Bamboo Town Association Blasts McCartney Over Resignation
By IANTHIA SMITH
For months tensions boiled within the governing Free National Movement (FNM) party and after remaining silent on the issue for quite sometime now, representatives of the FNM Bamboo Town Constituency Association are speaking out about Branville McCartney’s resignation.
In a press release issued late yesterday the association said, "We wish to express our considerable personal and collective disappointment over the resignation of Mr. Branville McCartney from the FNM and the abrupt manner in which it was done."
The release went on to say that Mr. McCartney did not inform the executives of the Bamboo Town Association prior to his decision adding that they learned of his decision at the same time it was made public.
The association said having worked for his election to the House of Assembly and on his behalf in Bamboo Town, they would have expected the basic courtesy of prior notification and consultation.
"Mr. McCartney had numerous opportunities to inform the association leadership of his decision, even as recently as last Thursday night, when two of our executives met with him. He could have telephoned our association chairman immediately prior to his resignation," the release added.
"Many in Bamboo Town still do not understand his abrupt resignation from the Cabinet and now his resignation from the FNM. The philosophy, manifesto, policies and leadership of the FNM have not changed since Mr. McCartney was elected to the House of Assembly as an FNM, and joined Mr. Ingraham’s Cabinet."
The association said it is its view that the majority of FNMs in Bamboo Town, as well as the majority of residents in the constituency support the government’s creation of a new partnership between the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) and Cable & Wireless to create a cutting-edge telecommunications company that will move The Bahamas forward.
The associations’ members say they were stunned that when the big vote came in the House of Assembly, Mr. McCartney seemed more concerned about his own personal decision than the broader needs of the people of The Bahamas.
"We will continue to work for the new and better direction the country is moving in under the leadership of Prime Minister Ingraham and the Free National Movement," they said.
"The Bamboo Town Constituency Association is proud of the work our party has done under Prime Minister Ingraham’s leadership during the worldwide economic downturn.
"We pledge ourselves to ensuring that in the next general election Bamboo Town remains FNM country."
Mr. McCartney resigned from the FNM on Monday.
March 24th, 2011
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Friday, March 5, 2010
Branville McCartney’s Master Political Stroke
By Dennis Dames:
The resignation of Branville McCartney as junior minister of immigration in the Ingraham cabinet has created a lot of intense political talk around the town. It was a master political stroke that the public welcomes and appreciates – in my view.
The move has shown up the political weaknesses and complacency of the likes of Zhavargo Laing, Tommy Turnquest, Carl Bethel, and other young but politically sluggish FNMs – who appear strictly comfortable with a good and prestigious job, and clearly lack the political ambition and vision necessary to keep the torch of a young generation burning with robust confidence and anticipation.
They have long forgotten one of the chief planks in the FNM propaganda campaign prior to the 1992 general election. It was term limits for a prime minister and party leader. We did not want Pindling to reign for life; nor do we want Ingraham to do the same. We demand a system that promotes political competition, and dynamic and progressive leadership. We do not believe that two Bahamian women have born one leader each that are exclusively capable of leading the affairs of our nation.
Mr. McCartney is in tuned with the status quo – that is ready for a new and prosperous brand of politics in The Bahamas. Hubert Ingraham and his PLP counterpart – Perry Christie - are expired products lingering unattractively on the Bahamian political shelf. They have become trite in the eyes of the people who long for a new era of political leadership and direction.
Brad McCartney has essentially said: Here I am, send me! He has signaled his interest in becoming leader of the FNM in short order. He has put his dull colleagues on the spot, and has told the masses that he is not interested in being a friendly neighborhood yes-man who is prepared to go with the unpopular flow of political window dressing and shameless underhandedness from the top.
Branville McCartney represents a new breed of politicians in The Bahamas - who are eager to serve the people with a progressively ambitious and productive agenda. He appears ready to tackle the vexing illegal immigration issue that has plagued The Bahamas for decades and even to this day – for example.
He looks ready to change the bureaucratically uncreative business as usual mentality in government, and replace it with an administration for and by the people. Brad McCartney is a budding leader who has challenged an old order in Bahamian politics that seems determined to enforce its detested will on an electorate longing for change that they really can believe in.
The resignation of Branville McCartney has a lasting impact on modern Bahamian politics. It signals a revolution in the making in the national political landscape.
It is hoped that Mr. McCartney would not relent in his drive for higher political office and social, economic, and political deliverance for a deserving people; as doing so will only result in a serious political backlash – like that of Algernon Allen when he turned thousands on to his one man game on the R.M Bailey Park some years back – then he bucked under heavy political pressure and returned shamelessly to his vomit. The rest is hard-to-swallow history.
Only time will reveal the genuineness of Mr. McCartney’s recent decision. The masses are watching with buoyant enthusiasm, and optimism. It is worth taking this matter sincerely Mr. McCartney, or the political exit heartlessly awaits you.
Bahamas Blog International
The resignation of Branville McCartney as junior minister of immigration in the Ingraham cabinet has created a lot of intense political talk around the town. It was a master political stroke that the public welcomes and appreciates – in my view.
The move has shown up the political weaknesses and complacency of the likes of Zhavargo Laing, Tommy Turnquest, Carl Bethel, and other young but politically sluggish FNMs – who appear strictly comfortable with a good and prestigious job, and clearly lack the political ambition and vision necessary to keep the torch of a young generation burning with robust confidence and anticipation.
They have long forgotten one of the chief planks in the FNM propaganda campaign prior to the 1992 general election. It was term limits for a prime minister and party leader. We did not want Pindling to reign for life; nor do we want Ingraham to do the same. We demand a system that promotes political competition, and dynamic and progressive leadership. We do not believe that two Bahamian women have born one leader each that are exclusively capable of leading the affairs of our nation.
Mr. McCartney is in tuned with the status quo – that is ready for a new and prosperous brand of politics in The Bahamas. Hubert Ingraham and his PLP counterpart – Perry Christie - are expired products lingering unattractively on the Bahamian political shelf. They have become trite in the eyes of the people who long for a new era of political leadership and direction.
Brad McCartney has essentially said: Here I am, send me! He has signaled his interest in becoming leader of the FNM in short order. He has put his dull colleagues on the spot, and has told the masses that he is not interested in being a friendly neighborhood yes-man who is prepared to go with the unpopular flow of political window dressing and shameless underhandedness from the top.
Branville McCartney represents a new breed of politicians in The Bahamas - who are eager to serve the people with a progressively ambitious and productive agenda. He appears ready to tackle the vexing illegal immigration issue that has plagued The Bahamas for decades and even to this day – for example.
He looks ready to change the bureaucratically uncreative business as usual mentality in government, and replace it with an administration for and by the people. Brad McCartney is a budding leader who has challenged an old order in Bahamian politics that seems determined to enforce its detested will on an electorate longing for change that they really can believe in.
The resignation of Branville McCartney has a lasting impact on modern Bahamian politics. It signals a revolution in the making in the national political landscape.
It is hoped that Mr. McCartney would not relent in his drive for higher political office and social, economic, and political deliverance for a deserving people; as doing so will only result in a serious political backlash – like that of Algernon Allen when he turned thousands on to his one man game on the R.M Bailey Park some years back – then he bucked under heavy political pressure and returned shamelessly to his vomit. The rest is hard-to-swallow history.
Only time will reveal the genuineness of Mr. McCartney’s recent decision. The masses are watching with buoyant enthusiasm, and optimism. It is worth taking this matter sincerely Mr. McCartney, or the political exit heartlessly awaits you.
Bahamas Blog International
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