Mooneymite
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ALPA pollitics
HaHaHaHaHa!
I don't know how far back your ALPA experience goes, but based on your post, I'd guess not very far. As best I can remember, all ALPA BOD politics is "dirty politics" according to your useage! The only difference is "successful", or "un-successful" dirty politics. The election of just about every ALPA president I can remember involved sculdugery.
Prater was in a no-win situation. The age 60 thing was going to change no matter what ALPA did. He could come on board and help manage the change, or he could stand in front of a freight train. Watching Praeter get run over might have pleased a majority of the membership, but it would not have served it.
Prater was skillful enough to get elected; I think he played his cards right on the age 60 rule. It will probably cause his defeat, but he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, no matter what he did. Maybe that's his reward for his successful sculdugery at the BOD.
If you believe that ALPA is run democratically, you are wrong or naive. You'll do better sitting on Santa's lap than responding to ALPA straw polls, or Wilson (engineered to get a specific response) polls.
........Prater is an incompetent buffoon that never should have been elected in the first place. He got into office by playing some dirty politics at the BOD meeting last year and trading votes with another MEC.
HaHaHaHaHa!
I don't know how far back your ALPA experience goes, but based on your post, I'd guess not very far. As best I can remember, all ALPA BOD politics is "dirty politics" according to your useage! The only difference is "successful", or "un-successful" dirty politics. The election of just about every ALPA president I can remember involved sculdugery.
Prater was in a no-win situation. The age 60 thing was going to change no matter what ALPA did. He could come on board and help manage the change, or he could stand in front of a freight train. Watching Praeter get run over might have pleased a majority of the membership, but it would not have served it.
Prater was skillful enough to get elected; I think he played his cards right on the age 60 rule. It will probably cause his defeat, but he was in the wrong place at the wrong time, no matter what he did. Maybe that's his reward for his successful sculdugery at the BOD.
If you believe that ALPA is run democratically, you are wrong or naive. You'll do better sitting on Santa's lap than responding to ALPA straw polls, or Wilson (engineered to get a specific response) polls.
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