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"Ortega said the tickets were paid for with checks written from contractors with the Education Department. ZELDA contractors were often asked for their credit card numbers to pay for delegates' airline tickets to national conventions, she added."

If this is true, this is quite the scam and once again it's the U.S. Taxpayers that are getting hosed.

The corrupt politicians of Puerto Rico lobby the pandering politicians of the U.S. for more than a billion dollars for education.

Then the head of the Puerto Rico Dept. of Education conspires with contractors to allow them to over-charge the U.S. Taxpayers for their services.

And then they spend the extra funds in support of LULAC and who in the world knows what else.

I wonder if a U.S. politician taught them this one, or if they thought this scam up all by themselves?

Hey, guess where LULAC might have received the money to send 2,000 attendees to their '97 national convention in California and 3,000 to the '98 national convention in Texas?

Give up?

Why from the U.S. Taxpayers, via the Puerto Rico Department of Education, of course.

I know, I know, alot of you won't think that was an appropriate use for our Tax Dollars? But hey, technically they weren't ours anymore after they had been recycled through Puerto Rico Department of Education contractors.

Right? That does make what they did legal doesn't it? We can't blame them for not knowing we'd be upset about it. Right?

We will excuse them, because they are a different culture and everything. Right? Seriously, now. C'mon, no hard feelings. We have more money than we know what to do with. Don't we?

LOL!