The National Rifle Association is an extremely wealthy political organization, taking in $228 million annually in revenue, according to its 2010 federal tax return. Executive VP Wayne LaPierre earned $960,000 in 2010, while the NRA executive director of general operations, Kayne B. Robinson, pocketed more than $1 million.
I'm sure they wouldn't be in these positions if they weren't genuine gun lovers (and, yes, "lovers" rather than the dispassionate "owners" is the right word). But I'm also sure they very much like being part of an organization with the cash resources to influence national elections, terrify lawmakers and its top-ranked people investment banker salaries.
Don't you think the dean of Florida gun rights lobbyists, Marion Hammer, occasionally scrambles to justify the $300,000 she received in 2010 from the NRA and the Unified Sportsmen of Florida? Take a guess.
Absolutely, said Josh Horwitz, executive director of the national Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (the total budget of which, by the way, is less than LaPierre's annual salary).
"Absolutely, said Josh Horwitz, executive director of the national Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (the total budget of which, by the way, is less than LaPierre's annual salary)."
ReplyDeleteBWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA
I love it!
Your point? This differs from the salaries of similar organizations how? Perhaps, if Horwitz were as successful as La Pierre, he'd earn the same. This looks like jealousy.
ReplyDeleteGuys with million dollar salaries will do or say anything to keep the dough rollin' in. That's my point.
ReplyDeleteBut you seem to think that there's something unique here to the NRA. There isn't. Lots of non-profit organizations have high salary executives. In the case of the NRA, the money is worth it, since said association does much good for this country.
Delete"But you seem to think that there's something unique here to the NRA. There isn't. Lots of non-profit organizations have high salary executives. In the case of the NRA, the money is worth it, since said association does much good for this country."
ReplyDeleteYou have the proof of your assertion, "Lots of non-profit organizations have high salary executives.",
"In the case of the NRA, the money is worth it, since said association does much good for this country."
Another baldfaced lie, unless of course you have some, like, proof. See, Greggie, that's what makes you a LIAR, that telling LIES thing.
If you think I'm out of line, please run and tell mikeb302000 that I'm being a meanie.
Do we have to discuss the salaries of executives in other charities and advocacy groups? If you want to go through that, we can, but you already have one example in the comment below.
DeleteAs for my statement that the NRA does much good for this country, are you claiming that said organization is ineffective? That it accomplishes nothing? I assert that what it does is good. That's an opinion, a statement of values. You hold a different opinion. Neither can be called a lie, unless one of us is falsely reporting what we actually believe. Please, look up what a lie is.
But I don't have to "run and tell" Mikeb. I've communicated with him twice about my comments being blocked, but I state openly what my position is.
Paul Helmke pulled in a salary of $250,000 from a budget of ~4 million.
ReplyDeleteWayne pulls down 1 million from a budget of 250 million.
Your argument demolishes itself.
"Do we have to discuss the salaries of executives in other charities and advocacy groups? If you want to go through that, we can, but you already have one example in the comment below."
ReplyDeleteYour asserion, your duty to defend it.
"As for my statement that the NRA does much good for this country, are you claiming that said organization is ineffective? That it accomplishes nothing?"
Oh, my goodness, no; I never said anything remotely like that. It accomplishes, brilliantly, it's mission to bait twits like you into spending billions of dollars to arm yourselves against an imagined menace. I'd say that they're incredibly effective; mendacious, hypocritical, cynical and manipulative for a certainty but, "inefficient", not a bit.
"I assert that what it does is good. That's an opinion, a statement of values. You hold a different opinion. Neither can be called a lie, unless one of us is falsely reporting what we actually believe."
You're certainly entitled to your opinion. What you're not entitled to (although you and your gunzloonzpals think, according to the murkiness of 2nd Amendment court rulings think that you are) is to add another element of danger to what is already a fairly hazardous world. Please furnish the statistics from the CDC or FBI that give some credence, any credence to your assertion. I'm assuming that when you use the word, "good" in the way you did, there, that you mean it actually has a beneficial impact regarding violence against person. Or do you just mean that they teach people like Zimmerman to put "13+1 onboard"?
"But I don't have to "run and tell" Mikeb. I've communicated with him twice about my comments being blocked, but I state openly what my position is."
Oh, Greggie, you are just too darned cute when your chin quivers like that with self-righteous indignation. Not twice but dozenz if not hundreds of time over the last year or so, have you whined to mikeb302000 about being insulted and cursed at. Of course none of that would be happening if you didn't make idiotic, indefensible assertions and repeat the LIES or make up LIES of your own about the aims of the posters here. That's just sortatheway the world works, son.
"Please, look up what a lie is."
I can simply check the archives for any of hundreds of your comments, bub, but all I have to do is wait a bit and you'll tell another one.
"Anonymous @ Mar 29, 2012 06:07 PM sez:
"Paul Helmke pulled in a salary of $250,000 from a budget of ~4 million.
You'll furnish a citation for this?
"Wayne pulls down 1 million from a budget of 250 million.
Your argument demolishes itself."
and he earns every dime of it the NRAfashioned way, fearmongering and lying through his teeth
I claim that every statement that I've made is made honestly. I've told the truth about my positions, and I've reported such facts as I know. I'm not perfect, so some statements may have been in error, but everything was made with the understanding that it was honest.
ReplyDeleteBut I'm still waiting, Democommie. You can get rid of me by showing that I've lied. It's simple. Find one comment that I made while knowing it to be false. One statement of fact that I knew not to be true. One assertion of values that I don't actually hold. One claim that I don't believe. I'm calling your bullshit. It's time to show us what you've got or fold.