Originally Posted by TheManager

Ahhhh. The sales job. It was particularly a hard sell during BK, wasn't it? Never forget a particular 44 rep and his feverent lounge shows where they were occasionally over the decorum line.

If I remember correctly, for POS 96, there were official pro-con papers put out by DALPA. Then the policy manual was changed at some point in time to do away with the con paper. For C2K, an industrious individual worked dilligently and put one out comparing the contract gains (green print) with give aways or losses in red.

I would love to get a copy of it now. Mickley, you out there??

Anyway, this time around, 12 years later, I am not sure we need a "sanctioned con paper' as we have this. The internet, mass communication on an instant scale, and the one thing that really scares DALPA, the might APC. This is one forum they can't pull the plug on as BH threatens to do to the DALPA forum. Look at what social media what did for Arab Spring.

So, point being, there will be the sales job and they will be out in force promoting it. They will most definitely be here constantly hitting there talking points. But, I don't think it will have the same impact as it had before.

And instead of waiting weeks for pro-con papers, the debate and dissection of the TA will be instant.