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The reason that the Opposition was rejected at the polls after a single term cannot be clearer.\u00a0 There was no leadership.\u00a0 The Christie administration was the weakest, most incompetent and most unproductive government in an independent Bahamas.<\/p>\n
The scandals that rocked the Christie government, its late-again work ethic, its lack of significant accomplishments, and its endless list of broken promises all boiled down to a lack of vision, direction and strong leadership by Perry Christie.<\/p>\n
In 2009 a senior PLP who sat in Mr. Christie\u2019s cabinet said of that government: \u201cMany PLPs were dissatisfied with our work ethic: our inability to get things done on time, answer phone calls and get to work on time and to deal with requests to the government in a timely fashion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nothing has changed.\u00a0 Mr. Christie is incapable of being a strong and decisive leader.\u00a0 Again, the words of that same senior PLP: \u201cThe public expects to see a full time Leader of the Opposition with regular and known office hours…\u201d\u00a0 Whether in government or in opposition, Mr. Christie is incapable of being a well-organized leader who can deal with matters in a timely fashion.<\/p>\n
Cassius Stuart, the FNM\u2019s standard bearer for Bamboo Town recently noted that when he was considering whether to join the FNM or PLP that it took eight months for Mr. Christie to get back to him.\u00a0 Prime Minister Ingraham returned his call in an hour.\u00a0 Mr. Christie is a talker, not a doer; a promise-maker, not a deliverer; a vacillator, not a leader.<\/p>\n
Weeks before the 2002 general election Mr. Christie proclaimed:\u00a0 \u201cI see thousands of school children in overcrowded classrooms being taught by frustrated underpaid teachers.\u201d\u00a0 Yet in five years he could not and did not build a single school.<\/p>\n
Mr. Christie also proclaimed: \u201cI see too many families who still have to fry fish and conch-fritters out on Montague Bay to raise money for major surgery because there is no National Health Insurance System to help them out.\u201d\u00a0 Yet he did not deliver on what he boasted was his most urgent priority.<\/p>\n
It is a re-elected FNM Government that will deliver catastrophic health insurance, expand the prescription drug benefit to all workers and their families, and continue to transform health care facilities and technology.<\/p>\n
Mr. Christie further proclaimed: \u201cWe must conduct ourselves in Government according to an uncompromising code of complete integrity and transparency.\u00a0 If we set the right example at the top, it will filter all the way down to the bottom, both in the public sector and in the wider society.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite this pledge, he tolerated scandalous and unseemly behaviour in his cabinet and government.\u00a0 He also kept secret, agreements on Baha Mar; Park Ridge Securities Corp (Albany); Bluewater, the phantom company that sought to take control of BTC; and a number of others.<\/p>\n
Given another chance Mr. Christie will again prove to be a laid-back, indecisive, weak and disorganized figure head of the PLP, while his associates do whatever they want and raid the cookie jar.\u00a0 Tough issues, like battling crime and boosting job-creation do not solve themselves.\u00a0 They require tough, focused, organized and strong leadership.<\/p>\n
A Christie administration that was drenched in scandal by many of the same people who are running again will not have the credibility or authority to deal with crime.\u00a0 It would be like hiring a known safe-breaker to guard your safe, and also giving him the combination for the safe.\u00a0 When you come back, you\u2019ll be lucky to find the safe, much less the valuables you left inside.<\/p>\n
The Great Recession that struck the world and The Bahamas beginning in 2008 required quick, decisive and bold action.\u00a0 Such action, led by Prime Minister Ingraham prevented the collapse of the economy, saved the jobs of civil servants, advanced measures to assist those in need of emergency and public assistance, and helped to prepare The Bahamas for a recovery.<\/p>\n
Times of crisis demand leadership.\u00a0 The Christie administration, a failure in better global economic times, would have been a disaster during the Great Recession.\u00a0 Like scores of countries throughout the world, the acceleration of infrastructural projects at home prevented economic collapse by stimulating the economy and providing jobs and pay checks.<\/p>\n
The Opposition has criticized these projects, the very things that employed Bahamian workers and has improved the lives of every single Bahamian.\u00a0 Clearly, they would have failed to do the many things that are now benefitting the Bahamian people because from 2002 to 2007 the Christie administration proved to be incapable and indifferent when it came to delivering for the Bahamian people.<\/p>\n
Source: FNM News Service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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