By 1996, the FBI had linked FALN to 146 bombings and a string of armed robberies .... House Interagency Working Group for Puerto Rico recommended meetings with the ...... When you hear ...
redstatepatriot.com/islam_terrorism_and_wmd
FALN does not exist and when it did, it was well known that they were international soviet/cuban financed operatives attacking the U.S. under the facade of the Puerto rican independence movement.
MYTH: Puerto Rico would be a heavily democrat state.
FALSE: I could not have said it better than Freeper AuH2ORepublican:
Puerto Rico would have 2 Senators and 6 Representatives if it were a state. No one has any idea whether it would elect Republicans or Democrats to Congress. Yes, Puerto Ricans in NYC and Chicago (most of whom are second- or third-generation descendants of the Depression-era migration to the North)vote overwhelmingly Democrat (as do most residents of those cities), but in Central Florida the PR-born Puerto Ricans voted for Jeb Bush in 2002 and George W. Bush and Mel Martinez in 2004. And within Puerto Rico itself, a majority of state Senators and Representatives are Republicans, as is the Governor and the mayors of 5 of the 8 largest (100,000+ population) cities, including San Juan (pop over 400,000) and Bayamon (pop over 200,000).
In 2004, exit polls showed that Puerto Ricans in Central Florida gave President Bush 50% of the vote. Around 1/3 of Puerto Rican voters in Central Florida were actually born and raised in the U.S. mainland (mostly NYC, Chicago, NJ and CT) and we can assume that they voted for Kerry and Castor, so the PR-born Puerto Ricans must have given President Bush and Mel Martinez comfortable majorities. Michael Barone poits to the Puerto Rican vote as the key to Bush carrying Osceola County in 2004 after having done poorly there in 2000.
The Obama Administration has nothing to do wuth the Puerto Rico plebiscite bill, which is a continuation of a congressional effort that was started by Republicans in the 1990s (and more generally, of the 112-year-old statehood movement in Puerto Rico). Obama is less supportive of statehood than any president since at least before Ronald Reagan (part of the reason why Obama got trounced by Hillary by like 80%-20% in the PR Democrat primary), and the bill (and statehood) is opposed by Obama’s “Puerto Rico guy” Congressman Luis Gutierrez of Chicago. But, yes, many Democrats ignorantly assume that a State of Puerto Rico would vote heavily Democrat because that’s how their cousins vote in The Bronx.
The truth is that no one knows how PR would vote were it a state, but the Louisiana electorate (socially conservative, economically populist, pro-military, protectionist, tolerant of a certain amount of corruption) is probably the most simar to the electorate in PR. It should be noted that Louisiana is a swing state that voted for the winner in every presidential election from 1972 to 2004.