Puerto Rican Statehood? Hold on one second...

  It appears that the Democrats are trying to pull a fast one. If you saw Wednesday, April 28th's Glen Beck on Fox News, then you know about this. The House of Reps is today, April 29th, voting on a bill that would attempt to make Puerto Rico the 51st state. From my understanding, this bill, once passed by both houses, would require Puerto Rico to have a vote on whether or not Puerto Ricans are happy with the political status quo. If a majority of them say no, a second vote will require them to vote one of three ways, the historically most popular among them being statehood. Why are they doing this? It is assumed that if Puerto Rico becomes a state that it will vote democrat. As a state, it will get two senators and six or seven representatives in the House out in D.C. It would appear that dems are trying to strengthen their numbers.

These links explain further:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-luis-gutierrez/why-the-rush-on-the-puert_b_556328.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,591683,00.html

As I hope you can see, this is an urgent matter. Please call our good friend Representative Rick Larsen and tell him that it is a lousy bill(although a more professional word would probably be better).
I called the offices at the three numbers below and said the following:

Congressman Larsen,
I urge you to vote no on H.R. 2499, the Puerto Rican Democracy bill. For such an important matter, has not been considered sufficiently and does not appear to give the people of Puerto Rico the flexibility they deserve in determining their future. Talk to your Democrat colleague Representative Luis Gutierrez- he is of Puerto Rican ancestry and does not feel that this is in the best interests of Puerto Ricans.
Thank you and have a great day!

Phone numbers:
Bellingham: (360) 733-4500
Everett: (425) 252-3188
D.C. (202) 225-2605
I also sent the same message to him in an email via this link: http://www.house.gov/larsen/contact/

I hope you choose to voice you opinion on this. The earlier the better!