JO - How the West (Portland) was won.

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Jamaica Observer

How the West (Portland) was won.


Three Portia Simpson Millers could not take me out - Vaz


By Desmond Allen Executive Editor Special Coverage Unit specialcoverageunit@jamaicaobserver.com


Sunday, March 29, 2009

DARYL Vaz didn't think he was being pompous when he declared on nomination day for the West Portland by-election that he would win by over 2,000 votes. And it didn't bother him that not even close Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) colleagues took him seriously. In the end, he won by 2,294.

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"Vaz discloses that he worked to convert loyal PNP supporters and did. "They chose performance over loyalty." But he admits to some element of luck, at the expense of Abe Dabdoub, his erstwhile opponent in the general election, and the PNP campaign focus.
"The court action over dual citizenship sensitised the people of West Portland and threw the spotlight on the fact that I was working. They were not going to leave me after that. Got a lot of support and commitment from non-JLP supporters," he says. "