Originally Posted by Lerxst

Krazy Kravits theory on this...

The MEC Election - So what just happened?

Well, Jay Heppner sold his and Bob Fox’s souls to the CAL side by trading the single vote that Heppner needed for what appears to be only two positions at the MEC level, that of Secretary and Treasurer. Reports indicate that former L-CAL EWR representatives Tara Cook had a big smile on her face shortly after the election. Why could that be?

Could it be that at this very moment the CAL MEC has the votes necessary to recall Heppner and Fox. Much like when Wendy Morse was MEC Chairman and Heppner’s boys had most of the votes to recall her. Now, with the 9 MEC votes that CAL has, plus the votes from Chicago and Seattle, Heppner and Fox are hanging by the good will of the CAL pilots. In fact, if they wanted to, now that they have the votes of SEC and TRES., Heppner and Fox could be recalled tomorrow, or at the end of this month at the regularly scheduled MEC meeting, and a deal could be cut to replace Heppner with someone else, perhaps a United pilot, and the CAL pilots could get MEC Vice Chairman too. Though sources indicate that the CAL MEC wasn’t interested in only that single position at this time. They wanted two seats and Heppner gave it to them.

So where does this leave us? Perhaps Tara was smiling because she knows that Jay Heppner and Bob Fox are now her Beeyatches. When the elections for committee positions occur in a few weeks, if Heppner and Fox don’t acquiesce to CAL’s desires, all CAL has to do is tell SEA and ORD that they can have a new Master Chairman and Vice Chairman. Thus Heppner is now in a seat that was all warmed up by him, a seat that was previously occupied by Chairman Morse.

What do they say ... What goes around comes around?