The Wednesday political clinics aren't what they used to be in the George Price days, and it's a practice that the UDP has never seemed quite at home with. But one UDP who's stayed with it is also the party's most successful – in terms of his margins of victory in successive elections. That's Michael Finnegan – but for the past two months or so – he hasn't been holding his clinic on Amara Avenue. And that's because Finnegan went to Houston for spinal surgery. He has a degenerative condition that wears out his spinal disks – making it difficult for him to get around. And so, today, still recovering from that surgery, the five term representative hobbled to his office for his first political clinic in weeks; he had to be helped up the stairs.
Finnegan, who boasted only 18 months ago that he saw 764 constituents at one clinic, told us he saw 150 people today and wrapped up the clinic in the early afternoon. He says most of the requests were for school assistance, and he will hobble back to the office next week.
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