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Showing Original Post only (View all)Despite Widespread Calls For Him to Go, the NRA is Stuck With Nugent [View all]
(The Progressive) The 1970s-era rock star and longtime National Rifle Association board director Ted Nugent lit a firestorm last week when he made a series of anti-Semitic posts on his Facebook page. Nugent accused prominent Jewish Americans of promoting gun control as part of a plot to disarm citizens and impose Nazi-like tyranny across the United States.
In response to criticism of his posts Nugent wrote, what sort of racist prejudiced POS could possibly not know that Jews for gun control are nazis in disguise?
Nugent has sat on the NRA board for more than twenty years. Hes also very popular among the organizations leaders and members alike. Now, however, there is a movement from both outside and within the NRA demanding that Nugent finally be ousted.
But what casual observers of the gun lobby fail to realize is that the NRAs own bylawswithheld from the public, but obtained by The Progressivemake removing Nugent all but impossible anytime before 2017, and doubtful even after that. As I previously reported in Mother Jones, the National Rifle Associations governing board of directors are elected through a tightly controlled nominating process, one that even former NRA directors have compared to a Soviet-style Politburo. ................(more)
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