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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Sorry to be the barer of bad news, when I worked there they hated Americans especially the male ones, they don’t want to be the next state, maybe after Cuba.
Stupid. Geez.
He was asked to be president of Puerto Rico in 1983 but declined to invest in surgical sponges.
Nooooooooooo Ben nooooooooooo-— what r u doing?
And a 85% leap in Medicaid (Congress has capped PR Medicaid at 15%, a cap which would go away.).
Yes, but the last vote they had three choices, independence, statehood, or continuing commonwealth status. They chose to continue the way they are.
The Uniparty has already passed a bill that will set up the next vote as either independence or statehood.
Who in their right mind thinks a broke place votes for independence?
It has already been decided they will be our 51st state whether we like it or not.
That was the vote that made Cantor’s perfidy clear to me.
“Ben Carson will endorse statehood for Puerto Rico tomorrow at an event with Ricky Rosello”
I will wait for another source to see if this is true. If it happens to be true this is not good.
...and none of the responsibilities.
CC
He has now officially disqualified himself for the Presidency.
Go become Governor of that island if you wish to advance, Dr, Carson.
I see no reason to consider him any further when we have Ted Cruz who will fight for conservatives, unlike this fellow, who it seems is attempting to placate way too many people.
I wonder if he realizes how many votes he will receive from PR citizens?
Answer: Zero.
It is Spanish-speaking
We must all gather around.
Gag
ANOTHER reason not to support Ben Carson.
LOL
You're 1 in 30 ;-)
I admire Ben Carson but he’s wrong on this.
For Goodness’ Sake: Ben is such an amateur.
I swear BC always looks high as a kite. Guess I was right. Cruz 2016!!!!!
A bad decision by Dr. Ben.
Those folks are FRINO’s
He is really this dumb.
He has no political savvy whatsoever.
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