We surround them. Literally. They have the press, Sacramento, schools, Hollywood, Spanish TV, the Catholic church, Nancy Pelosi, white guilt, etc., etc., etc.
Posted on 04/27/2010 3:43:23 PM PDT by GailA
According to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD), the House will vote on H.R. 2499, the Puerto Rico Democracy Act, later this week. The legislation provides Puerto Rico a two stage voting process and makes some non-resident Puerto Ricans eligible to vote on Puerto Rican statehood. This legislation has rigged the process in favor of making Puerto Rico the 51st state and is not a fair way to force statehood on a Commonwealth whose people may not want it. Furthermore, this may be an expensive proposition for the American people who are already on the hook for approximately $12.9 trillion in national debt.
This bill attempts to rig the voting process and denies the American people a real say on the issue of whether they want to allow Puerto Rico to be granted statehood. The fact of the matter is that Puerto Ricans have rejected statehood numerous times and this bill seems to have been written in a way to fast track statehood without a majority of Puerto Ricans favoring the idea. Furthermore, the people of the United States should be allowed a vote on whether they want to admit Puerto Rico as a new state. If the people of Puerto Rico can vote, the people of the United States should have a vote.
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It’ll never get done before November. Smoke and mirrors. Just cut them loose.
I had the chance to live and work there for a time. I loved it, and have thought seriously about going back to stay.
Its a lovely place, one of a kind.
An overbearing federal government might be the prompting the rest of us need to push for more "10th ammendment" state autonomy. Statehood might be a good thing but you should not have to give up your autonomy to get it; we should be pushing for more autonomy.
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they need the Senators...pure and simple...we need to take this to the mat..the part about NON-RESDIENTS voting....
The Dems know that they are going to be destroyed in the coming elections and are trying to rig the system in their favor by importing voters. They will try to pack Congress by admitting Puerto Rico, and giving amnesty and citizenship to 30 million or so illegal aliens who all support socialism. America will be dead as a free country. This bill must stopped.
I hope you can help me. I just sent this email to the staffers of the conservative Republican members of Congress who are misguidedly co-sponsoring HR 2499. We need them to VOTE NO on this bill.
You can help by doing these 4 simple things:
1) clicking “forward”,
2) read/edit this message to your liking and type your name at the end of it,
3) cut and paste the staffer’s email addresses (directly below) onto the “To:” line,
4) delete what I’ve written here, delete the staffer’s email addresses below, and Send.
These members of Congress need to hear from hundreds of people, so I hope you will help. Also please pass this email onto anyone you think will help too.
Thanks!
terry.carmack@mail.house.gov; Anthony.hulen@mail.house.gov; mark.walker@mail.house.gov; james.quinn@mail.house.gov; Patrick.lyden@mail.house.gov; dana.gartzke@mail.house.gov; jean.hinz@mail.house.gov; peter.tateishi@mail.house.gov; Francis.gibbs@mail.house.gov; brian.thomas@mail.house.gov; lauren.ellis@mail.house.gov; scott.parker@mail.house.gov; chris.berardini@mail.house.gov; dave.karvelas@mail.house.gov; jim.brandell@mail.house.gov; john.walker@mail.house.gov; Richard.hudson@mail.house.gov; tony.essalih@mail.house.gov; matthew.specht@mail.house.gov; randy.kutz@mail.house.gov; dee.buchanan@mail.house.gov; dale.neugebauer@mail.house.gov; greg.hill@mail.house.gov; Andrew.anuzis@mail.house.gov; bob.cochran@mail.house.gov; bill.smith@mail.house.gov; janet.diaz-brown@mail.house.gov; t.wybensinger@mail.house.gov; steven.shearer@mail.house.gov; mary.springer@mail.house.gov; Jeremy.deutsch@mail.house.gov; Kristin.thompson@mail.house.gov; Jordan.clark@mail.house.gov; eli.hardin@mail.house.gov; eric.dell@mail.house.gov
Good Evening:
Can you explain why this member of Congress is co-sponsoring H.R. 2499?
Perhaps he/she isn’t aware of the ramifications of this bill; please inform your him/her of the following immediately:
* Puerto Rico is already a democracy. Despite the bill’s deceptive title, Puerto Rico already has an elected government and exists as a self-governed commonwealth of the U.S.
* Statehood would give Puerto Rico more congressional representation than 25 of our 50 states! It would inevitably give Democrats two additional U.S. Senators and 6 to 8 additional Members of the House.
* The U.S. would transform, overnight, into a bilingual nation. At least half of Puerto Ricans do not speak English, the language of our U.S. Constitution and founding documents. The Washington Times article, “
* Puerto Rican statehood,” analyzes all the implications of adding a foreign language-speaking state to the Union. It would bring immediate demands for massive federal spending. The average income of Puerto Ricans is less than half that of our poorest state, and infrastructure and the environment are far below American standards. Puerto Rico has a population with a median national income of $17,741, nearly a third below that for the U.S.
H.R. 2499 is stealth legislation designed to lead to the admission of Puerto Rico as the 51st state, costing MONEY WE DO NOT HAVE and, therefore, placing undue financial hardship on American citizens. The U.S. Congress should not be forcing Puerto Ricans to vote on statehood, especially since the Puerto Rican people have rejected statehood three times since 1991!
Any Member of Congress who describes him/herself as a limited government, fiscal conservative should be casting a NO vote for H.R. 2499, as Puerto Rican statehood would cause an immediate increase in federal expenditures, particularly for taxpayer-funded welfare state services.
Do not override the wishes of Americans and Puerto Ricans who want to maintain the current commonwealth status of Puerto Rico by forcing a vote on rigged referenda!
I fully expect your boss to remove his/her name as a Co-Sponsor of this bill, and to VOTE NO on H.R. 2499!
Respectfully,
Good news is they are Catholic and as such tend to be conservative and anti illegals.
Like us US Jews.
Only Texas has that power and right.
If true, this is good to know, but are you telling us that Puertorriquenos split their votes and gave Mel Martinez a majority?
This would be the first I've ever heard about PR voting patterns. And Obama's people don't know this, or somehow have an idea they'll vote 'Rat instead?
We surround them. Literally. They have the press, Sacramento, schools, Hollywood, Spanish TV, the Catholic church, Nancy Pelosi, white guilt, etc., etc., etc.
Adorno, Thank You very much, for speaking up, I though I was the only Puerto Rican on this site taking offense to some of the clearly biased and bordering on racist comments from some “conservatives”on this site.
The stereotyping has exceeded any I had imagined I am just surprised that switchblades have not become part of the issue.
Orgullosamente Boricua.
UP YOUR’S
I worked there, it is a giant (US) welfare state and they hate Americans, they don’t want to be a state they have all the benefits already, it has been voted on several times. I don’t want then, they can join Cuba and Venezuela, be the commies they wish to be.
Irrespective of what the law granting statehood to TX says, no law can supercede Congress’s exclusive power under the Constitution to admit new states. If TX wanted to split up into 5 states (or 4, which would make more sense), Congress would have to approve (”pre-approvals” from the 1840s don’t count), and if CA wanted to split into 5 states it could also be done if Congress approves.
A north and south Floriduh.
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.
Roger that.
Glenn Beck (radio) discussing this right now.
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