Acevedo makes no sense. This is the same decades-old smokescreening by the PPD with plenty of high-sounding rhetoric and no concrete proposals in the end.
ping
the u.s. needs to spin off puerto rico.
bye.
Puerto Rico has only three choices: status quo, statehood or independence.
This is an educated guy, who theoretically should know he is talking nonsense.
But guys like this get elected year after year talking exactly this kind of nonsense, and no one out in Oprahland is smart enough to realize they are being played.
They can never deliver on their promises, they either don't try if they're smart, or they do try and do damage without any result. Usually they threaten to try, and the industries involved pay them under the table for the privilege of being left alone, which while technically I suppose thats "corruption", under the circumstances its the best outcome available.
People elect corruption, they just don't always realize they are doing it. Corruption is the grease that makes an irrational system work. People vote for corruption when they vote for things that government can't deliver.
At a certain level, I sympathise with the guy. I am no fan of campaign finance laws. But one of the things that make them so bad is that they are complex enough that almost everyone falls afoul of them. The other is that enforcing them inevitably is going to take on the air of a political witch-hunt.
If the offending party wins, who is going to investigate him? And if the offending party loses, going after them after an electoral loss is going to look like political piling on, like the winner is just using his power of office to attack his enemies.
The McCain finance laws are bad news. But the answer is to get rid of them. If you’re being hammered for something like this, I could understand why you’d suddenly want to be protected from bad federal law.
I know Acevedo is accused of lying to investigators, but after Libby, and after Ramos/Compean, that doesn’t impress me much anymore. I don’t give federal investigators the benefit of the doubt I once did.