Ya know if some of this pilot group actually cared (had a comprehensive understanding of) what is in our current contract compared to other pilot groups as much as they care about who is the MEC chair, we would be in much better shape. Divided over something as trivial as that position sounds like a good way to be going into a new contract. They can't make you vote for or against anything. The only way to make the right choice is to make an educated one, and *****ing about who or who isn't the MEC chair doesn't get you educated.

Btw, if Mesa or any airline has the worst contract in the industry it's because they are either last in the current pattern bargaining cycle (spirit) or they ratified a shiit contract (Mesa). Even if a industry trailing contract is negotiated for you, you only end up working under it if you ratify it. Mesa pilots have no one to blame for their contract but themselves. Not the MEC chair or even the MEC reps. Sure the reps play a part in what gets to the group but you don't have to vote for it. Mesa has a terrible contract because of the Mesa pilots. If we get a substandard contract here we have no one to blame but ourselves. If we vote down something because it's junk, we can certainly make appropriate changes at that time.