I was one of ten board members sitting on the committee that approved the resolution that ultimately went before the entire ALPA Executive Board.

John Prater never once twisted my arm for a pro age 65 vote. He, nor anyone else, made any attempt to influence the committee.

My roll call vote was insignificant in general assembly, and I must admit that it is possible that Prater politic'd long and hard for changing ALPA's stand, but the vote would never have gone to the floor if my delegate committee had not made a positive recommendation and I will again assure you that John Prater made no attempt to get the ten of us to vote either way.

BTW, we decided to remove our support for age 60 simply because we looked at the evidence and decided that the FAA administrator (and Presidential administration) had already made up her mind to change the rule. The only way to have any influence on the final language was to end our oppostion and send our lobbyists in to work for us.

The APAAD and associated groups were going for RETROactive re-instatement of over age 60 pilots. How would you have liked that?