SERVICIOS COMBINADOS | 01/25/2013

FOTO: RICH CLEMENT, BLOOMBERG

Fuente:  The Daily Caller

Washington – Uno de los activistas conservadores más poderoso en Washington y  luchador en contra del aumento de los impuestos, Grover Norquist, se une al esfuerzo, liderado por el exgobernador republicano Luis Fortuño, para convencer a los conservadores a apoyar a la estadidad para Puerto Rico.

Norquist preside una organización muy poderosa en Washington, Americans for Tax Reform, creada en el 1985 durante la administración de Ronald Reagan, para la cual trabajaba Norquist en ese momento.  Americans for Tax Reform se creó para hacer campaña para efectuar el “Tax Reform Act” de 1986, el cual bajaba  el nivel más alto de contribuciones de 50% a 28%, lo cual resultó  en ampliar la base contributiva ytambién en reformas sustanciales en el Código de Rentas Internas de los Estados Unidos.

Norquist participará en una conferencia de prensa con Luis Fortuño en Washington para impulsar la estadidad para la isla la próxima semana.

El grupo organizador del esfuerzo es el “Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles”.

“El grupo de líderes conservadores llamará al Congreso a aprobar una ley para permitir que el pueblo de Puerto Rico decida su futuro político entre las opciones no territoriales y válide constitucionalmente el resultado”, indicó el grupo mediante un comunicado de prensa.

Otros que aparecerán en la conferencia incluyen Richard Land del “Southern Baptist Convention”.

“Durante casi un siglo, el Congreso ha negado a los ciudadanos de Puerto Rico sus derechos constitucionales plenos”, dijo Alfonso Aguilar, director ejecutivo del “Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles”. Ellos no pueden votar por el presidente que puede enviar a sus hijos a la guerra y tampoco tienen una representación adecuada y proporcional en el Congreso. Esto va en contra de los principios más básicos de nuestra fundación y cada conservador constitucional debe oponerse a este sistema no democrático “.

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Añadido Aguilar, “Ronald Reagan entendió esto y por eso apoyó firmemente la estadidad para Puerto Rico.”

For an english version of this news click here.

http://yasta.pr/influyente-activista-conservador-impulsara-la-estadidad-para-puerto-rico

http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/25/grover-norquist-to-push-for-statehood-for-puerto-rico/

*Media Advisory*

Conservative Leaders to Press for Puerto Rican Statehood
Former Governor Luis Fortuno Among Speakers at D.C. Press Conference Tuesday

Washington, D.C.—The Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles, a leading
voice for Latinos, will hold a press conference on Tuesday, January 29 to
announce a new initiative to encourage conservatives to support Puerto Rican
statehood, which will include educational forums, advocacy in Congress and
grassroots events. The group of conservative leaders will call on Congress to
pass legislation to allow the people of Puerto Rico to decide their political
future among non-territorial and constitutionally valid options.

WHO:             Former Governor Luis Fortuno (R-PR)
Grover Norquist, President, Americans for Tax Reform
Dr. Richard Land, President, Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission
Southern Baptist Convention
Niger Innis, National Spokesman, Congress of Racial Equality
Dr. Hernan Padilla, Former Mayor of San Juan, PR
Alfonso Aguilar, Executive Director, Latino Partnership for Conservative
Principles

WHAT:           Press conference announcing education campaign on Puerto Rican
statehood

WHERE:        National Press Club
4th Amendment Room
529 14th St. NW
Washington, DC

WHEN:           Tuesday, January 29
9:30 a.m. ET

Allen West, Luis Fortuno, and Artur Davis To Speak at CPAC

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Hernán Padilla, MD#

President of Igualdad

Introduction

Words related to Latino Partnership

Introduction

Igualdad: An advocacy group for citizen equality through Statehood

Igualdad (Equality), a non-partisan grass-roots citizen advocacy organization, has a simple and compelling objective: achieving full equality in citizenship under the Constitution for the American citizens of Puerto Rico through the admission of the Island as a State of the Union.

We believe that our Nation has one Constitution and one citizenship for all Americans and, therefore, that the American citizens of Puerto Rico should have the same rights, responsibilities and opportunities as the American citizens who reside in the 50 States.

The Island’s current status as an unincorporated territory of the United States deprives American citizens residing in Puerto Rico of fundamental rights such as the equal protection of the laws, participation in the election of the President, and proportional representation in Congress.

Ironically, thousands of Puerto Ricans have served in the Armed Forces protecting our freedoms at home and defending our democratic ideals abroad —many at the cost of their lives.

Historical Background

Puerto Rico became a territory of the United States in 1898 as a result of the Spanish American War. And in 1917 Congress granted American citizenship to the inhabitants of Puerto Rico.

Prior to the Spanish American War it was expected that American territories would eventually be admitted into the Union. However, in a series of decisions known as the Insular Cases, the Supreme Court created two classes of territories: incorporated, which were intended to become States, and unincorporated, such as Puerto Rico, which according to the case law could be ruled by Congress indefinitely.

However, the Constitution does not provide for such differentiation. The unprecedented category of “unincorporated territory” was created by a segregationist Court to prevent a territory inhabited by people of Hispanic origin from becoming a part of the United States.

Moreover, when in 1917 Congress granted American citizenship to Puerto Ricans it was generally understood that the Islands had been incorporated into the United States. But in 1922 a U.S. Supreme Court that upheld racial segregation determined that Puerto Rico was still an unincorporated territory because its Justices could not conceive of a faraway island inhabited by Hispanics, rather than Anglo-Saxons, to be a part of this Nation.

As such, American Citizens who reside in Puerto Rico are subjected to geographic discrimination, segregationist policies and a deficit of democratic rights. The U.S. Constitution does not protect the U.S. Citizens who reside in Puerto Rico in the same manner it protects other U.S. Citizens. (SCOTUS 1921-22)

Even though, in 1952 President Truman signed USC§1402, changing the Statutory American Citizenship that had been granted to all persons born in Puerto Rico in 1917 to Natural Born American Citizens for all persons born on the island from January 1941 onward, today the residents in Puerto Rico continue to be subject to a political system that denies them full equality as U.S. Citizens and participation in their national government.

Results of the Recent Puerto Rico Status Plebiscite

On November 6th, 2012, the U.S. Citizens residing in Puerto Rico voted in a two-part plebiscite on whether they wanted the Island to remain a territory, and on their preference among the three full self-government or non-territorial status alternatives.

With the participation of 77.6% of all registered voters, the residents of Puerto Rico rejected the continuation of the current territorial status, often called “commonwealth,” with an absolute majority of 54%. With this vote the American citizens of Puerto Rico removed any possible consent that may have existed to continue being governed under a political status that is both undemocratic and discriminatory.

Moreover, the plebiscite results yielded an overwhelming preference for statehood which garnered 61% of the votes over the options of independence in free association with the U.S. and full independence.

Request

We  join the Latino Partnership for Conservative Principles in its call for The White House and Congress to take action to resolve Puerto Rico’s political status problem in a manner consistent with the results of the plebiscite held last November.

I repeat, our ultimate goal is to achieve full equality in citizenship under the Constitution for the American citizens of Puerto Rico through the admission of the Island as a State of the Union.

As I said, the United States is one Nation with one Constitution and only one citizenship for all Americans. Therefore, the continued political segregation of a community of 3.7 million American citizens of Hispanic origin is a national problem that deserves prompt attention and expedient action.

Every year the President speaks before a joint session of Congress recommending measures to deal with the issues that he believes are important. We would hope that the President includes Puerto Rico’s political status problem in his State of the Union address on February 12th.

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For the past few days, the effort to expand our base of support for statehood
has been front and center.
Here are ten links for articles about Puertto Rico move towards statehood.
Courtesy of Alfonso Aguilar, Executive Director of Latino Partnership
Hernan Padilla

http://www.christianpost.com/news/conservative-leaders-call-for-puerto-rico-statehood-89045/

http://www.rollcall.com/news/dc_residents_get_an_anti_tax_ally_in_norquist-221995-1.html?pos=htmbtxt

http://nbclatino.com/2013/01/30/opinion-is-puerto-rican-statehood-the-next-latino-issue-for-conservatives/

http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=39616

http://reason.com/24-7/2013/01/29/norquist-shows-support-for-dc-tax-activi

http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/25/grover-norquist-to-push-for-statehood-for-puerto-rico/

http://www.elnuevodia.com/buscanenamoraralosconservadores-1437126.html

http://actualidad.rt.com/actualidad/view/85226-adhesion-puerto-rico-eeuu-amenaza-paises-latinoamericanos

http://www.elnuevodia.com/activistaantiimpuestosseunealmovimientoestadista-1434944.html

http://www.laopinion.com/buscan-congreso-apruebe-puerto-rico-estado-51-eeuu