NRA Board Nominations Due April 27th

[Guest David Waldrip]

All:

If you are a life member of the NRA or have paid yearly dues for at least five consecutive years, you are eligible to vote on nominations to the NRA Board of Directors.

The ballot should be in the March edition of the NRA magazine you chose to receive.

Please note that the 34 nominees consist of 31 nominated by the Nominating Committee and 3 who were nominated by a petition of the membership. In other words, one can actually go follow the process, get 250 NRA members to sign your petition, and get one's name on the ballot.

Also, please note the ballots must be received in McLean, VA by one week from today, April 27th.

I give you all of this as a friendly reminder and small effort to help build a better organization.

And, I am also giving a poke in the ribs to the organizations that want your memberships and your money, but won't answer the question about how they handle their board of directors elections (if they have them).

Rant off. Thanks for your time.

-David

[Guest Len]

David:

Don't I recall hearing that one of the nominees is from Tennessee and is a solid supporter of Friends of NRA?

[Guest David Waldrip]

Len:

Yes, that would be Inspector Bill Allen of the Shelby County Sheriff's Department.

He has also been heavily involved in police pistol competitions.

David

[Guest David Waldrip]

All:

While at the NRA Annual Meeting last weekend, it was announced that Inspector Allen did receive enough votes to secure NRA Board membership and is now a member of the Board.

Personally, I'm ecstatic that we finally have a Tennessean on the Board.

David

[Tim Nunan]

It would be nice if the NRA board would implement a procedure to have a representative from each state; that would still leave 25 directors "at large".