“We own a seat.”
Well, we are paying for a seat, but we are avoiding the pain of rejection by not entering the nomination process.
If we are not nominated, we don’t have a seat on HRC- even though we are giving them monet, we do not have a seat on HRC.
No seat.
You are right. We do not own a seat. We own all the seats. The point, while everyone is marketing the most conservative candidate, is to finance a working body.