House Democrats stuffing the ballot box
Topics: Democracy
09 Jun 2010
From: Ervan Darnell
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In April, House Democrats voted to to make Puerto Rico either choose
statehood or some independence weaker than the current commonwealth status.
This is a transparent and shameless effort to add more Democrats to
Congress. They won't even Puerto Ricans them to keep their current status.
The last time a vote was held, 69% of Puerto Ricans wanted to continue
their commonwealth status [2]. Thus, this bill isn't even an honest effort
to gauge the will of Puerto Ricans, but a contrived alternative to force the
Democrats want.
Texas has about five times the population of Puerto Rico. How about letting
it split into five states as part of the bargain in order to roughly balance
the politics? At least one of those mini-Texas's would be Democratic,
cancelling a Republican one, leaving a Republican bonus of either 0 or 2,
thus averaging one, and canceling Puerto Rico.
I don't know the Republicans would be any better were they were offered the
same choice, but this is the sort of corruption that comes from single party
rule. It's also immensely hypocritical after the cries of foul in the 2000
Florida election, over mere dozens of badly and dubiously marked ballots, to
just add to more senate seats. I suppose it's like FDR's court packing
plan.
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[1]
http://www.examiner.com/x-34929-Manhattan-Conservative-Examiner~y2010m4d29-Is-Puerto-Rico-about-to-become-the-51st-state
[2] http://www.essortment.com/all/puertoricansta_rdla.htm (not sure of the
quality of this website, but this number is consistent with my memory of the
vote)
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In April, House Democrats voted to to make Puerto Rico either choose stateh=
ood or some independence weaker than the current commonwealth status. =A0Th=
is is a transparent and shameless effort to add more Democrats to Congress.=
=A0They won't even Puerto Ricans them to keep their current status. =
=A0The last time a vote was held, 69% of Puerto Ricans wanted to continue t=
heir commonwealth status [2]. =A0Thus, this bill isn't even an honest e=
ffort to gauge the will of Puerto Ricans, but a contrived alternative to fo=
rce the Democrats want. =A0
Texas has about five times the population of Puerto Rico. =
=A0How about letting it split into five states as part of the bargain in or=
der to roughly balance the politics? =A0At least one of those mini-Texas=
9;s would be Democratic, cancelling a Republican one, leaving a Republican =
bonus of either 0 or 2, thus averaging one, and canceling Puerto Rico. =A0 =
=A0
I don't know the Republicans would be any better we=
re they were offered the same choice, but this is the sort of corruption th=
at comes from single party rule. =A0It's also immensely hypocritical af=
ter the cries of foul in the 2000 Florida election, over mere dozens of bad=
ly and dubiously marked ballots, to just add to more senate seats. =A0I sup=
pose it's like FDR's court packing plan. =A0
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