Welcome to Off Message. I'm Isaac Dover.

If in the moment where everybody had the most empathy for Puerto Rico, and if in the easiest

way you could help Puerto Rico, you didn't, then there is no other way to make change for Puerto Rico

unless you have a hammer as well, unless you have political strength and power and

demonstrate it. So what we are doing is we're going to

states organizing Puerto Ricans and friends of Puerto Rico to support those that have been

friends of Puerto Ricans and oppose those that have been against it. I think we need to demonstrate

that we have a hammer. People need to know, congressmen need to know that if we go to their

office, they can't just give us a happy talk.

If you're going to give us happy talk and then take actions that clearly affect the people of Puerto Rico,

then the only strategy that we have left forward is to go to your districts, to go to your jurisdiction,

and make sure that folks that are friends of Puerto Rico

or that are Puerto Ricans can organize and take action because of it.

Today's guest, Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Roseo.

Every once in a while, I tweet something to the effect of, remember Puerto Rico?

I don't think most people do.

There was a lot of attention to the devastation

to the island after Hurricane Maria in the fall, but that quickly faded. Lots of other stuff in the

news, of course, but tell that to the people who are still without running water, without power.

The cameras that weren't much there in the first place left, sure, but also the federal

government largely moved on itself.

And when you hear the stories of things still being as bad in some parts as what Jennifer Gonzalez-Colon, the Puerto Rico Congresswoman, described here on off-message in October,

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