How ironic that you would call others "drones and dupes" when in fact you do nothing more than repeat what you have been spoon-fed by the Wardites. If you believe this man and his misguided followers, then you deserve what you get.
Ward must really be laughing about how he has managed to convince the "challenged" amongst us that he had nothing to do with the RPA and the voting fiasco.
NO to WAARD!!!!
Yes to GLADING!!!!
I go with what and who I know. When I year after year agree with people on every single issue we talk about or they fight for then I vote for them. When I year after year have to disagree with everything they do or everything they vote for, I vote against them.
I know many people from both sides. I'm talking about APFA people who hold office and work in APFA headquarters. Many of the people who fall into the Glading side, I like as people. I passionately disagree with them in terms of APFA politics and policies.
You can think however you want to think but to just blindly say Ward was responsible for all the wrongdoing at APFA is just plain wrong.
Also remember that while Glading takes credit for single handedly negotiating the 2001 contract yet backs away from responsibility for the 2003 RPA that it's impossible to be a part of one and not the other. That's a nice red flag.
When all the former negotiators for this contract she supposedly masterminded don't support her, that's another huge red flag.
Ward doesn't claim to not be partly responsible, as president, for the RPA. He wasn't the one who wanted to give it away before they even started concession talks, he wasn't the one who voted to negotiate by any means necessary, he wasn't the one to shorten the balloting, he wasn't the one to pick how the balloting was done, and the list goes on.
Was he a negotiator during the RPA. Sure was. Did they get a number from the company and struggle to come up with that number without ripping up the entire contract they negotiated? If you don't think that was hard to do for our negotiators and it killed John to have to gut that contract than you are nuts.
Look who the BOD was back then. Look how FAs keep reelecting them. Look at their national voting records and the minutes from the BOD meetings where all these RPA fiasco making moves were voted on and you know what you will find? The backbone of the Glading slate. Every supporter and background trip removed mover and shaker.
Maybe it's wrong of me to call you names when I don't know you. I apologize for that. I just get frustrated when people claim ward is a criminal because of what they hear or because he didn't fall in line with their own personal agenda. (like former TWA people do)
I said it before, If Glading wins I will support her. If she wins and she actually does something good, I will admit I was wrong about her. I just tend to think it will be business as usual and we will roll over further for the company. We'll see.
One last thing to remember is that more people voted yes than currently admit it. I know of a few who will never own up to it now. The way they balloted and the fear issues might have skewed their thinking but there were quite a lot of yes voters who are pretty silent about it. That's the thing I still don't get, but that's how it is. Most of Glading's minions were the ones running around telling people their career depended on that yes vote.
). I clicked on email and was given the option to send the results to a friend. I like myself pretty well (though not really close); so, I sent it to myself. That was an hour ago. So far I have received nothing in my email.
