But, how much of Finnegan's now public effort to get his nephew out of the leader's post has to do with saving his own legacy within the party that he and Dean Barrow helped to build from the 1970's?:
Jules
"There are those who will say if you all wanted to make an intervention. Yes, but we..."
"You could have done so earlier."
Michael Finnegan - Former 6-term Area Rep
"We did so quietly, the intervention was made but..."
Jules
"It was ineffective."
Michael Finnegan - Former 6-term Area Rep
"Yes, an intervention was made but it was quietly made to the players."
Jules
"But it didn't work?"
Michael Finnegan - Former 6-term Area Rep
"It didn't work."
Jules
"And that's why you're not being quiet this time."
Michael Finnegan - Former 6-term Area Rep
"This time we have to come out and talk because you know people are saying I got me to protect too, as you said earlier, you know, and the party to protect and the country to protect, you know what people are saying? That same Finnegan and Barrow and them are encouraging this to go on to go under the party and so people feel so and people have a right to feel so."