the investigative journalist who has gone inside the nra for mother jones. frank, this is so important, this is exactly the kind of legislation i ve been looking for. this patricia clark? yes. lives in newtown? she lives in newtown. she runs this committee, this is the committee who really decides who gets to be on the board. they pretend to have elections, but this committee is rigged. and she ran the nominating committee in 2012. there is a new committee in effect now. but the way the elections work, it is sort of like a communist politburo, nobody knows who is on there. you just finding out who is on there is difficult. absolutely, and supporters of the nra, but some claim it is a sham election. they hand-pick the candidates for the nra elections that get on the ballot. and 29 out of 31 candidates on
control over who can become a member of the board. we know this, thanks to frank smyth in mother jones reveals who is on the committee, including the chief executive of freedom group, the merchants of death, who made the bushmaster military-style assault rifle, used to rip of the bodies of the 26 in sandy hook elementary school. and the head of the nominating committee actually lives in newtown, connecticut, patricia a. clark, who has done everything in her power to make sure american mass murderers can fire as many bullets as they want, without reloading, lives just a few minutes away from sandy hook elementary school. joining me now is frank smyth,
use guns safely. joining me now for an exclusive interview, newtown superintendent, dr. janet robinson. thank you for joining us. nice to see you, lawrence. ava s note said what everybody in newtown wants is for you to ban semiautomatic weapons, and i m sorry to say that is not apparently what everyone in newtown wants. we were just talking in the last segment about patricia clark, who is a high-ranking nra official who lives in newtown. and as i think you know, newtown in the past has had a fairly large community in support for extreme positions on gun rights. ava is one of our fourth grade students, and ava speaks for the heart of the students. the students, not just the students at sandy hook but the students throughout the district
who is on the committee, including the chief executive of freedom group, the merchants of death, who made the bushmaster military-style assault rifle, used to rip of the bodies of the 26 in sandy hook elementary school. and the head of the nominating committee actually lives in newtown, connecticut, patricia a. clark, who has done everything in her power to make sure american mass murderers can fire as many bullets as they want, without reloading, lives just a few minutes away from sandy hook elementary school. joining me now is frank smyth, the investigative journalist who has gone inside the nra for mother jones. frank, this is so important, this is exactly the kind of legislation i ve been looking for. this patricia clark?