If you think being a union rep is so "lavish," you're welcome to run for office.
And then you later "walked back" your snide comments just a
little:
It's certainly more than I would have felt justified in spending. But what I would feel justified in spending is probably more than this guy would find acceptable, also. Unless union reps are eating at McDonald's, staying at the HoJo, and hitchhiking to the office, some of these idiots will never be happy.
Regardless, there's a world of difference between "eating at McDonald's," and spending over $400
per person for one friggin' dinner. The fact that you can't even bring yourself to condemn this debacle, and instead all you did was to throw scorn at the member who brought it to the rest of his membership's attention, just shows exactly how out of touch you really are, PCL. Like a lot of hard-core leftists, you believe that you know better than your constituents do about what they need or want, and you'll make sure that's what they get, even if you have to lie or trick them to do it. And because you're "smarter" and "better" than them, you obviously deserve to be wined and dined like a celebrity.
You know, in
our union (yes, yes, I know, PCL--in your mind the only
real pilot union is ALPA, where officers are considered royalty--so you don't need to mention that again) there's an institutional tenet that union work should neither harm nor enrich a member financially. And yes, we have to work to enforce that now and then, but it's the membership's job to keep them honest. When they do, union officers aren't supposed to snipe at them for pointing wrongdoing out. But since there's apparently no such limiting tenet at ALPA (or APA, it looks like), I guess that explains why you never actually had any interest in actually being a pilot, PCL--it doesn't pay enough for you. Securing a union "lordship" is when you
really get to live, right?
Bubba