Originally Posted by Tailhookah

Never paid a dime to DPA or sent in a card. At times I felt DPA had it's place in keeping Alpa looking over its shoulder, worried it might lose the Big D's dues... a certain big hit to Alpa National. But in the end I never thought DPA would ever get enough cards. If they did and tried to usurp Alpa, would fail.

Now I have no interest (even less than before) and wish they would just go away. We are better off with Alpa and (gasp) Alpa National. Our fight for better contracts is mostly up to us. But our fight for a career is a fight we have to wage on Cap Hill. Through our fellow Alpa represented airlines and the PAC we have an uphill battle on The Hill.

With that in mind, DPA lurking around is not going to help us on either front. As we showed last year by voting down the Donatelli Turd, we can make progress with Alpa if only we show unity. We can do much better in the future, but DPA's pipe dream was blown up by Alpa last year.

It's time for DPA to hit the road. Throw a big party or give it to a conservative charity... either way, just go away. Your time was over a long time ago.

Tail
NWA 2001