Heroic Puerto Rico Mayor – and Top Trump Critic – Carmen Yulín Cruz to Attend State of the Union

Cruz Charged ‘We Are Dying and You Are Killing Us With the Inefficiency’

President Donald Trump’s first official State of the Union address Tuesday night will include many critics – every Democrat that is choosing to attend – and some of the invited guests as well.

Those staring at the President will include the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Carmen Yulín Cruz, who will be the invited guest of U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York. Trump has done a dismal job of helping the island territory. Many if not most have been without electricity or water after two major hurricanes devastated Puerto Rico last fall.

It’s a bold move for Gillibrand, who many believe may run for the White House in 2020.

“CNN reported last week that roughly half a million customers on the island still don’t have electricity. The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority said it had restored power to more than 1 million clients, or roughly 70 percent of its customers,” The Hill notes. 

In late September Mayor Cruz, who had first tried to be respectful and patient, chose a different path to save the lives of her citizens, and all those on the island.

“I have been patient,” she said before the cameras in late September. “But we have no time for patience anymore.”

“So I am asking the President of the United States to make sure somebody is in charge that is up to the task of saving lives,” she pleaded. “We are dying and you are killing us with the inefficiency.”

“I am going to do what I never thought I would do. I am begging, begging anyone that can hear us to save us from dying.”

NCRM will cover Trump’s State of the Union live Tuesday night.