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Devastating news for fans of guns and mass murder: The Trace reported on Thursday that the National Rifle Association is in such dire financial straits that it can no longer offer free coffee or even water coolers at its headquarters in Fairfax, VA. According to The Trace, the cost-cutting, which comes as part of an effort to overhaul the organizations budget to make up for lost revenue, is affecting multiple NRA programs. In September, OpenSecrets revealed that an audit of the NRAs finances showed the organizations income was plummeting thanks to falling membership revenue which coincided with a huge spike in election spending in 2016, when they spent $51.5 million.
But the Trace reports that the biggest driver of financial troubles at the moment is its lawsuit against Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York Department of Financial Services. A former NRA staffer told the Trace that funding is going from the programs to fight the legal battle, and that theyre draining money from general operations, which pays for things like coffee.
Employees at the NRA who are currently grumbling through an uncaffeinated morning might also be upset to hear that the organization found more than $1 million to spend on ads supporting Brett Kavanaugh earlier this year. Henceforth, if NRA employees feel that they gotta have their java, they will be forced to drive two miles to the nearest Starbucks or Panera Bread through Fairfaxs hellish tangle of freeways. Good luck!
https://splinternews.com/thoughts-and-prayers-for-the-nra-which-cant-afford-cof-1830465382
Just a Weirdo
(488 posts)for 10c a pound.
They can have all the fracked water.
niyad
(113,012 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)ever since we got busted taking 10's of MILLION$ from Putin and funneling it to GOP candidates" ...
onenote
(42,525 posts)appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)Since they don't care for human life, they just might consider that an offer.
spooky3
(34,400 posts)3Hotdogs
(12,319 posts)kacekwl
(7,010 posts)They have plenty of money but crying broke to the rubes who support them will bring more donations in because we can't let the godless libs get our guns. I guarantee the leadership is swimming in dough.
Buckeyeblue
(5,499 posts)Money is both never a problem and always a problem.