If Republicans passed S. 472 and Puerto Rico Became a state, wouldn it elect Democratic sentaors and representatives threatening their control of Congress?
• The statistics prove otherwise. A majority of members of the Puerto Rico legislature are Republicans and 68 percent of the island’s mayors are, too. • The Democratic Party of Puerto Rico has never elected a single officeholder as a Democrat. • Moreover, a recent Center for Research and Public Policy poll found that the people of Puerto Rico share the Republican Party’s conservative values: they are pro-family, anti-abortion, endorse school vouchers, favor school prayer and harsh prison terms for perpetrators of violent crimes and crimes against children and support a conservative lifestyle opposing state recognition of homosexual lifestyles.
