After a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad few days, the National Rifle Association on Monday emerged with one long-time anchor intact: Wayne LaPierre.
LaPierre, executive vice president and chief executive officer of the organization since 1991, will retain his role by the NRA鈥檚 76-member board of directors during a closed-door meeting in Indianapolis.
The vote brings a measure of stability back to an organization that in recent weeks has sued its longtime public relations firm, been subject to damaging news reports, seen its president resign and even acknowledged that is investigating its status as a non-profit organization.
La Pierre last week said NRA President Oliver North was trying to push him from the gun rights organization by about him to the NRA鈥檚 board.
North had pushed for a review of NRA finances in the wake of a in the New Yorker questioning spending by the organization鈥檚 leadership, as well as NRA executives鈥� close relationship with Ackerman McQueen, an Oklahoma-based public relations firm.
North, the retired Marine Corps officer best known for his role in the Iran-Contra scandal, at the NRA鈥檚 annual meeting. He left a position last year with Fox News to take the NRA job.
Replacing North will be Carolyn Meadows, the organization鈥檚 second vice-president, who has also previously served as president on an interim basis. Meadows is a longtime from Georgia.
President Donald Trump alluded to the swirling controversies , three days after giving a raucous, campaign-style speech at the convention in Indianapolis.
The NRA 鈥渕ust get its act together quickly, stop the internal fighting, & get back to GREATNESS 鈥� FAST,鈥� the president wrote. Trump also accused New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York Attorney General Letitia James of 鈥渋llegally using the State鈥檚 legal apparatus to take down and destroy鈥� the NRA.
James鈥� office on Friday sent letters to the NRA instructing the organization to preserve financial documents, the .
James had previously promised to investigate the NRA鈥檚 status as a tax-exempt organization.
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