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Christopher Famous, JP, MP

Christopher Famous, JP, MP

2498
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266,425
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154
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28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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When people —I would encourage people to do ancestry.com—
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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—test. You find out a lot.
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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That is how I found out I am related to the Honourable Member from constituency . . . what i s that one? [Inaudible interjection]
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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[Constituency] 12? Y es, that is it. Cousin . [Inaudible interjections and laughter ]
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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[Constituency] 12. Yes. Cannonier’s are from the same villages as the Famous ’s. Mr. Speaker —
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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I was . . . I knocked off this morning, so I was too tired to make the morning session. So, my apologies. So , I missed saying the condolences. I want to give condo lences to [our] (some of us) friend, Mr. Cyrus Ratteray of Warwick . So, I would like to associate with —
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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Yes. I went to see his wife and his daughter earlier and I told her that — [Inaudible interjections]
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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–Okay.
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker , all I would say is Bermuda lost a great man. He was an ambassador in the minibu ses. He was everybody's friend. There was nobody he would have anything bad to say about —maybe PHC football rivalry, but . . . 238 28 March 2025 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly Mr. Speaker, in accordance with …
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, let me move on to my substantive —
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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—part. Someone asked me earlier, Hey, what do MPs in other countries make? And I said, Hmm. Then I r emember I did a graph. Cayman Islands, $150,000. Virgin Islands, $100,000. Turks and Caicos, $ 75,000. I am just leaving it at that , Mr. Speaker because there is another issue that I would like to address that the Honourable …
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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Sounds familiar.
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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You know what he got? How much percentage of the vote that he got ? [He got] 49.7 per cent of the popular vote. [Inaudible interjections]
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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No one ever said he did not have a mandate to be president. Anybody ever heard of America's first B lack president? What was his name?
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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Bill Clinton was first elected in 1992, for my YPDers , t hat was way before your time. And Bill Clinton got 43 per cent . George Bush got 37 per cent , and a guy named Ross Perot got 19 per cent . The point being no one ever questioned his legitimacy . Mr. Speaker, late last year in …
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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Somebody needs to listen. If the fish didn't open his mouth, he wouldn't get caught. But anyway, I said no one questioned their legitima cy. Mr. Speaker, that is a distinct difference. Mr. Speaker , in the country that is our administrative power, which is called the United Kingdom , they had an election last year. Can anyone guess what …
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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Can we sit there and say, Well, you only got one- third of the votes, so you're not a legitimate government .
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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Oh, that is—
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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I will get to— Bermuda House of Assembly The Speaker: Look at that turnout .
28 Mar 2025 House of Assembly
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That is my c losing argument, Mr. Speaker.