with golden parachutes and multi million dollar exit packages. how did we get here? that s right, and let s just put this in sharp terms for the rail industry specifically, the ceo of canadians pacific, saw his pay go up 920% in 2007 to 2020. 920%. not 24%, 920%. that s a ceo. i need you to tell our audience this one more time. the ceo of the company, his pay went up over a 14 year span on 920%? 920%. that s right. and we re freaking out over a 24% rate over five years. and they still don t get paid when their sick. okay, you are not just the congress person. you are an eye levy league and educated man. educate me. to lead this whole potential strike, really exposes how
scene at wayne locke peers wedding in the late 90s. and he doesn t so up for. the thing is, when didn t really want to get married. his best man slaps 100-dollar bill on the dashboard and says, i don t think you should get married today either. but he does go inside and gets kind of parade into the wedding to susan lapierre. ultimately it s a weird and interesting moment. and it told us something about the law and the problems that the nra is facing. now legally and financially, powerful people inside the nra have realize that if you arise win or yell at him he is eventually going to prove millions of dollars in contracts for sweetheart deals for contractors working for the nra or former executives who get golden parachutes. so many of the problems from the inside of the nra stem from wayne lapierre and its personality which we outlined
we don t know about the pe personalities and the people behind the scenes. it happens at his wedding and he doesn t show up. he is in this awkward scene that starts at the beginning of the book. it paints him as an answer, almost cowardly figure, who is pushed and bullied in all sorts of ways to prove millions of dollars in self-dealing contracts and golden parachutes for people that are related to the nra. that is how he has been able to stay at the head of the organization for decades. you describe here in the spring of 2019, the weekend from hell. it is the annual meeting of the nra where so much of this comes to a head. you were there covering it. what all did you learn? . well, what s so interesting about this book, misfire, i obtained secret depositions, internal nra emails, to help me
found the little loopholes to take them down no, it s not really a fair explanation. if you were to think about what the nra s core mission was and why it was form originally and its function was supposed to be that of a sporting and hunting organization that was primarily organized around gun safety. over the last 15 years in particular, the amount of money that was spent on gun safety, which it touts as its core principle went down dramatically, while spending on media went up dramatically, and it essentially became a media company, and it could be a perpetual outrage machine was not being spent on stuff that was going to further the organization s mission, it was going towards other things like, you know, golden parachutes,
massive payouts, you know, private jets, all kinds of things that obviously didn t in any way fit within the scope of the mission. wayne lapeirre, he called the lawsuit an attempt to destroy the nra, and the nra is committed to good governance. that has not gone well for the nra thus far in that reckoning, however the cause lives on, and what do you think the lesson is in that? the nra created a religion, and i think the documentary does a great job of establishing that. it s a lot more complicated than just the gun. the gun is sort of the crucifix of the cause, and in doing so religion is an organizing principle for peoples lives,