Posted on 11/07/2015 3:21:16 PM PST by GIdget2004
Ben Carson will endorse statehood for Puerto Rico tomorrow at an event with Ricky Rosello, a gubernatorial candidate for the pro-statehood party on the island, according to a source close to Rosello's campaign.
The source said the condition for Carson speaking at the event was that he come out for statehood. A request for comment from Carson's campaign on the endorsement was not immediately returned.
The issue of statehood for Puerto Rico, a commonwealth of the United States, does not neatly breakdown along traditional Democrat and Republican lines on the island, which is also dealing with a financial and health care crisis.
Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio have previously said they support statehood if Puerto Ricans vote for it. Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush have endorsed bankruptcy protections for the island, but Rubio does not.
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... digging the hole he’s in ever deeper.
The affirmative-action wing of FR will applaud this.
Two more liberal senators, what? three more commie lib congressmen.
He’s been absorbed....
The majority of Puerto Ricans don’t want statehood. They have most of the rights of citizenship already.
No doubt.
Right. Great plan. Lets add two democrat senators and who knows how many D congress critters Congress.
For a Doctor he doesn’t seem to think things through.
Hey Carson, bye, bye.
What a disappointment.
With this and amnesty, he’s becoming Black Yeb!
Why doesn’t he advocate for Mexican Statehood while he’s at it
They'll be too busy typing out insults that we're racist if we say that another state, one which would be for-sure Democratic, is the height of Idiocracy.
Why bring up this issue now? To make conservatives appear "racist"? Or is Dr. Carson really this dumb?
FUBC!!
“The affirmative-action wing of FR will applaud this.”
yup. I caught a couple of these liberal white guilt Freepers...
How about Guam, the Virgin Islands, and a few others? Ben, shut up while you still have a chance.
This subject has been talked about for decades. But I’ve never understood what benefit there is to the rest of us to make PR the 51st state.
And I never understand talk of Puerto Rico being a state, but never talk of the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa etc becoming states. What is so unique about Puerto Rico among American possessions that it deserves statehood???
Statehood for Taiwan!
Along with a US EEZ of two hundred miles!
What the heck.
He cannot win the democrat primary without doing this
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