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Carson backs Puerto Rico statehood
CNN ^ | 11/08/2015 | Deena Zaru

Posted on 11/08/2015 11:41:57 AM PST by GIdget2004

Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson endorsed statehood for Puerto Rico at a Sunday campaign event on the island.

"In a Carson administration, I will leave no stone unturned in my efforts to secure this important step in Puerto Rico's history -- establishing Estado 51," said the retired neurosurgeon, highlighting the strategic benefits of the Caribbean island's location relative to the United States mainland.  Amid mounting scrutiny recently over his past, Carson traveled to the island territory to address a statehood advocacy group convention. The campaign estimated that 3,500 people were attended the New Progressive Party rally, at the Waldorf Astoria hotel.

"Mis hermanos Americanos, my campaign is built around the premise of 'We the People,' and through such lens, I view the statehood question in Puerto Rico as settled," Carson said, referring to a 2012 referendum in which a majority of island voters backed making Puerto Rico the 51st state.

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To: Georgia Girl 2

How is it that no one asks the citizens of the United States if WE want Puerto Rico to even be a protectorate? Cut them loose. They give us nothing but mouths to feed.


21 posted on 11/08/2015 11:54:38 AM PST by JMS
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To: GIdget2004
Personally, I like Carson, he is an honorable man, however I doubt his judgement.

If he were to become president, all sorts of RINOs and gift horses will be sidling up to him to help him figure out how to be a president.

He would need a lot of help and the people he chooses will probably not be the type who will help to steer things right.

22 posted on 11/08/2015 11:55:22 AM PST by Slyfox (Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
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To: GIdget2004

Because we need two more far left-wing Democrat U.S. Senators and a bunch more far left-wing Democrat Congresscritters all voting how to spend our money.


23 posted on 11/08/2015 11:55:25 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I don’t think PR is a good fit in the U.S., culturally.


24 posted on 11/08/2015 11:55:36 AM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: Patton@Bastogne

Cuba is way too high energy to do a Ben Carson.
Have him lose about 70lbs, grow a moustache and get his hair ‘processed’, then maybe Cuba could do a good Al Sharpton.


25 posted on 11/08/2015 11:56:35 AM PST by lee martell
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To: GIdget2004

Wait a second—ain’t Puerto Rico as tipsy-tricksy as Guam?
We don’t want any damn jackpot here, hold on, glub glub ..


26 posted on 11/08/2015 11:56:42 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

Ben Carson is a faux conservative who entered the race as a spoiler. I wonder who is paying for his campaign?


27 posted on 11/08/2015 11:57:50 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: GIdget2004

Newton Gingrich backed this c. 1998; he was soon out as Speaker, not for that reason though.


28 posted on 11/08/2015 11:58:38 AM PST by Theodore R. (Liberals keep winning; so the American people must now be all-liberal all the time.)
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To: GIdget2004

Everytime this is put to a vote of the Puerto Rican people, they say ‘No’ to statehood. What they need is a Supreme Court like we have, one that overrides the sentiment of the voters ‘because they can!’ and never looks back.


29 posted on 11/08/2015 11:59:12 AM PST by lee martell
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To: GIdget2004

First a state and then state aid. Puerto Rico is third world.

This guy is for the birds.


30 posted on 11/08/2015 12:01:26 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: GIdget2004

Nope!


31 posted on 11/08/2015 12:01:31 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: FourPeas
Ping.

We tried to warn you about Carson.

32 posted on 11/08/2015 12:01:43 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

Do they have English announcements at Puerto Rican Home Depots?

If PR were to become a state Spanish would be an official language of the US. (Not that we’re that far away now)

Press 2 for English.

Carson is done.


33 posted on 11/08/2015 12:02:05 PM PST by aquila48
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To: GIdget2004
Green card for you, statehood for you, friendship with Al Sharpton for you, grain in the pyramids for you...

Make it stop...

34 posted on 11/08/2015 12:02:56 PM PST by DoughtyOne (It's beginning to look like "Morning in America" again. (Comment on YouTube under Trump Free Ride.))
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To: lexington minuteman 1775
Two more Democrap senators? I don't think so.

This is going to hurt him badly.

35 posted on 11/08/2015 12:03:41 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: GIdget2004
Everybody backs Puerto Rico citizenship because Puerto Rico has delegates in the convention and some of the people in the GOP-affiliated party on the island favor statehood. That doesn't mean it's going to happen. It never does.

It's like moving the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Everybody promises it, but nobody does it. Nobody's wife or brother will do it either if they get elected.

36 posted on 11/08/2015 12:03:58 PM PST by x
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To: EternalVigilance

I also just think we don’t need another state that is not contiguous to the N American continent. Alaska and HI are enough.


37 posted on 11/08/2015 12:05:16 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: GIdget2004

In search of...
A permanent senate minority.


38 posted on 11/08/2015 12:05:42 PM PST by BlueNgold (May I suggest a very nice 1788 Article V with your supper...)
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To: EternalVigilance

Same here. If they wanted statehood they would have taught their citizens English. But on the other hand it just isn’t freedom when Congress controls the territory while its citizens can not vote in US elections. So I agree with you, they should become an independent nation state.


39 posted on 11/08/2015 12:06:57 PM PST by jwalsh07 (.)
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To: Flycatcher

Disagreeing with Carson on policy matters and joining with Politico to slander the man are two different things.


40 posted on 11/08/2015 12:09:00 PM PST by jwalsh07 (.)
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