like Bonnen? Just joined Texas Gun Rights as they seem to be the only no-compromise gun rights organization in Texas at the moment. Never give the devil any due or he will turn around and bite you in the arse. Alice just threw us under the bus. I did fire up the checkbook...not to TSRA
I emailed her and told her the same thing. Her replies were professional enuff but always with excuses. I did register for the NRA CC expo coming to FtW in September but they have not seen me donate in awhile despite my next level up life member status.Alice Tripp is an enabler for Bonnen. No money for Texas State Rifle Association as long as she is there.
No bashing intended. Constitutional carry should be a no brainer for the TSRA. Other states have passed it and Texas is still without it? The TSRA is silent on Bonnen and even enabling his lies. No bashing just the truth. The TSRA needs some changes. If the big picture includes throwing Texans who support Constitutional Carry under the bus then count me out. Tripp even tried to paint the organization as a bunch of fringe radicals. If someone at the TSRA with cajones kicks her out and changes course and denounces Bonnen for what he is I might join. I am tired of organizations that have two faces on the issue of firearms. I am a life member of the NRA and I have shut the money spigot off to them till there are some resignations and changes.Ah - okay - you're here to bash.....got it. I have no issue w/TGR, they're a focused-issue group, which is cool. I'm trying to look more at the big picture, which can become convoluted at times (to say the least). But rather than bash one group vs another, why not talk about the things you like about one group and save the negative hyperbole for the snowflakes.......
TSRA has pushed for CC for the past several sessions. We had it heading for the "win" column, but unfortunately some of the other pro-CC forces decided to try some "muscle" in the capital, and it torpedoed the efforts.
These were the legislative priorities TSRA sent me for 2019. CC is not one of them. Despite that, a CC bill was introduced (HB357), and promptly died in Committee, as most know TSRA supported Bonnen, and Bonnen appointed Democrats to key Committees that must discharge gun bills. It was DOA long before the dimwits showed up.
She told us we don’t know the whole story while telling us stuff was happening in the background but not telling us exactly what was happening in the background and mentioned political capital but never telling us exactly what political capital was or just how it was spent. In other words we have no clue.
Alice is in the process of retiring.
That's why I'll financially support ANY candidate that is pro-2nd - and the more they lean to CC, the more that wallet will open.
You may want to send Rhonda Seth a donation. She is challenging bonnen in the primaries. Here is a link to her site.
Sorry - you weren't paying attention.....and it was the 2017 session where the best chances were stymied by some ill-advised activities,
Below is what was passed out last year at the Annual Meeting,