Governor Luis Fortuño
I’ve said this before but know no one else who agrees. Still, I can’t help mentioning a great GOP vice presidential possibility who is on nobody’s radar screen: Governor Luis Fortuño, Governor of Puerto Rico. A charismatic, conservative Republican, he has turned around an economic mess in Puerto Rico and restored the island’s credit rating. As a student, he pushed for statehood for Puerto Rico when it wasn’t even popular there… thanks largely to him, it now is. He’s transforming the island’s educational system so that classes throughout the island are held in English. He is great on every GOP issue. He graduated from Georgetown School of Foreign Service and the University of Virginia Law School. He’s a convincing, knowledgeable and very likable public speaker who’d tie Biden in knots in a VP debate. He and his wife Lucé have triplets, now all students at mainland universities. He was a strong mainland campaigner for Mitt Romney in the GOP primaries.
And yes — he’s eligible to be President. Those born in Puerto Rico are U.S. citizens at birth, exactly the same as on the mainland. 8 U.S.C. 1402.
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About Ray Noble
ABOUT ME:
Retired lawyer-law professor-author. Raised in NJ, now living in Florida.
Widower and Father.
EDUCATION ACHIEVEMENTS: Summa Cum Laude, Undergrad debating scholarship, Fulbright scholarship, Campion Scholar at Oxford University, Presidential Scholar at Boston College Law School, law review editor.
DIVERSE PROFESSIONAL LIFE: Corporate lawyer, state (NJ) Deputy Atty General for Civil Rights, Law school associate professor (St. John's University), legal writer, author of guide for women at the request of the New Jersey League of Women Voters, state judiciary's chief of long range planning, state bar association's chief counsel, USIA law reform rep in Gaza and the West Bank, co-founder and overseer of 9/11 Mass Disaster relief program for World Trade Center victims.
In 2001, after 33 years of marriage and 8 children (6 living daughters), Alice, the love of my life (my high school sweetheart), died when she was only 55 years old. I still miss her deeply and always will.
But in 2002, an unexpected, new chapter began when I left the practice of law and became a Franciscan Friar of the Renewal for 3 blessed years. I served in the Hispanic apostolate and the pro-life ministry, counseling outside abortion mills in Manhattan and the Bronx. I loved the CFRs' radical commitment to poverty. I also treasured the abundant daily prayer that included Mass, the Divine Office, daily Eucharistic adoration and rosary, and both communal and private contemplative prayer.
But in 2005, while I was still in temporary vows, one of my daughters was hospitalized, with long term needs. It became clear to others and to me that my 3 years as a friar.was to become a prelude to other things.
Retiring to central Florida, I continue to see my daughter's needs as my first commitment. I also work to combat human trafficking. In my parish ministries and in my life as a single senior citizen, I try to continue the life I knew as a friar as much as I can. This website is a recent development. I hope you find it helpful and, at least occasionally, fun. I do.
