National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre was reelected on Monday following a very public feud with NRA President Oliver North.
LaPierre was unchallenged and won by a unanimous vote. North will be replaced by Carolyn Meadows, who was also unopposed and won all the votes in her contest.
“United we stand,” LaPierre said, according to a CNN report. “The NRA Board of Directors, our leadership team, and our more than 5 million members will come together as never before in support of our country’s constitutional freedoms. The challenges ahead of us are our greatest opportunities — confronting our adversaries, defending the Association, and continuing our tradition as the greatest civil rights organization in the world.”
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that LaPierre was pressured to resign by North. According to a letter to NRA board members, LaPierre said, “The exhortation was simple: resign or there will be destructive allegations made against me and the NRA.”
North said he would launch a committee to examine the organization’s finances. Soon after, North said he wanted to be reelected to his post but that he was “informed that will not happen.”
All this unraveled as the NRA’s big convention in Indianapolis where President Trump delivered a speech, inviting two people on stage who used AR-15 rifles to stop attacks.
The New York attorney general’s office also acknowledged over the weekend that it was investigating the NRA but did not provide additional details.
