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Puerto Rico's statehood would benefit republicans!!!

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.


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: bravosierra; pr; puertorico; statehood; vanity
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To: RED SOUTH

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.


21 posted on 04/29/2010 4:40:11 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: RED SOUTH
I just don't see how anything the Democrats are pushing can possibly benefit conservatives.

The Dems are only enthusiastic about socialist initiatives.

22 posted on 04/29/2010 4:41:15 PM PDT by Allegra (Pablo is very wily.)
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To: RED SOUTH
It’s still a conservate state that will lean toward the right and not the big pick up for dem’s that everyone thinks it will be.

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?

23 posted on 04/29/2010 4:41:27 PM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: RED SOUTH

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?


24 posted on 04/29/2010 4:42:06 PM PDT by JSDude1 (www.travishankins.com (Travis Hankins for the INDIANA 9th))
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To: pgkdan
Why do they call themselves Progressives?

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.

25 posted on 04/29/2010 4:42:22 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: RED SOUTH
The Governor and House Speaker and Senate Majority Leader are all republicans in PR with super majorities.

Irrelevant. Once PR becomes a state, new elections will be held.

26 posted on 04/29/2010 4:43:01 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Obamunism: You have two cows. The regime redistributes them and shoots you dead)
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To: RED SOUTH

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.


27 posted on 04/29/2010 4:44:44 PM PDT by apillar
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To: Allegra

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.


28 posted on 04/29/2010 4:45:04 PM PDT by RED SOUTH
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To: NoLibZone

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?


29 posted on 04/29/2010 4:45:32 PM PDT by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever)
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To: apillar

North Carolina and Virginia went for Obama too.


30 posted on 04/29/2010 4:46:12 PM PDT by RED SOUTH
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To: RED SOUTH
First of all, being 'republicans' doesn't mean a darn thing. Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Mitt Romney, Arlen Specter, Charlie Christ ... need I type more? Who can forget John McCain? All good and trustworthy conservatives, no?

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.

31 posted on 04/29/2010 4:46:12 PM PDT by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: RED SOUTH

It sounds risky. Immigrants from Puerto Rico are overwhelmingly Democrat.


32 posted on 04/29/2010 4:46:26 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (Obama's more worried about Israelis building houses than he is about Islamists building atomic bombs)
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To: apillar
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 fact that one of the three choices was left off the ticket should be a clue as to what's going on. One of the three choices was to remain a commonwealth. That was not included. It was either A. statehood or B. independence.
33 posted on 04/29/2010 4:46:54 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: RED SOUTH

Please, you’re ruining my Doom and Gloom! /s


34 posted on 04/29/2010 4:47:23 PM PDT by Shadow44
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To: Doulos1
How do you spell Father Pfleger?

ONE mans name is Pfleger

35 posted on 04/29/2010 4:48:19 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Arizona is now ground zero for the fight to save this nation.)
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To: JSDude1
Mike Pence did sound favorably about this bill in a radio interview I heard locally today

He was positive because he and 59 other idiot members of the OP(formerly the GOP) cosponsored the bill!
36 posted on 04/29/2010 4:48:34 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: apillar

I dont think they can vote in presidential elections.


37 posted on 04/29/2010 4:52:06 PM PDT by freespirited (I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. --Robert Frost)
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To: RED SOUTH

The New Progressive Party may be more conservative than the other guys, but that’s like saying RINOs are more conservative than Democrats.


38 posted on 04/29/2010 4:53:14 PM PDT by mquinn (Obama's supporters: a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise)
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To: RED SOUTH
Puerto Rico's statehood would benefit republicans!!!

I don't give a crap whether it will benefit Republicans. Does it benefit the cause of liberty?

39 posted on 04/29/2010 4:53:43 PM PDT by thecabal (Destroy Progressivism)
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To: pgkdan

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.


40 posted on 04/29/2010 4:54:07 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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