statehooder

Ever since, he has been a staunch statehooder.

During his years at UPR, Domenech was President of the General Student Body Council during the 1999-2000 academic year, a position that had never been held by a statehooder before or since him.

For example, during his sixteen years as Governor, Luis Muñoz Marín appointed only one statehooder, Rafael Hernández Matos to the court, despite the fact that statehooders represented the largest political minority in Puerto Rico.

The issue recently led to a rare outburst of English on the Senate floor by Senator Kenneth McClintock, a statehooder and the son of a Puerto Rican mother and a Texan father who grew up here.