Roland Gutierrez: “I certainly do not want to make this the kind of issue that the resident commissioner wants to make it. I just want to…”

“I certainly do not want to make this the kind of issue that the resident commissioner wants to make it. I just want to make the point the fact is Bobby Knight had a few problems in Puerto Rico. He was arrested. And he did say some very disparaging words, and those disparaging words had a direct relationship between the games that were being played there and the reaction. He could not understand how 10 American citizens, if we want to make it, it was more than 10 I assure the resident commissioner, could cheer for a team other than the United States when it was going for a gold medal. And subsequently he got into some trouble about that. But it just talks about the special nature of the relationship. I want people to understand. It did not happen in Alaska and it did not happen in Hawaii and it did not happen in Texas. Why can we bring up all these issues, and it happened in Puerto Rico, of language and culture? And the resident commissioner said it was not geopolitical. Okay. But he said it was sociological. That is pretty incredible. That is an admission here. Sociological nationality. Let us examine what that means. That means it is a separate and distinct people. That is our point here. Our point here is let us have a fair referendum. Look, there was a referendum in 1993. The party of the resident commissioner was the party that wrote the script and the rules. Everyone voted.…”