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keithbvadu2

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27. NRA Cuts More Operating Costs-and Lavishes Executives With Perks

Reply to Kingofalldems (Original post)

Sat May 11, 2019, 05:44 PM

May 2019

The NRA used to be for sportsmen, hunters and gun safety.

Now it has become an industry owned shill for the sale of more guns and the enrichment of its leaders.

NRA Cuts More Operating Costs-and Lavishes Executives With Perks

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/nra-money-executive-perks-pay-cutting-costs/

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So NRA's Wayne LaPierre spent 13K for summer intern's apartment?: [View all] Kingofalldems May 2019 OP

Male Or Female Me. May 2019 #1

I hadn't thought of that leftieNanner May 2019 #2

Could Be Very Interesting Me. May 2019 #4

The document refers to a apartment rented in Fairfax VA for a "Megan Allen" Salviati May 2019 #3

Couldn't Read It Me. May 2019 #5

I'm just going off of the snippet we got to see in the tweet. Salviati May 2019 #6

Your Eyes Are Better Than Mine Me. May 2019 #7

13K for 3 months. Kingofalldems May 2019 #9

Apartments in Fairfax generally not cheap.. HipChick May 2019 #14

Gift planning associate? Kingofalldems May 2019 #11

Wonder if he had a key? And why is he paying for an apt. for an intern? brush May 2019 #24

What is a gift buying associate. Pepsidog May 2019 #35

She has the look: young, blonde, cute...nt Wounded Bear May 2019 #38

What it Jerry Fallwell Jr.'s pool boy? TheBlackAdder May 2019 #22

If I remember right, Wayne got a draft deferment for a nervous condition. That gives me brewens May 2019 #8

Yeah, but since Viagra, that nervous condition has just plain gone away! n/t PatrickforO May 2019 #30

Every dadgum day, we get another delicious NRA drip of self-dealing dumbfuckery Leghorn21 May 2019 #10

I wonder who leaked it....someone wants him OUT!! HipChick May 2019 #20

Probably someone who could get his secretary to sneak docs out of the NRA building in her clothes... Gidney N Cloyd May 2019 #37

I like the word, "dumbfuckery." PatrickforO May 2019 #31

Someone email this to Josh Marshall sharedvalues May 2019 #12

$4K / month for an apartment, in Fairfax, VA? Whoda thunk it? MH1 May 2019 #13

A nice size 3BR apartment in Fairfax HipChick May 2019 #15

But why 3BR for a single person? Hell a summer intern should get a studio. MH1 May 2019 #17

So the NRA headquarter is locate right by... HipChick May 2019 #19

Rent these days in general is insane ansible May 2019 #16

Living LARGE on someone elses dime .... magicarpet May 2019 #18

Google Zegna clothes..... Paladin May 2019 #21

Tweeter Mike Beauvais totally agrees with you, Paladin!: Leghorn21 May 2019 #23

Maybe the clothes were for the intern in the apartment. thesquanderer May 2019 #34

NRA desperately needs more money keithbvadu2 May 2019 #25

Who owns the apartment? Ramsey Barner May 2019 #26

NRA Cuts More Operating Costs-and Lavishes Executives With Perks keithbvadu2 May 2019 #27

INUREMENT - look it up. HopeAgain May 2019 #28

Probably innocent. That POS gets off on gunz. Hoyt May 2019 #29

Catch and Kill PECKER and Nat. Enq ...I would bet they have the goods on NRA Wayne AND SayItLoud May 2019 #32

The intern was his niece. Stinky The Clown May 2019 #33

Intern was needed to fit his suits. Sneederbunk May 2019 #36

She's an "inseam specialist" Cousin Dupree May 2019 #39