{"id":20858,"date":"2012-04-24T09:01:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T13:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=20858"},"modified":"2012-04-24T09:37:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T13:37:22","slug":"christies-weak-image-hurts-the-plp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/04\/christies-weak-image-hurts-the-plp","title":{"rendered":"Christie&#8217;s Weak Image Hurts The PLP"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_16944\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16944\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16944\" title=\"perry-christie\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/perry-christie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/perry-christie.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/perry-christie-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16944\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Perry Christie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SHOT: Christie Accuses Ingraham of Desperate Election Ploy. (Nassau Guardian, April 23, 2012)<\/p>\n<p>Christie said he had the full support the PLP and dismissed PM Hubert Ingraham\u2019s recent claims that the PLP don\u2019t want him.<\/p>\n<p>CHASER: Perry In Rage As PLP Bans His &#8220;Leader&#8221; Posters. (The Punch April 16, 2012)<\/p>\n<p>Senior PLPs reportedly felt that displaying Christie\u2019s photo nation-wide would hurt rather than help the PLP\u2019s election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>They reasoned that Christie\u2019s reputation as a weak and indecisive leader was damaging to the PLP\u2019s image.<\/p>\n<p>Christie sent PLP chief graphic artist to Miami with orders to get posters of Christie printed\u2026and was told it was \u201ctoo late\u201d to produce the posters.<\/p>\n<p>Christie feels the no poster strategy will cause the PLP to be viewed as Leaderless, Chiefless and set to remain Powerless as the party appears to be unfit to govern.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the streets of all 38 seats are \u201cpainted red\u201d with posters of FNM Leader Ingraham. The PM said: &#8220;If the PLP ever get around to putting up posters of Perry the words on them should be: &#8220;PLP: UNPROVEN LEADERSHIP.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior PLPs reportedly felt that displaying Christie\u2019s photo nation-wide would hurt rather than help the PLP\u2019s election campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,60,168],"class_list":["post-20858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-fnm","tag-plp","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}