Answered my own question?
Yes, although unfortunately Pedro Pierluisi, the PNP successor to Fortuño, is a Democrat, and not just any Dem, but a HUGE Obamabot. So you have two Democrats running against each other for Resident Commissioner in the general. :-\
S*it! I’m guessing the rats reinstated the unconstitutional votes of the non-voting members in the committee of the whole house? So there’s another one. I hope the PPDer wins then, we don’t want Pierluisi to get entrenched.
Fortuno needs to skillfully purge the rats out of positions of power in the PNP. Does he have the impetus or nads to do so?
Answered my own question?
Crap as far as I can ascertain Pierluisi was Fortuno’s choice and his 2 primary opponents were also rats. Sigh. If PR is to ever become a state like Fortuno wants there has got to be some GOP leadership there.
I’m by no means a fan of Pedro Pierluisi, and consider him just about the most inept candidate I’ve ever seen; in an interview during the Democrat Convention, he expressed his opinion that the indicted Gov. Acevedo-Vilá should not have attended the convention and that he brought shame to the Puerto Rico delegation (so far so good), but then said that, by comparison, Senator Ted Stevens had only had 2 federal charges brought against him instead of the 24 against Acevedo-Vilá, and he hadn’t seen him at the convention, so Stevens knew it would have hurt Alaska. It would have been a valid point were Senator Stevens a Democrat, but I don’t think the absense of a Republican Senator from the Democrat Convention is all that noteworthy. It is beyond me how Fortuño could have chosen someone so ignorant to run for Congress (and, believe me, Pierluisi doesn’t make up for it with charisma or oratorical skills).
That being said, Pedro Pierluisi is by no means a moonbat nor an Obamaphile (he’s actually a moderate-to-conservative Democrat from what I’ve heard, and his older brother is a stauch Republican), and the only reason why he endorsed Obama prior to the Puerto Rico primary (long after Acevedo-Vilá had endorsed him) was because he knew that Obama had the nomination all but sewn up and wanted to make sure that pro-statehood Democrats from PR (most of whom were firmly in the Hillary camp) also had a seat on the table of the Democrat nominee. His decision was no different than that of all of those Blue Dogs that, despite the fact that their districts rejected Obama as soundly as PR rejected Obama (Hillary beat him 68.42% to 31.58%), jumped on the Obama bandwagon so as to be on the good side of the certain Democrat nominee.