Gutierrez supports independence for Puerto Rico (as do all good Communists), but he has opposed federally sanctioned political-status plebiscites for the Island even when they were supported by the Puerto Rican Independence Party because he’s afraid of statehood winning. He’s like an Irish-American opposed to Ireland’s economic progress so that it remains green and undeveloped and a cheap destination for his vacations and so that he can be a bigshot when he visits his poor cousins. But I join BillyBoy in urging Gutierrez to run for president, preferably for a new La Raza Party. Run, Luis, Run!
There is no Green Party in Puerto Rico; the official color for the Puerto Rican Independence Party (PIP in Spanish) is green and has been so fir decades, though (and it is as socialist and environmentalist as the stateside Green Party). The PIP has been getting below 3% in elections since 2004, and even before that it hadn’t received as much as 7% since the 1950s. There is virtually no support for independence in Puerto Rico, although, increasingly, traditional supporters of the status quo (”Commonwealth status,” which merely is an unincorporated territory, with plenary powers for Congress but with a benign neglect so as to allow the state and local governments a measure of “autonomy”) have expressed support for “free association,” which is a for of independence in which the new nation would sign a treaty with the U.S. to guarantee all sorts of things. Of course, their idyllic “free association” is a non-starter, since they demand continued U.S. citizenship, continued federal transfer payments, U.S. responsibility for defense, and that such treaty be impossible for the U.S. to end unilaterally. Absolutely ridiculous.
That reminds me... we ALSO need to encourage RINO Peter King to throw his hat into the ring for President in 2016 (hopefully with Rob Portman as his running mate!) for the same reason. Then we'd FINALLY get that pro-terrorist Clintonite turd out of Congress.
We need to get him in the presidential race because they will never successfully primary this guy in his house district. The Levin crowd will probably be screaming "GOPE! GOPE! GOPE!" at Mike Crapo instead.
But on the plus side, at least the Tea Party FINALLY figured out that Peter King is NOT a "straight shooting patriotic conservative fighting for national security". Only took 'em 14 years to notice something I realized back in 1998.
Illinois isn’t one of “those” states is it (where you can run for Congress and President too?)?
I’m ready for a new a**hole Congressman, I was crestfallen that I wasn’t drawn into Danny Davis’s district in the last remap, that’s how much I hate this pig.