David Dell’Aquila is the dissident NRA donor who has been working to dislodge Wayne LaPierre from his perch atop the National Rifle Association for almost two years now. He started a movement to get the Association’s big dollar donors to withhold their cash until the scandal-plagued Executive Vice President is gone. Dell’Aquila claims his supporters … Read more
David Dell’Aquila is the National Rifle Association megadonor who became disillusioned with the Association the more he found out about how it operates. He then began a dissident movement to withhold planned donations from the NRA in order to force a clean-up in Fairfax. He eventually went so far as to file a multi-million dollar … Read more
[David] Dell’Aquila spent an intense year working around the clock, putting questions to the [NRA] chief executive and the board but rarely getting answers back. Employees, he said, began privately coming to him with inside information. If he has criticisms of LaPierre, he reserves his biggest complaints for the board of directors who have remained … Read more
If you’ve been paying attention at all, you’re aware of David Dell’Aquila’s months-long effort to force NRA EVP and CEO Wayne LaPierre out of the Association’s top job. He’s gone so far as to file a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit against the NRA and NRA Foundation alleging fraud in its fundraising practices. That’s now … Read more
Earlier today we reported that National Rifle Association board member Richard Childress, a former NRA first vice president, had resigned. Now CNN is reporting the departure of two more board members. Country music singer and NRA board member Craig Morgan has resigned, sources with knowledge of the matter tell CNN, and NASCAR team owner Richard … Read more
David Dell’Aquila is the National Rifle Association donor who has been leading a grassroots effort to oust EVP and CEO Wayne LaPierre and other senior NRA officers. In a conversation with him last month, he laid out his four-phase strategy for bringing about those management changes with the goal of cleaning up NRA operations and … Read more
Dissident National Rifle Association donor David Dell’Aquila has sent a new letter to members of the NRA board of directors (PDF) last night. In it he notified them of updates to some his individual letter grades and asked them to appoint a leader or leadership team to represent them in their dealings with the Help … Read more
David Dell’Aquila says he finally realized that his attempts to reform the National Rifle Association from within were doomed after a conversation he had with NRA President Carolyn Meadows (she hadn’t been given the top job yet at the time). It happened during a party for large donors like himself that was held before the … Read more
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