Posted on 02/14/2017 9:02:58 AM PST by cll
But hard to find...
It is a sad irony that Obama and the Clintons supported the terrorists (FALN) who murdered Americans in the name of Puerto Rican independence.
We already have Hawaii we don’t need any more guaranteed Democrat welfare states, sorry.
The Pacific Islands, Samoa, Marianas, Guam, would be Chinese colonies within two weeks of independence. Guam is too valuable a piece of real estate to give up (in my opinion...)
Only PR is (marginally) large enough to qualify as a state. The others are not. Most Caribbean islands maintain some loose connection with Britain or France. Only the larger islands are completely independent... except Aruba and Curazao, which I believe finally cut ties with Netherlands.
Yes 46.00%
No 54.00%
Which non-territorial option do you prefer?
Statehood 61.16%
Free Association 33.34%
Independence 5.49%
There were 515,348 blank and invalidated ballots counted alongside the 1,363,854 ballots. Under Puerto Rico Law, these ballots are not considered cast votes and are therefore not reflected in the final tally.[1]
“Statehood won the 2012 referendum.”
IIRC, it was two-part vote.
Puerto Rico’s status really needs to be dealt with. Enough with politics on the island and in DC.
There needs to be a straight-up vote. The choices are:
Statehood
Territory Status
Independence
There is no NOTA option and ballots that are left blank are not counted as for or against the referendum.
The option that gets 50% of the vote (plus 1) goes forward to DC for consideration. Failure to hit 50% (plus 1) means that terriorial status remains. The next time a referendum can be held on the matter would be five years from the time of the last referendum.
Lastly, DC would be mandated to hold a roll call vote approving Puerto Rico’s statehood, continued territorial status or its independence. They could not ignore the referendum. They have to (one way or the other) act upon it instead of playing games.
I did not wish to offend a fellow conservative with my comment, andI apologize in advance for the following comment, which is a repeat of my previous disparaging comment:
The problem with Puerto Rico is that it is full of Puerto Ricans.
No 2 dhimmicrat senators. No way. Better they become independent. We’ll throw them a bone now and for then.
My niece is married to a Puerto Rican.
The whole family are virulent leftists.
So if I walked in to get a drivers license, what language will the person behind the desk be speaking?
Spanish or English.
Why are you so freaking obsessed with Puerto Rican statehood! Does what America wants matter at all? We don’t need to add a foreign territory to a union that is so perilously close to caving from within. We don’t want another impoverished, culturally foreign, non-English state voting for socialist Democrats. Done! Shut up already! :s
“Shut up already!”
Ah, no.
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