Posted on 07/27/2015 1:31:57 PM PDT by jimbo123
Presidential contender and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will be courting a critical group of voters Monday afternoon – the fast growing community of Latinos in Central Florida, an area where the Republican last campaigned in 2002.
Hundreds of thousands of Latinos, mainly Puerto Ricans, have settled in Central Florida in the years since Bush last served as governor. They include many Puerto Ricans who have fled the island’s economic woes and diminishing opportunities.
(Excerpt) Read more at latino.foxnews.com ...
Fixed it.
Did they?
They can’t afford statehood!
Yes, Puerto Rico voted for statehood in 2012 but Congress hasn’t done anything because of the same reason it resisted admission for other territories: admitting a new state would dilute the rest of the states’ power because the number of Congressmen is fixed, so some would have to give up some seats. And Puerto Rico, because of its population size, would have more Congressmen than half of the current states.
“Nobody ever talks about Guam or the Virgin Islands or American Samoa becoming states. Yet there is this fixation with Puerto Rico becoming a state. Why?”
Because there is no comparison in size or population between PR and the rest of the territories. Puerto Rico is the size of Connecticut and its population is over 3.5 million.
The number of Congress members can be changed, it’d just take effort
Bush`s Maid Deported (Jeb and Columba Flashback 1991)
While presidential scion Jeb Bush was out jogging last week, Miami immigration officials deported his maid to her native Honduras.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3317321/posts
That's a plausible explanation. Also, Puerto Rico is way poorer than the poorest state, Mississippi on per capita basis.
¡Jeb! Eso es cómo.
Fox News Latino? That says it all.
Neither can any of the other fifty entities that were suckered into statehood.
And?
The ship is lost.
The pro-statehood party on the island (PNP) has both Republican and Democrat members. For example, the current delegate to Congress, Pedro Pierluisi, is a member of the PNP and supports statehood, but is affiliated with the Democrats nationally. The other parties on the island (the "maintain the status quo" party (PPD) and the pro-Independence party (PIP), which has declined in popularity and is now somewhat of a fringe movement, have only Democrats as members)
PNP members will occasionally support a fellow pro-statehood candidate over a non-statehood candidate, even if the fellow pro-statehood candidate is affiliated with a different party nationally. (i.e. a pro-statehood Republican from Puerto Rico will help a pro-statehood Democrat from Puerto Rico who has national ambitions)
One issue with maintaining the status quo is the islanders can now vote in Presidential primaries, but not general elections. So they get to affect the nominee of each party, but not determine who wins in November.
Has Jeb EVER campaigned for AMERICA citizen votes?
I don’t think so.
Jeb should just go ahead and move to the family compound in Paraguay right now. He’d clearly feel more comfortable there.
Does Jeb ever spend any time around white people, other than wealthy contributors? All I ever see is him hanging around with Ricans and Mexicans, none of whom are significant GOP primary voters in any state.
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