Luis Fortuno
Luis Fortuno
Luis Guillermo Fortuño Bursetis a Puerto Rican politician who served as the tenth Governor of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States of America, and as president of the New Progressive Party of Puerto Ricountil 2013, served as president of the Council of State Governments during 2012 and served as president of the Southern Governors Association from 2011 to 2012. On June 26, 2011 he announced his plans to run for reelection. He was defeated in...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 October 1960
CitySan Juan, PR
CountryUnited States of America
I came into the Republican party in 1980, when I was a college student at Georgetown.
I am making sure, as the governor of a territory, that our kids speak fluent English. But having said that, I will tell my wife I love her in Spanish, and I will pray in Spanish, and no one from Washington should come down here and tell us how to go about it.
I resent Washington telling states, or the residents of those states, what to do and what to think.
Over 90 percent of parents in Puerto Rico want their children to be totally fluent in English.
Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.
We cannot continue to close our eyes to the fact that we have to truly embrace green jobs, new technologies and alternative sources of energy.
Some people called me a fascist. That's mostly over, but there will be more attacks from the unions.
It is wrong to believe that Hispanics are Democrats. Hispanics are traditionally and historically conservative, not just socially conservative, but fiscally conservative.