Heyas Sink,

The DPA supporters I run into are the single issue, "angry voter" mindset. When I press them how they will get involved to make things better, it is universally the "that's what I pay dues for, to get other people to do things".

I have yet to run into anyone who is involved at more then a "send in a card" level that gave me any sort of "warm and fuzzies". When you peel back their talking points with some facts, they retrench into the "angry voter" routine.

I've often been fairly critical on how things have been run, but I'm smart enough to pour pee out of a boot without reading the directions on the heel, and I also know what is NOT the solution.

Elections in 3 LECs are coming up. Time to get involved. In fact, I would posit that now is the best time to run if you want to be involved, and some of those LEC positions carry a LOT of heft (take a look at the roll call votes the NYC FO rep has).

Ordinary people CAN and DO get elected. Look at the non-descript dude that won the FO rep spot in DTW, and he has (or had) the most roll call votes in DALPA. I've read some of what he's written, even back on the old NWA Webboard, and he was certainly no fan of any of the MECs going as far back as I can remember, so no political connections, and as best I can tell, he never held any big time committee spots. Just sort of walked off the street, wrote a couple of decent letters, and there you go...a big seat at the table.

If that dude can do it, ANYONE can do it.

Nu