Thread by @Pwr4PuertoRico

🧵🔥: Who are the architects and main players behind the #PuertoRico Statehood Admission Act (HR1522)?

✅ Republican Congressional delegate (aka Resident Commissioner) Jenniffer González, former Chair of Latinos for Trump.

Ousted former Governor, Ricardo Rosselló. The "protest against the Governor [...is] as unanimous as the coquí." @DavidBegnaud (

https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1153820960039948290

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✅ The Fonalledas, one of the wealthiest families in Puerto Rico, frequent & generous donors to Republican candidates. (think: Koch of the Caribbean)

Here's an article: theintercept.com/2021/05/17/pue…

✅ José Fuentes-Agostini, a former Trump advisor and head of the Puerto Rico Statehood Council. Infamously defended Trump's comment early in his campaign that associated Mexicans with rapists and criminals.
mrctv.org/videos/first-j…

✅ Local leaders who have sanctioned the use of the N-word.
"This was all bad enough. But it got worse...Gov. Pedro Pierluisi issued a statement calling for sensitivity by everyone and defending the use of the N-word by a legislator of his party..."
thegrio.com/2020/12/15/pue…

✅ Local (Puerto Rican) leaders who are against a gender equity curriculum and support conversion therapy.

https://twitter.com/lapremisaeli/status/1309303088415674369?lang=en

And:
✅ Puerto Rico's statehood-only party (PNP) that, in the words of its leaders, identifies as largely conservative/Republican. Note: A recent Data for Progress poll shows that many of these PNP members would've voted for Trump in 2020.
#DignifiedDecolonization

So .@LeaderHoyer, why are you trying to compromise with right-wing special interests? Support true democracy - get behind #HR2070 for #PuertoRico.
theintercept.com/2021/05/17/pue…
#DignifiedDecolonization