Lawsuit: NRA's Unpaid Bills Could Shutter NRATV

[UpInArms]

Source: Daily Beast

The National Rifle Association is overdue on more than $1.6 million in unpaid bills, according to a new court filing made by its longtime advertising firm.

On Wednesday, Ackerman McQueen, an ad agency that has for years worked with the National Rifle Association and runs the gun group’s media arm NRATV, filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against the NRA. It’s the latest move in a brutal court battle between the ad agency and the powerful pro-gun organization.

It could also spell the death of NRATV, a pro-Trump online TV network known for its culture-war content. In the filing, the company alleges that it will have to stop paying 40 percent of its employees in one week if the NRA doesn’t pay what it owes or give the firm a $3 million letter of credit—which its contract requires if it’s overdue on its bills, according to the suit.

The ad firm is now taking steps to furlough employees who worked on NRA projects, according to a declaration from its chief financial officer filed in court.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/lawsuit-nras-unpaid-bills-could-shutter-nratv

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[Botany]

1. Funny thing happens when the Russian money..

... is cut off. Russia and the right have used the NRA to
divide America and wash us all in blood. Fuck 'em

[TygrBright]

2. Oh, dear...

sympathetically,
Bright

[Thomas Hurt]

3. Oh no, what a terrible loss.....(giggle)

[IronLionZion]

4. Womp Womp

[keithbvadu2]

5. The NRA Is Being Sued Over Its Relentless Telemarketing Campaigns

NRA Cuts More Operating Costs-and Lavishes Executives With Perks

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/nra-money-executive-perks-pay-cutting-costs/


The NRA Is Being Sued Over Its Relentless Telemarketing Campaigns

When begging for bucks goes wrong.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-nra-is-being-sued-over-its-relentless-telemarketing-campaigns

The NRA has employed InfoCision since 2012 under a contract that grants the fundraising company up to 65 percent of the funds it raises on the NRA’s behalf. InfoCision gets between $2.50 and $3.75 for each “completed call” to potential NRA donors, and up to half of the regular payments for new or renewed NRA memberships.
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If those high fees are unavoidable, they can also have the effect of obscuring, for a potential donor, exactly where his or her money is going. Many of those speaking with an InfoCision fundraiser, after all, will not know that a majority of their donation is not going to the charity that fundraiser is representing.

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comment from a blog (DU I think)

I had a coworker who was a big time gun owner who kept a gun in every room in the house just in case someone broke in (lots of problems with that idea, may be worth a blog article someday, but that’s what he did). He even went so far as to start buying more guns for each room after a school shooting, like home invasion and mass shooting are correlated somehow. He had let his NRA membership lapse and refused to renew it because he got tired of nonstop requests for donations. To him all the membership did was give the NRA to badger him for more money with phone calls, and direct mailings. If the
organization is as strapped for cash as it appears, those solicitations may have gone way over the top and people are simply tired of being badgered for money and are choosing to let their membership to lapse.

[Gore1FL]

6. If thoughts and prayers worked, I'd use them to expedite NRATV's demise. nt

[FiveGoodMen]

7. We'll see

Did ad cancelations take Limbaugh off the air?

[Sherman A1]

8. May

Their lives be filled with lawyers.

[Vegas Roller]

9. Couldn't happen to nicer folk

Bankrupting them is the fastest way to get rid of the NRA.

[Roy Rolling]

10. NRA Logic to its Creditors

You can have your money when you pry it from my cold dead hands.

[jmowreader]

11. People are going to be hurt by this

There are a bunch of professional television production types working for this operation who aren't going to be able to use "sir, I was in federal prison" to explain away their time working on NRATV. And there really aren't all that many jobs for professional propagandists. Fox News is probably full, InfoWars could be going away after the Sandy Hook families sue Alex Jones into financial oblivion, and you need to speak Russian to get a job with Russia Today.

I know "but won't anyone think of the children" is the supreme cop-out, but in this case it applies. I guess they can all learn to drive truck or something.