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MCPO Roger Collins
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Wonder why this hasn’t happened over the past presidents, Democrat and Rebublican? Oh yeah, it wasn’t important until we had President Trump to blame. Obama didn’t have it on his priority list for eight years.
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MAJ Bryan Zeski - There may be more to Trump's stance on the Puerto Rico's leaders than just his political whims, perhaps, just maybe it's due to her complete incompetence as a leader and in no way should PR become a state when they continuously elect such corrupt and inefficient leaders.
I'm all for PR becoming a state but they have some significant issues least of which are financial.
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MAJ Bryan Zeski
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MAJ (Join to see) Thing is, it's the Mayor of a city .. not the Governor of the non-state... How far down does it go? City board? School board?
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MCPO Roger Collins
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MAJ Bryan Zeski - It starts with the primary leaders, like the Mayor of San Juan.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
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Trump's support or non support won't be the deciding factor anyway
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MAJ Bryan Zeski
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Lt Col Charlie Brown Why do you think that? Also, should it play any role at all in their decision?
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
Lt Col Charlie Brown
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MAJ Bryan Zeski - why should it? All of our Presidents are transient. Statehood is permanent. Other than pot stirring why should it matter.
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LTC Self Employed
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From other Puerto Rican soup Shinedown rallypoint, it sounds like there's functional and nonfunctional Corruption in Puerto Rico.
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MAJ Bryan Zeski this is actually a non-story. First, Puerto Ricans have to vote to be a state then it has to go through the Senate and be approved by the majority of states and then the president can sign it. If I'm mistaken, please correct me!
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CW4 Guy Butler
CW4 Guy Butler
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LTC (Join to see), Article 3, clause 1:

“New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.”

It only requires an act of Congress.
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MAJ Bryan Zeski
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LTC (Join to see) - And the people of PR have already voted a few times (non-binding) that they WANT to be a state.
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MAJ Bryan Zeski you are correct! I was thinking from the past. The Senate has to decide the first then.
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