Posted on 11/07/2015 3:21:16 PM PST by GIdget2004
Ben Carson will endorse statehood for Puerto Rico tomorrow at an event with Ricky Rosello, a gubernatorial candidate for the pro-statehood party on the island, according to a source close to Rosello's campaign.
The source said the condition for Carson speaking at the event was that he come out for statehood. A request for comment from Carson's campaign on the endorsement was not immediately returned.
The issue of statehood for Puerto Rico, a commonwealth of the United States, does not neatly breakdown along traditional Democrat and Republican lines on the island, which is also dealing with a financial and health care crisis.
Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio have previously said they support statehood if Puerto Ricans vote for it. Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush have endorsed bankruptcy protections for the island, but Rubio does not.
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...and another one bites the dust...
Ben GTFO. Its time for you to go back to retirement. You are a Cuckoo bird. I’m serious you are nuts. Paging Donald Trump, cleanup on aisle 7.
It’s NOT ridiculous to not allow residents of DC to vote! It was the good intention of the framers to try to neuter the power of the city that would become the capital of all the States. Power naturally gravitates to the capital as it is.
The framers would probably have also done something about all the consultant class in the suburbs if they had been prescient. If DC residents want to vote, they can move to Kansas or some other legitimate State.
Oldplayer
He NEVER should be where he is anyway.
Hopefully, this moron will be gone from view soon and then vanish into thin air....never to be heard from again.
Well, Carson is no longer on my list. I almost put him behind Kasich. The GOPe just loves to hinder the Conservative Movement as lame as possible. What a political idiot.
Thanks for that, not exactly an endorsement at all.
Statehood for Vietnam!
Statehood for the Northern Territories!
Okinawa our 53rd state!
Open Antartica for condo development.
Shop at the Macmurdo Sound Walmart!
This kind of thing is worse than his pyramid scheme, I mean theory. Actually both.
The single best destiny for the District of Columbia would be for Congress to shrink the District to consist of only that ground occupied by federal installations. The residential areas of the District would be retroceded to Maryland.
Oh, H*** no!
Ping
Ben Carson is in some very good company there. Obviously painted by a dazed fan of his.
If true, that does it for my Carson vote.
I am sick if folks being generous with our money.
This is the only thread that has Freepers admitting they were actually going to vote for Carson. Strangely silent before.
I was premature, they are coming out of the woodwork now.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3357592/posts
Lol no.
I am beginning to feel that he is a plant to help someone else to the nomination-—and it sure is not Trump
And while we're at it make DC a state.
Knock Trump out and give the Oval Office to Hillary....that’s his whole plan and backed by the GOPe!!!
He did not say he was for it. After being pressed for an answer by Chuck Todd he said he would look into it. He said he wanted everybody to be happy.
He did not say he supported it.
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