Why use Substack as base for campaign for NRA Board of Directors?
Bypassing social media gatekeepers
For 2021, I did not get enough valid signatures to make the pre-printed ballot. 227 of the signatures were disqualified, 114 of them because the signers were not life or 5 year members. So, I need to run as a write-in candidate. That’ll be a challenge - as far as I know, no one has ever been elected as a write-in candidate .
In 2020, I got over 55,000 votes out of the 110,000 votes cast, but came in dead-assed last. I ran for the 76th seat at the 2020 meeting in Tucson, but came in second.
To get elected for this year’s election, I figure I need 70,000 votes. There is no way I will get that just using social media that shadow bans and throttles pro-firearm rights topics.
Lee Williams, author of The Gunwriter, got me thinking when he started his Substack site. His article about how Gannett Newspapers not only unpublished him, but deleted all of his historical content. I listen to podcasts that share how they have been throttled and their viewship has been cut by 50-70% due to their algorithms. “Conservative” topics like firearms rights and the NRA continue to be shadow banned if not outright blocked.
Lee pointed me to the solution he is using - bypass Big Tech’s social medial filters and reach directly to the people. Build your own network that is independent of social media and bypass the throttling and shadow banning.
So that’s why I’m here on Substack. If you are for reforming the NRA:
New Leadership;
Smaller Board;
Term Limits;
Transparency and Accountability; and,
Focus on servince the NRA Members!
Then please share this with like minded NRA members and ask them to subscribe so I can reach them directly as the ballots for the board should start coming out in late April.
Frank
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