'Portia the only hope'

[Tuff Gong]

'Portia the only hope'
Patterson rallies party faithful to support Simpson Miller
By Balford Henry Sunday Observer writer
Sunday, September 24, 2006

Immediate past president of the People's National Party (PNP), P J Patterson yesterday pinned all hopes of the party winning the next general elections on current leader, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller.

Taking his cue apparently from the recent Stone Polls showing Simpson Miller way ahead of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader Bruce Golding, but the two parties almost neck and neck, Patterson declared: "I say that not only is she the best hope of victory, she is the only hope of victory, and we must unite around her."

The former prime minister was addressing hundreds of wildly cheering delegates who transformed the National Arena in Kingston into a sea of orange for yesterday's private session of the PNP's 68th annual conference.
Hoping to rally the party faithful, Patterson also warned that "things no look pretty" in some constituencies he had reviewed with campaign director Dr Paul Robertson, and suggested that some current candidates would have to be replaced in order to win those constituencies.

He also reminded the crowd that the campaign for the presidency of the party was over in February and there was now a need to unite around Simpson Miller.
His reference was obviously to lingering claims that the deep divisions opened in the party during the presidential elections had stubbornly refused to heal.

Some PNP sources believe the first woman leader had sidelined key figures who did not support her campaign, while some stalwarts had withdrawn their support, waiting for her to self-destruct.

One senior PNP source said Simpson Miller and her staunchest rival, Dr Peter Phillips, the national security minister and second in the presidential race, had not had a one-on-one meeting since the February elections.

But although acknowledging that during the heat of the presidential campaign earlier this year "some harsh things were said and some hard feelings were developed", Patterson insisted that the former presidential candidates had already made up and were working together, and he called for all comrades to leave the conference as one.
"The party has spoken. The people have spoken. There is one leader and one team and one party. And anything that I can do to help Sister P to be a healer of the breach, I will not hesitate to do," he said.

"...We call ourselves comrades for a reason, we are brothers and sisters together in one party... When this party was being founded, we made it clear, that irrespective of the colour of your skin, you were welcome. We cannot make colour of shirt divide people in the People's National Party today. We are one party," Patterson insisted.

Indicating how deep the fissure was, Patterson disclosed that he would become involved in the party's grassroots organisation for the next general election, "because, whether they like me or they don't like me, they know that when it comes to campaign, I am not the don, I am not the professor, I am the dean".

"I am not going to be in any motorcade, but when it comes to sitting down with them (the campaign team) at the centre, I shall be there to share my experience, and there are some constituencies, you going see me there," he added.=

Speaking just before Simpson Miller gave her charge to the delegates, Patterson continued to stress the need for unity within the ranks to fight the general election.
"The only plot in which we must be involved is to rewrite the pages of political history, that we not only give her and the party a fifth term, but we give her a mandate of her own and a first term in her own right," he said.

He also called on the comrades to protect Simpson Miller from attacks from outside the party.
"When I was leader, you allow people to batter batter me and nobody come to my defence. Don't allow enemies of the party and of progress to batter batter her. Come to her defence," Patterson urged.

He suggested that some tough decisions would have to be taken in terms of the candidates representing the party in the next general election, because the party could win the popular vote and lose the majority of seats as in 1949.

"I have been looking at things in some constituencies. (I) Sat down with Paul (Robertson) Thursday morning and in some of the constituencies things no look pretty. Things no look pretty. And all those who want to be confirmed as candidates, from now until she sound the trumpet, walk, live, sleep, work in your constituency to bring your constituency home," he cautioned.

"I have passed over the baton to her as leader of the NEC, we have seen her sworn into office in King's House; soon she will have to be saddled to enter the starting gates and I am willing to serve even as a groom..." Patterson closed, placing an orange-coloured PNP cap, a symbolic crown, on Simpson Miller's head.

Patterson, who was named a lifetime officer of the party at the conference, reminded the crowd of his decision to remain in Jamaica after his retirement, but declared that he did not wish to live under any government "other than one of the People's National Party".

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20060923T170000-0500_113261_OBS__PORTIA_THE_ONLY_HOPE__.asp

[Serenity82]

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'Portia the only hope'
Patterson rallies party faithful to support Simpson Miller
By Balford Henry Sunday Observer writer
Sunday, September 24, 2006

Immediate past president of the People's National Party (PNP), P J Patterson yesterday pinned all hopes of the party winning the next general elections on current leader, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller.

Taking his cue apparently from the recent Stone Polls showing Simpson Miller way ahead of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader Bruce Golding, but the two parties almost neck and neck, Patterson declared: "I say that not only is she the best hope of victory, she is the only hope of victory, and we must unite around her."

The former prime minister was addressing hundreds of wildly cheering delegates who transformed the National Arena in Kingston into a sea of orange for yesterday's private session of the PNP's 68th annual conference.
Hoping to rally the party faithful, Patterson also warned that "things no look pretty" in some constituencies he had reviewed with campaign director Dr Paul Robertson, and suggested that some current candidates would have to be replaced in order to win those constituencies.

He also reminded the crowd that the campaign for the presidency of the party was over in February and there was now a need to unite around Simpson Miller.
His reference was obviously to lingering claims that the deep divisions opened in the party during the presidential elections had stubbornly refused to heal.

Some PNP sources believe the first woman leader had sidelined key figures who did not support her campaign, while some stalwarts had withdrawn their support, waiting for her to self-destruct.

One senior PNP source said Simpson Miller and her staunchest rival, Dr Peter Phillips, the national security minister and second in the presidential race, had not had a one-on-one meeting since the February elections.

But although acknowledging that during the heat of the presidential campaign earlier this year "some harsh things were said and some hard feelings were developed", Patterson insisted that the former presidential candidates had already made up and were working together, and he called for all comrades to leave the conference as one.
"The party has spoken. The people have spoken. There is one leader and one team and one party. And anything that I can do to help Sister P to be a healer of the breach, I will not hesitate to do," he said.

"...We call ourselves comrades for a reason, we are brothers and sisters together in one party... When this party was being founded, we made it clear, that irrespective of the colour of your skin, you were welcome. We cannot make colour of shirt divide people in the People's National Party today. We are one party," Patterson insisted.

Indicating how deep the fissure was, Patterson disclosed that he would become involved in the party's grassroots organisation for the next general election, "because, whether they like me or they don't like me, they know that when it comes to campaign, I am not the don, I am not the professor, I am the dean".

"I am not going to be in any motorcade, but when it comes to sitting down with them (the campaign team) at the centre, I shall be there to share my experience, and there are some constituencies, you going see me there," he added.=

Speaking just before Simpson Miller gave her charge to the delegates, Patterson continued to stress the need for unity within the ranks to fight the general election.
"The only plot in which we must be involved is to rewrite the pages of political history, that we not only give her and the party a fifth term, but we give her a mandate of her own and a first term in her own right," he said.

He also called on the comrades to protect Simpson Miller from attacks from outside the party.
"When I was leader, you allow people to batter batter me and nobody come to my defence. Don't allow enemies of the party and of progress to batter batter her. Come to her defence," Patterson urged.

He suggested that some tough decisions would have to be taken in terms of the candidates representing the party in the next general election, because the party could win the popular vote and lose the majority of seats as in 1949.

"I have been looking at things in some constituencies. (I) Sat down with Paul (Robertson) Thursday morning and in some of the constituencies things no look pretty. Things no look pretty. And all those who want to be confirmed as candidates, from now until she sound the trumpet, walk, live, sleep, work in your constituency to bring your constituency home," he cautioned.

"I have passed over the baton to her as leader of the NEC, we have seen her sworn into office in King's House; soon she will have to be saddled to enter the starting gates and I am willing to serve even as a groom..." Patterson closed, placing an orange-coloured PNP cap, a symbolic crown, on Simpson Miller's head.

Patterson, who was named a lifetime officer of the party at the conference, reminded the crowd of his decision to remain in Jamaica after his retirement, but declared that he did not wish to live under any government "other than one of the People's National Party".

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20060923T170000-0500_113261_OBS__PORTIA_THE_ONLY_HOPE__.asp

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I don't know about the details but from my pov having a woman leader is great for any society! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]

[Dyoll_73]

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Well, what else did you expect PJ to say? The belief that progress is somehow inherently compatible and inextricably linked with the PNP has gone beyond arrogance; it's a psychosis. If the PNP is defeated in the upcoming elections, perhaps Patterson should move to some backward southern state in the US.

I don't accept the view that other political movements in Jamaica fail to present a credible alternative to the PNP. A major part of the problem is that Jamaica lacks an informed citizenry/electorate, a key component in the prosperity of any liberal democracy. Alas, too many of our country men and women are easily seduced by curry goat and idiotic slogans like "nuff cyar/cell phone/gyal" and "black man time now." Interestingly, Jamaicans continue to endure the greatest suffering and injustice at the hands of their fellow black brethren.

[Serenity82]

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Well, what else did you expect PJ to say? The belief that progress is somehow inherently compatible and inextricably linked with the PNP has gone beyond arrogance; it's a psychosis. If the PNP is defeated in the upcoming elections, perhaps Patterson should move to some backward southern state in the US.

I don't accept the view that other political movements in Jamaica fail to present a credible alternative to the PNP. A major part of the problem is that Jamaica lacks an informed citizenry/electorate, a key component in the prosperity of any liberal democracy. Alas, too many of our country men and women are easily seduced by curry goat and idiotic slogans like "nuff cyar/cell phone/gyal" and "black man time now." Interestingly, Jamaicans continue to endure the greatest suffering and injustice at the hands of their fellow black brethren.

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Anything at all positive to say? hehe

[Wahalla]

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Well, what else did you expect PJ to say? The belief that progress is somehow inherently compatible and inextricably linked with the PNP has gone beyond arrogance; it's a psychosis. If the PNP is defeated in the upcoming elections, perhaps Patterson should move to some backward southern state in the US.

I don't accept the view that other political movements in Jamaica fail to present a credible alternative to the PNP. A major part of the problem is that Jamaica lacks an informed citizenry/electorate, a key component in the prosperity of any liberal democracy. Alas, too many of our country men and women are easily seduced by curry goat and idiotic slogans like "nuff cyar/cell phone/gyal" and "black man time now." Interestingly, Jamaicans continue to endure the greatest suffering and injustice at the hands of their fellow black brethren.

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I heard Mutty claim that some poll or the other say poor people support the PNP.. But the PNP have supervised the biggest shift of wealth from the poor to the rich sicne slavery...

I think they will run the general election and Portia will win... If it si a head to head with Golding Portia, Ms Borgia will win.. Then the PNP will get rid of her.... Phillip or Davis will take over... Outlandish maybe ?? ? But all of that is irrelevant, is Skeng Don the power behind the throwm...

Having said that vitriol on daughter of a Spanish Pope (the Borgias were from Spain).. She did get rid of teh Bird shooter, white doctor bullier f .. So give her kudos.. (I have an obession on that one!)

Oh and tuffy man migh have more cyar, More Gyal and more cell.. But Gyal dont have tiolet! That picture is haunting, the woman walk pass deh likkle gyal like is normal.

I disagree the Jamaican electrorate is well informed and sophisticated.... They are much more aware of the runnings but vote out of pure pragmatic.. The aproach is who gives the most as well as chosing the best of a rum lot.....It is mostly about short trm porkbarrel...

[Blackstar*]

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The PNP certainly have a well-oiled political steam-roller. So they *are* good with technology, Tuff Gong. LOL

[Tuff Gong]

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The PNP certainly have a well-oiled political steam-roller. So they *are* good with technology, Tuff Gong. LOL

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Yes I must correct myself or expand on that one.
They good at using technology to extend their shelf life but not to help the country at large.

<font color="black">Now to the Portia Lucrezia Borgia’s poisonous performance yesterday.
I have some advice for the JLP (if they will take my advice).
<ul type="square">[*]leave that event to the pundits in the media, the verandahs and elsewhere[*]do not discuss it [*]do not acknowledge it[/list]</font>
<font color="red">take only theses things from that event:
<ul type="square">[*]the country is now in officially in election mode[*]the PNP has joined the campaign on the road[*]the PNP is hurting in funds, worried about the quality of their candidates, still dangerous, still organized, still willing to gutter-dive [*]has no discernable policy except to resurrect the 70s Crash Program[/list]</font>
<font color="green">In other words the JLP should continue to campaign in the streets, continue to spread their message, continue to show what the 17 years continuous and 25 years of PNP reign since the 70s has done to Jamaica.</font>

[Yuriatin]

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The devil is in the details, and I'm REALLY glad you qualified your statement with the fact that you don't know them.




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'Portia the only hope'
Patterson rallies party faithful to support Simpson Miller
By Balford Henry Sunday Observer writer
Sunday, September 24, 2006

Immediate past president of the People's National Party (PNP), P J Patterson yesterday pinned all hopes of the party winning the next general elections on current leader, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller.

Taking his cue apparently from the recent Stone Polls showing Simpson Miller way ahead of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader Bruce Golding, but the two parties almost neck and neck, Patterson declared: "I say that not only is she the best hope of victory, she is the only hope of victory, and we must unite around her."

The former prime minister was addressing hundreds of wildly cheering delegates who transformed the National Arena in Kingston into a sea of orange for yesterday's private session of the PNP's 68th annual conference.
Hoping to rally the party faithful, Patterson also warned that "things no look pretty" in some constituencies he had reviewed with campaign director Dr Paul Robertson, and suggested that some current candidates would have to be replaced in order to win those constituencies.

He also reminded the crowd that the campaign for the presidency of the party was over in February and there was now a need to unite around Simpson Miller.
His reference was obviously to lingering claims that the deep divisions opened in the party during the presidential elections had stubbornly refused to heal.

Some PNP sources believe the first woman leader had sidelined key figures who did not support her campaign, while some stalwarts had withdrawn their support, waiting for her to self-destruct.

One senior PNP source said Simpson Miller and her staunchest rival, Dr Peter Phillips, the national security minister and second in the presidential race, had not had a one-on-one meeting since the February elections.

But although acknowledging that during the heat of the presidential campaign earlier this year "some harsh things were said and some hard feelings were developed", Patterson insisted that the former presidential candidates had already made up and were working together, and he called for all comrades to leave the conference as one.
"The party has spoken. The people have spoken. There is one leader and one team and one party. And anything that I can do to help Sister P to be a healer of the breach, I will not hesitate to do," he said.

"...We call ourselves comrades for a reason, we are brothers and sisters together in one party... When this party was being founded, we made it clear, that irrespective of the colour of your skin, you were welcome. We cannot make colour of shirt divide people in the People's National Party today. We are one party," Patterson insisted.

Indicating how deep the fissure was, Patterson disclosed that he would become involved in the party's grassroots organisation for the next general election, "because, whether they like me or they don't like me, they know that when it comes to campaign, I am not the don, I am not the professor, I am the dean".

"I am not going to be in any motorcade, but when it comes to sitting down with them (the campaign team) at the centre, I shall be there to share my experience, and there are some constituencies, you going see me there," he added.=

Speaking just before Simpson Miller gave her charge to the delegates, Patterson continued to stress the need for unity within the ranks to fight the general election.
"The only plot in which we must be involved is to rewrite the pages of political history, that we not only give her and the party a fifth term, but we give her a mandate of her own and a first term in her own right," he said.

He also called on the comrades to protect Simpson Miller from attacks from outside the party.
"When I was leader, you allow people to batter batter me and nobody come to my defence. Don't allow enemies of the party and of progress to batter batter her. Come to her defence," Patterson urged.

He suggested that some tough decisions would have to be taken in terms of the candidates representing the party in the next general election, because the party could win the popular vote and lose the majority of seats as in 1949.

"I have been looking at things in some constituencies. (I) Sat down with Paul (Robertson) Thursday morning and in some of the constituencies things no look pretty. Things no look pretty. And all those who want to be confirmed as candidates, from now until she sound the trumpet, walk, live, sleep, work in your constituency to bring your constituency home," he cautioned.

"I have passed over the baton to her as leader of the NEC, we have seen her sworn into office in King's House; soon she will have to be saddled to enter the starting gates and I am willing to serve even as a groom..." Patterson closed, placing an orange-coloured PNP cap, a symbolic crown, on Simpson Miller's head.

Patterson, who was named a lifetime officer of the party at the conference, reminded the crowd of his decision to remain in Jamaica after his retirement, but declared that he did not wish to live under any government "other than one of the People's National Party".

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20060923T170000-0500_113261_OBS__PORTIA_THE_ONLY_HOPE__.asp

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I don't know about the details but from my pov having a woman leader is great for any society! [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]

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[Tuff Gong]

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Sun Sep 24, 2006
PNP gets support from St. Vincent and the Grenadines PM

Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. Ralph Gonzalves, in his presentation to delegates at the People’s National Party’s (PNP) 68th annual conference, lauded the PNP for its role in regional integration.

Making it clear where his political allegiance lay, Dr. Gonsalves said the process of regional unity would be nowhere without the PNP.

Dr. Gonzalves also lauded Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller saying she was the first woman to lead a progressive movement in the region.

http://www.radiojamaica.com/news/story.php?category=2&amp;story=28484

[Dyoll_73]

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I disagree (sic)the Jamaican electrorate is well informed and sophisticated.... They are much more aware of the runnings but vote out of pure pragmatic.. The aproach is who gives the most as well as chosing the best of a rum lot.....It is mostly about short trm porkbarrel...

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In one statement,you disagree that the Jamaican electorate lacks sophistication but then, in the following sentence, you go on to show that they indeed lack sophistication. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[Tuff Gong]

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I disagree (sic)the Jamaican electrorate is well informed and sophisticated.... They are much more aware of the runnings but vote out of pure pragmatic.. The aproach is who gives the most as well as chosing the best of a rum lot.....It is mostly about short trm porkbarrel...

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In one statement,you disagree that the Jamaican electorate lacks sophistication but then, in the following sentence, you go on to show that they indeed lack sophistication. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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LOL!
Dyoll I see you are back....welcome back!

[Wahalla]

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no they go for the pork barrel rather than ideology shows sophistication... it is when they vote for ideological reason is a lack of sohistication....

[Dr.Dudd]

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no they go for the pork barrel rather than ideology shows sophistication... it is when they vote for ideological reason is a lack of sohistication....

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according to the principles of Maslows laws,they are as astute as they come.
One have to eat first before they cando anything else.
the people are defending survival,first then after that they will act on other things.

[Dyoll_73]

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according to the principles of Maslows laws,they are as astute as they come.
One have to eat first before they cando anything else.
the people are defending survival,first then after that they will act on other things.

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Maslow's heirarchy notwithstanding, is it too much to ask that while he's getting a belly full, he takes a look at the bigger picture or menu ... so to speak? Afterall, if a farmer eats even his yam heads, he won't have yams to plant, and eventually he will die of hunger.

Hail Tuff Gong [img]/forums/images/graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img]

[Wahalla]

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according to the principles of Maslows laws,they are as astute as they come.
One have to eat first before they cando anything else.
the people are defending survival,first then after that they will act on other things.

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Maslow's heirarchy notwithstanding, is it too much to ask that while he's getting a belly full, he takes a look at the bigger picture or menu ... so to speak? Afterall, if a farmer eats even his yam heads, he won't have yams to plant, and eventually he will die of hunger.

Hail Tuff Gong [img]/forums/images/graemlins/notworthy.gif[/img]

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Yu cyan naym no yam head.. Dem always too bitta!

It comes down to if you beleive one party gives you significant advantage you vote for them... There are a group of die hard supporters no more than 20% of each party.. The rest float...