Huh?
So they?
Unlike anyone else who is allowed to vote in America should NOT be albe to do this?
Could this have anythibg to do with the fact that over 100,000 people from the island had to flee to the mainland of America because the Federal governemnt just didn’t get their act right in helping the American Island recover from a storm?
This guy probably can figure that those who do regicter to vote in Florida and other mainland states aren’t gonna be excitied about voting Republican, eh?
As reported by Politico on Tuesday, Republican congressional candidate John Wardmade the remark last week in response to a voter who asked about Puerto Ricans who have moved “either temporarily or permanently” to Florida: “How do you respond to them when they say that they need more help and that the aid to Puerto Rico is not enough?”
“First of all, I don’t think they should be allowed to register to vote,” Ward said. “And it’s not lost on me that, I think, the Democrat Party’s really hoping that they can change the voting registers in a lot of counties and districts. And I don’t think they should be allowed to do that.”
“We should be looking to put the Puerto Ricans back in their homes,” he added, per Politico. “So the idea that they can come to the mainland United States, I don’t necessarily have a problem with that. But I think we should be thinking about it in terms of getting them back home and providing the capital and resources to rebuild Puerto Rico, which I honestly think is where they belong.”….
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CG says
Dumb comments from whomever this candidate is.
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico itself has a Republican as its sole elected Representative in Congress so I do not know why the concept that Puerto Ricans in Florida might vote Republican, depending on the candidate, is so crazy.
jamesb says
True That CG!…..
scott says
It is now the Trump Republican Party and the Trump administration has basically ignored the plight in Puerto Rico. So yeah I fully expect Puerto Ricans in Florida and elsewhere to take it out on the party who steadfastly stands behind it’s President.
CG says
That seems overly simplistic.
scott says
To you maybe. But most people arent invested in pointing out each tiny insignificant thread of dissent in the thick rope of support that binds the GOP to Donald J Trump.
Most people see Republicans overwhelmingly supporting and defending Trump and vote accordingly.
But if you can show me evidence that Puerto Ricans who pleaded for months for the Trump White House to provide potable water are moved by something Ben Sasse said on the Senate floor (while he voted with Trump 90% of the time) and will support the GOP I am all ears.
CG says
I think people will vote depending on who the candidates are.
If residents moved from Puerto Rico to Florida, they may be impressed with the natural disaster relief record that Rick Scott has and could vote for him for that reason, or for other reasons.
I do not necessarily think “average” people are as obsessed with Trump as his lovers and haters on online blogs like this and others seem to be.
jamesb says
I doubt your view CG on voters from PR living on the mainland…
jamesb says
Yup……
Democratic Socialist Dave says
The popularly elected Governor of Puerto Rico is also, so far as I can tell, a Republican aligned with the New Progressive (pro-statehood) party.
Applied to New York State or New Jersey, of course, disenfranchising Puerto Ricans would upset everything.
¶ And the same logic could be applied to Cuban-Americans — almost everyone here wants the Castro and post-Castro dictatorship to end, democracy and civil liberties restored, and a permanent finish to all those crippling economic and travel sanctions. But would Comrade Ward then want Cuban-Americans to stop voting in Florida and move back to (or at least vote absentee in) Cuba?
Of course not. That would cripple the GOP in the Sunshine State.
jamesb says
What about the Katrina people that left Louisiana ?
I mean this guys comment is pure BULL SHIT
Democratic Socialist Dave says
I was probably, as I had feared, wrong about Puerto Rico Gov. Ricky Rosselló’s alignment in the U.S. political spectrum. He was, according to Wikipedia, a Hillary Clinton delegate to the 2008 “nominating convention” and an Obama delegate to the 2012 one (it’s not clear whether the Wikipedia editor meant the Democratic National Conventions or some local nominating convention of Puerto Rico Democrats.)
National alignments in Puerto Rico cut across the all-important issue of the island’s status within the U.S.: as a “free associated state” or Commonwealth without statehood (as advocated by the Popular Democratic Party, or PPD/PDP, generally aligned with the Democratic Party) or achieving full statehood with voting members of Congress and matching votes in the Electoral College (as championed by Gov. Rosselló’s New Progressive Party, or PNP/NPP, historically allied with the G.O.P.)
However it’s not unusual for candidates and officials of the local parties to align with different parties in U.S. national politics.
The Puerto Rico Independence Party supports the third alternative, full independence outside the United States, an option which have usually won about one tenth of the vote plebiscites and referenda. The Independence Party does not identify with either of the major parties of the U.S. Mainland & Hawaii.
Democratic Socialist Dave says
Forgot the link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Rossell%C3%B3#Political_career