Assuming your numbers are correct, they are not surprising. DPA would be DOA, except the only thing keeping it on life support is the fact that DALPA has failed to relate to the line pilot. The communications effort has been mostly focused on having the Comm Chairman getting bogged down in tit-for-tat, idiotic, pedantic, arrogant exchanges on the Forum.

So when you are getting bogged down in tit-for-tat, idiotic, pedantic, arrogant exchanges on the Forum, or this board, you're becoming the DPA's best recruitment... tool.

The way DALPA kills DPA is by focusing on the job of representing the Delta pilots, in a dignified and effective manner. There is plenty of serious work to be done. As long as that remains the focus, I don't see any interest in engaging people like Carl, since they've long ago run out of ideas. They only thing that makes them semi-pertinent is to give them a soap-box, the way you're going about it. By disparaging people that are on the fence, or people that are only using the threat of DPA to encourage DALPA to address key weaknesses, you're encouraging lurkers that are only expecting better from DALPA, to send in a card for DPA.

1531 is an embarassing number for DPA, but it isn't a proud moment for DALPA either.