…to panhandle??
Another day and another surprise in the wild and wacky world of PNC politics!! This morning, your Eyewitness woke up to find a notice placed by Volda Lawrence – whom I presume is still the chairman of the PNC, even though the leader, David Granger, isn’t sending her to Parliament – indicating that she’d signed up with “GoFundMe”. Yep! That’s right – the crowdfunding site you normally hear about when folks want to get help with their tuition, or to take care of their spastic child or something – cause they’re down and out!!
Oh, how low has the mighty fallen!! Isn’t this the same Volda Lawrence who’d sole-sourced that $632 million pharma contract to ANSA McAL right after the PNC slid into office, and she was the Minister of Public Health?? Last when you Eyewitness looked, Volda had garnered a measly US$223 towards her goal of US$20,000, even though it had been shared 1700 times. 1700 of the faithful, and all they could come up with is US$223?? He was shocked, to say the least. Couldn’t the Country Manager of ANSA have chipped in with even US$1000??
Then there was the (in)famous incident wherein she blurted out to her PNC audience, “The only friends I got is PNC, so the only people I gon give wuk to is PNC; and right now I looking for a doctor who can talk Spanish or Portuguese, and ah want one that is PNC”!! Can’t all the PNC people she found “wuk” for – especially the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking ones – pass around a hat to get a collection for poor Volda??
In the plea for funding via GoFundMe, Volda explained that she’d be using the US$20,000 to expose the nefarious PPP Government and their shifty ways in the days ahead. But hold it!! Isn’t that the work of the Opposition PNC, which, as a Constitutional office, receives funding for both an office and salaries for the Opposition Leader?? Is Volda implying that Lil Joe Harmon, the Opposition Leader and heir apparent, isn’t capable of doing his job when he gets into Parliament??
Jeez!! Look how pugnacious he was during the five-month war of attrition!! Almost as fierce as Volda was when she’d stormed the barricades at Red House to pull down that Cheddi Jagan sign!! But talking about Lil Joe, your Eyewitness is reminded about the US$40,000 PER MONTH that gentleman was able to get so easily from “PNC supporters” to pay those Washington lobbyists. Couldn’t Lil Joe pass on his list of those supporters to Volda, and spare her the embarrassment of electronically “panhandling”??
Brother, can you spare a dime??
…to take on Granger??
But seriously, folks…your Eyewitness doesn’t think it’s the PPP that Volda Lawrence has in her sights – that honour goes to nobody else but Granger!! Her having to resort to GoFundMe means that not only has he locked her out of Parliament, but also out of the PNC’s kitty. She realises that he’s out to wipe out not just her, but all the old-line PNCites who really have more legitimacy to PNC leadership that he has, being the outsider.
This is a battle for survival, dear readers, and no holds will be barred nor would any mercy be shown. Granger has a big surprise in store for him: unlike his experience in “this man’s army”, the backbone of the PNC has always been women. And not just any “women”, but women of a certain breeding and rambunctiousness, which Lawrence represents to a “T”. Those “females” whom Granger sent to Parliament just don’t cut it; Volda’s brigade will chew them up and spit them out for breakfast!!
Did Granger see the mob on Monday in front of the Magistrate’s Courts?
Beware!!
…and strategy
Granger was trained in tactics that those seeking to overthrow him will start on the outskirts, like Norton did in 2011 from Linden.
But Volda will be going directly for his jugular – Georgetown!!
