Posted on 04/29/2010 4:29:47 PM PDT by RED SOUTH
The New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico (NPP) is a political party that advocates for Puerto Rico's admission to the United States of America as the 51st state.
Following the 2008 general elections, it currently holds supermajorities in the Commonwealth's House of Representatives and Senate. The NPP also won the Puerto Rico's sole delegate to Congress seat and the Governor's office at La Fortaleza. Forty-eight of Puerto Rico's 78 mayoral seats are now also occupied by NPP.
The majority of the PNP leaders are also members of the US Republican Party, with only two PNP governors, Carlos Romero Barceló, and Dr. Pedro Rosselló González, being registered as US Democrats. The current Governor, Luis G. Fortuño, caucused with the Republicans when he was in Congress and serves as Puerto Rico's Republican National Committeeman. The current House Speaker Jennifer González and the Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz are Republicans.
The party's platform is decidedly conservative and it holds intrinsic values of this deeply religious Caribbean island.
I see Puerto Rico sending 2 republicans to the Senate and 4 out of 6 congressional seats going to republicans.
My theory is still that the Dems are doing this so they will have an opportunity to recreate the US Flag. I bet it will have an “O” in it.
The Dems are only enthusiastic about socialist initiatives.
Maybe you know something different but the voting patterns of Puerto Ricans living in the NY area is anything but conservative. Do they vote differently in their native land?
Mike Pence did sound favorably about this bill in a radio interview I heard locally today,..however I have heard the opposite (of what you claim)..Are yousure?
For the same reason the center-right party in Canada has "Progressive" in their name, and the center-right party in Australia is the Liberal Party, while the fascist party in the U.S. is calls themselves the "Democratic Party": political party names make no sense.
Irrelevant. Once PR becomes a state, new elections will be held.
I thought Puerto Rico went for Obama by a pretty large margin in 2008. I would say that is a better indicator of their political leanings.
The dem’s are too stupid to see how they are screwing themselves. Even Cubans vote republican. PR will vote like Cubans. They already have a republican Gov and House leader and Senate President.
Which Catholic church are you referring to?
I think most of the bishops in this country
from everything I have read is in favor of the
amnesty-for-illegals. In the last election I
thought that more Catholics voted for our
socialist president than those who voted against
him. How do you spell Father Pfleger?
North Carolina and Virginia went for Obama too.
Secondly, any group with the word 'progressive' in their vocabulary has to be examined with a microscope. You do know what a progressive is, don't you? Progressives will also lie at the drop of a hat if it will advance their agenda in the long run.
It sounds risky. Immigrants from Puerto Rico are overwhelmingly Democrat.
Please, you’re ruining my Doom and Gloom! /s
ONE mans name is Pfleger
I dont think they can vote in presidential elections.
The New Progressive Party may be more conservative than the other guys, but that’s like saying RINOs are more conservative than Democrats.
I don't give a crap whether it will benefit Republicans. Does it benefit the cause of liberty?
Read up on them yourself.
http://www.puertoricousa.com/english/pnp.htm
They’re for “social Justice” and getting their “fair share” of federal funds.
They sound like marxists with a thin veneer of conservatism.
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