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PM again tells Karen to stay out PNM business

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Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley addresses supporters during the Leaders in Service meeting at the Diego Martin South Community Centre on Thursday.

Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley addresses supporters during the Leaders in Service meeting at the Diego Martin South Community Centre on Thursday.

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Gail Alexan­der

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley has again told elec­tion op­po­nent Karen Nunez-Tesheira to stay out of Peo­ple’s Na­tion Move­ment busi­ness.

He made the bat­tle cry when he ad­dressed a Lead­ers in Ser­vice meet­ing at the Diego Mar­tin South Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre on Thurs­day night.

This, as the LIS team seeks to win the PNM’s in­ter­nal ex­ec­u­tive elec­tions be­ing con­duct­ed to­day and to­mor­row and con­clud­ing at the De­cem­ber 4 con­ven­tion.

Out of an ini­tial to­tal of 42 can­di­dates, 38 are now con­test­ing. Four of the LIS team have been elect­ed un­op­posed: Camille Robin­son-Reg­is (la­dy vice chair­man), Fos­ter Cum­mings (gen­er­al sec­re­tary), Faris Al Rawi (PRO) and Je­niece Scott (youth of­fi­cer). The LIS team is up against 24 oth­er can­di­dates. Row­ley said elec­tions have con­se­quences, but said he had no dif­fi­cul­ty with any par­ty mem­ber of­fer­ing them­selves.

He said he’d said “pre­cious lit­tle” about lead­er­ship as­pi­rant Nunez-Tesheira. Her court case to de­lay PNM’s elec­tion failed on Wednes­day and she ap­pealed the de­ci­sion yes­ter­day.

Tak­ing is­sue with her claims, Row­ley added, “Tonight I want to say some­thing to her: if you have noth­ing to do and you have no mon­ey to col­lect and you have no curlers to put in your hair—stay out of PNM busi­ness!

“When an MP, a for­mer Fi­nance Min­is­ter for a few months whose on­ly record that can sur­vive is what was done and wasn’t done around Cli­co and a prop­er­ty tax that was not... I heard my op­po­nent say that some­body of­fered her a sen­a­tor­ship and she re­fused it. I want to make it abun­dant­ly clear that who­ev­er of­fered that la­dy a sen­a­tor­ship, it was not the PNM’s leader.

“Be­cause un­der no cir­cum­stances did I ever con­sid­er any­body with that kind of record to be any sen­a­tor in the op­po­si­tion (of the PNM). And if she name woman, she must name the per­son who of­fered the sen­a­tor­ship!

“As far as I know, the on­ly per­son who could have ap­point­ed sen­a­tors in the op­po­si­tion is me. And I know of no such ap­proach not even con­tem­plat­ed—far less to be of­fered. And then you come to Bal­isi­er House to of­fer to be the leader?”

Row­ley said when he be­came PNM leader, Nunez-Tesheira was just go­ing out of of­fice. He said among the things he met was a huge debt PNM owed, peo­ple de­mand­ing pay­ment and Bal­isi­er House staff couldn’t be paid.

He said as po­lit­i­cal leader, he’s al­so chair­man of the do­na­tions com­mit­tee.

“...Mean­ing, you have to find mon­ey to run the par­ty...”

He said he went to a par­ty mem­ber who “isn’t with­out some means” and re­lat­ed the sit­u­a­tion of be­ing un­able to pay staff and the per­son gave Row­ley the sup­port to pay the two months that was ow­ing and for an ex­tra month.

“If a par­ty mem­ber would have done that, what busi­ness is that of Karen Tesheira and Kam­la Per­sad- Bisses­sar?”

An­oth­er mem­ber to whom Row­ley al­so laid out PNM’s case, promised to help—but didn’t give any funds.

“I re­mem­ber dri­ving from there to my home think­ing how PNM had helped some peo­ple and I went to this man who could help and he didn’t give me a dol­lar.

“Ladies and gen­tle­men, the tears came to my eyes. I couldn’t be­lieve that in­grat­i­tude could be so in­grained in some peo­ple, that you could have ben­e­fit­ed so much from the PNM—and he let me leave with­out a dol­lar...”

On ac­cu­sa­tions about the Bal­isi­er House con­struc­tion, he said in the last 12 years, the par­ty had been rais­ing mon­ey to build new head­quar­ters on land in­her­it­ed from late founder Dr Er­ic Williams’ days.

He said Fi­nance had au­tho­rised the PNM to do three mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar raf­fles and al­most $30 mil­lion was raised.

“In one raf­fle, we raf­fled ten cars. My­self and (Fitzger­ald) Hinds spent week­end af­ter week­end out­side PriceS­mart and Hi Lo (Now Massy Stores) sell­ing tick­ets. I want to ask Karen Tesheira tonight —that she ask­ing where we get mon­ey from to build Bal­isi­er House—how many tick­ets you bought or sold?”

“And if you didn’t know we were build­ing Bal­isi­er House, you were sur­prised when you came there and see it —then stay to hell out of PNM busi­ness!

“You want to know where we get mon­ey from to build Bal­isi­er House! Twelve years of work and I have to lis­ten to oth­er peo­ple talk­ing about ‘she’s do­ing a won­der­ful thing, she’s de­fend­ing democ­ra­cy’. De­fend­ing democ­ra­cy? The PNM make democ­ra­cy in this coun­try.”


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