" Lazy Loretta " LOL....the only thing that is not lazy with the woman is her mouth.

Rumours are running rampant that Bran has promised LBT she can run under the DNA banner in the Montagu constituency if she senses Long Islanders will not give her the support she believes she deserves and that this apparent fact has greatly offended and incensed the constantly yapping little white-haired poodle who has very foolishly and prematurely proclaimed his undying loyalty to the Dimwitted Doc Minnis.

> who has very foolishly and prematurely proclaimed his undying loyalty to the Dimwitted Doc Minnis.

When did he do that?

Long Islanders are acting precipitously. Someone has gone and wound up the hot heads. It is to be expected and plays into the hands of the old guard FNM Council.

They may very well remove her, indeed I expect the old idiots to do so. And Long Island will become the one we can look back to for destroying the FNM......sad.

> They may very well remove her, indeed I expect the old idiots to do so. And Long Island will become the one we can look back to for destroying the FNM......sad.

Are you serious. Hubert Minnis and Loretta Butler Turner both have their share of actions that have not served the party well though ofcourse Minnis gets the lion share, but it is the Bahamian people of Long Island - who had absolutely no say in any of the things Minnis or Loretta have done - that would have destroyed the FNM?

We agree on that. It's a far stretch to say the people of Long
Island started this mess

Comrade Loretta needs to redo the math from the 2012 General and then rethink why she is not afraid of candidacy rejection by the good people of Long Island.
Loretta should be afraid of a petition circulating around Long islanders cause it's a guarantee that it has garnered more than 40% "no more Loretta for Long Island" from her 2012 core voters base.
Has Loretta forgotten that back in 2012, a stunning 46% of all Long Islanders who turned out to vote on election day, did not vote for her.
Loretta is the most likely of the Seven-Coup de théâtre MP's who will find themselves seat-less, once the 2017 General's bell get rungs.

The only reason that this has occurred is that a group of very old men (Wells, CA, Moore, Thompson and Dupuch with some of the original fossils of the FNM) have hijacked the party. They have resisted, as much as they could, having young council members and, by and large, have kept the old and decrepit as a large majority of the Council.

If they had allowed and encouraged a younger council we would not be in a situation where half the FNM's traditional voters want nothing to do with the FNM.

I keep running into people who either are not going to vote or will vote DNA again to protest the FNM.

Some have said that if Sears were to win the PLP leadership they would consider voting for the PLP before they vote FNM.

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Not true, there were rumours way back that long islanders were not happy with Loretta. I think these candidates overestimate their own worth, people are tied to the party not the individual, unfortunately. They "may" have voted for Loretta under the FNM banner or they "may" vote for Loretta under the DNA banner, but Loretta Independent could never win. This is what I saw as one of the fundamental flaws in her plan. She's damaged FNM goods and if she was gonna switch to DNA or start her own party, it should have been done. The fact that she hasn't tells me clearly there was no plan. Because this hanging on to the FNM with white knuckles isn't helping any of them.

The DNA miscalculated too. I don't believe they considered how many of their people would be upset over an alliance with Loretta

Man I told ya. . .ya advised LBT wrongly. . .doc has the support of the people. . .since yinna did not send us yall Papa we will take yinna doc over LBT. . .it een about yall in the party. . .THIS THE PEOPLE'S TINGS. . .GEE WE WHO WE WANT OR GET THE HECK OUTTA WE WAY! Now let us decide who we ger take. . .PGC, MOSS OR DOC! Bran done gone a shoot himself in his foot. . .he like LBT are lying all over the place just to get power. . ."ween fer dat"! The PLP done lie to us enough. . .why will we pick two persons who will lie at the drop oof a hat just to get power?

"*“Quite frankly elections are about getting the majority of the votes. You want to know if I am going to run in Long Island? I am not afraid of competition.*"

Amazing a"yes" or "no" question gets response "I am not afraid of competition". But maybe she is afraid of straight answers.

How quickly Bahamians forget Loretta was the first on the ground coordinating relief after Hurricane Joaquin, while Perry and Minnis was flying from island to island. The PLP has repeatedly said they will not do anything for Long Island because Loretta lambasted them in the last FNM administration. Please name one thing the PLP has done in any of the opposition constituencies worth mentioning.

the failures of others does not give credence to another individual.

She was not the first. Head Knowles was the first. Anyway, Loretta's problem is Loretta. If she had not pulled the backstabbing stunt, people "would" probably be talking about her being the "first on the ground", instead they're talking about her being a back stabber.

Too much speculation, wait and see how it will play out with the FNM's disciplinary board. I am sure she is not stupid enough to not plan for the worst case sanerio, which is being dumped by the FNM.

They will not dump her. . .they done most damage to her by just "kicking her out" from Long Island seat. . .she don't appear smart enough to see what has been done to her. . .I WILL NOT SAY WHAT I SEE COMING FOR HER NOW. . .ALL GUNS ARE POINTED AT HER ALONE!! ENOUGH SAID. . .LET HER CHAIRING SECTION ON THIS SITE "FIGURE OUT" WHAT THE NEXT SHOE IS LIKE. SHE DID THIS TO HERSELF. . .THE MONEY PEOPLE WILL BACK DOC. . .THEY HAVE THEIR GREED TOO YA KNOW. . .THEY WANT TO WIN. . .OR HERE COMES 5 MORE YEARS OF PGC!

Mrs. Butler-Turner has the opinion that the Leader of the FNM is a weak leader and has taken the action to support her principles and vision for the Bahamas and Bahamians. Real born and raised Long Islanders have always supported individuals who are willing to take action to support their principles. Let be real, if a party (any party) nominate a candidate,who does not live in and among their constituency is really not interesting representing the people of that constituency but only in becoming a government. When you have a weak leader, you are always going to have an Individual or group of individuals that will try to seize leadership power. In a government it can only mean continued chaos and indecisions.

As of today ........... If LBT runs as a "third party" candidate in Long Island in 2017, she will end up in last place ............. 1. FNM (800 votes) ..... 2. PLP (400 votes) ........... 3. LBT (100 votes) ............. 4. Unregistered/Non-voters 300