Strictly speaking, yes, this is true, however there is more to the story, at least for consideration.

I was there. The reps sold this thing hard! I mean really hard. They travelled to every base pitching it over and over with fancy powerpoints and shiney handouts. They were spending OUR money on an intesive campaign to pass it. Its still no excuse, i know that, but its worth mentioning the opposition had no such professional well funded soap box. And then it only passed by 8 votes!

So you can rightly blame the pilot group, true, but the reps build the TA and then have a lot of power to manipulate the vote.