No Slip, we didn’t blow it nearly as bad as you think. We missed out on some things, LTD/insurance stuff comes to mind. That’s a big ticket item to me and that’s why I voted no.

But in reality, you don’t publish the Platform, go to the Company and say... you can afford it, now pay up! You can try, but that right there handicapped us. We didn’t ask for the moon and settled for the Platform. We asked for the Platform and settled for over a billion short of it. Isn’t that how negotiations work?

In my opinion, we may have screwed ourselves by publishing a reasonable document instead of a rather lofty one, but then again we needed to rally the membership, and the Platform did accomplish that. I do think Jon and the NC made a mistake of indicating how they were voting because of the “if it’s good for Jon, it’s good for me” crowd. It should have been a simple presentation consisting of pros, cons, what was gained, what was lost and let the chips fall.

I don’t think we’ll be going back to the old ways. You guys were still under the influence of Herb’s way that a handshake was good enough. Gary clearly ended that era by lying to us and getting the SWAPA he deserved. I just don’t see us going back to SWAPA 1.0 ways.