Posted on 11/28/2017 9:51:22 AM PST by 4Runner
A few days before the presidential election on November 8, with Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton trying to defend herself from the FBI announcement that they had resumed an investigation into her emails, her rival, Donald Trump, traveled to Florida and met with a group of Puerto Ricans.
On Trump's side was Reince Priebus, then president of the Republican National Committee, and now chief of Staff of president-elect.
On the Puerto Rican side were Puerto Rican congressman Raúl Labrador, some 40 Puerto Rican leaders from the Orlando area and, from the island, John Regis, Trump's campaign spokesman here, and Gloria Escudero, former commissioner of the regulatory Board of Telecommunications.
In the middle, as an organizer, a government official with a successful career as a Republican lobbyist, who changed from the side of Marco Rubio to Trump and who came to defend on television to the now president-elect.
With Trump's surprise election to the US presidency, former Secretary of Justice of the first administration Rosselló, José Fuentes Agostini, has become probably the Puerto Rican's largest projection in the Trump administration, for the Benefit of its political allies, such as the new Resident Commissioner Jennifer Gonzalez, and her clients, such as the municipality of Bayamón and the companies Fonalledas.
When Noticel reached him last week, he was aligning Puerto Rican prospects to submit them as candidates for major executive positions in the federal capital. He's not interested in one of those, but he's looking to "see how we put our people ."
"I think in Puerto Rico are trying to project that Donald Trump's election is going to be bad and I honestly think it's quite the opposite, he knows Puerto Rico ... and I think we have a person who understands Puerto Rico's economic situation better than anyone else and that Going to be very positive , "said FuenFuentes Agostini about the entrepreneur who, during the administration Acevedo Vilá, was in Puerto Rico to realize the use of his name as a franchise for the Trump International Golf Club in Rio Grande, which, last year, was accepted to the bankruptcy law.
As proof of commitment, Fuentes Agostini offered details of the one-hour meeting on November 2 in Orlando that he organized and with which the President-elect agreed with the Puerto Rican community.
Fuentes Agostini did not elaborate names of the 40 Puerto Rican leaders in business, religious and political activists but from the island were Regis and Escudero and that he managed to make Labrador travel on Trump's plane throughout Florida in that campaign raid.
"We were with that group of Puerto Rico gathered and talked about all aspects, religion, health, status and primarily the economy of Puerto Rico and Donald Trump is very clear of all those things ," he said. On the status, he said that if he wins statehood, he will promote it in Congress.
"Puerto Rico has three problems," said Fuentes Agostini quoting Trump at that meeting. "One, you have to reduce your debt and that's up to the Fiscal Control board to renegotiate those bonds and lower the debt." "Two, you have to balance your budget, and, three, you have to run your economy again and the first thing I would do is to lower all those taxes imposed by the Liberal government over the past four years and we will help here."
Similar to what the candidate Primarista Democrat proposed, Senator Bernie Sanders, that help would be an infrastructure revitalization program. "In addition to that," they talked about education, asked why in Puerto Rico public schools are not teaching English at the same level as Spanish, not to be state, but because they can not compete in the world economy if they do not know English , "added the main of the F Irma Eastport Strategies.
About health, the focus of the conversation was not the quality of the services, rather, it was the one that "health insurance companies were going to break if they didn't leave the plan (Obamacare) and talked about parity in Medicare and Medicaid," he said in reference to the contributions of between $ 200 and $300 million that health insurance does for Obamacare although in Puerto Rico it is legislateded so that the benefits of health reform do not apply to citizens.
In two other matters, Fuentes Agostini assured that the federal Internal Revenue Service's endorsement would be maintained to the tax payable in Puerto Rico by companies on the income they repatriate to the United States, as long as it is maintained at current levels and is not It will allow no "deception" similar to reviving contributory exemptions to the extinct model section 936. And, on the board, the lobbyist raised that the Trump understands that "they have an obligation to help Puerto Rico reduce its debt." Fuentes Agostini accepted that he knows well the President of the board, José Carrión III, but has not had conversations with him about the functioning of the organism.
Fuentes Agostini, like Carrión, has stood out for his donations to Republican candidates and that party. In fact it was one of the "bundlers " (People who not only donate but who agglutinate other donors to increase their contributions) of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, accumulating $138.197 in donations for personal title, and $105.600 in donations as " Bundler , according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Of the Democrats, has donated to Congressman Jose Serrano.
"I am Trump's Hispanic Advisory Committee and we met twice with him during the campaign ," he said.
"The most I do is help the business development ," said the lobbyist.
The original post was without a complete English translation. I have re-translated the entire Spanish text and pasted all of it into the "Body of Thread" box so it can be read in its entirety in English. Some spots are kind of rough. The translation isn't perfect and some of the pasted text may be missing a word or two.
The translator box on Google only takes a certain number of characters so you have to keep going back to get all of the text done in bits and pieces.
I'm thinking this article may have some relevance now in light of recent developments this month in Florida and Puerto Rico, where Florida is about to be inundated with the Puerto Rican equivalent of another "Mariel boatlift". I can't help but think the decision for 800,000 Puerto Ricans to suddenly desert the Island and "move" to Florida was discussed and prepared for in advance by groups and influential political people after the extent of hurricane devastation was more clearly realized.
A mass relocation is a very neat way for these dual citizens to "double dip" both federal and state welfare benefits at the same time fixing the Island's severe debt problems which its government has been continually unable to resolve, which includes bankruptcy. Relocating your citizens to the mainland and dumping their needs onto the backs of the U.S. taxpayers would be very tempting, and would be a lesson learned from watching how Mexico did it.
I can't believe this movement has not had serious organization behind it. Relocating 800,000 of your citizens doesn't happen spontaneously. But no one is asking the question,"Who set this thing up?" Rick Scott? Donald Trump? The Governor of Puerto Rico? The Democrat National Committee? The Mayor of Miami? Who put this ball in play?
The adverse effects upon Florida's economy, crime levels, law enforcement, road safety, schools, communities, hospitals, healthcare system overload, and yes even national security, from this massive "relocation" cannot be overstated. We don't know who else is coming into Florida with those 800,000, do we?
We need some answers from Tallahassee and fast. And from DC as well, as to how Florida is expected to absorb an influx of demands for services that are going to be made by 800,000 displaced people thrust upon its residents and communities.
And how are Florida's residents going to be assured that this massive relocation isn't some sort of "Trojan Horse" whose contents we can only guess at?
I would suggest we email and write our elected officials and demand answers to these questions. The media is all but silent on this and I believe that is a very bad sign.
It is surely a “Trojan Horse” for new Democrat voters. Florida will never again vote Republican in Presidential elections or in the Senatorials. That should tip the EC into Democrat territory permanently.
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