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Originally Posted by Nosmo King
Okay, I'll throw a turd in the punchbowl.
There are also political considerations whenever you see a vote on representation issues. Sometimes it is as petty as allowing some pilots to switch Council Affiliation just prior to an LEC election.
Sometimes its about not allowing an additional voting rep on the MEC because you would then lose your "trusted" majority.
CPZ was/is a political wildcard. If we added one rep, LM would lose his 13 to 12 majority.
I realize that could also happen after the next election cycle, but I also heard this mentioned prior to the first joint MEC meeting.
Sometimes there is a reason behind the public reason.
Hopefully, in this case the turd will end up being a Baby Ruth bar. I believe Carl Spackler has dibs if that is the case.
A very interesting question. I always try to get to the real reason behind the stated reason, and I wondered whether there was a power angle to this. I haven't found it so far, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist. The Compass guy doesn't vote, and I think it's quite obvious from the discussion about conflicts of interest that the Compass guy
should never vote. Unless, of course, we find a way to merge the companies
.
One reason I agree with you that there might be a power angle is that the vote evidently was unanimously divided across the shoe line (North-South). People wonder why Moak's side was so unanimous, and of course one has to wonder why the North side was so unanimous. Was it a strong sense of duty towards the Compass pilot? Are we saying Moak was cpncerned about losing power but the North magically ignored such earthly concerns, and were not interested in conversely
gaining votes? See how that works: if Moak was on defense, then we need to understand who was on
offense. Right?
Now, let me turn this around: are you suggesting we should get the Compass a voting seat, and in so doing, allow the twelve that voted against Moak to be equal weight with Moak? Because, you see, that's saying NW + Compass, i.e. 5,300 pilots, should have the same weight as 7,000 pilots. That doesn't seem right either.
Which brings me to the next question, for you MEC watchers: is the MEC really 12 "North" and 13 "South"? If so, can someone explain to me how that came to be? By my calculator, if a group has 7,000 pilots out of 12,000, they should have about 14.5 votes.