Ad Agency Fires Back at NRA With $50 Million Counterclaim
Source: The Daily Beast
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Ad Agency Fires Back at NRA With $50 Million Counterclaim
The firm blames the NRA for a coup against Oliver North
Betsy Woodruff
05.23.19 12:40 PM ET
The NRA is facing a new legal challenger: the advertising firm it’s worked with for 30 years. On Thursday morning, Ackerman McQueen—which has been handling public relations and advertising for the gun rights group for over three decades—filed a $50 million counterclaim against the NRA in Virginia Circuit Court.
In this legal fight, the NRA took the first shot. Last month, the group sued Ackerman McQueen demanding documents related to its work for the NRA. Ackerman McQueen runs the often-controversial NRATV programming, as well as other public relations work. The NRA claimed that the firm wouldn’t open its books and insinuated it had engaged in problematic business practices. Yesterday, the NRA filed a second lawsuit against Ackerman McQueen—first reported by The Daily Beast—alleging that the firm leaked confidential information to reporters and trying to make Oliver North a scapegoat for the group’s troubles.
Now, Ackerman McQueen is taking its turn. In the counterclaim, the firm alleges that it has already given the NRA sufficient access to financial information regarding its work, including by sharing recent data analytics for NRATV and letting auditors spend nine days going through its books in February. “AMc [Ackerman McQueen] has complied with every authorized demand for examination of its documents,” the suit reads.
And the firm blames the NRA for a coup against Oliver North. ... It says the NRA’s outside counsel, Bill Brewer, “provided misleading information to the New York Times” about North’s work for the firm. “The article misrepresented the facts and disparaged AMc, reads the lawsuit, noting that the story quoted Brewer and alleging that he misled the paper to hurt the firm’s relationship with the NRA.
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NEW: The NRA's longtime advertising firm is suing it, asking for $50 million and saying the group unfairly maligned Oliver North
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I hope they both lose money. The advertising agency sounds like it specializes in right wing organizations and causes. And we already know how skeezy the NRA is.
