Wings396,
the best that Roabily can do is to tell everyone that I voted for Delaney and supported him. Big Deal! When I support someone I go balls to the wall but I wasn't the sponsor and I wasn't even on the ticket. It was Delaney's ticket and Rich had all final say about everything, much like I do with my platform. As I have said, nobody wanted Rich to succeed more than myself. Things didn't work out and those things happen. Do I stand by my decision to support Delaney over Canale? Well, heck yeah I did because it was either Delaney or Canale....and Canale was terrible. I would have taken mickey mouse over Canale and I would practically considered any other union over him. He was worse than management.
Did Rich disappoint me, PHL, CLT, PHX, well heck yeah he did and that's why myself and all the US AIRWAYS hubs refused to nominate him. I'm not the only ND guy who realized Rich was incapable. And the fact that he lost the nominations of each US AIRWAYS hub is also alot more telling. Guys like Billy Kline even worked bins for him to get out the vote for Rich but try getting Billy to do anything for Rich now and he would laugh at you. Just because someone or some station gave Rich a chance 4 years ago doesn't mean that he is entitled to the same support 4 years later. If there is any breach of trust it is from RIch to us. Consider what Roabily quoted. Rich insisted that he would be around and visit Roabilys station, and my hope was that Rich would. But my hope vanished when Rich decided to stay in his ORD office for over 90% of his Presidency. And US AIRWAYS are still 'second best' in this District. That must change. The President has to be a traveling man, bottom line. YOu can't do this from an office. Maybe the biggest part of this job is the authority to delegate. My office will be my laptop as I will be on the road even moreso than when I directed the organizing efforts. I'm the General that is out there with the front line troops because I believe the art of negotiations is always outside the negotiations room and standing on the shoulders of the masses.
At any rate, for a chuckle, go back and see Roabily's last post about asking me if I was ever a shop steward. Then compare that to the one he posted where I identified myself as Local Chairman. Roabily is just frustrated, and for some reason angry on a personal attack, and is now double crossing his own post. IMO, I think he sees me behind every handle and he thinks that I'm jerking him around as "Jester". I am not Jester. And for further chuckles, go back to my post a few days ago where I quoted Roabily's recent quote about him furthering the ideas of the give back program and trusting me enough to 'take my word for granted'. Of course, after politics set in, he claimed I was just a big BS er and always for myself. How does someone go from taking my word for it, and working for me, to "Nelson is all about himself and always has been?" Such talk violates the principles of non contradiction, so something else is at play. Perhaps it is his loyalty to MF, dunno.
ONe thing is for sure, if I were for myself only, I would have put my name on Rich's ballot 4 years ago, or I would have became a bobblehead and kept my appointed job instead of getting whacked and putting on the knee pads again. I got a job to do and it is to finally lead this district and bring it to the masses where it belongs. I owe it to myself and I owe it to the masses.
Onward!
