Damion Crawford dismisses ‘gimmicks’ tag, points to JLP ‘hypocrisy’
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Opposition Spokesman on Education, Damion Crawford is questioning critics who have suggested that he is into gimmicks rather than substance.
“Sometime I have to remind myself say the world nuh level because everything the Rasta do is a problem!” he told a sea of comrades gathered in Cross Roads, St Andrew on Saturday night.
Crawford was recently criticised for a video he made appearing to wipe the windshields of cars in the Corporate Area. He was taken to task for mocking the circumstances of windshield wipers.
But, on Saturday night, Crawford pointed to one Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) politician who played TOK’s anti-homosexual song, ‘Chi Chi Man’ on several political platforms, and it was not labeled as gimmicks.
“When Anju (Andrew Holness) run a whole election on Clarks, dem no say it is gimmicks. When him go tek JUTC bus dem no say it is gimmicks. When him tek off him shoes and walk in a river, dem no say it is gimmicks. When him gone a Half-Way Tree gone give out flyer, dem no say it is gimmicks, but every time I talk dem say it is gimmicks!” Crawford lamented.
He also questioned why some ribbon-cutting exercises by the government were not branded as gimmicks.
Noting that he is a lecturer in marketing, Crawford said he pulled his educational background in the field to try to figure out why Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness was handing out booklets of his government’s achievements in traffic.
“A put mi marketing brain and a say, ‘Listen, this couldn’t be nothing but political theatre, because you have two million voters and one day a Half-Way Tree could not reach two million voters,” Crawford suggested.
“I say why is Andrew doing this? He must be trying to say he is from the people and he is of the people, but when they were locking up thousands of youth in jail under states of emergency he wasn’t from the people,” the Opposition senator claimed.
He also lambasted the seeming inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw small business owners being forced to close their doors while big entertainment events were allowed to be held.
