The Crux of the Matter

Ackerman McQueen, an Oklahoma public relations firm, has run the NRA’s confrontational publicity campaigns and driven many of its political victories for more than 30 years. In that time, the firm has forged a symbiotic relationship that has kept LaPierre unchallenged in power and Ackerman McQueen in lucrative contracts. [More]

Everything else is incidental. I'm trying to track down and validate info that Wayne just got a nice six-figure raise. Realistically, I'll probably have to wait for the 2015 Form 990 to come out to verify that.

In the mean time, here's the latest available on where the money goes.

Curious-- I hadn't realized $25M was being funneled to InfoCision in Akron for membership processing and solicitation. With that kind of revenue boost for the local economy, one that used to be nothing but booming due to all the tire companies that have since moved production jobs to lands of cheaper labor, you'd think there'd be some incentive to get the political establishment to distance itself from Bloomberg -- or at least take "weapons" off the InfoCision Stadium "prohibited items" list.