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NRA Chief Sought Help of Group’s Ad Agency in Trying to Buy $5 Million Mansion

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NRA Chief Sought Help of Group's Ad Agency in Trying to Buy $5 Million Mansion

NRA Chief Sought Help of Group’s Ad Agency in Trying to Buy $5 Million Mansion - WSJ

Wayne LaPierre’s dealings with firm being probed by New York attorney general

National Rifle Association Chief Executive Wayne LaPierre was in discussions to have the group’s then-outside advertising agency help him buy a Dallas mansion last year for more than $5 million, but the deal fell through, according to people familiar with the matter.

The aborted house deal and conflicting explanations for why it fell apart are coming to the fore as the New York attorney general’s office is probing the NRA, including Mr. LaPierre’s dealings with the ad agency. The ad agency, Ackerman McQueen, recently turned over information about the contemplated house purchase to the AG’s office, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Wayne LaPierre and his wife Susan wanted to purchase this mansion after the Parkland High School massacre because he feared for his life. He wanted the gun lobby to buy him a $6 million dollar house in Texas. The couple wanted to buy a high-rise in Dallas with enhanced security features, but they wanted a social membership at the exclusive golf club at the mansion location. Susan was concerned about the small closet space in the men's closet of the master bedroom.

Keep in mind, the NRA is a non-profit organization, which means the NRA enjoys a tax-free status. One of the regulations for any non-profit organization is that it cannot primarily benefit specific individuals through excessively compensating.

How much income tax did you pay the government last year? The NRA paid 0.
 
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Seeing as the organization is actually tax-exempt. That really doesn't surprise me.

Don't care about what is going on with this whole mansion purchase, because it's not like he'd be getting all of this for free. So it's really just nothing to worry about in the long run.
 
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If the house would be used for future Presidents of the NRA then it very well could buy the home.
but i am sure that you are happy that people that help defend our freedoms are in legal trouble
simply because you don't like them and find them icky.
 
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ludin said:
If the house would be used for future Presidents of the NRA then it very well could buy the home.
but i am sure that you are happy that people that help defend our freedoms are in legal trouble
simply because you don't like them and find them icky.
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Excessive compensation in the form of perks like living in a mansion is still excessive...
 
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pamak said:
Excessive compensation in the form of perks like living in a mansion is still excessive...
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Mind your own business.
 
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jmotivator said:
Mind your own business.
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In other words

Stop making the head of the NRA look like a crook stealing money from donations to line his own pocket

Question, was the intern whose rent he had the NRA pay for a woman or a man?
 
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Lord Tammerlain said:
In other words

Stop making the head of the NRA look like a crook stealing money from donations to line his own pocket

Question, was the intern whose rent he had the NRA pay for a woman or a man?
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"Stealing"? :roll:

Also, show me where personnel changes were made due to this potential transaction.

Here is a curve ball for you: The NRA hires everyone it needs and no more, so if anything, that money would mean one less commercial. You still pissed? :lol:
 
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ludin said:
If the house would be used for future Presidents of the NRA then it very well could buy the home.
but i am sure that you are happy that people that help defend our freedoms are in legal trouble
simply because you don't like them and find them icky.
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Yes, I find it 'icky' that Wayne LaPierre can personally profit from weapons used to kill and totally free from obligation to pay a penny of tax to the U.S. treasury. Yes, I find it 'icky' that the U.S. has just 4% of the world's population of 7.2 billion people but have 42% of all the guns in the world. I find it 'icky' that the U.S. has a population of 329 million which is 4.27% of the population of the entire planet but we house 22% of the world's incarcerated prisoners.

A five year old could do that math. What it rounds out to is this. There are more crimes in the U.S. committed with guns, there are more deaths attributed to guns and there are more mass murders committed with guns than anywhere else in the world. I truly do find those statistics 'icky'.
 
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The NRA doesn't sell guns. they are a 2nd Amendment lobbying group that also teaches gun safety.

Also, as I pointed out above, any compensation to the CEO is money not spent on the organization's objective, so if you disagree with the objective then applaud the waste. Pretty simple.
 
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I do not donate to the NRA so I do not care what they do with donations. If the people who do are fine with its leader stealing their money to provide a luxury lifestyle for him (and pay for his affairs) rather than lobby for gun rights, no skin off of me. I will just point and laugh at the wasted money from the hard working people who made donatios
 
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Clearly you DO care what they do with their donations, so why lie about it?
 
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So you know the NRA is Non profit but then complain that they paid 0 in taxes? Non profits don't pay taxes!
You know they are tax-exempt ! Silly to try a smear with this nonsense.

So the scary house deal did not happen? Again another smear with zero basis. 2 for 2... not good!

The NRA has an elected board of directors so any money spent has to be approved. The board is elected by members who are
5 year or life time members. There are about 5 million paying members. The NRA is a very effective political group. All of it's
members are very involved to protect the 2nd amendment. That is why the New York attorney General is harassing them. They are
doing the same thing to the president, The Trump organization, Trump family members, and Trump associates.
They are trying to quiet the NRA. It won't work.
 
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Who would have thought that the man running the NRA would be unscrupulous? And want to fleece the peons for five times his yearly salary for a home, to be protected. Ha Ha Ha. He needs protection?
Doesn't he own any guns? Or is that not how it works anymore?
 
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That's my point, they are a non-profit organization, ****ing the US government out of tax money while profiting billions of dollars and spending billions of dollars to pay off politicians and to shower their top executives with luxurious mansions, jet planes to scoot them off to private mansions in the Bahamas and pay for $5000 custom made suits.
 
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Planned parenthood is Non-Profit... Are they ****ing the US government out of tax money while profiting billions of dollars and spending billions of dollars to pay off politicians?

I bet your answer is no? Silly thread at best..... Your NRA hate is showing!! :lamo
 
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Again your are severely misstating money facts. The highlighted text is an total absolute lie!
Billions of dollars... Geez........ :naughty
 
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How many live in $5 million dollar mansions or spend $500,000 on private jets to get to their Bahama's mansions?

I do not 'hate' the NRA. I hate that they refuse to make gun ownership safer for the majority of this country's population and pay off politicians essentially hush money not to pass any laws that restrict them from making money even though people are murdered senselessly by terrorists using weapons designed only for warfare.
 
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jmotivator said:
Clearly you DO care what they do with their donations, so why lie about it?
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No I do not.

I find it interesting, I find a wide variety of things interesting but it does not mean I care about them.
 
You should know that the NRA has NRA Political Victory Fund . This is completely separate from NRA membership/NRA museum.


Mission Statement

The NRA Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) is NRA's political action committee. The NRA-PVF ranks political candidates - irrespective of party affiliation - based on voting records, public statements and their responses to an NRA-PVF questionnaire.

NRA relies on a very simple premise: when provided with the facts, the nation's elected officials will recognize that "gun control" schemes are an infringement on the Second Amendment and a proven failure in fighting crime. The importance of this premise lies in the knowledge that, as one U.S. Congressman put it: "The gun lobby is people."
 
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Lord Tammerlain said:
No I do not.

I find it interesting, I find a wide variety of things interesting but it does not mean I care about them.
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.... hmmmmm....

Lord Tammerlain said:
In other words

Stop making the head of the NRA look like a crook stealing money from donations to line his own pocket

Question, was the intern whose rent he had the NRA pay for a woman or a man?
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It really is puzzling how you insist on lying about something so easily proven false. Why do you cry for their payroll if you actually don't care? And, more simply, why are you here? :roll:
 
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jmotivator said:
.... hmmmmm....




It really is puzzling how you insist on lying about something so easily proven false. Why do you cry for their payroll if you actually don't care? And, more simply, why are you here? :roll:
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Because I found it interesting that you told another poster to mind their business and that a head of a major organization is stupid enough to use organization money to pay the rent for a female intern. Of course he will say that he had no sexual relations with that intern, and we will all believe him
 
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Common Sense 1 said:
Again your are severely misstating money facts. The highlighted text is an total absolute lie!
Billions of dollars... Geez........ :naughty
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How long has the NRA been in existence as a nonprofit organization? Don't bother to check, I have already. The NRA has been operating as a nonprofit organization since it was founded in 1871, the group has informed its members about firearm-related legislation since 1934, and it has directly lobbied for and against firearms legislation since 1975. Let's just pick up some statistics from 1975 and on to 2018 starting with the mid-term election of 2018 for illustration purposes.

In the 2018 mid-term election cycle alone, the NRA has contributed to campaigns that favor the NRA and reject any type of regulations on guns. Of those candidates the NRA supported in 2018, the biggest recipient of money received from the NRA was the campaign of Senator Ted Cruz who received $302,092.

The 2018 mid-term election cycle NRA donations were:

Cruz, Ted (R-TX) Senate $309,021
McSally, Martha (R-AZ) House $227,928
Scalise, Steve (R-LA) House $132,831
Nunes, Devin (R-CA) House $95,093
Blackburn, Marsha (R-TN) House $85,168
Heller, Dean (R-NV) Senate $76,713
James, John (R-MI) Senate $75,099
Ryan, Paul (R-WI) House $65,347
Scott, Rick (R-FL) Senate $61,752
Hawley, Josh (R-MO) Senate $59,760

That's a total of $1,188,712.00

Any year of a presidential election, contributions made by the NRA are exponentially higher than a mid-term.

How many election cycles has the U.S. gone through since 1975?

So yes, I've proven my point. The NRA has spent BILLIONS of dollars over the years paying off politicians to vote for bills that favor the NRA or to veto those bills that will affect gun sales.
 
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After spending 30 million to get Trump elected, the cupboard is probably a little scarce.........another poster pointed out the irony of LaPierre feeling threatened; “doesn’t the head of the NRA have any guns?”
 
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If you find it interesting then you care. Thanks for playing.
 
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jmotivator said:
If you find it interesting then you care. Thanks for playing.
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Finding something interesting does not mean I care about it, thanks for playing
 
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