ROB -“So, I would say that having one of the most important gerrer chassidim being intimately involved with the medinah kind of gives the medinah a “hechsher”. Don’t you think so?”
They only agreed to the Medina because of the “Status Quo” which I just quoted. They didn’t want a Medina in the first place, but they agreed B’dieved. I just didn’t know the name of the Agudah’s leader. So the Medina is Treif and nowadays even those who agreed B’dieved to it – would say even B’dieved it’s Treif. Why? Because they are breaking the Status Quo and forcing the draft on the Charedim.