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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.


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KEYWORDS: bravosierra; pr; puertorico; statehood; vanity
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To: RED SOUTH

The Canada/Quebec issue is an rift that will never be healed in our lifetimes. But it is a rift borne out of historical events.

Why would we willingly bring a primarily Spanish-speaking state into the union and in the process instantly create our own Quebec with a cultural divide that will inevitably spill over into our politics?


41 posted on 04/29/2010 4:54:43 PM PDT by relictele
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Statehood would end all of the tax breaks that corporations are getting for having plants in PR. Those plants will quickly close, unemployment will increase, demands for welfare will increase, dem voter registration will increase. Our educated Republican leaders will be shocked and surprised.

Catholic does not mean conservative. There are many Catholics in New England and that doesn’t equate to votes for conservatives. Whatever political status exists today in PR will change immediately as soon as they become a state.


42 posted on 04/29/2010 4:54:49 PM PDT by excopconservative
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To: RED SOUTH

We do not need a 51 state and certainly not one where English is neither the first nor the official language.


43 posted on 04/29/2010 4:54:55 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: freespirited

Oh, I may have been mistaken. I thought that Puerto Rico was treated like DC where they get to vote but have no delegates, essentially an advisory vote. But I may have been thinking about the democrat primary, which does let territories participate since I can’t seem to find anything about Puerto Rico and the presidential election either.


44 posted on 04/29/2010 4:55:24 PM PDT by apillar
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To: RED SOUTH

Approximately half of the island’s population lives below the U.S. Federal poverty guidelines.


45 posted on 04/29/2010 4:55:32 PM PDT by donna ("I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth." Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: NoLibZone
Catholic members and the Church itself are conservative.

They might be, but they vote progressive.

46 posted on 04/29/2010 4:55:53 PM PDT by itsahoot (Each generation takes to excess, what the previous generation accepted in moderation.)
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To: RED SOUTH

50 stars on the flag are just fine with me. I don’t know where Barry wants to get the other 56 from and I don’t care.

NO!


47 posted on 04/29/2010 4:56:55 PM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: NoLibZone

The Catholic church believes the government must provide health care.


48 posted on 04/29/2010 4:57:09 PM PDT by donna ("I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth." Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: onyx
Exactly.

I just got back from CA and I found it difficult to get around just speaking English.

Serves me right, trying to go to exotic places like McDonald's or Walgreen's.

49 posted on 04/29/2010 4:59:31 PM PDT by Volunteer (Though I know that the hypnotized never lie, do ya? - The Who)
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To: RED SOUTH

Ah yes that’s it, that’s why Obama is pushing it in dark circles and hidden places the MSM is ignoring...


50 posted on 04/29/2010 5:02:21 PM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Keep your head up and keep moving forward!)
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To: Volunteer

LOL. I hear you. I go home to San Diego and I automatically get rude with people working in stores who cannot speak understandable English.


51 posted on 04/29/2010 5:03:50 PM PDT by onyx (Sarah/Michele 2012)
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To: cripplecreek

Yep, but it seems that a lot of our brethren from PR are determined to sell us on how great this Progressive party is. At best, it sounds like you could say that they use a fig leaf of social conservatism to appeal to the majority Catholic population while pushing a typical statist agenda.


52 posted on 04/29/2010 5:05:04 PM PDT by thecabal (Destroy Progressivism)
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To: NoLibZone

Every single Catholic in my family, but one, vote Democrat. Almost all of the Catholics I went to school with vote Democrat.


53 posted on 04/29/2010 5:12:49 PM PDT by ohiogrammy (12)
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To: NoLibZone
I would like to remind you that Venezuela, Mexico, Argentina, Portugal and Spain are catholic nations. All of these catholic countries continuously vote in socialist, communist type governments. Unfortunately, religion has little to do with the political ideology of electorates. A good domestic example is Massachusetts.
54 posted on 04/29/2010 5:13:10 PM PDT by brydic1
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To: NoLibZone

You said something about Catholics being conservative.

“On Tuesday, Catholics, who accounted for about a quarter of the electorate, supported Obama, at 54 percent, over McCain, at 45 percent.”
Cathnews-Nov.6,2008

No comment?


55 posted on 04/29/2010 5:13:15 PM PDT by Doulos1 (Bitter Clinger Forever)
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To: RED SOUTH

The Social Democrats in Washington seem to think that a Stare of Puerto Rico would benefit the Social Democrats politically. I would not bet on Republicans lasting much more than thirty days after statehood. Washington can swamp the island with new stolen goods and money in short order and convert any Republicans down there.


56 posted on 04/29/2010 5:19:35 PM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: MrEdd

When Puerto Rico comes under the Income Tax, most Puerto Ricans will not be eligible to pay it and will vote to keep it that way. Bye bye any Republicans who might be in power down there.


57 posted on 04/29/2010 5:21:28 PM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: RED SOUTH

Romney is a Mass. Republican. So I’m not convinced.


58 posted on 04/29/2010 5:28:24 PM PDT by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: RED SOUTH
Puerto Rico's statehood would benefit republicans!!!

No it wouldn't!!!

59 posted on 04/29/2010 5:33:08 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Let tyrants shake their iron rod, and slavery clank her galling chains)
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To: RED SOUTH
Puerto Rico's statehood would benefit republicans!!!

And besides, the republicans are dead!!! Nobody who loves liberty cares what happens to them!!!

60 posted on 04/29/2010 5:35:55 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Let tyrants shake their iron rod, and slavery clank her galling chains)
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