Ann: Notice of Annual General Meeting, page-207

What this comes down to, more or less, is most of you are willing to introduce additional risk into a $550 mil deal that hasn't been smooth sailing, over a couple of few mil going out to KMPs. I was annoyed by it, but voting based on annoyance is unlikely to get me where I want to be. What should have been is gone, what's left is what is.

It's also not generally considering blackmail to leverage other job offers to get you a better deal at your current employer. One of the perks of being in demand.