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or the 25,000 houses he said he built as Minister of Construction, let me help you all out by posting Bruce's glittering record in elections since 1972.
*1972- Elected as Member of Parliament for West St Catherine beat Prince Golding 5,184 to 4,291
*1976- Beaten in election in SW St Catherine by Ruddy Lawson 7188 to 5254
*1983 Won Central St Catherine by default
*1989 won Central St Catherine seat-beat Vin Edwards 12,062 to 6852
1997 left to form the NDM
*1997- Soundly beaten by political neophyte Babsy Grange after being MP for 15 years. 5746 to 3517 (PNP guy 2250)
*2005-Won by-election for West Kingston seat 8503 over Whitter 1181
So in all Bruce won three elections, two in seats where even a dog in green cant lose.
Lets look at the stats a bit here Lazie, Bruce gained a total of 70 votes after being a MP for four years in 1976- Very impressive.
After being MP in Central St Catherine for 15 years his same constituents ran him out of town, certainly he would have done some good in that time or the dunce electorate just bad mind and cant think?
Lets us not forget his running between the JLP and DNM seeking power...he could not wrest power from an aging and increasingly impotent (as a leader) Seaga, so he left to form the NDM. Then realising he would never be the PM there he wormed his way back to the JLP where this time he had a posse of equally power hungry pope like James Robertson etc to help him finally unseat Seaga.
And we wonder why the One Don has kept far from the campaign and his few utterances have done mo to damage the JLP election hopes than to help them.
*1972- Elected as Member of Parliament for West St Catherine beat Prince Golding 5,184 to 4,291
*1976- Beaten in election in SW St Catherine by Ruddy Lawson 7188 to 5254
*1983 Won Central St Catherine by default
*1989 won Central St Catherine seat-beat Vin Edwards 12,062 to 6852
1997 left to form the NDM
*1997- Soundly beaten by political neophyte Babsy Grange after being MP for 15 years. 5746 to 3517 (PNP guy 2250)
*2005-Won by-election for West Kingston seat 8503 over Whitter 1181
So in all Bruce won three elections, two in seats where even a dog in green cant lose.
Lets look at the stats a bit here Lazie, Bruce gained a total of 70 votes after being a MP for four years in 1976- Very impressive.
After being MP in Central St Catherine for 15 years his same constituents ran him out of town, certainly he would have done some good in that time or the dunce electorate just bad mind and cant think?
Lets us not forget his running between the JLP and DNM seeking power...he could not wrest power from an aging and increasingly impotent (as a leader) Seaga, so he left to form the NDM. Then realising he would never be the PM there he wormed his way back to the JLP where this time he had a posse of equally power hungry pope like James Robertson etc to help him finally unseat Seaga.
And we wonder why the One Don has kept far from the campaign and his few utterances have done mo to damage the JLP election hopes than to help them.
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