Wrong again Carl, unless you consider Senator Orin Hatch (R) from Utah a far left-politician. ALPA-PAC supports candidates based not on their party affiliation, but rather on their position on issues important to professional pilots. This year the ALPA-PAC Steering Committee posted the following with regards to who they will support.

"The Steering Committee distributes ALPA-PAC support based solely on a candidate’s position on issues that directly affect airline pilots. Recent examples of such issues include:

• airport access (CrewPASS),
• oil prices,
• bankruptcy reform,
• the FFDO program,
• pensions issues,
• cabotage and foreign control,
• family and medical leave for flight crews,
• a wide variety of specific safety issues.

Only after carefully reviewing the voting records and political positions of incumbents or interviewing candidates on issues of direct interest to ALPA is a determination made as to who will most likely support airline pilots. These are the candidates who receive contributions from ALPA-PAC. All ALPA-PAC recipients have either demonstrated their support for ALPA’s position on key legislative issues or it is believed they will be valuable friends to ALPA on future initiatives
ALPA-PAC is one of the most bipartisan labor PACs in Washington, DC, supporting candidates without regard to party affiliation. ALPA-PAC is the only way that ALPA national participates directly in the federal election process; ALPA national does not use any member dues money for this purpose."