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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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posted on
04/29/2010 4:29:47 PM PDT
by
RED SOUTH
To: RED SOUTH
I don’t like anything with Progressive in its name.
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posted on
04/29/2010 4:30:52 PM PDT
by
Blogger
To: RED SOUTH
Sure it will. That’s why it’s a democrat bill, kept secret by the democrats until the last minute.
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posted on
04/29/2010 4:32:01 PM PDT
by
snowrip
(Liberal? You are a socialist with no rational argument.)
To: Blogger
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.
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posted on
04/29/2010 4:32:29 PM PDT
by
RED SOUTH
To: RED SOUTH
Why do they call themselves Progressives?
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posted on
04/29/2010 4:32:41 PM PDT
by
pgkdan
(I miss Ronald Reagan!)
To: RED SOUTH
Why do they call themselves Progressives?
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posted on
04/29/2010 4:32:41 PM PDT
by
pgkdan
(I miss Ronald Reagan!)
To: RED SOUTH
I see Tea Partiers explaining to Puerto Ricans that Democrats did this to you over our protests, so they could tax the snot out of you.
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posted on
04/29/2010 4:32:46 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: RED SOUTH
Most people I know about from PR claims that they may be Catholic but they are dems!!!
To: Blogger; RED SOUTH
Me neither. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. So why are they fixing it?
To: Bigtigermike
They elect republicans not democrats. Look at the numbers.
To: RED SOUTH
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posted on
04/29/2010 4:35:57 PM PDT
by
Extremely Extreme Extremist
(Obamunism: You have two cows. The regime redistributes them and shoots you dead)
To: RED SOUTH; rrstar96; AuH2ORepublican; livius; adorno; wtc911; Willie Green; CGVet58; Clemenza; ...
Puerto Rico Ping! Please Freepmail me if you want on or off the list.
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posted on
04/29/2010 4:36:44 PM PDT
by
cll
(I am the warrant and the sanction)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
Look at the numbers before you call bull...
To: RED SOUTH
believe that when i see it.
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posted on
04/29/2010 4:37:33 PM PDT
by
ken21
(i am not voting for a rino-progressive.)
To: RED SOUTH
"deeply religious Caribbean island."
That's my contention too.
PR is a Catholic nation.
Catholic members and the Church itself are conservative.
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posted on
04/29/2010 4:37:38 PM PDT
by
NoLibZone
(Arizona is now ground zero for the fight to save this nation.)
To: RED SOUTH
Why on Earth would a protectorate populated by a majority of people who have heretofore voted against statehood lest they actually have to pay Federal Income Taxes be considered in anyone’s wildest drunken stupor to be “potential Republicans” HORSESHIT!
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posted on
04/29/2010 4:37:55 PM PDT
by
Gaffer
("Profiling: The only profile I need is a chalk outline around their dead ass!")
To: RED SOUTH
Think Again. many Puerto Ricans fall far below the median national income. Lower income historically vote for the socialist RATs knowing the former will receive all sorts of handouts from the latter. It will immediately create a large class of dependent people who will vote for the socialists and give them two more seats in the Senate and 6-8 more in the House thereby ensuring power for the socialists for years to come.
The end result is tantamount to granting amnesty to illegal aliens. You're kidding yourself by thinking otherwise.
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posted on
04/29/2010 4:38:08 PM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
To: RED SOUTH
Sure, and I am going to win Mega Millions tomorrow night.
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posted on
04/29/2010 4:38:43 PM PDT
by
bwc2221
To: NoLibZone
The Governor and House Speaker and Senate Majority Leader are all republicans in PR with super majorities.
To: RED SOUTH
States in the NE elect Republicans sometimes too... Romney, Specter...
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posted on
04/29/2010 4:39:34 PM PDT
by
Ingtar
(Obama's favorite carol: Hark The Herald Angels Sing About Me)
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