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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Yup, the treatment of Ben is like the affirmative action version on the right.
At least we get to know his views before he’s propelled into somewhere he shouldn’t be.
Don’t let him get into any gubmint function. Don’t trust him.
“He was asked to be president of Puerto Rico in 1983 but declined to invest in surgical sponges”
-—with Brian Williams as his VP
As long as we replace it with California I am cool with it.
Yes he is a self medicated He is a downer freak it helps quit the committee in his head
One is currently telling us on another thread how she likes Bill Clinton because he was a decent president.
No lightning yet BTW.
yikes!!! Carson is getting worse and worse all of a sudden. I never took him seriously. Great brain surgeon but untutored as far as politics. He has religion and morality but just this will not make a great candidate...although he resonated with Evangelicals.
We need someone who will stop free trade and open borders and Ben Carson doesn’t know squat about either one though he has had years to edumacate himself. Trump knows both of them right out of the box and has obviously been learning and thinking about both for years. trump was spouting off about rip-off “free” trade deals 15 years ago.
Statehood for Hati!
Oh defenders of the persecuted and much maligned Saint Ben, what say you to defend him from this leftist media attack?
Is it Satan at work, or is your candidate a moron?
Absolutely Cruz! Stable, professional, honest, knowledgeable, —the only adult on the stage at the last debate.
That was a joke all.
Just looking for delegates.....
Sorry to say, but the Evangelicals are so innocent—they are easily duped by folks who talk the talk but have never walked the walk.
Good grief.
The latest vote changed that. The majority DOES want statehood.
Yup. At least most Ricans are there legally.
Has he forgotten to take his medicine? How can anyone support him?
What’s in it for us? Nothing. More mouths to feed.
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