JUAN CARLOS LOPEZ, HOST, DIRECTO USA: So, what happens now? What is the process? And there are 34 legislators that support it, but leadersh…
JENNIFER GONZÁLEZ, RESIDENT COMMISSIONER (R-PUERTO RICO): 38.
LOPEZ: Is it 38 already? Does leadership support it? Do you see any interest? Because many say that if Puerto Rico were to become a state, it would have more representation in the House than do many states. They’d have two senators, becoming a powerhouse that many say could, would be majority Democrat.
GONZÁLEZ: Well, that’s what many people think, what happens is that they don’t know that we Latinos, in Puerto Rico’s case, there are many very conservative values and Puerto Rico would be a place where both national parties would have to compete. Now- I’m a Republican, and I was the official who got the most votes in the,past election. So we’re not necessarily going to be Democrats. We’ve seen that alternate as the years pass, and obviously, it basically depends on the candidate