'If I lose' - Rowe
Published:Monday | March 23, 2009 | 2:39 PM
Kenneth Rowe, the PNP\'s contender for the Western Portland seat says he intends to lick his wounds and rebound if he loses today\'s by-election against the Jamaica Labour Party\'s Daryl Vaz.
\"If I lose then I will do what losers do. You lick your wounds for a couple of days and then come again,\" Rowe said.
Today\'s by-election is the second time that Rowe is facing West Portland in a national poll.
In 2002 he contested the seat for the JLP but despite cutting Errol Ennis\'s 2000-plus margin he lost by 281 votes.
He switched allegiance to the PNP after Vaz whipped him to win the chairmanship of the constituency in 2005.
After casting his vote at the Hart Hill Basic school this morning Rowe says politics is about being able to rise again after disappointments.
\"You might fall but you don\'t stay down. You get up again, refocus and aim for the next election,\" Rowe said.
That said though, Rowe believes he will be elected MP at the end of this evening.
\" I am very confident that I will win. My organisation on the ground is superb and we are going to take it home,\" Rowe said.