Clinton tries to buy PR votes with tax money and claims NY & PR have an "historic relationship"

[mckeown1128]

The financially strapped Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has a new patron in New York senator and presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton -- just weeks before the island's Democratic primary.

A bill filed by Clinton last week seeks to reverse that decision by requiring the NSF to reinstate the funds.

But supporters of the observatory point out that a funding initiative by the Bush administration may double the NSF's budget during the next 10 years.

In a release issued by her Senate office, Clinton highlighted that Cornell University is a New York institution. She stressed the "historic relationship" between that state and Puerto Rico.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/orl-arecibo2508apr25,0,5117790.story


So, now Hillary has a "historic releationship" relationship with Puerto Rico through New york?! She also has a new found love of telescopes a month away from a primary there.

[mckeown1128]

1. kick.nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. From Rolling Stone: Hillary is the queen of Pork for political favors

Your post just adds another point to this article.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5710027&mesg_id=5710027

[KittyWampus]

3. Hillary's grandmother had a chicken farm on Puerto Rico where Hillary learned how to wring

a chickens neck, gut it and then pluck it clean.

[MyNameGoesHere]

4. hey I heard Obama has a grandmother

but she seems to be sequestered. I guess we can't have an interview with her.

[suston96]

5. Are you saying that New York and Puerto Rico do NOT have an historic relationship? nt

[mckeown1128]

6. I am saying.....

that Hillary is grasping at straws.

[Ronnie]

7. Haven't you ever seen 'West Side Story'?

[suston96]

8. Hillary's claim that New York and Puerto Rico have an historic relationship is correct...nt

Your headline is misleading.

[mckeown1128]

9. how is my headline misleading...

and what exaclty is the historic connection between NY and PR?

also, how many "home states" is she going to try to claim? (I am keeping a list)

[rinsd]

10. Perhaps this wiki article will help

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rican_migration_to_New_York

[mckeown1128]

11. pretty loose connection to claim that to different

peoples have "a historic relationship." If migration is the criteria...then there are thousands of governing bodies that have "a historic relationship" with New York. So, Hillary can claim kinsmanship with ANY state or peoples based on her living in New York for 8 years. Give me a break.

[rinsd]

12. When 50% of your emigarted people live in 1 city for 30 years, yes its historic.

I can't believe you're arguing something this stupid.

Would you argue the Polish have no historic connection with Chicago?

That the Chinese have no historic connection with San Fran?

[mckeown1128]

15. Yes and it's a silly Hilly talking point. NT

[rinsd]

17. That Puerto Ricans have a historic relationship with New York is a Hillary talking point?

You realize how fucking stupid that is in light of what you have been shown.

[mckeown1128]

19. ...so you are saying that she just randomly has decided

to use tax payer money to fund an pork project in PR AND publicly declare New York's kinship with Puerto Rico... just a month away from the primary...


Just a bizarre coincidence huh? ok. whatever.

[rinsd]

27. The taxpayer moneys is of course pork. NY's kinship with PR is just fact.

That is what I was arguing. You apparently rather deny reality.

[bettyellen]

14. LOL nothing loose about it, mc. trust me i grew up in the bronx and half of PR lived there at one

point in their lives. Huge Boriquen stronghold for the last 40 years minimum.
Next time spout about something you have a little familiarity with, sheesh. whay BS.

[mckeown1128]

16. I am just sick of Hillary trying to claim fellowship with every state/territory. nt

[rinsd]

18. So you deny reality?

[mckeown1128]

20. No I think it is petty of her

to offer a bribe and talk about how it's ok because New York and PR are historically close. It is a cheap political move.

[bettyellen]

26. so even when it's true she shouldn't do it, gotcha.

[whistler162]

25. PR and NY might but

NY and HRC don't!

[TheDoorbellRang]

13. She's had quite a relationship with them since she was first running for Senator

This was a real eye opener about Dear Hillary:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x124338

At least this time she's buying votes with money instead of blood.

[DevonRex]

21. Time for Richardson and Federico Pena to make a little

trip to Puerto Rico.

[smalll]

22. LOL - what good do you think it will do to send a couple Mexicans to tell Puerto Ricans how to vote?

/nt

[bigbrother05]

23. Wasn't she born there?

[rainbow4321]

24. Yeah, well, Bill's visit didn't seem to impress the locals

http://prosario-2000.blogspot.com/2008/04/bill-clinton-in-puerto-rico-hillarys.html

However, a point needs to be made. Whoever planned the tour for Bill Clinton is perhaps Hillary’s worst enemy. He was planned to visit Luis Lloréns Torres residential housing. It should be known that all of the people who live there are extremely poor, needless to say that it is a high crime area. Bill Clinton’s "three strikes and you’re out" policy not only meant that the criminal would lose his or her own liberty, but the ENTIRE family would have to move out of the residence and locate elsewhere. Guess what? Most of the victims of that policy in Puerto Rico were in Lloréns Torres.

Then, he was supposed to visit the "Asociación de Industriales", an association of industry investors in Puerto Rico. Well ... they deeply resent the fact that despite their advice, Clinton eliminated all the benefits of Section 936 in Puerto Rico. The members of the Asociación de Industriales suffered heavy losses as manufactures in Puerto Rico located elsewhere.

Following that unfortunate event, he was supposed to visit Barceloneta, the municipality that suffered most of Clinton’s elimination of Section 936. Its poverty rate increases as more manufacturing industries keep locating overseas

[KittyWampus]

28. kick

[Avalux]

29. She can't claim she's a hometown girl, so this is the next best thing.

Just another example of Hillary's willingness to do whatever it takes to get in the White House; no matter how questionable. Ugh.