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Urban myth - you had a large cast of handlers and operatives, they just weren't officially part of the mix. Again why dredge up the past to cast a negative light on the pre-merger NWA MEC? To what end? It's over and we've moved on. Reenacting the civil war serves no purpose.
Urban myth, really? That's pretty funny.
My whole point was to demonstrate that the method the NWA MEC used to heal their divisions was to create a new dragon to slay. You can't understand how to fix your problems unless you understand where they came from. If you are trying to say there weren't deep divisions in your pilot group and in your MEC when this process started then you just are not being serious. You yourself mentioned the hard feelings some North guys have and if you don't recognize the part your former MEC played in creating those hard feelings then you are really not being serious.
I am not looking for blame, I am looking for acknowledgment of where the problem started and how it has to get fixed. There is no outside observer that would look at the communications from each MEC in 2008 and notice the stark differences in the tone and level of animosity in them. If you can't acknowledge that fact then there is probably no hope of change.
You seem like you have a grudge to nurse since you didn't get the results you wanted in the Neg Cmte elections. Seems to me all your posts are sour-grapes that there is a new MEC with different ideas and a different direction they are taking, and you and others are not having quite the blank check you were hitherto used to. Get over it and move on.
It seems like you are the one stuck on Neg Cmte elections, I didn't mention it in my post. I guess you missed my post praising the new committee members. My only problem was the insistence of 2+2 that only fosters the idea of identity politics. I also took exception to the turmoil that seemed well timed to precede the elections that led to this. Get over the N/S labels and move on.
My beef is you seem to be intentionally trying to re-create the turmoil of the SLI period when everyone else on the MEC and most of the pilots have gotten past it. Creating divisiveness by accusing others of doing so while claiming the high ground is as old as ALPA.
It is funny that this whole mess gets stirred up by others and I am the one starting it because I point out the shenanigans. Bizarro world.
I will make a deal. If you can get your "friend" who is a rep to get some number of fNWA reps to make a clear statement that this duty rigs grievance is not worth pursuing and is being handled properly by CA then I will believe you are moving to the high ground. As long as you let this boil fester, I don't believe you are truly trying to move on.
BTW, I heard from a friend who attended the C20 Special Informational Meeting today, and was told Chairman Moak made an informative presentation, did a lot of Q & A and that it was very well received and took a lot of notes for action.
Wait, I thought you hated the Moakastration? Maybe Lee doesn't have quite as many horns as were painted on him in the last two years. I have known Lee for many years now, I have no doubt he did a good job.