{"id":31310,"date":"2020-11-25T21:35:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T03:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31310"},"modified":"2020-11-25T21:35:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T03:35:18","slug":"speak-of-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/11\/25\/speak-of-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Speak Of The Devil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/11\/25\/and-youre-the-fodder\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here I asked<\/a> what had happened to the <em><strong>NRA<\/strong><\/em> in the last election, and moments later I ran across <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/nra-irs-disclosure-990\/2020\/11\/25\/50521108-2d34-11eb-9c71-ccf2c0b8d571_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this<\/a> from <strong><em>WaPo<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bill Powers, the executive vice president for communications at Ackerman McQueen [the NRA&#8217;s former PR and advertising firm], said the financial statements lay out the NRA\u2019s steady decline as the organization faced a raft of defectors questioning LaPierre\u2019s leadership, and as more of its money went into scorched-earth legal battles to defend LaPierre. \u201cYou have just seen an election where the NRA was sidelined,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Their latest tax returns are summarized thusly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The tax return shows membership dues falling 34 percent in 2019, to $113 million. [NRA spokesman Andrew] Arulanandam called those figures \u201cdated information.\u201d He said that donations and grass-roots support are \u201csurging\u201d and that the NRA added 300,000 members in the past six months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe someday the <em><strong>NRA<\/strong><\/em> will return to responsibility, as it was before LaPierre. Only time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I asked what had happened to the NRA in the last election, and moments later I ran across this from WaPo: Bill Powers, the executive vice president for communications at Ackerman McQueen [the NRA&#8217;s former PR and advertising firm], said the financial statements lay out the NRA\u2019s steady decline \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/11\/25\/speak-of-the-devil\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31311,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31310\/revisions\/31311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}