Just how long will the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) tolerate Chairman/Senator Fred Mitchell using his position to launch personal attacks on those that criticize him?

“Statement of Senator Fred Mitchell

Chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party

On Response To The National Review

For Immediate Release

1 November 2017

Excerpt from this statement, “I continue to be amazed at the nastiness and low life journalism of Candia Dames and the Nassau Guardian.  What a nasty, filthy comment she made this morning.  It is no wonder I once accused her of having saw dust for brains.  I now say that she is dull as nails and all of her commentary on me, the PLP and its leaders should be ignored.

The comments she made in her National Review this morning are so nasty and unbecoming, the owners of The Guardian should be thoroughly ashamed of her.  Ms. Dames cannot prescribe for PLP’s how we ought to react to FNM drivel and nastiness. Like will be met with like.”

Exactly what are these comments that have Chairman Fred Mitchell’s ‘drawers in a bunch’, to have him resort to comments that are ‘so nasty and unbecoming’ that the executives and party leaders of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), whom he represents, should be ‘thoroughly ashamed’ of him?

“The issue is not the dancing – Mitchell’s lame criticism of PM’s dancing” – The National Review; The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “New Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Fred Mitchell has demonstrated out of the gate that he intends to be petty, desperate and highly hypocritical in his criticism of the Minnis administration – but we expected no different from him.

Early Monday, Mitchell released a statement criticizing Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis for dancing with his wife, Patricia, at the Free National Movement Meritorious Council Members Celebratory Ball, ‘while thousand of those who voted for him are suffering from unemployment, hunger and deprivation.

The observation was made by a man who sat in a Cabinet with a leader known for dancing at public events straight through the PLP’s recent term – a period in which the national economy failed to grow, Grand Bahama prospects declined, tens of thousands of Bahamians remained on the unemployment line and crime became a growing nightmare.”  Knowing Chairman Mitchell he probably did not get past the first paragraph of this article before he ‘ran hot’ and needed to consoled but I fail to see the ‘nastiness’ in the comments and observation, unless  the chairman of the PLP is offended by the truth itself.

I wonder if Chairman Mitchell was offended by Ms. Dames’ criticism of the former prime minister’s actions and those of his government, which the chairman highlighted by his criticisms in the first place; or was he offended by the fact that her criticism of him [the chairman himself], brought to light his rank hypocrisy and duplicity?

The main questions of concern here now being , is the chairman really going on this petty attack on a member of the press in defense of his party and the former prime minister or is he simply seeking to defend himself after being labeled as “petty, desperate and highly hypocritical?

At some point the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) will have to decide if Senator Mitchell as party chairman, is acting in the best interest of the party or further damaging the party’s already tarnished image by launching ‘petty and desperate’ attacks in defense of his “good name”.

Respect will be met with respect; as will the lack thereof.

The Progressive Liberal Party fails for one reason, it is their nature.

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