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Voting for Leonidas…
Here is an interesting item. USAPA candidates Eric Ferguson, Jeff Koontz, Ken Holmes are all officers or directors or principles of the Army of Leonidas. Appeal Board member candidate Iranpour, was a named Addington Plaintiff.
A question and answer session to USAPA Ballot Certification on January 30, asked if money from non-members could be used in support of candidates. It appears that a Supreme Court decision called Steelworkers v. Saldowski holds that a union can set rules that would prohibit contributions to candidates from non members. The reasoning of the court was:
(c) Petitioner's purpose in adopting the outsider rule was to ensure that nonmembers would not unduly influence union affairs and that the union leadership would remain responsive to the membership. The policies underlying the LMRDA show that this is a legitimate purpose that Congress meant to protect. Nor is the rule invalid on the asserted ground that it is not rationally related to that purpose because the union could have simply established contribution ceilings, or need not have limited contributions by relatives and friends, or could have simply required that candidates reveal the sources of their funds. Petitioner had a reasonable basis for its decision to impose a broad ban seeking to eradicate the threat of outside influence. Pp. 115-119
USAPA does not currently have a rule that limits campaign contributions from non-members and could likely adopt one at some later date, but obviously not during this election. However if you receive a mailing from these persons you may want to at least consider that it is being funded, at least to some extent, by non USAPA pilots to influence this election and possibly your address was taken from a data base that was illegally acquired.
Here is an interesting item. USAPA candidates Eric Ferguson, Jeff Koontz, Ken Holmes are all officers or directors or principles of the Army of Leonidas. Appeal Board member candidate Iranpour, was a named Addington Plaintiff.
A question and answer session to USAPA Ballot Certification on January 30, asked if money from non-members could be used in support of candidates. It appears that a Supreme Court decision called Steelworkers v. Saldowski holds that a union can set rules that would prohibit contributions to candidates from non members. The reasoning of the court was:
(c) Petitioner's purpose in adopting the outsider rule was to ensure that nonmembers would not unduly influence union affairs and that the union leadership would remain responsive to the membership. The policies underlying the LMRDA show that this is a legitimate purpose that Congress meant to protect. Nor is the rule invalid on the asserted ground that it is not rationally related to that purpose because the union could have simply established contribution ceilings, or need not have limited contributions by relatives and friends, or could have simply required that candidates reveal the sources of their funds. Petitioner had a reasonable basis for its decision to impose a broad ban seeking to eradicate the threat of outside influence. Pp. 115-119
USAPA does not currently have a rule that limits campaign contributions from non-members and could likely adopt one at some later date, but obviously not during this election. However if you receive a mailing from these persons you may want to at least consider that it is being funded, at least to some extent, by non USAPA pilots to influence this election and possibly your address was taken from a data base that was illegally acquired.
