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House Democrats have introduced a bill to give Puerto Rico statehood (H.R. 1522)
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Posted on 03/07/2021 11:52:14 AM PST by RandFan

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NEW: House Democrats have introduced a bill to give Puerto Rico statehood (H.R. 1522), which would give Democrats two more Senate seats and multiple House seats -Politico


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: articlex; pr; presidentbiden; presidentharris; puertorico; statehood; voterid
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To: proud American in Canada

If this bill passes the House and Senate it is done.

The democrats and their rino buttslaves are hell bent on destroying what reputation the US has left.

Then when their Chinese paymasters seize Taiwan by force and “vote” it into China, the Chicoms will point to PR as justification for their naked aggression.

This will be the start of the end of the whorehouse Congress has become.

Hell is too good for them.


221 posted on 03/13/2021 10:17:37 AM PST by hank ernade (armchair macho bravado EverTrumper)
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To: RandFan; All

Not just democrats pushing this. Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio, whose handler on K st, Cesar Conda said so... were all about anything Puerto Rico wants. Conda controls Liz Cheney too.

https://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=Ryan+puerto+rico


222 posted on 03/13/2021 11:11:26 AM PST by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: AuntB

Conda tried to stop Rand Paul in Kentucky in 2010. (search his name and Rand). He was on an email with Bill Kristol etc. These guys are all connected and own Rubio and many others!


223 posted on 03/13/2021 11:40:13 AM PST by RandFan
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To: gleeaikin
Most of the island is on some sort of public assistance. The values of the founders are foreign there and it is not “conservative” in the sense that we have. And the statehood party is a mixture of Dems and Republicans, it is NOT a right wing party.

At this point it’s a done deal, so no sense arguing. Just don’t buy into tropes about Boricua being “deeply religious” (whatever that means these days). High levels of illegitimacy belie that trope. If PR and DC become states so be it, but don’t believe the LIARs in the statehood party who tell us pale faces on the mainland that they are “natural conservatives” when over half their party affiliates with the Democrats (including Pierluisi).

224 posted on 03/13/2021 11:47:05 AM PST by Clemenza
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To: RandFan

Yep. More than you’ll ever want to know about Conda on my blog


225 posted on 03/13/2021 12:29:04 PM PST by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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To: Clemenza

My mainland son is married to a Puerto Rican woman. They met while she was comleting college in our city and my son was a high school dropout with dyslexia. I did not have the impression she was particularly religious. They lived together several years while she finished college then moved to Miami as a compromise since she hated winter and I wanted to be able to drive to visit once a year, Eventually they got married and had a child. Then the economy blew up and they moved to PR where she had good contacts for employment. They had another child and their first is now in college, They are still happy together and live in faithfulness and love. My son has his own small construction business. They are not very religious, but they are loyal and self supporting, and their lives seem to encompass a fair number of conservative values and they have been together for more than 25 years. My son is actually the more laid back of the two. When he was in his teens and worried about his dyslexia, I told him not to worry, that with his personality he could find a good woman who would take care of the paper work for the family which is what happened.


226 posted on 03/13/2021 2:10:42 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin
Anecdotes are meaningless when confronted about the facts on the island. My fiancées parents were both born and raised on the island. They and their family are “good people,” but it doesn’t negate the fact that the majority of the island are on some form of public assistance and that both the PPD and PNP are both more in line with the Democrats than any right wing ideology. Both parties promise more and more bennies from a smaller pie and the people oblige by voting for them.

The only two groups of people who seem to be “natural conservatives” re the descendants of Palatine Germans and Scots Irish on the mainland, but that’s a whole ‘nother discussion.

227 posted on 03/13/2021 3:03:20 PM PST by Clemenza
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To: gleeaikin

Best to your son and his wife. I know first hand how difficult it is to meet “the right person,” and we should all be blessed in such a way.


228 posted on 03/13/2021 3:35:13 PM PST by Clemenza
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To: Clemenza

Thanks. Since my mothers parents were German immigrants, and his father had a fair bit of Scots, I guess my son has some of that going for him.


229 posted on 03/13/2021 6:29:20 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: Trump20162020
They voted in 2020 for statehood.

"Should Puerto Rico be admitted immediately into the Union as a State?"
Yes: 655,505 (52.52%)
No: 592,671 (47.48%)


True, but didn't that vote have a pretty low turnout, as most of the anti-Statehood folks decided to boycott the vote for some reason?
230 posted on 03/14/2021 2:35:35 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: Svartalfiar

No, its turnout was 54%. They had previous referendums boycotted and receiving like 23% turnout, but over 50% turnout is legitimate under any country’s laws.


231 posted on 03/14/2021 3:33:00 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: RandFan

Puerto Rico’s vote is counted by Dominion machines.


232 posted on 03/15/2021 7:56:26 AM PDT by Crucial ( )
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To: Crucial

In general, we also need to examine any military advantage with PR.


233 posted on 03/18/2021 8:48:14 PM PDT by MajorKoslo
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To: RandFan; All

IF PR is admitted s the 51st State, the DIMocRATS may get a surprise.

The majority of Puerto Ricans are Roman Catholic & PRO-LIFE.

To tell everyone how NOBODY knows what a NEW State may do in voting, may I remind everyone that BEFORE HI & AK were admitted, HI was thought to become solidly GOP & AK was believed to become solidly DEM??
(Didn’t work out as “the experts” planned.)

Yours, ex-cadet


234 posted on 03/21/2021 2:02:01 PM PDT by ex-cadet ("VICTORY OR DEATH", William Barrett Travis LtCol, Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 24th F'by 1836)
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To: RandFan

That $15/hr minimum wage will sure do a number on that State’s economy!


235 posted on 03/21/2021 2:39:17 PM PDT by Robert357
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To: RandFan

They own all 3 brancehs of government.. it looks like a done deal..except Puerto Rico has in the past voted against it.. They are not a dumb people ..they pay no federal taxes and get tons of Federal money


236 posted on 03/23/2021 6:12:22 PM PDT by Sonshinegirl
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To: Trump20162020

Schumer said no... calling the island corrupt.

Pot/kettle me thinks.


237 posted on 03/24/2021 11:00:53 AM PDT by DaiHuy (May God save the country, for it is evident the people will not! Millard Fillmore)
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To: RandFan

Did PR voted largely for Dems. historically?


238 posted on 03/25/2021 6:24:51 AM PDT by Humane1
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To: Humane1
Two main political parties in PR since the 1960s have been the PRD who are pro-commonwealth, and the PNP who are pro-statehood, with power going back and forth between the two over the years. PRD members are usually unaffiliated or Democrats. PNP members are generally affiliated secondarily with either the Dems or the GOP. I would say that in the PNP there are more Dems than Republicans, but all of the Republicans who are in PR affiliate with the GOP out of convenience.

Current governor of PR is a PNP member who is also a Democrat. PRD controls the commonwealth legislature.

Since PR was allowed to elect governors in the late 1940s, there have been two elected governors who were PNP and also affiliated with the GOP (Luis Ferre and Luis Fortuno). When the Democrat/PNP governor Ricky Rossello resigned under scandal a few years back, Wanda Vasquez was appointed governor, who was of the same party (PNP), but also affiliated with the GOP. PR politics are confusing for folks from the mainland and sadly very corrupt on all sides.

239 posted on 03/27/2021 3:27:02 PM PDT by Clemenza
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To: RandFan

Hi.

The U.S. should sell PR back to Spain.

Give DC to MD and VA. (Yes, I know), but it may save the Republic.

Either way, the U.S. or North America isn’t mentioned in the book of Revelation. St. John for those in Rio Linda.

We are doomed.

5.56mm


240 posted on 03/29/2021 12:31:52 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho ain't my president.)
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