Posted on 01/24/2008 10:52:48 AM PST by Ebenezer
(English-language translation)
A group formed in Puerto Rico in support of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s goal of becoming the first female President of the United States includes as one of its members Vieques Mayor Dámaso Serrano, who appreciates her intervention in favor of the Navy’s withdrawal [from the island municipality].
“Puerto Ricans for Hillary” organizer José Marcano stated that the group will meet next Monday to give the campaign its first monetary contribution, whose amount was unspecified. In addition, he said arrangements are being made for a February 15 visit to Puerto Rico by former President Bill Clinton, the pre-candidate’s husband.
The purpose of this first contribution is to help finance Clinton’s campaign in the 22 states that will hold primaries on so-called Super Tuesday on February 5.
“She is the candidate who has identified herself the most with Puerto Ricans, both in the island and the United States,” Marcado (sic) stressed.
Meanwhile, Serrano recalled that, every time he visited the United States during the struggle to cease the war games in [Vieques], he found in the Senator an ally who joined the Puerto Rican members of Congress in that effort.
"Today, as a grateful person, I give her that support and call on all Puerto Ricans to support her financially and on the delegates to vote for her,” Serrano maintained.
It was Bill Clinton who, in 2001, signed a presidential directive to withdraw the Navy from its former shooting range, which occurred on May 1, 2003.
The Mayor said he is sure that, in the same manner she committed herself to Vieques, the former First Lady will help all of Puerto Rico.
[Puerto Rico] Democratic Party Chairman Roberto Prats Palerm pointed out that the primary candidate has committed herself to addressing education- and health-related matters, as well as bringing home the troops stationed in Iraq.
Senate President Kenneth McClintock Hernández, who co-chairs that campaign’s Hispanic Leadership Committee with Prats, stressed the importance of the Hispanic vote in support of the Senator.
He said that the key to Clinton’s victory in the Nevada primary was that 65% of Hispanics voted for her.
McClintock maintained that they also expect the Hispanic vote to be crucial on Super Tuesday given that, on that day, the delegates are chosen from large states with a large Hispanic presence, such as New York and California.
“Puerto Ricans for Hillary” was registered by Josen Rossy, Roberto Cacho, Cándido Oliveras, [and] Franco Acevedo, among others.
In addition to Prats and McClintock, the Clinton campaign in the United States includes as political advisors Miguel Lausell, Francisco Domenech, and Ramón Luis Lugo, as well as members of Congress José Serrano and Nydia Velázquez.
As the cast of "Peanuts" would say, "AUUUUUUUUGH!!!"
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Gee, this is certainly a surprise...
We know, because those RINOs supporting amnesty told us so.
“Puerto Rican Democrats Rallying Behind Hillary Clinton”
And they can all fit there, too.
Just about the only freedom-loving pro-America pro-capitalist anti-abortion republican vote they are going to get from a Latino group will be from the first generation of Americans born in Cuba.
Between 1974 and 1985 the FALN (Puerto Rican Armed Forces of National Liberation) organized 120 terrorist bombings in the United States. Many Americans were killed in those bombings, and many more were crippled. In 1983, another Puerto Rican terrorist group known as the Macheteros, attacked and robbed a Wells Fargo armored car in Connecticut. The Macheteros intended to use the money to finance a terrorist campaign against the United States. Working under the cover of Puerto Rican nationalism and claiming to act on behalf of the "oppressed people of Puerto Rico," the FALN and the Macheteros are nothing but Communist revolutionaries. Both groups were organized by Fidel Castro's secret police. The ultimate goal of the FALN and the Macheteros is the creation of an independent Marxist-Leninist dictatorship on the island of Puerto Rico.
Who cares? Remind me now just how many electoral votes does Puerto Rico get?
Any Puerto Rican who, to this day, supports the Clintons is not looking for the island’s best interests (or the United States’ as a whole, for that matter).
They’re big FALNs of the Clintons down there.
Those same Cubans who live in Puerto Rico overwhelmingly support statehood for the island.
Around 8 or 9 if the island were a state.
Guess the Puerto Ricans don't value their jobs.
Just my point they can vote but they get no electoral votes so their votes are worthless and as should have been pointed out in the article. No tenga ningún impacto en la elección del presidente siguiente.
The NewYoricans are going to be the main reason Orlando will probably go Democrat this election.
“Ich bin Ein HISPANIC!!”-Hillary Clinton
I never knew it was possible to be Black, Hispanic, White, and Lesbian, all at the same time....
All the support illegal campaign money can buy.
and have a famous mountain climber named after her!
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