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Puerto Rico’s First Fully Domestic Sportsbook Opens Today
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More than a fifth of the country will hold gubernatorial elections in 2024, but none will be more intriguing than the contest shaping up in Puerto Rico.
The field grew even more crowded Monday when Rep. Jesús Manuel Ortiz González, a member of the territory’s House of Representatives, announced he was taking on Puerto Rico Sen. Juan Zaragoza Gómez for the Popular Democratic Party nomination.But that contest isn’t the first primary battle in Puerto Rico to grab headlines recently. That honor belongs to the territory’s powerful, pro-statehood New Progressive Party, which features a pair of candidates who just three years ago ran together on the same ticket, but now have become political rivals.
Jenniffer González-Colón
At the time they were running together, Jenniffer González-Colón was seeking reelection to her post as resident commissioner of Puerto Rico, and Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia had his eyes set on the territory’s top elected post, the governor’s seat located in a compound aptly dubbed “the fortress,” or La Fortaleza.Though they are both members of NPP in Puerto Rico, the two politicians have forged separate alliances in Congress: González-Colón is a Republican who supported former President Donald Trump — even earning his praise. Meanwhile, Pierluisi caucused with Democrats during his eight years as Puerto Rico’s resident commissioner.
Though they are both members of NPP in Puerto Rico, the two politicians have forged separate alliances in Congress: González-Colón is a Republican who supported former President Donald Trump — even earning his praise. Meanwhile, Pierluisi caucused with Democrats during his eight years as Puerto Rico’s resident commissioner.Now González-Colón is trying to unseat the embattled incumbent, announcing she was challenging Pierluisi just days before he officially filed his reelection bid.
González-Colón tells The Recast she is running because the people of Puerto Rico “need a government that makes sense” and Pierluisi seems “detached from how people on the ground are living.”For his part, Pierluisi has rejected González-Colón’s criticisms, saying it is easy to “criticize from the outside.”
“Anyone can aspire,” he told POLITICO earlier this month in Spanish. “If my administration is attacked, if it is said that Puerto Rico is going down the wrong path, I’ll say that’s not correct.”
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