H.R. 2499 to make Puerto Rico the 51st state

[Twoller]

I got this in my email today:

EMERGENCY ALERT!

Emergency Alert!

Dear Official English supporter;

Emergency Alert!

ProEnglish has learned House Democratic leaders plan to bring H.R. 2499, the Puerto Rico Democracy Act, to the floor of the House of Representatives for a vote next week!
H.R. 2499 is "stealth legislation" designed to make Spanish-speaking Puerto Rico the 51st state.

That is the only reason why the bill requires Puerto Ricans to vote on the question of statehood again, after they rejected it in three previous nation-wide elections.

This time, however, H.R. 2499's voting process is rigged in favor of statehood!

ProEnglish opposes H.R. 2499 because it does not make Puerto Rico adopt English as the language of its government as a prerequisite for statehood. Therefore if Puerto Rico is admitted as a state it will destroy our nation's unity in English and transform the U.S. into an officially bilingual country like Canada, with Spanish as our second 'official' language.
Please send your Congressman an email message and urge them to VOTE NO on H.R. 2499.

PLEASE TAKE ACTION NOW!

There is a link to send a letter via CapWiz:

http://capwiz.com/proenglish/issues/...pwiz:queue_id]

The link may work for you, but maybe you will have to register.

Also, your exact ZIP code has an extra four digits besides the first five. You might need those extra four digits to make sure it goes to the right representative.

[Ayatollahgondola]

Originally Posted by Twoller

I got this in my email today:



There is a link to send a letter via CapWiz:

http://capwiz.com/proenglish/issues/...pwiz:queue_id]

The link may work for you, but maybe you will have to register.

Also, your exact ZIP code has an extra four digits besides the first five. You might need those extra four digits to make sure it goes to the right representative.

I'd like to know just how it's rigged for statehood this time

[Twoller]

Originally Posted by Ayatollahgondola

I'd like to know just how it's rigged for statehood this time

I'm not sure what they were talking about. You'd have to read the bill or ask those pro-English folks.

[rs232c]

Every few years Puerto Rico goes through this to become a state and it's always knocked down. They majority take the position they have economic and social advantages to not becoming a state.

What is different this time as I read it is that the territory of Puerto Rico isn't voting for their statehood, the US Congress is. I need clarification for that.

[Twoller]

They ought to be dumped as a "territory" too, whatever that is.