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Mark J. Pettingill

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6 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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I am looking at page B- 20, the General Summary with regard to the Boundaries Commission.
6 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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That is correct. Line 73005. Madam Chairman, let me just say this because I have heard some potential, I guess, criticism with regard to the process in relation to the Bounda-ries Commission. I was a member of that commission. And I have to say that I found the entire process to be extremely fair, extremely reasonable. I found getting along …
6 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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No, I realise that. But obviously, I have to —
6 Mar 2017 House of Assembly
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I am just saying that how those were applied with regard to financing, there was enough that was expended in relation to it. My hon-ourable colleagues and I spent a number of days in one another’s company, including the Independent Members who came from other jurisdictions to sit on the Boundaries Commission. I think that the numbers that are reflected …
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, there are two debates , in my view , that are going on tonight . And they are head and heart debates. I have been, for some time, fundamentally torn over this issue of this airport development. Fundamentally . And the Honourable Member who just took his seat, who , certainly, I regard as a friend of mine, …
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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We do that . I remember something that the Honourable Zane De Silva said some years ago that resonated with me shortly before I quit the Mid Ocean Club. He said, Do not stand up as a white Anglo- Saxon and tell people come on down, you are welcome at Mid Ocean if you are black, you can come on …
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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No. I have sat in so many places in this House I get confused when I walk in the door . I know who I am; I just do not always know where I am. There are many people that feel —and I am one of them —that the UBP is taking back over what was an alliance.
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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And people look at you and say, Well, let ’s have a look . And , you know, facts are reality. The facts are reality . And coming back to the Anglo -Saxon thing, we are just like a bunch of white Anglo -Saxon ostriches with our heads in the ground if we do not see that this perception is …
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Wow ! Hon. Dennis P. Lister: They knocked it down for it.
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Let me go, Dennis. I got it. I got you. [Laughter]
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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It needs to be said by me. Right? I got it.
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Let me know. 576 10 February 2017 Official Hansard Report Bermuda House of Assembly And you look at that side of the field or that side of the road and you have a dilapidated local football club and the big sign as you drive in is B ristol Rovers. I nearly ran the bike into the wall a few times, …
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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I got it, Dennis. I got it. I got it, Dennis.
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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I got it.
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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We have to recognise that when we have a project like this and it is going back and forth and suddenly , at the el eventh hour , we come out with a Blue R ibbon Panel and . . . Gat darn (am I allowed to say that?) , what a panel ! Let us be honest. It is …
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Okay. But this is the one. So you go all through it . . . Now this is the head. Question answered. Question answered. Question on the facts answered. A nd I am looking at it dispassionately , saying , Is this a commercially sound deal? And I get through it and the whole reason for this speech is because …
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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And I do not like . . . hold on. I do not like everything that was done in opposition to this. I vehemently oppose people protesting and blocking admission to this House. It is a criminal offence. I have shared that with my honourable friends on the other side. It did not happen today because some real leadership intervened …
10 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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—that the entire project would have benefitted from much clearer disclosure of the transaction earlier on. We wasted valuable time on this because of Issue 17. It took people bringing parties together and all kinds of things to get us in here today because of Issue 17. So I have to, with my head, look at it and say a …
3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I will start by saying, and I di scussed with the Minister presenting the [Regulations], and also he discussed with me. I am conflicted in the sense that I have a number of gaming operator cl ients, or have had, and still have existing clients in r elation to the industry in Bermuda in …
3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As I us ually would say in court, you have a note of my last comment? That’s okay. I’ll work on it. So, the point is that with that type of inves tment into a boutique casino in a jurisdiction that is untested, untried, with the airlift that it has, with the traffic that it has …