Puerto Rico Ping! Please Freepmail me if you want on or off the list.
Posted on 02/29/2012 5:51:57 AM PST by cll
Puerto Rico Ping! Please Freepmail me if you want on or off the list.
Mitt Romney, has actually taken the toughest stance on immigration during the campaign, and Fortuño agreed to endorse him only after discussing his immigration views with him. “I raised the issue,” Fortuño says. “I am convinced that he will eventually put out an immigration policy that will be more in line with what a lot of other Republicans have been putting out, a more comprehensive approach.”
It appears that “No Core Values or Beliefs” Romney has made a deal contrary to his publicly stated position on Illegal-Immigration. I don’t really believe it’s a question of whether he’s lying or not, but who he’s lying to and it’s probably everyone.
March 18th? Wow... that’s very soon.
I recall Hillary spending almost a week on the Island in June 2008...
I agree with the governor. PR statehood would force the tenth ammendment to the forefront, and that would be a good thing for the rest of us.
HOLA!!!!!
ANY WORD ON WHETHER ANY OF THE GOP CANDIDATES PLAN TO VISIT PUETRO RICO WITHIN NEXT WEEK?
Hola,
Nothing firm yet. All I’ve heard is that Santorum is coming. Newt has a bunch of local solid conservatives behind him. The Governor favors Mittens :-P.
The local GOP announde the visits today.
Rick Santorum arrives on Friday and will be hitting the Evangelical churches. It seems like he got the Evangelical vote locked up as Jorge Raschke has endorsed him.
Newt Gingrich is not coming down. He’s sending his daughter.
Mitt Romney’s wife arrives on Thursday and Romney on Fridfay. They plan to stay until Sunday. I’ll bet he will want to give his victory speech from here. Everybody thinks he’s a shoe-in, including his people down here.
Ron Paul is not coming down, but he’s the first tomplace ads on local radio.
Gov. Romney is staying for 3 days?? OMG — that’s HUGE!!
Thanks for the info!!
Very interesting!
Gracias mil...
Correction: Rick Santorum will arrive tomorrow and stay through Thursday. He will be interviewed Noti Uno tomorrow.
Gentlemen,
Is it possible to bump this thread to Breaking or Front Page News on Sunday for the Puerto Rico GOP Primary? 23 delegates at stake. I’ll plan on posting updates as events warrant.
Regards,
cll
I recall that in the June 2008 Dem primary in Puerto Rico, the Puerto Rico Live Thread was in FR Breaking News.
Hillary and Obama were fighting it out in Puerto Rico for a long time. Hillary visited the Island for an entire week!!
In a warm climate like that, why on earth would they need Mittens?
But perfect climate for Newt.
How would think third world Puerto Rico would be “battleground”? How did we get to this point?
How come Puerto Rico has almost as many delegates as Iowa, and almost double New Hampshire? Not trying to be impolite to our Puerto Rican FReepers (hey guys!), just seems weird that they’re allocated that many delegates even though they don’t have any Electoral Votes in the Presidential Election.
Romney is a leftist and he will govern as a leftist if he wins.
Puerto Rico would be third world if ony the U.S. was third world as we have been part of it since 1898.
About the size of Connecticut and with a population of nearly four million American citizens, don’t we need proportionate representation in the political process?
On Puerto Rico’s status within the United States and as a reminder:
“In my opinion, Congress has no existence and can exercise no authority outside of the Constitution. Still less is it true that Congress can deal with new territories just as other nations have done or may do with their new territories. This nation is under the control of a written constitution, the supreme law of the land and the only source of the powers which our government, or any branch or officer of it, may exert at any time or at any place. Monarchical and despotic governments, unrestrained by written constitutions, may do with newly acquired territories what this government may not do consistently with our fundamental law. To say otherwise is to concede that Congress may, by action taken outside of the Constitution, engraft upon our republican institutions a colonial system such as exists under monarchical governments. Surely such a result was never contemplated by the fathers of the Constitution. If that instrument had contained a word suggesting the possibility of a result of that character it would never have been adopted by the people of the United States. The idea that this country may acquire territories anywhere upon the earth, by conquest or treaty, and hold them as mere colonies or provinces,—the people inhabiting them to enjoy only such rights as Congress chooses to accord to them,—is wholly inconsistent with the spirit and genius, as well as with the words, of the Constitution.” - Justice John Harlan, dissenting in the Insular Cases, 1901
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