That's the issue. There shouldn't be any sides going forward.

What is more interesting in Hutchins letter is what he did not say. He did not say, that he would fight to get that 100 million back into the pockets of those who paid the premiums, taxes and dues on it.

He did make oblique references about what could not be done with the money- according to him.

I feel if he really believes what he said, then he should go ahead and declare that he will work to get that money back to us.

Whether he intends to try and have that money used to fund a new LTD or just not address the issue makes no difference if he does not promise to fight to get it back to the pilots from whom it was paid.

He may have said that he does not believe that money can be used for any other purpose, but he didn't say he would fight the company to get it back, rather than " address it again in??? years- when many of us will be dead.

Ummm....did you read the same letter???

I noticed he even used the word "fight."

"There ARE outstanding issues with that plan, but if Captain Cummins can't even understand those issues he is never going to be able to fix them. Any reasonable accounting of that LCAL LTD plan shows that there is more money in it than there needs to be. But the problems with that plan are HOW MUCH needs to be returned and WHEN. Nobody disputes WHO gets those funds; not the company, not ALPA and certainly not me. I will fight to make "how much" as much as possible and "when" as soon as possible. "Who" gets the money are the pilots who paid the premiums, no one else."

You can't fix stupid.

Where did you copy that from? Sounds as if he disputes the amount Cummins and others claim, but he does not put an amount on it.

Hutchens letter that was posted by Flyguppy just a couple of posts before yours in this very thread (post #79).

It's not Cummins and others claiming it. It's just him. He pulled the numbers out of his ass and is trying to use lies to hopefully get enough uninformed people scared enough to vote for him. All the info is available on the ALPA site. The document has been available on the MEC R&I website since October 2015. Attached to it is a letter from Polsinelli Law Firm dated JAN 2016. CC is a raving lunatic hoping to use lies that nobody will verify before the election closes.

Everyone who attended the last LC 171 meeting knows that what CC is trying to spout is BS. MEC R&I briefed what the latest was. Feel free to contact any member and ask for yourself instead of taking the word of someone desperately trying to grasp at straws.

This was the letter from him I referred to. Didn't realize flyguppy was posting his letters without quote.

However, what bothers me about his reference to the fund in this letter is that he does not know or either agrees with the company's position about how much and when which the current MEC basically said -oh well; that's that.

What I would want to hear from anyone wanting the job is a thorough knowledge of the how much and a declaration that he disagrees with the company position on it. Instead there is a vague reference to his opponent not knowing the issues.

There is a beeeeeg difference in supporting what you want to hear vs the unvarnished, unbiased truth you should hear. I guess you haven't learned from past experiences.

Cummins if full of hot air. Ask for ONE single reference. He has been asked multiple times on the other forum and he just says people told him. He can't produce one single shred of evidence to support his claims. Hell my teens know, screen shot or it didn't happen.