NRA Suspends Chris Cox
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 5 months ago
The National Rifle Association suspended its top lobbyist and one of his deputies, adding further turmoil to the gun-rights group’s leadership ranks as it wages legal battles on multiple fronts and prepares for a bruising 2020 election cycle.
The NRA confirmed Thursday that it had suspended Chris Cox, the lobbying chief who was viewed widely as a future leader of the group, and his deputy chief of staff, Scott Christman.
David Codrea has this bit of wisdom. “Never f*** with a guy who got to where he is by eliminating his superior.”
The link he supplies has this interesting (and to me, previously unknown) bit of history.
The core issue was how the NRA’s PR company, Ackerman McQueen, was drawing millions of dollars a year from the organization and improperly controlling NRA staff. The Board directed Wayne to sever ties with Ack-Mac, and Wayne promised to do so, then claimed to have done so, by bringing in a new PR company called Mercury Group. The “new” PR company turned out to be a wholly owned subsidiary of Ack-Mac, with all of the same players in all of the same positions, still bleeding the association of the same millions of dollars.
So it would appear that NRA politics is as dirty and ugly as American politics, and that chasing the money is the name of the game.
It’s too bad for Chris, really. I know very little of him, and were I to know more, I might hate him as much as I do Wayne LaPierre.
But I maintain that Wayne is trash. He’s an unmitigated scoundrel, a ne’er-do-well, a rapscallion, a wretch. As long as he is at the helm of the NRA, I won’t be connected with it again.
On June 20, 2019 at 11:26 pm, BRVTVS said:
It’s hard to have sympathy for the man who signed the statement giving Trump cover for the bump stock ban. https://home.nra.org/joint-statement/
On June 21, 2019 at 9:17 am, Fred said:
I’ve met Mr. ‘Call me Chris’ Cox. I’m pretty sure this right here sums up the entire NRA progrom.
I asked Mr. ‘Call me Chris’ Cox, one on one, ‘when is the NRA going to demand the immediate and complete repeal of all gun laws in the country?’ His answer; ‘As soon as we get enough Republicans elected’.
And there you have it. The NRA Hustle.
He said this last year when the Republicans controlled both chambers, the SCOTUS, and the white house. Mr. ‘Call me Chris’ Cox is a smooth politician flowing with outward glowyness and oozing loving kindness toward everybody that he meets. He’s as shiny as the devil himself. He had all of the right answers to every question asked that day, and every single last answer was, demonstrably, a lie from the pit of hell.
It was after this meeting that it occurred to me that the NRA might be an operation of the CIA or DoD to disarm us all, not that it started this way.
The NRA Hustle is being exposed, oh, and, did Wayne shred the documents yet?
On June 21, 2019 at 9:43 am, Fred said:
The NRA Hustle in action. Mr. ‘Call me Chris’ Cox calls for Federally funded national Red Flag weapons seizures…to keep you safe and ‘protect the Second Amendment’ and he claims that this is what all 5 million members want, making the NRA organization traitors one and all to the Republic. Weirdly, I don’t really hear any objection on the web or in person from NRA members.
https://youtu.be/7sNiklO506A
On June 21, 2019 at 9:53 am, June J said:
LaPierre, Cox, all of the Presidents/VP’s and board members are so far out of touch with the members that the organization will probably cease to exist in its current form. Hopefully that will happen soon.
Anyone who is still sending money to the NRA are fools…it’s just going to all of the attorneys.
On June 21, 2019 at 10:32 am, Drake said:
This is the crap a corporate Board is supposed to control. Boards hire and fire business managers all the time – that’s there job – there is no such thing as a “palace coup”. The Board needs to clean house or else.
On June 21, 2019 at 12:07 pm, billrla said:
Suspends? By what, his suspenders? His purse-strings? His thumbs?
The use of the word “suspends” in a press release from an organization under-fire usually means “Um, we gotta do something, right? So, howse about we suspend someone for something and leave it at that.”
On June 21, 2019 at 1:15 pm, June J said:
Hickok45 announces they will no longer promote the NRA:
https://youtu.be/NDMhgGYDTWA
On June 21, 2019 at 7:48 pm, Ned2 said:
NRA = No Real Accomplishments.