
By The Star Staff
Senate President Thomas Rivera Schatz on Thursday rejected Gov. Jenniffer González Colón’s proposal to place a statue of President Donald Trump in the Capitol, saying that he “doesn’t give a damn.”
“In the Capitol grounds, we rule, and no one else,” Rivera Schatz said during his turn in the regular session of the upper chamber. “Oh, do we listen to suggestions? Of course. We will be cordial, of course. But in the Capitol we take them here, not anywhere else.”
The Senate president suggested, with irony, that the statue could be located in other places.
“Maybe the plaza, the Trump statue, maybe we should put it on the coast of Loíza, which is suffering from serious erosion to draw attention to what is happening there,” he said. “Maybe we should put the Trump statue in some poor municipalities, comrades, so that they look that way.”
Rivera Schatz was emphatic in his position.
“So I don’t give a damn about the Donald Trump statue, I couldn’t care less about the Donald Trump statue,” he said. “We came to work here and we are not going to allow our work to be diluted by political obstinacy against the governor’s in-laws, by the obstinacy of wanting to make it seem that someone here … is not complying or that we are marginalizing. My party was not founded for that.”
During this four-year term, the Senate is in charge of the Capitol Superintendence, and in turn in charge of the properties of the capitol district, which includes the plazas, statues and security, among other aspects.
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