Oh we had our own TWU stooges! Our ex-Local Pres. didn't get his presant job with the International by encouraging a "No" vote!------ But let me enlighten you on one big factor! If I can bask in the Carbibean sun,it's not because of my TWA retirement, whitch don't amount to a hill of beans, or my AA retirement either,whitch started in 2001, but because I worked, and invested, over the years, outside of them!----- I made some good decisions, and my timing was good! And yes! I built it by myself! Without the aid of Obama!!! Let me also remind you that I worked for twenty three years at a line station before working at MCI, and in 2003 MCIE was no longer "overhauling " Aircraft. We were doing "C" checks at best! So this latest thing about Line vrs. Overhaul realy wasn't a factor!. --- As for the number of "yes" votes that came out of MCI, I can only say that I feel two factors were at play here at the time,------ One: I got the impresion that the average AMT here on the floor felt that they had absoluely no representation at all, in fact the Union had told us that if we the T/A down, AA would close the base! So to servive, they had to vote "yes"! Second, but to a lesser extent, there were those who said if I'm going down, at least I might take a few of them with me!