong-arm tactics and the vast power of thousands of New York bureaucrats.”

https://www.salon.com/2019/03/29/nras-wayne-lapierre-warns-that-group-may-be-shut-down-forever-thanks-to-democrats/
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NRA's Wayne LaPierre warns that group may be "shut down forever" thanks to Democrats. (Original Post) Cattledog Mar 2019 OP
You're welcome !! Any time !! C_U_L8R Mar 2019 #1
Best news of the day Zoonart Mar 2019 #2
thoughts and prayers, you jerk curlyred Mar 2019 #3
"Tots and Pears," Mr. LaPeeError! lastlib Mar 2019 #35
Imma write a special message on my jacket for him. (n/t) forgotmylogin Mar 2019 #38
Badda bing, badda bing bang Leghorn21 Mar 2019 #4
Hope Grinda kept a copy of the tapes he turned over to the FBI n/t aggiesal Mar 2019 #17
I pray for the end katmondoo Mar 2019 #5
Kickin' with gusto! Faux pas Mar 2019 #6
And if you believe that ...... Irishxs Mar 2019 #7
I'm with you Irishxs leftieNanner Mar 2019 #10
👍👍 Irishxs Mar 2019 #62
+1 nitpicker Mar 2019 #68
Exactly. Reminds me of Oral Roberts' "God will call me home if you don't give more money" gimmick. Midnight Writer Mar 2019 #39
👍👍👍 Irishxs Mar 2019 #63
Fervently Hope It Happens colsohlibgal Mar 2019 #8
You realize that there's 2 NRAs right? discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2019 #69
I'm to go fill the biggest, greatest, deepest Great Lake ever with thoughts and prayers for them. The Genealogist Mar 2019 #9
Someone needs to call them a cstanleytech Mar 2019 #11
Has anyone looked into Russian influence CCExile Mar 2019 #12
Total bullshit. It's a Rope-A-Dope ploy for money. EVERYTHING the right wing does is taken from the BamaRefugee Mar 2019 #13
+1. yonder Mar 2019 #22
Dammit. My gif isn't showing up. Are gifs not allowed on DU, or is there a workaround? BamaRefugee Mar 2019 #30
OR...do they know they're going down bc of distributing russian pay-off money, Chin music Mar 2019 #14
That'll be a party time for all time ! nt eppur_se_muova Mar 2019 #15
well, NRA can ask putin to bail them out yaesu Mar 2019 #16
+ 1 Botany Mar 2019 #67
WOW... go Dems!!!! Thekaspervote Mar 2019 #18
In other words, send more money, suckers. I'll believe the NRA is dead when a stake is driven thru Hekate Mar 2019 #19
Best news of the day patphil Mar 2019 #20
Cry me a river. Lonestarblue Mar 2019 #21
oh how cool! Tiggeroshii Mar 2019 #23
This is just another scare tactic statement to NRA members... mantis49 Mar 2019 #24
They can't raise money on Hillary or Ted Kenned doc03 Mar 2019 #60
I hear the Republican party sarisataka Mar 2019 #25
I hope so RandySF Mar 2019 #26
Great. warmfeet Mar 2019 #27
Is that a promise? Ohiogal Mar 2019 #28
NRA is very aggresive in fundraising. Irks a lot of their own members. keithbvadu2 Mar 2019 #29
I stopped my the NRA booth at a gun show last fall. Right after the story about their free coffee brewens Mar 2019 #31
The Evil Democrats wouldn't be the problem jmowreader Mar 2019 #32
We can hope. Bad vibes and thoughts coming your way, murderers. n/t sarge43 Mar 2019 #33
He says that like it's a bad thing... Wounded Bear Mar 2019 #34
Lying sacks of shit. Right after they said this the last time didn't make a multi-million dollar ad Pepsidog Mar 2019 #36
Excellent. I say bury it. D23MIURG23 Mar 2019 #37
Hooah! weissmam Mar 2019 #40
it's the carpet store that's going out of business every weekend EveHammond13 Mar 2019 #41
and - When have mattresses never been on sale? keithbvadu2 Mar 2019 #64
YES! KEEP UP THE PRESSURE DEMS! AlexSFCA Mar 2019 #42
That statement alone will bring in a few million in donations. He knows his audience. Squinch Mar 2019 #43
Good! LW1977 Mar 2019 #44
Where is my tiniest violin? Ferrets are Cool Mar 2019 #45
Aw shucks, you don't have to thank us The Blue Flower Mar 2019 #46
There are plenty of gullible gun whack jobs out there that will forego paying their rent... llmart Mar 2019 #47
I love it when they (NRA - LaPierre) blames democrats too. We do own guns too. SWBTATTReg Mar 2019 #48
The irony is that in the 60's, the NRA was about hunter safety mostly Evolve Dammit Mar 2019 #49
Absolutely. As a former Eagle Scout Leader and former competitor in shooting, I get disgusted ... SWBTATTReg Mar 2019 #50
That started with Wayne f__g Lapiere doc03 Mar 2019 #61
Boo fucking hoo. mountain grammy Mar 2019 #51
WTF? BlueIdaho Mar 2019 #52
The thought brought a smile to my face but I don't believe his whining for... Guilded Lilly Mar 2019 #53
Browse the big store magazine racks OxQQme Mar 2019 #54
OH noes! what a sad sad thing sweetroxie Mar 2019 #55
He should ask Russia for the money again Renew Deal Mar 2019 #56
NRA: Newtown was a fake with crisis actors. Buzz cook Mar 2019 #57
They Keep Saying That Me. Mar 2019 #58
Thoughts and prayers Wayne. nt doc03 Mar 2019 #59
Spoil the fundraising? keithbvadu2 Mar 2019 #65
fundraising incentives keithbvadu2 Mar 2019 #66
Good, one less home grown terrorist organization to deal with!!! gopiscrap Mar 2019 #70
And how would you feel ... Straw Man Apr 2019 #71

lastlib

(24,918 posts)
35. "Tots and Pears," Mr. LaPeeError!
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 01:51 PM
Mar 2019

I'm sure all those dead children at Sandy Hook, Parkland, etc., will look down and cry crocodile tears when you and your evil organization shuffle off this mortal coil. Don't let the door hit ya.......

Leghorn21

(13,738 posts)
4. Badda bing, badda bing bang
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 11:56 AM
Mar 2019
BOOM!!!

Adios LOSERS, send Torshin our







May 2018:

Spanish prosecutor Jose Grinda says Don Jr should be "very concerned" about wiretaps of his meetings w Putin crony Alexander Torshin (also NRA's contact in Russia). Grinda turned those wiretaps over to FBI.

http://www.newsweek.com/trump-jr-should-be-concerned-over-putin-allys-wiretapped-calls-spanish-945753


Jose Grinda

leftieNanner

(15,698 posts)
10. I'm with you Irishxs
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 12:58 PM
Mar 2019

I think this is just a way for Wayne to drag some more $$ out of his slavering cult.

They're not going out of business because they get so much money from the gun MANUFACTURERS. When they go out of business, then we can talk.

colsohlibgal

(5,276 posts)
8. Fervently Hope It Happens
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 12:42 PM
Mar 2019

The NRA used to be all about rifles for hunters, not much more. Now it advocates for letting anyone load up on deadly firearms. We all know the periodic carnage this has caused.

They have lots of blood on their hands and no shame about that at all.

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,578 posts)
69. You realize that there's 2 NRAs right?
Sun Mar 31, 2019, 08:28 AM
Mar 2019

The National Rifle Association and its embarrassing lobbyist step brother the NRA-Institute for Legislative Action.
You have to wonder about anything named institute that would hire Nugent.

The Genealogist

(4,736 posts)
9. I'm to go fill the biggest, greatest, deepest Great Lake ever with thoughts and prayers for them.
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 12:43 PM
Mar 2019

I doubt greatly that they are going to be shuttered. They are exploiting their negative press to wring more moolah out of the gun nutters.

CCExile

(524 posts)
12. Has anyone looked into Russian influence
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 01:02 PM
Mar 2019

regarding the Boy Scouts? Seems like they were once a organization for good, as well.

BamaRefugee

(3,706 posts)
13. Total bullshit. It's a Rope-A-Dope ploy for money. EVERYTHING the right wing does is taken from the
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 01:03 PM
Mar 2019

antics of "professional" wrestling, the feuds, the ever changing roles of bad guys becoming good guys and vice versa, tossing the referee through the air and out of the ring (exactly how Republicans now treat Democratic lawmakers), on and on and on.

ALL OF TRUMP's actions stem from this too, never forget scenes like the gif here, and don't forget that tRumps' BASE actually thinks rasslin' is FOR REAL! This little vignette shows how his base believes he treats dictators around the world, when in actuality it should be a scene from "CALIGUA".



Chin music

(24,300 posts)
14. OR...do they know they're going down bc of distributing russian pay-off money,
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 01:03 PM
Mar 2019

and want to get the gun nuts anger to be shifted elsewhere for their own folly? Hard to say. Especially when they speak in all lies, all the time.

yaesu

(8,236 posts)
16. well, NRA can ask putin to bail them out
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 01:06 PM
Mar 2019

but really, this is just a ploy to sucker more gun nuts to send money.

Botany

(72,490 posts)
67. + 1
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 05:39 PM
Mar 2019

Funny after the Russian money dried up the NRA has gone almost all the way under. Putin was using the NRA to stoke divisions in America.

Hekate

(94,691 posts)
19. In other words, send more money, suckers. I'll believe the NRA is dead when a stake is driven thru
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 01:15 PM
Mar 2019

...its cold dead heart and I read the news in a thoughtful series in the Los Angeles Times.

patphil

(6,960 posts)
20. Best news of the day
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 01:17 PM
Mar 2019

I wonder how the Russians will launder money into the Republican campaigns if the NRA is gone?

Patrick Phillips

Lonestarblue

(11,835 posts)
21. Cry me a river.
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 01:17 PM
Mar 2019

Fund-raising ploy to get the gun-loving anti-government groups to pony up more money. I’ll believe this story only when they’re gone.

 

Tiggeroshii

(11,088 posts)
23. oh how cool!
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 01:20 PM
Mar 2019

could it be today? evil piece of shit organizations that advocate for murder and profit off it, should not exist.

mantis49

(844 posts)
24. This is just another scare tactic statement to NRA members...
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 01:21 PM
Mar 2019

to gin up support and donations in their frequent mailings.

After the 2016 elections, they were saying the UN was going to take away their guns!!!

sarisataka

(21,001 posts)
25. I hear the Republican party
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 01:26 PM
Mar 2019

Is done for too. The crushing defeat in the 2016 election will be the nail in their coffin...


keithbvadu2

(40,133 posts)
29. NRA is very aggresive in fundraising. Irks a lot of their own members.
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 01:34 PM
Mar 2019

NRA Cuts More Operating Costs-and Lavishes Executives With Perks

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/nra-money-executive-perks-pay-cutting-costs/


The NRA Is Being Sued Over Its Relentless Telemarketing Campaigns

When begging for bucks goes wrong.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-nra-is-being-sued-over-its-relentless-telemarketing-campaigns

The NRA has employed InfoCision since 2012 under a contract that grants the fundraising company up to 65 percent of the funds it raises on the NRA’s behalf. InfoCision gets between $2.50 and $3.75 for each “completed call” to potential NRA donors, and up to half of the regular payments for new or renewed NRA memberships.
-------------------------------------------

If those high fees are unavoidable, they can also have the effect of obscuring, for a potential donor, exactly where his or her money is going. Many of those speaking with an InfoCision fundraiser, after all, will not know that a majority of their donation is not going to the charity that fundraiser is representing.

================================
NRA solicitations
comment from a blog - (DU I think)

I had a coworker who was a big time gun owner who kept a gun in every room in the house just in case someone broke in (lots of problems with that idea, may be worth a blog article someday, but that’s what he did). He even went so far as to start buying more guns for each room after a school shooting, like home invasion and mass shooting are correlated somehow. He had let his NRA membership lapse and refused to renew it because he got tired of nonstop requests for donations. To him all the membership did was give the NRA to badger him for more money with phone calls, and direct mailings. If the
organization is as strapped for cash as it appears, those solicitations may have gone way over the top and people are simply tired of being badgered for money and are choosing to let their membership to lapse.

 

brewens

(15,359 posts)
31. I stopped my the NRA booth at a gun show last fall. Right after the story about their free coffee
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 01:37 PM
Mar 2019

being cut off at the HQ came out. I bullshitted with them for a minute and said, "I bet you guys could really use some coffee, I'll buy." I thought it would piss them off and be funny, but it went right over their heads! Doh! Cost me four bucks I think! I should know better. They would never get a subtle dig like that.

jmowreader

(51,466 posts)
32. The Evil Democrats wouldn't be the problem
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 01:38 PM
Mar 2019

That there are gun-rights groups that didn’t launder money for the Russians in 2016 is the problem.

Pepsidog

(6,311 posts)
36. Lying sacks of shit. Right after they said this the last time didn't make a multi-million dollar ad
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 02:00 PM
Mar 2019

buy.

D23MIURG23

(3,085 posts)
37. Excellent. I say bury it.
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 02:01 PM
Mar 2019

As a gun owner, I would love it if there were a gun rights group that wasn't a mouthpiece for nutjobs and a covert vehicle for Russian interests.

AlexSFCA

(6,270 posts)
42. YES! KEEP UP THE PRESSURE DEMS!
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 02:17 PM
Mar 2019

It’s working. NRA has become a sponsor of domestic terrorism and cannot continue.

llmart

(16,331 posts)
47. There are plenty of gullible gun whack jobs out there that will forego paying their rent...
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 02:29 PM
Mar 2019

and send their money. This is just a dog whistle to them from this asshole to send him more money.

SWBTATTReg

(24,107 posts)
48. I love it when they (NRA - LaPierre) blames democrats too. We do own guns too.
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 02:31 PM
Mar 2019

You hypocrite and fear monger (LaPierre).

Gun safety is for all people, regardless of party affiliation or the like. It's remarks like this that cause people to stop supporting creeps like you, who has to bring a political bias into the picture when it has nothing to do w/ it. Why don't you call your Russian buddies for money?

Evolve Dammit

(18,635 posts)
49. The irony is that in the 60's, the NRA was about hunter safety mostly
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 02:40 PM
Mar 2019

They got totally co-opted into a very aggressive, they're coming for yer guns organization. Rabid replaced rational.

SWBTATTReg

(24,107 posts)
50. Absolutely. As a former Eagle Scout Leader and former competitor in shooting, I get disgusted ...
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 02:43 PM
Mar 2019

by this failure of the NRA to go back to basics and get out of the 'coming for your guns' rhetoric, which has never, ever, been true.

OxQQme

(2,550 posts)
54. Browse the big store magazine racks
Sat Mar 30, 2019, 02:57 PM
Mar 2019

To find dozens of mags that glorify rapid fire, devastating, weaponry over 'the Outdoor LIfe/Field and Stream' type.
I understand the hunting/fishing mags 'food on the table' message.

The collective weapon/ammo manufacturers will just put another mouthpiece in place to spout fear if the NRA 'folds'.

Gov. Cuomo could have gone further to also reviewing the banks relations with the above mentioned manufacturing collective.

And ban all foreign made weapons.

The fact that the first tool used by the protohumans is a weapon to commit murder, is only one of the challenging evolutionary and philosophic questions posed by the film 2001:A Space Odyssey. The tool's link to the present day is made by the famous graphic match from the bone/tool flying in slow motion into the air, to a weapon orbiting the earth.



Straw Man

(6,774 posts)
71. And how would you feel ...
Mon Apr 1, 2019, 02:19 PM
Apr 2019

Last edited Mon Apr 1, 2019, 11:21 PM - Edit history (1)

... if a right-wing governor took state contracts away from any company that did business with Planned Parenthood? This is a governor using the power of his office to crush an advocacy group whose cause he disagrees with. This is executive overreach at its extra-judicial, extra-legislative worst.

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