This is
none on my business, but that has never stopped my opinion before has it?
While
watching the news before,
after at least when we got out power back,
and still
to this day,
I can find only one government official, in Puerto Rico
actually
working for their citizens?
If I am
wrong I apologize, please write to tell me who?
Mayor
Carmen Yulín Cruz of San Juan, Puerto Rico’s capital city, officially announced
she’s running for governor in the 2020 elections.
Cruz, who became a prominent adversary of President Donald
Trump amid failures
in the federal response to the devastating Hurricane Maria, made the long-awaited
announcement Friday afternoon at the Caguas Botanical Garden.
“I’ve
been thinking for a long time, what’s the best way I can serve Puerto Rico …
I’m going to do so by becoming the next governor,” said Cruz, while wearing a
white pantsuit with a
a
T-shirt that read “¡Sin Miedo!” — Spanish for
"without fear."
Cruz
began her speech talking about her great-grandfather, who was an agricultural
laborer, and the ripple effects slavery left behind in Puerto Rico.
“We have
to break away from the chains that tie us down in order to have a promising
future and break our cycle of poverty,” she said in Spanish.
The
announcement came on a Puerto Rican holiday that commemorates the day slavery
was abolished there.
Cruz
gained national and international attention when
she criticized the Trump administration's hurricane response in Puerto Rico.
“This is personal. The president came and threw paper
towels at us," she told NBC News in a
previous interview. "He continues to
disregard the pain of people from Puerto Rico."
San Juan
Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz was never arrested!