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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More race-baiting by the Democrats trying to drive a wedge between Latinos and Republicans.
They try it between blacks and latinos too. I hear quite a few blacks hollering about the illegals taking their jobs with fake papers.
Didn’t know that. Yes Nov is make or break for the US.
I’d be in favor of granting PR statehood if it was done in some kind of proper order. The way they are doing the bum’s rush sets off all kinds of alarm bells for me.
For me the right way to start would be to hold another referendum with the three options; statehood, independence, and status quo. If statehood gets substantially over 50%, it would be proper at that point to petition congress for statehood.
Probably the best way to go. I’m new to this issue but that sounds logical. DC is another story.
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