Why can't WR just run on his qualifications? Is it a bad thing that these other candidates have FLOWN THE LINE? I guess those three pm out and backs and two flights with one leg (DH), and one two leg flight - IN TEN MONTHS -give him a real idea of what things are like now... The other candidates live the current issues - WR reads about them.

Also what kind of leadership does vote with whatever DW votes show? Can we say rubber stamp?

From WR's campaign e-mail - I only posted excerpts but read the whole e-mail you should have received.


The only other candidate that possess anywhere near the level of experience that you should demand out of your MEC Vice-Chairman
is Captain TH. And while he has been a representative, a committee chairman, and an officer like myself, he has been absent from the process for almost four years now and has not had any involvement with our issues in that absence. While the other two candidates have been good union volunteers, neither Captain DS nor Captain TM has even been the vice-chairman of a committee, let alone held any other position of leadership. ... ... For us to put members with a lack of any kind of leadership experience in our Association into any of the Officer positions would bode ill for our short and long term careers at a critical time such as today when the very core of our collectively bargained agreement is under assault by management. ....