A 2012 VP prospect for the GOP?

From Newsmax.com interview - "Puerto Rico's Gov. Fortuño Slashes Deficit"

Fortuño [cut] government expenses by 20 percent. He eliminated 17,000 government jobs, modernized government services to reduce costs, and decreased expenditures for official vehicles, cell phones, and credit cards by 10 percent.

Fortuño says Obama’s policies are wrong. “I believe that we need to empower our businesses and our taxpayers, and if we do that, our economy will grow at a much faster pace than we are today,” Fortuño says. “Secondly, we cannot continue printing money to cover our deficit. Thank goodness the states can’t do that. So we have to bite the bullet, and that’s exactly what I did.”

Addtional:

Fortuño is for making the U.S. territory the 51st state. President Reagan favored statehood, as does the platform of the Republican Party.

Note - the Governor was a speaker at the recent C-PAC, audio of his speech.