Turmoil within the National Rifle Association has thrust East Cobb resident and longtime conservative activist Carolyn Meadows into the organization’s presidency.
Meadows was elected president at the NRA convention in Indianapolis on Monday after Oliver North, the former adviser to President Reagan and Iran-Contra figure, resigned.
The shake-up occurred as North was trying to oust longtime NRA executive director Wayne LaPierre, who is staying on with Meadows’ election.
Meadows, 80, had been the second vice president of the NRA, which has five million members, as well as the American Conservative Union, the national and Georgia Republican Party and Stone Mountain Memorial Association Board.
She said in an interview with the AJC one of her primary objectives is to have her own Congresswoman, Lucy McBath, defeated. McBath, a Marietta Democrat, was elected to the 6th Congressional District seat in November as a strong gun-control advocate.
Whoever runs against McBath, Meadows said, “will get an endorsement from the NRA.”
The NRA is being investigated by the state of New York, where the non-profit organization is chartered, for alleged financial mismanagement.
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