"Do we want to hand it over to a gang of carpetbaggers like...

"Do we want to hand it over to a gang of carpetbaggers like Collins, Herrington and Gasteen? "

... you mean Cottee, don't you ?

... this is why I have asked, how JH would get on with Cottee and crew if they got in and JH as well.

Would be no good if there were further upheavals down the track because of, I would also suspect, JH would be thinking maybe "a gang of carpetbaggers", after JH had put in the hard yards from CTP's inception.

It is another matter whether SH's decide whether or not JH was the "impediment".

RAVI