Editors’ Note: Lt. Col. Allen West was seeing a lot online grief about the lack of new blood making it onto the latest NRA Board of Directors and had this to say.
Opinion by Lt. Col. Allen West
USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Okay, since there are stupid people online who make assertions about something they know nothing about, let me enlighten you.
The new slate of officers [candidates] for the National Rifle Association was decided upon, and nominated by, the NRA Board of Directors nominating committee.
There were no nominations from the floor when these names were put forth. With no opposing nominations, the vote was done by acclamation, not roll call vote. This action is similar to passing a piece of legislation by voice vote.
Now, for you chuckleheads, I did not vote for our Board to go into Executive session. That was reported.
Here is the deal: there were some 2 million ballots issued [to voting eligible NRA members] for this past 2019 Board election, for which I was a candidate.
There were less than 150K ballots returned.
[of that number returned some were ineligible or not counted, for assorted reasons, including being blank, having made more than 27 choices, received past the voting deadline, being ballots from wrong years, or not authenticated by the member properly]
So, all of you brave people complaining about me via the invisible mechanism of social media, did you vote? Did you participate? Or, are you just a couch warrior that ain’t got the balls to say something to my face?
Now, please, have a nice evening, and know that God loves you. I can choose whether I do or not.
Allen West is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army. Mr. West is a Senior Fellow at the Media Research Center to support its mission to expose and neutralize liberal media bias and is author of the book from Brown Books Publishing Group, “Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death” available on Amazon.
I’ve been following the issue of high salaries and indirect enrichment of NRA officers for about two decades. That’s why I limited my NRA membership to annual terms, since I wanted to be able to leave when things got too bad. That time has come and I’m not renewing. After the NRA meeting debacle, I renewed my expired membership in GOA and sent them a fat donation to boot. I hope the NRA board can straighten things out and get rid of the self-serving good ol boys who have wasted our contributions for a long time. When that happens, I… Read more »
I am 78 years old, been a NRA member off an on over the years…..forever there slogan has been,”send money, to protect your gun rights”……as we witness those we elected to WDC, to protect our constitutional rights over the decades incrementally destroyed or altering them. “Hate Speech”, generated law, has taken away the ability of your First Amendment right of speaking your opinion….. Second Amendment, right to Bear Arms……I fear that the enemy has placed its Trojan Horses within the NRA leadership, they will under mine an eventually sell out to our tyrants in WDC that wish to transform America..… Read more »
Give ’em hell, Colonel!!
I did not vote this year because I misplaced my ballot, then had pneumonia and a bad case of the flu. So I guess I should not say anything. But I have voted in every board selection since I have been getting them for the last 15 years or more. I live in Oklahoma so I hardly ever select a Yankee or someone from the west coast or New Mexico. So I get maybe 50% of my selections on the Board. But I still like to vote for/select the folks whose bios dovetail with my preferences. We should all vote/select… Read more »
For the record, my wife and I vote every year. We read every bio and work very hard to choose those whom we consider to be the best candidates. Col. West was on both of our lists.
I voted for Colonel West for NRA Director. Hopefully, someday I can vote for him as POTUS.
Allen, what exactly are you griping about? Point by point, what are you accused of, what are your complaints about and what are your responses to whatever it is that is bothering you here? Your message is without context or meaning, other than that you are willing to call people names because they disagree with you, or you disagree with them.
Wayne is now begging for money saying it is needed to save the NRA and tp protect gun rights? Just who owns this down fall and failure Wayne??? Suppose you agree with Mr. West, it’s the members fault.
I think not!
Sorry, Colonel, but I have to call BS on each and every NRA Board Member who are now tap dancing that of course _I_ didn’t support the officers but the unanimous vote was just automatic because there was no other choice. This is exactly the kind of non-feasance that becomes the collective malfeasance of the Board leading to the NRA’s legal problems with NY regulators. If the board members were doing their jobs, the organization wouldn’t be in the mess that it is in today. And if all the board members who claim to support the right to keep and… Read more »
Colonel West has hit the nail on the head so to speak. There are 271,600 CHLs in Oregon. If each of them would email and call (just once) the anti gun legislators who are in session now, do you think we would still be fighting for our rights? As a matter of fact he has pointed out the problem in America, people don’t want to be involved.