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Puerto Rico governor plan for a shadow delegation draws criticism amid pandemic Bianca Padró Ocasio, Syra Ortiz-Blanes and Alex Daugherty, Miami Herald © ERIC ROJAS/AFP/AFP/TNS Pedro Pierluisi holds a news conference after being sworn in as Governor of Puerto Rico in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on, August 2, 2019. MIAMI, SAN JUAN, and WASHINGTON A plan by Puerto Rico s governor to fund elections for a new group of shadow representatives in Washington requires the elected officials to support statehood and opponents are declaring the proposed election an unconstitutional waste of money amid the coronavirus pandemic. Newly elected Gov. Pedro Pierluisi, a Democrat and president of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party, told reporters Tuesday that funding the special election for a mostly symbolic group of shadow representatives lobbying for statehood is the best investment of public funds because the island will receive much more federal funding if it were

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