Posted on 10/16/2017 12:09:43 PM PDT by Hadean
SAN JUAN -- Sen. Bill Nelson doesn’t know how many Puerto Ricans have made their way to Florida since Hurricane Maria ravaged the Caribbean island on Sept. 20. And he doesn’t know how many plan to stay on the mainland as their home slowly recovers.
But if they plan to stick around the Sunshine State, the Florida Democrat wants them to go to the polls in 2018, when he’s up for reelection.
“If they will register to vote, which I’m certainly going to encourage, because I can tell you among the Puerto Rican community in the greater Orlando area, they have been very embracing of my public service,” he said at a San Juan news conference after Puerto Rican reporter asked him about the post-storm migration. “The question is how many will want to register, and how many will want to return.”
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
We need to import folks from Venezuela to cancel them out.
Yes, and die hard Democrats to the bone.
Nah, let them stay down there. We don’t need them up here.
I wish them well, but I know what them registering and voting up here will result in.
How could anyone watch democrats behave like this and not be cynical?
I imagine Mrs. Nelson’s little Billy will threaten them with jail if they don’t “register”. The commie ‘RAT speaks.
Can’t let a good crisis go to waste.
5.56mm
I imagine Billy will be welcoming them to the DNC plantation with “welcome baskets” full of Food Stamps.
LIBRE PUERTO RICO!!!!!!
Governor Scott is the likely candidate and recent polling has him ahead of Nelson.
Of course he does.
Translation: ‘Please register to vote and vote for me and my party, since we can help you with benefits! Thank you...’
Whoa! Not until they become naturalized citizens.
I’m seeing more and more Puerto Rican flags in cars around town here in the Jacksonville, FL area. Never you to see that much at all. It’s pretty clear these Latin Dems are going to swamp us eventually and turn the state blue, IMO.
If they are Democrats then they don’t need to register.
I don’t know, when I was in Florida a little over a decade ago, there were a fair number of Puerto Ricans. My son and his PR wife were living there as a compromise because she couldn’t stand winter weather. Then the 2008 “Big Short” happened and two years later they moved to PR to start over. Here is more info on Trump and PR.
Hero man crashed again re “fairness/equality”.....
Democratic senator Bill Nelson (Fla.) has been avoiding common campaign expenses such as paying payroll tax and providing benefits such as health insurance by staffing his reelection effort solely through contractors, a rarely used and frowned-upon tactic.
Nelson’s filings with the Federal Election Commission so far this cycle contain no disbursements for payroll or salary, nor payments for payroll taxes that come along with having salaried workers. Also missing are any payments for health insurance, which campaigns provide to full-time employees. . . .
A campaign finance expert who discussed Nelson’s disclosure with the Washington Free Beacon called the structure “completely uncommon.”
“Campaigns do have tons of contractors, that’s not uncommon, what’s completely uncommon is to have no employees,” the expert said.
The campaign filings of Nelson’s fellow incumbent Democrats running in tight races back up the claim.
A review of filings this cycle for 10 other Democrat reelection campaigns—senators Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Joe Manchin (W.V.), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Heidi Heitkamp (N.D.), Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Jon Tester (Mont.), Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Debbie Stabenow (Mich.), Bob Casey (Pa.), and Bob Menendez (N.J.)—found Nelson to be the odd man out.
I think I read that Allen West lives in Texas now.
I hope so.......I’ll check it out.......;)
The partisan Democrat operatives who work the DMV will register to vote anyone who asks.
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