Dear Editor,
 
When the House of Assembly last met the prime minister repeated a foolish statement  which he first said at the launch of his candidates in Grand Bahama: that the PLP has lots of money and that they (voters) must take the PLP's money and vote FNM.
While there is a role for fun, jokes and humor in politics, this is no time in such a grave economic climate to make such a joke.  Fun and games need to be put aside.  The serious and underlying message of the comment is to support political prostitution.  We have enough of the evil influence of money on our politics for a prime minister to be engaged in this tomfoolery.
The PLP's campaign is adequately funded.  The PLP is not a rich organization but it can and will meet the ordinary expenses of running a general election.  It can match the ordinary expenses of an election in a fair competition with the FNM.  But we must remember that this is an FNM going into a general election with its coffers fat and brimming from all the multi-million dollar contracts that it has given to its supporters, lining their pockets with the treasury's money.  The PLP cannot match that form of corruption in politics.  Nor is it in the business of corrupting elections like the UBP and its successor the FNM have repeatedly done.
The PLP is poised to win this general election and voters should not be fooled by the prime minister's reverse psychology.   It is the FNM's intention to buy support given their desperate political situation.  I as a PLP will fight this at every turn with every fiber in my being.  Ingraham and his party are bad for The Bahamas and must go.
 
- Fred Mitchell, MP

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