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Heston Wants to Stay NRA Head
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Heston Wants to Stay NRA Head
Fri Apr 26, 8:26 PM ET
By SCOTT SONNER, Associated Press Writer
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Charlton Heston said he is not ready to give up his position as president of the National Rifle Association and an NRA spokesman said Friday he expects no challengers in Heston's bid for an unprecedented fifth term.
Heston told The Associated Press after addressing members at the 131st annual meeting in Reno he has been encouraged by their continued support for his leadership.
"As long as I don't screw it up completely, I suppose I'll keep coming back," Heston said.
NRA members elect a national board of directors on Saturday. The more than 70 board directors vote Monday on a president.
The current board of directors recently requested unanimously that Heston run for re-election.
NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said he did not foresee any challengers to Heston.
"If the board of directors supports him unanimously, why would anyone else run?" he said.
Heston helped lead the gathering of 2,500 in a tribute to heroes and survivors of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (news - web sites) during the opening of the annual meeting at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center.
"It is important for all of us to take pains to remember them," he said. "We must keep the memories of them alive in our hearts."
NRA members said they were relieved to hear Heston would seek a fifth term. The 78-year-old actor said he had intended not to run last year, but was asked to stay.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020427/ap_on_re_us/nra_convention_11
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Fri Apr 26, 8:26 PM ET
By SCOTT SONNER, Associated Press Writer
RENO, Nev. (AP) - Charlton Heston said he is not ready to give up his position as president of the National Rifle Association and an NRA spokesman said Friday he expects no challengers in Heston's bid for an unprecedented fifth term.
Heston told The Associated Press after addressing members at the 131st annual meeting in Reno he has been encouraged by their continued support for his leadership.
"As long as I don't screw it up completely, I suppose I'll keep coming back," Heston said.
NRA members elect a national board of directors on Saturday. The more than 70 board directors vote Monday on a president.
The current board of directors recently requested unanimously that Heston run for re-election.
NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said he did not foresee any challengers to Heston.
"If the board of directors supports him unanimously, why would anyone else run?" he said.
Heston helped lead the gathering of 2,500 in a tribute to heroes and survivors of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (news - web sites) during the opening of the annual meeting at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center.
"It is important for all of us to take pains to remember them," he said. "We must keep the memories of them alive in our hearts."
NRA members said they were relieved to hear Heston would seek a fifth term. The 78-year-old actor said he had intended not to run last year, but was asked to stay.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020427/ap_on_re_us/nra_convention_11
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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