Attacking Puerto Rico Statehood is the Wrong Approach for Republicans

Townhall.com ^ | December 18. 2020 | Jesse Grady

[Thunder90]

PR can become a state if we can create the state of Jefferson from CA, OR and WA. DC can become a state (or at least have voting representation in Congress) if TX is allowed to split into 2 (Or Southern Illinois becomes its own state). Deal???

[Kaslin]

Don’t you eat baked potato and a salad with your steak? What kind of person are you to deny them a baked potato and the salad?

[G Larry]

Ya, Keeping Trump in the WH and winning the 2 GA Senate seats IS THE RIGHT APPROACH!!!!

[G Larry]

Ya, Keeping Trump in the WH and winning the 2 GA Senate seats IS THE RIGHT APPROACH!!!!

[Kaslin]

My native language is German, I do read, speak and write in English. Now if you ask me to translate for example a speech professionally from German to English or visa verse I would not be able to do it, as I am not a professional Interpreter, or Dolmetcher, which is the German word for Interpreter.

[WKUHilltopper]

Adding Puerto Rico as the 51st state it’s nothing more than a demon rat ploy to get two more Senators and representatives.

[South Dakota]

IIRC, George W Bush was real big on Puerto Rico statehood, but I don’t remember why.???

???
Ford was big ion it too as I remember.
Something else to be remembered by I suppose

[familyop]

The Democrats want more electoral votes from Puerto Rico. They also want to add Washington D.C. as a state.

[dfwgator]

We need to be subtracting States, not adding them.

[Kaslin]

Getting rid of Kalifornia New York, Virginia and Illinois would be a good start.

[Semper Vigilantis]

Amen. Back when Pres Ford offered it to them they refused. Statehood to PR is akin to offering a welfare recipient a job.

[MinorityRepublican]

I agree. Use that as a deal. I think Jefferson should be all NoCal. Everything thats north of Sacramento and San Francisco. That’s big enough.

[Lisbon1940]

Isn’t Carbondale full of hippies?

[Mr. K]

Yeah thanks for the advice, Democrats.

We’re sure you only have our best interests at heart

[GreyFriar]

The people of Puerto Rico have repeatedly rejected statehood. Past history has shown that statehood come with the people of the territory voting for statehood and then petitioning the Congress to become a state.

Thus my question is: Can the Senate make Puerto Rico a state of the union against its people’s wishes?

[cll]

If you read the story or do some simple research, you’ll learn that Puerto Rico has voted FOR statehood the last three times it’s been tried, the most recent being last month.

[usurper]

Puerto Rico’s current status relegates its residents to second class citizenship - born Americans but without the full rights available to those on the mainland.

LOL This gringo feels the same way.

[Vinnie]

I would like to have a vote to make PR become independent.

Yes!
IIRC they drove a Navy base off the island.