Posted on 03/26/2023 11:09:23 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
What the bill does
The Puerto Rico Admission Act [H.R. 6246] would officially make the territory the 51st U.S. state, no later than 2021.
The bill was introduced by the territory’s nonvoting member of Congress, Resident Commissioner Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR0).
The state would gain two U.S. senators, plus five House representativesaccording to their population, as well as presidential voting rights.
How would the state likely vote? Unlike a potential Washington DC statehood, Puerto Rico is more up in the air. Their one nonvoting member of Congress is a Republican, though their governor is a member of the New Progressive Party which is similar to the Democrats. In Puerto Rico’s 2016 presidential primaries, 61 percent of votes were for Democrats.
Source: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr6246/summary
Archive Copy: https://archive.ph/QTozq
Source: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr6246/cosponsors
Archive Copy: https://archive.ph/kPQPb
Ron DeSantis was helping the Demo☭rats leverage Puerto Rico so as to gain an advantage in the House and, more importantly, the Senate. Now why would he do that? 🤔
H/T @RaphaelFromBrazil on Truth Social for the tip
question ... how’d you get that hammer-and-sickle symbol into the title?
As a Floridian, I see Jeb! and others “supporting” Ron as a way to take out Trump. If it wasn’t RD, they would find someone else.
I used to HAVE TO GO to Puerto Rico on business. Once there I never wanted to go back. It’s a cesspool of high crime, low I.Q. people and total political corruption. Burglar bars are everywhere, even on the poorest of houses because stealing is a part of the culture. Puerto Rico has little in common with the U.S. and only wants to become a State to suck even more welfare from our taxpayers. Look at what happened to NYC where generations of Puerto Ricans remain on welfare. P.R. should be an independent country.
I know a Spaniard I would like to see eat the whole of PR.
Puerto Rico should never become the 51st state.
Too many do. There is no influential Republican party in PR. Now once Puerto Ricans go to an area where they have a choice, they can be pretty open to voting conservative/common sense; in which you point out about Florida. Remember when dims were salivating about all the displaced people moving to FL after the hurricane? I do. That went up in a puff real quick.
But there has to be some ground game in PR before considering it being a state. Also, need to improve the economic situation; PR would instantly become the poorest state in the union and it would not be close.
Just visited PR last year. Really like it.
Almost by definition, if you are a Puerto Rican living in the US, it is because you or your parents and other family fled conditions on the island. Thus many Puerto Ricans proudly assimilate to American middle class values and reject the scamming, chiseling, and laziness that they see in so many Puerto Ricans.
Republicans do best strategically by opposing statehood as unlikely to work due to Puerto Rico's distance from the US mainland. As the Florida GOP has learned, it is far more important to Puerto Rican voters to use English and Spanish media to speak to the everyday issues that matter to them: jobs, opportunity, family values, and educational choice. Like Florida's GOP organization, DeSantis as Governor has embraced those issues and done well. Statehood does not get talked about much.
No arguement from me. CA is lost as you say.
Thank you for those insights. Much of that is what I myself have observed.
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