It does not matter how much influence is "wielded from the inside." (Which I happen to think is also a "chicken sh!t" response).

At the end of the day, national's beuracracy is still in place. We'd still be forced to send money to national to support those ridiculous expenditures.

I don't understand why we would not want to keep 100% of Delta money strictly to be used by us and not by national, bureaucrats who by definition do not have our best interests solely at heart.