Glenn Beck used his radio program today to once again call upon his listeners who are members of the NRA to vote to remove anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist from the organization’s board due to his supposed ties to Islamic radicals.
Nearly a year ago, Beck threatened to quit the NRA if Norquist remained on the board, which prompted the organization to launch an investigation into the allegations that he has links to the Muslim Brotherhood. Though the NRA promised that the probe would be “fully transparent” and the results posted on its website, it has been more than 11 months since it supposedly launched this investigation and nothing has come of it.
On top of that, Beck has not actually quit the NRA, as he originally threatened, and has instead turned his efforts toward getting Norquist removed from the board via a recall election.
“Remember, I said about a year ago that if Grover Norquist is on the board of directors of places like the NRA, I just don’t know what I’m going to do,” Beck stated. “I just don’t know if I can keep my membership. Well, here’s what happened: That caused up a whole just sandstorm everywhere so we had to find out what is the right way to do this, what is the right thing to do?”
“The right thing to do is to start a petition,” he continued, “and then have an election, a recall ballot put into the NRA magazine at this time. The votes have to be in by May 1st on Grover Norquist and, believe me, you’re going to have everybody he knows voting ‘no’ on the recall. If you believe what we talked about, that Grover Norquist is a very, very dangerous influence when it comes to Islam, we really think that you should stand up if you’re a NRA member and vote ‘yes’ on the recall.”
“This is vitally important,” Beck stated. “Please vote ‘yes’ on the recall of Grover Norquist.”
Norquist has also been the target of a similar effort to remove him from the board of the American Conservative Union, which puts on the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., and at which Beck is scheduled to speak next month.
