RUBIO: THE LEAST ELIGIBLE OF THEM ALL - A LIAR SUPPORTED BY THE OLD REPUBLICANS!
WHY ISN'T THE COUNTRY ASKING WHY FLORIDA IS NOT SUPPORTING THIS "WET BEHIND THE EARS" MANIPULATOR?
WHY ISN'T THE COUNTRY ASKING WHY FLORIDA IS NOT SUPPORTING THIS "WET BEHIND THE EARS" MANIPULATOR?
Mark Levin: Will GOP Contenders Follow Rubio’s Lead and Endorse a Convention of States to Amend Constitution?
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio called for a convention of the states to amend the Constitution to push for term limits, a balanced budget and other measures. (People the Constitution already calls for a balanced budget EVERY YEAR. IT IS THE OTHER MEASURES YOU SHOULD BE VERY AFRAID OF BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE TO TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FIRST?
“One of the first things I will do when I am in office is … put the weight of the presidency behind of a constitutional convention of the states so we can pass term limits on members of Congress and the Supreme Court, and so we can pass a balanced budget amendment,” the Republican presidential candidate told an audience in Clinton, Iowa, Tuesday.
The announcement was well received by the Convention of States Project, which put out a video after the announcement.
“One of the first things I will do when I am in office is … put the weight of the presidency behind of a constitutional convention of the states so we can pass term limits on members of Congress and the Supreme Court, and so we can pass a balanced budget amendment,” the Republican presidential candidate told an audience in Clinton, Iowa, Tuesday.
The announcement was well received by the Convention of States Project, which put out a video after the announcement.
At an event in Iowa this past December, presidential contender and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio endorsed Convention of States Project stating: "This is the only way to get a balanced budget amendment and term limits on Congress and the Supreme Court!
As said before the Constitution already calls for a balanced budget every year and they had failed to do that since before the Clinton years, passing a budget in 2015. So since they passed a budget why are they not living up to it? What is the need for the Omnibus bill - because they are spending willy, nilly and the Constitution means nothing to any of them. Term limits - the elected men and women of this government will NEVER agree to that - the money is too good for the job they have and are are not doing it very well. Terms limits for the Supreme Court I agree with but it doesn't take a Con V to do that.
As said before the Constitution already calls for a balanced budget every year and they had failed to do that since before the Clinton years, passing a budget in 2015. So since they passed a budget why are they not living up to it? What is the need for the Omnibus bill - because they are spending willy, nilly and the Constitution means nothing to any of them. Term limits - the elected men and women of this government will NEVER agree to that - the money is too good for the job they have and are are not doing it very well. Terms limits for the Supreme Court I agree with but it doesn't take a Con V to do that.
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If You Care About Your Country It Is Time To
Take A Closer Look At The Candidates!
The press is not going to tell you the real truth about these candidates because the right questions are not being asked. In the case of Rubio, you need to speak to the people in Florida who helped get him elected and how he has ignored their best interests and those of the country ever since he was elected. His time in the Florida House is wrought with problems from his leadership especially showing lack of judgement and inexperience. The very fact he is Jeb Bush taught should throw up warning signals.
The following piece is one that was recently written by a FORMER Rubio supporter who is extremely disappointed in him as are others including myself. But truth is truth!
The following piece is one that was recently written by a FORMER Rubio supporter who is extremely disappointed in him as are others including myself. But truth is truth!
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A Man's Character Tells a Great Deal!
In July 2002, Marco Rubio sent a letter recommending his brother-in-law for a real estate license in Florida and his brother had served time in prison for cocaine trafficking. At the time, Rubio was the majority whip of the state House of Representatives. Now, the Republican U.S. senator is running for president in 2016.
The recommendation letter was written on Rubio’s official stationery and addressed to the Florida Division of Real Estate. In it, the candidate doesn’t state his relationship to Orlando Cicilia, who is married to Rubio’s sister Barbara.
“I have known Mr. Cicilia for over 25 years,” Rubio wrote. “I recommend him for licensure without reservation. If I can be of further assistance on this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me directly.”
Cicilia had served 11 1/2 years in federal prison for a cocaine trafficking conviction and was released one year and eight months prior to Rubio’s July 2002 letter, according to the Post. He was convicted in 1989 for distributing $15 million of cocaine.
(There are a couple of problems with this in that: Rubio used his position and supposed authority to reccommend his brother-in-law for the real estate license and under normal circumstances this license is one that is normally not issued to a convicted felon without knowing all the particulars. Rubio knew revealing the felon information might keep his breother-in-law from getting the license. I believe a person can change but sometimes the past comes to give you a big bite.) http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/31/1465041/-Marco-Rubio-s-scandal-plagued-career-just-got-a-little-more-interesting?detail=emailclassic
The recommendation letter was written on Rubio’s official stationery and addressed to the Florida Division of Real Estate. In it, the candidate doesn’t state his relationship to Orlando Cicilia, who is married to Rubio’s sister Barbara.
“I have known Mr. Cicilia for over 25 years,” Rubio wrote. “I recommend him for licensure without reservation. If I can be of further assistance on this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me directly.”
Cicilia had served 11 1/2 years in federal prison for a cocaine trafficking conviction and was released one year and eight months prior to Rubio’s July 2002 letter, according to the Post. He was convicted in 1989 for distributing $15 million of cocaine.
(There are a couple of problems with this in that: Rubio used his position and supposed authority to reccommend his brother-in-law for the real estate license and under normal circumstances this license is one that is normally not issued to a convicted felon without knowing all the particulars. Rubio knew revealing the felon information might keep his breother-in-law from getting the license. I believe a person can change but sometimes the past comes to give you a big bite.) http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/12/31/1465041/-Marco-Rubio-s-scandal-plagued-career-just-got-a-little-more-interesting?detail=emailclassic
Who is Marco Rubio Really???? In a May 13th address to the Council on Foreign Relations, Rubio described TPP as the “second pillar” of his "three-pillar" foreign policy and declared: “It is more important than ever that Congress give the president Barack Obama trade promotion authority so that he can finalize the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Does Rubio feel this was because he believes he will be the next president and he will be able to make decisions of which the Constitution does not give to him or anyone else?
Nelson and Rubio push opposing bills
for foreign worker visas - and Rubio's on the wrong side - again!
for foreign worker visas - and Rubio's on the wrong side - again!
Following controversy over 250 Disney workers laid off in favor of foreign workers, Sen. Bill Nelson wants to slash the number of specialized work visas. The Florida Democrat produced the legislation with an unlikely ally, Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, an immigration hardliner. Their bill opposes an initiative co-sponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio that triples the number of current H-1B visas given annually - an issue that has come up in the presidential race. The "Protecting American Jobs Act" would cut the number of H-1B visas by 15,000. READ MORE
Rubio Defends Vote
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RUBIO - the MILLION $$ BOY!
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Just yesterday we got an e-mail basically asking for donations. He really needs my $10 dollars asked for for his campaign. In the e-mail it stated among other things:
• Millions of people are living paycheck to paycheck at the same time they're working as hard as they ever have because everything costs more. They have not had a real raise in decades. Yet, Senator Rubio you fully support the H1B Visa of which has and will put millions of Americans out of jobs. In addition, you and others have done nothing to stop Obama's "out of control" spending. |
Rubio Crawling Into Bed With Soros
Funding Hedge-Fund
NO ONE - Absolutely no one should be surprised by this! As bad as things are under Ryan, McConnell and Obama, they could be made worse, or at a minimum equally bad, under an open borders President such as Rubio working in tandem on the same DC “K” street corner with his fellow political street walker, Rep Paul Ryan. Rubio’s not only been a strong advocate for amnesty, being beholden to many of the same people who have a standing rental agreement on Paul Ryan, but he’s obediently authored legislation to increase the levels of the abuse-prone H1-B visas. They’re, not surprisingly, a favorite of both those seeking to displace American workers with low-cost foreign replacements and Senator Rubio. Rubio will try to tell you “People buy into my agenda. I don’t buy into theirs.” I don't find this statement holds water as we all know when these big money guys hand out all this cash they expect something in return - favors, legislation, etc.
His recent alliance with Paul Singer should send chills up your back. Singer was a major financial force behind the Rubio-Obama amnesty and immigration expansion push in 2013. READ MORE READ MORE
Keep in mind those who use the "humanity" reason for open borders are as a rule also supporters of a New World Order and that calls for Open Borders as written in the text of the North American Union of which Heidi Cruz played a major role.
His recent alliance with Paul Singer should send chills up your back. Singer was a major financial force behind the Rubio-Obama amnesty and immigration expansion push in 2013. READ MORE READ MORE
Keep in mind those who use the "humanity" reason for open borders are as a rule also supporters of a New World Order and that calls for Open Borders as written in the text of the North American Union of which Heidi Cruz played a major role.
MILLION $$ DADDY'S BRINGING HOME THE GREEN!
Million-dollar donors are featured prominently in the super PAC supporting Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential bid. Miami-based automobile dealer Norman Braman gave $5 million; Besilu Stables LLC, owned by Miami health care executive Benjamin Leon, gave $2.5 million. In total, the group Conservative Solutions pulled in about $16 million, including a $3 million gift from Oracle founder Larry Ellison.
Million-dollar donors are featured prominently in the super PAC supporting Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential bid. Miami-based automobile dealer Norman Braman gave $5 million; Besilu Stables LLC, owned by Miami health care executive Benjamin Leon, gave $2.5 million. In total, the group Conservative Solutions pulled in about $16 million, including a $3 million gift from Oracle founder Larry Ellison.
ELIGIBLE FOR PRESIDENT OR NOT?
During his rise to political prominence, Sen. Marco Rubio frequently repeated a compelling version of his family’s history that had special resonance in South Florida. He was the “son of exiles,” he told audiences, Cuban Americans forced off their beloved island after “a thug,” Fidel Castro, took power.
But a review of documents — including naturalization papers and other official records — reveals that the Florida Republican’s account embellishes the facts. The documents show that Rubio’s parents came to the United States and were admitted for permanent residence more than two-and-a-half years before Castro’s forces overthrew the Cuban government and took power on New Years Day 1959.
The real story of his parents’ migration appears to be a more conventional immigrant narrative, a couple who came to the United States seeking a better life. Rubio’s office confirmed that his parents arrived in the United States in 1956 (actual date 5/27/56)but noted that “while they were prepared to live here permanently, they always held out the hope and the option of returning to Cuba if things improved.” They returned to Cuba several times after Castro came to power to “assess the situation with the hope of eventually moving back,” the office said in a statement.
Rubio's parents applied for "naturalization papers" on 9/9/75 - over 19 years after having arrived in this country and 4 years AFTER he was born. Rubio declares he is eligible for office because upon his parents arrival his father signed the document for permanent residence. in Miami Mario Rubio was “lawfully admitted to the United States as a permanent residence on May 27, 1956.” The entry date coincides with a notarized “Declaration of Domicile” — filed in Dade County Circuit Court by his father in 1974 . It states that “I . . . am and have been a bona fide resident of the state of Florida since the 27th day of May, 1956.”
There is a difference America to his father being a RESIDENT of Florida and a NATURALIZED AMERICAN. Rubio seems to have a natural ability to embellish each and every story he tells.
RUBIO IS NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!
But a review of documents — including naturalization papers and other official records — reveals that the Florida Republican’s account embellishes the facts. The documents show that Rubio’s parents came to the United States and were admitted for permanent residence more than two-and-a-half years before Castro’s forces overthrew the Cuban government and took power on New Years Day 1959.
The real story of his parents’ migration appears to be a more conventional immigrant narrative, a couple who came to the United States seeking a better life. Rubio’s office confirmed that his parents arrived in the United States in 1956 (actual date 5/27/56)but noted that “while they were prepared to live here permanently, they always held out the hope and the option of returning to Cuba if things improved.” They returned to Cuba several times after Castro came to power to “assess the situation with the hope of eventually moving back,” the office said in a statement.
Rubio's parents applied for "naturalization papers" on 9/9/75 - over 19 years after having arrived in this country and 4 years AFTER he was born. Rubio declares he is eligible for office because upon his parents arrival his father signed the document for permanent residence. in Miami Mario Rubio was “lawfully admitted to the United States as a permanent residence on May 27, 1956.” The entry date coincides with a notarized “Declaration of Domicile” — filed in Dade County Circuit Court by his father in 1974 . It states that “I . . . am and have been a bona fide resident of the state of Florida since the 27th day of May, 1956.”
There is a difference America to his father being a RESIDENT of Florida and a NATURALIZED AMERICAN. Rubio seems to have a natural ability to embellish each and every story he tells.
RUBIO IS NOT ELIGIBLE TO BE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!
This 555 document was put together by a Democrat group - hence has taken a great deal of flack. However, as a conservative and long time watcher of Rubio, I have yet to find any errors. I am in the process of going through it again and picking out certain subjects to address. They will be added to this page as I complete them. Rubio as with his mentor Jeb Bush are certainly Not who they like to portray themselves as.
TPP -
SOMEONE PLEASE ASK THIS "WET BEHIND THE EARS" SENATOR HOW THE TPP IS GOING TO GIVE AMERICA MORE JOBS. HE IS LISTENING TO THE CORPORATE MONKEYS WHO HAVE A FINANCIAL INTEREST IN THIS AS RUBIO DOES WITH THEM. THE TPP WILL SEND JOBS OUT OF AMERICA RUBIO - READ THE BILL!
- Rubio voted "yea" on the TPA giving Obama free rein to do as he pleases. According to Breitbart, After the Wall Street Journal listed Rubio as supporting the pact, a new paragraph suddenly appeared at the end of the piece stating that 'Mr. Rubio’s spokesman said that although he backed the bill granting Mr. Obama fast-track trade authority this summer, he has not decided whether to support TPP legislation.'" Rubio most recently said he has "very positive" feelings about the trade deal, but he did not say whether he would vote in favor of the deal.
- As of Nov 22, 2015 Rubio's mouth pieces are all once again answering for him. I hope you do see that he can always "retrack" the statements claiming he himself did not make them:
- After the last presidential debate (11/10/2015) in the spin room, Breitbart News explicitly asked Sen. Rubio’s campaign if Rubio was “prepared to reverse his endorsement of TPP.” “No,” Rubio’s campaign manager Terry Sullivan said in response. “I mean, look, I can’t speak for Marco — only Marco can — but no, his position is solid on that standpoint,” Sullivan said.
- When Breitbart followed up by asking specifically if Rubio stands by his April 29th op-ed in which declared, “we must… conclude and pass TPP,” a different campaign spokesman, Alex Conant, stepped in and affirmed that Rubio has not retracted his endorsement outlined in the op-ed: “Yeah,” Conant said, “We haven’t — he hasn’t — said anything since then.”
- In that April 29th op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Rubio wrote: “We must rebuild our own military capabilities, conclude and pass TPP, and renew our support for freedom and the rule of law in Asia.” In a May 13th address to the Council on Foreign Relations, Rubio described TPP as the “second pillar” of his three-pillar foreign policy and declared: “It is more important than ever that Congress give the president Barack Obama trade promotion authority so that he can finalize the Trans-Pacific Partnership. (That is the job of Congress not the President by the Constitution).
- Now the Constitution has no place in the decisions and workings of our government.
- However, the recent statements by the "mouth pieces" in relationship to the TPP are as follows:
- On June 24, 2015, by a vote of 60-38, the Senate approved trade promotion authority (TPA) as part of HR 2146 - Defending Public Safety Employees' Retirement Act. Rubio was one of two Republicans who did not vote on the bill.
- On May 22, 2015, the Senate passed HR 1314, which was used as a legislative vehicle for trade legislation with the titles "Trade Act of 2015" and the "Bipartisan Congressional Trade Priorities and Accountability Act of 2015," by a vote of 62-37. The bill proposed giving the president trade promotion authority (TPA). The bill also included a statement of trade priorities and provisions for trade adjustment assistance. Rubio voted with 47 other Republicansenators to approve the bill.
- In an April 29, 2015, op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, Rubio argued that the United States and Japan should form a strong alliance and work with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to finalize the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. He wrote, "The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), discussed between President Obama and Prime Minister Abe this week, will further our strategic goals in Asia and increase prosperity at home. It will advance economic liberty and unleash free-market forces in the world’s most dynamic region. It will create the opportunity for emerging economies to become the next 'tigers' of Asia and enhance linkages between nations in the Western Hemisphere and East Asia. ...Concluding TPP will require the passage of Trade Promotion Authority by the Congress. Our foreign trading partners like Japan need to have confidence that American presidents can deliver on free trade. Once we pass Trade Promotion Authority we can finish negotiating a pact that will help build a network of Pacific economies based on competition, the rule of law and free markets."
SOMEONE PLEASE ASK THIS "WET BEHIND THE EARS" SENATOR HOW THE TPP IS GOING TO GIVE AMERICA MORE JOBS. HE IS LISTENING TO THE CORPORATE MONKEYS WHO HAVE A FINANCIAL INTEREST IN THIS AS RUBIO DOES WITH THEM. THE TPP WILL SEND JOBS OUT OF AMERICA RUBIO - READ THE BILL!
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RUBIO FACTS:
- The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports that Rubio has been plagued by debt. In 2005, he owed more than ‘$1 million with mortgages on three homes, a home equity line of credit, a car loan and more than $150,000 in student loans.’ (Which should have paid off years before 2010). All this, coupled with what appears to be casual, if not cavalier, use of donors’ money undermines Rubio’s compelling message of fiscal frugality.” [Tampa Tribune Editorial, 9/24/10]
- Rubio Attained Personal Wealth With Political Committees And Usage Of A Republican Party Of Florida Credit Card As His Power Rose, $600,000 Was Stored In Two Political Committees Known As Floridians For Conservative Leadership And Floridians For Conservative Leadership. Some in political circles say this is dead weight and an old issue, but it does go to show character and lack of good fiscal oversight.
- Rubio Was The Number One Recipient Of Koch Brothers Money In 2010 Senate Races; Received More Money Than Anyone Running For National Office Outside Of Kansas
- Big Sugar - By March Of 2010 Rubio Received $14,000 From Florida Crystals Corporation; Criticized Crist Over His Deal With U.S. Sugar. “ Rubio’s ties to the sugar-growing giant Fanjul family of Miami, could lead to less support for measures needed to save Florida’s Everglades.”
- Rubio Defended The Salary Increases Of His Staff Because He Wanted The Florida House To Be the “Host For The Most Vibrant Competition Of Ideas In The Entire Nation. In order to accomplish this, we felt we had to provide our members with the most talented and experienced staff possible. Attracting such talent often requires paying salaries competitive with the private sector.’
- After Rubio Was Selected As Speaker-Designate of the FL House, Jeb Bush Offered Him To Hire People In The Executive Branch Who Would Eventually Work For Rubio and he proceeded to hire 18 of Jeb Bushes former staff.
- In The End Rubio Voted For Protecting The Right To Keep And Bear Arms In Vehicles. On April 18, 2008, Rubio voted for the Preservation & Protection of the Right to Keep & Bear Arms in Motor Vehicles Act.
- Rubio Voted in Favor of Expanding Tax Credit Voucher Program. On May 2, 2008, Rubio voted in favor of a bill to expand Corporate Income Tax Credit Scholarship Program by increasing the maximum tax credit from $88 million to $118 million.
- Rubio Voted for Changing the School Voucher System. On October 29, 2007, Rubio voted for a bill that would change the corporate income tax credit scholarship program by increasing the award limit for middle and high school students. The program provides an income tax credit for corporations that make eligible contributions to nonprofit scholarship-funding organizations (SFOs).
- Rubio Voted to Protect Charter School Sponsors from Civil Litigation. On May 4, 2006, Rubio voted for a bill that provides that a district school board sponsor of a charter school will not be held liable for civil damages for actions or omissions committed by the charter school’s governing board, its officers, or employees. This bill also provides that the sponsor’s duty to monitor a charter school may not be used as the basis for a lawsuit against the sponsor.
- Rubio Voted to Substantially Amend Regulations Regarding Charter Schools. On May 1, 2006, Rubio voted for a bill that substantially amends provisions of the Florida statute related to charter schools. The bill requires district school boards to make timely payments to charters and authorizes the Commissioner of Education to withhold lottery funds from a school district that repeatedly fails to do so. Furthermore, the bill authorizes the State Board of Education to impose fines or withhold lottery funds for districts that violate the procedural requirements for charter school application, termination, or nonrenewal appeals HB7103 - Charter Schools
- Rubio, a long time Lap dog for Jeb Bush made sure that any and all education
EXCLUSIVE: How Marco Rubio charged thousands in personal expenses on his Republican Party credit card including $4,000 flooring for his Miami home. Rubio only repaid the state party once he was found out.
ALIPAC is issuing the following comment to the national media regarding this important development.
"Marco Rubio's admission on Univision that he supports Obama's despotic illegal invader amnesty orders will prove to be a political death blow to his campaign if candidates like Trump and Cruz deliver this news to GOP voters nationwide. Rubio's prior alignment with Obama and Democrats to pass the immigration reform amnesty bill S. 744 in the Senate in 2013 combined with these latest remarks prove that Rubio is like Obama on immigration issues 100%! Rubio being caught in bed politically with Obama on immigration issues will send his meager support levels much lower. ALIPAC firmly opposes Marco Rubio, his amnesty legislation, and his efforts to continue Obama's unconstitutional amnesty orders that other Republicans like John Boehner and Paul Ryan are protecting and facilitating."
Two days ago - MARCO RUBIO TO JORGE RAMOS: I WILL KEEP OBAMA’S FIRST EXECUTIVE AMNESTY IN PLACE UNTIL LEGISLATIVE AMNESTY ENACTED - In a little-noticed interview earlier this year with Univision’s Jorge Ramos, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) declared that, as President, he would keep Barack Obama’s executive amnesty for DREAMers in place until it was permanently codified through legislation.
Rubio said, in part: "DACA…applies to young people that arrived in this country at a very young age before they were adults and I don’t think we can immediately revoke that… I’m not calling for it to be revoked tomorrow, or this week, or right away. I think it will have to end at some point and I hope it will end because of some reform to the immigration laws,” Rubio said in English. MORE
"Marco Rubio's admission on Univision that he supports Obama's despotic illegal invader amnesty orders will prove to be a political death blow to his campaign if candidates like Trump and Cruz deliver this news to GOP voters nationwide. Rubio's prior alignment with Obama and Democrats to pass the immigration reform amnesty bill S. 744 in the Senate in 2013 combined with these latest remarks prove that Rubio is like Obama on immigration issues 100%! Rubio being caught in bed politically with Obama on immigration issues will send his meager support levels much lower. ALIPAC firmly opposes Marco Rubio, his amnesty legislation, and his efforts to continue Obama's unconstitutional amnesty orders that other Republicans like John Boehner and Paul Ryan are protecting and facilitating."
Two days ago - MARCO RUBIO TO JORGE RAMOS: I WILL KEEP OBAMA’S FIRST EXECUTIVE AMNESTY IN PLACE UNTIL LEGISLATIVE AMNESTY ENACTED - In a little-noticed interview earlier this year with Univision’s Jorge Ramos, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) declared that, as President, he would keep Barack Obama’s executive amnesty for DREAMers in place until it was permanently codified through legislation.
Rubio said, in part: "DACA…applies to young people that arrived in this country at a very young age before they were adults and I don’t think we can immediately revoke that… I’m not calling for it to be revoked tomorrow, or this week, or right away. I think it will have to end at some point and I hope it will end because of some reform to the immigration laws,” Rubio said in English. MORE
When Rubio was running for the Senate in 2010, this household supported Rubio until he openly lied to us. Not an important subject in the scheme of things, but we both felt if he would lie about something so small, what would he do after he got in Washington. Well, he got into Washington and has lied since then.
As a member of the Florida House, he used his home as a base for a political committee; he spent nearly $85,000 on 'office/operating costs' and $65,000 on administrative costs; His wife, Jeanette, was treasurer for one, receiving $5,700 in expenses, for 'gas and meals'; and he charged car repairs, Apple products, fancy dinners and even a $134 haircut on Republican Party American Express card.
It would appear that having Jeb Bush as his mentor might not have been the best thing for Rubio as it appears he has taken on the "habit" of associating with very "questionable" individuals and lying very well - enough to believe his own lies. Former Florida Representative David Riveria MORE
UPDATE - November 3, 2015 - BY ALEX LEARY Tampa Bay Times
Sen. Rubio’s past is under fresh scrutiny as he emerges as a top presidential prospect. During last week’s debate, he deflected questions about his financial discipline — most recently, he liquidated a retirement account — but those questions will only intensify.
“For years, I’ve been hearing that his credit cards are a disaster,” Donald Trump said Tuesday during a news conference in New York City. The Tampa Bay Times asked Rubio’s team for the records in June and again in early October.
A top strategist, Todd Harris, said Tuesday they would be released soon, possibly within the month, but declined to answer questions about what they might contain. READ MORE
In his last financial statement to Congress he said he had at least $450,000 in liabilities - Read More
UPDATE: Marco Rubio's blatant lie about his personal finances should worry you!
A crucial part of Marco Rubio's big debate victory came directly out of his ability to lie with conviction and an innocent look in his eye. Not just about his tax plan, but about his own personal finances. Here it is:
Moderator: Senator Rubio, you yourself have said that you’ve had issues. You have a lack of bookkeeping skills. You accidentally inter-mingled campaign money with your personal money. You faced foreclosure on a second home (co-owned by scandal riddled David Riveria) that you bought. And just last year, you liquidated a $68,000 retirement fund. That’s something that cost you thousands of dollars in taxes and penalties. In terms of all of that, it raises the question whether you have the maturity and wisdom to lead this $17 trillion economy. What do you say?
RUBIO: Well, you just – you just listed a litany of discredited attacks from Democrats and my political opponents, and I’m not gonna waste 60 seconds detailing them all.
Discredited attacks? As Florida Republican Joe Scarborough said Thursday morning:
“Marco just flat-out lied to the American people, there,” he continued. “And I was stunned that the moderators didn’t stop there and go, ‘Wait a second, these are court records. What are you talking about?"
St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald: Rubio Personally Benefitted From Campaign Funds, Spent “Big Money With Little Scrutiny”. According to the St. Petersburg Times “Marco Rubio was barely solvent as a young lawmaker climbing his way to the top post in the Florida House, but special interest donations and political perks allowed him to spend big money with little scrutiny,” the St. Petersburg Times and Miami Herald reported in a March 2010 joint investigation. “About $600,000 in contributions was stowed in two inconspicuous political committees controlled by Rubio, now the Republican front-runner for the U.S. Senate, and his wife.” [St. Petersburg Times, 3/13/10]
Maybe you don't have a problem with a presidential candidate having faced foreclosure on the second house he co-owned with another scandal-plagued politician. Maybe you don't have a problem with any of Rubio's financial missteps, with the fact that the guy is clearly a terrible manager of his own money. But the lying should be a problem nonetheless. READ MORE
After years of supporting his mentor Jeb Bush, it seems Rubio is going to try and march to his own tune. However while he has been in the Senate he has still supported Bush agenda's including education and immigration.
In 2013, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced an "Educational Opportunities Act" which would have created a voucher-like system allowing children from low- or middle-income families to attend private schools funded through tax-deductible corporate and private donations. The businesses get the write-off and taxpayers lose out on public revenue.
Rubio has a record of supporting Bush's voucher scheme. Bush, after having tried for years to get the voucher system approved in Florida it was knocked down by the Florida Supreme court in 2006. Livid that he seemed to have lost the battle, Bush contrived Plan B. Rubio played a role in that game yoo!
Bush and his top advisers crafted a back-door maneuver to revise the state constitution and advance vouchers. They decided to stack the state’s 25 member Taxation and Budget Reform Commission (TBRC) which meets every 20 years & has the power, by a two-thirds vote, to place initiatives directly on the ballot, bypassing the legislature and other governmental checks and balances. Then Governor Charlie Crist (I thought he and Bush didn't like each other) appointed Bush Buddies to the Commission and of course among those was Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio. THEY LOST THIS BATTLE TOO
Rubio Voted in Favor of a School Voucher Amendment to the State Constitution. On April 25, 2006, Rubio voted in favor of a joint resolution to place an amendment to the state constitution on the ballot. The amendment would state that the phrase, “the expression of one thing is the exclusion of another” may not be applied to legislative power by the courts except under certain circumstances. The resolution was a response to a ruling by a Florida Supreme Court that vouchers were unconstitutional, and its intent is to make them constitutional via legislation. According to the Tampa Tribune, “the joint resolution at issue would ask voters in November to preserve the school voucher plan that is at the heart of Gov. Jeb Bush’s ‘A-Plus’ education reform of 1999. The Opportunity Scholarships program allowed students in failing public schools to attend private schools with taxpayer-funded vouchers to cover tuition. The program was ruled unconstitutional by the state Supreme Court in January. Restoring voucher programs via constitutional amendment was a priority of Bush and the Republican leadership.” [Tampa Tribune, 5/3/06; HJR 7143 - Rules of Construction; Florida House of Representatives Staff Analysis, 4/12/06]
These guys could not operate as clean and legal if their lives depended on it.
It seems big money is what will move Rubio along. I remember his lying to my husband and myself during his race for the Senate - a small lie and low on to totem pole in the scheme of things. We both decided if he would lie on something that small, what would he do in D.C.
He has been mentored by Jeb Bush since he first got involved in politic's. He recently got a big funding gain in the form of hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer’s decision to throw his financial weight behind Sen. Rubio. This recent action has sparked fresh questions about Rubio’s coziness with the financial interests funding his career.
Singer “quietly got involved in the fight for immigration reform, making a six-figure donation to the National Immigration Forum”— a George Soros-backed organization that lobbied for Rubio’s legislation to issue 33 million green cards to foreign nationals in the span of a single decade.
There is a growing chasm between the more than 9 in 10 GOP voters, who want to see future immigration rates cut, versus GOP donors that are desperately seeking to install leaders in the White House and Congress who will further expand the nation’s already record breaking immigration rates that are transforming the country’s economy and electorate.
Even though Rubio’s donors stand to make an enormous profit from a surge of low-wage migrant labor, Rubio has repeatedly denied that his wealthy backers have influenced his agenda. “People buy into my agenda. I don’t buy into theirs,” Rubio has said.
However, a review of several of Rubio’s top donors reveals that many of them have benefited from the Floridian’s rise to power.
Perhaps one of the most widely-criticized areas of Rubio’s campaign pledge to create “A New American Economy” on migrant labor is his support for tripling the controversial H1B visa program.
Rubio has co-authored two pieces of legislaton that would massively expand the wage-depressing H1B visa program used to replace American workers in white-collar jobs. His most recent bill—known as I-Squared—would triple the number of H1B visas imported into the United States despite the fact that the U.S. Census Bureau reports 3 in 4 Americans trained in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) are not employed in those fields. The Walt Disney Company used H1B's to lay off hundreds of American workers and forced them to train their low-wage foreign H1B replacements. Disney’s CEO has endorsed Rubio’s I-Squared bill.
According to Open-secrets, Goldman Sachs has been one of Rubio’s biggest financial boosters. Since 2011, Goldman Sachs was the top donor to Rubio’s campaign committee, contributing $53,200. Interestingly, Goldman Sachs is also among the top 50 corporate users of the H-1B visa, which labor experts call an “indentured servitude” program. According to USCIS data analyzed by Computerworld’s Patrick Thibodeau, Goldman Sachs is the ranked number 33 among the biggest users of the program.
Behind Goldman Sachs, Microsoft is the second largest contributor to Rubio’s campaign committee since 2011, donating $33,100. Similarly, Microsoft is the 12th biggest user of the H-1B program, having brought in 1,048 foreign workers on H-1Bs in 2013. Last year, Microsoft announced its plans to lay off 18,000 workers at the same time the company was lobbying to increase the H-1B program, prompting strong condemnation from U.S. Senator Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a top opponent of Rubio’s H-1B expansion plan.
Morgan Stanley has also been one of Rubio’s top financial contributors— having donated $47,564 to Rubio throughout his career. Morgan Stanley is the ranked 66th among the biggest H-1B users.
Larry Ellison, the founder and executive chairman of the Oracle Corporation, has been another one of Rubio’s financial boosters. In July, 2015 the WSJ reported that Ellison gave $3 million to the pro-Rubio super PAC. In June, 2015 Ellison hosted a $2,700 per-person fundraiser for Rubio. Oracle is the 20th biggest users of H1B and has endorsed Rubio’s Gang of Eight and I-Squared immigration bills.
H1B expansion critics allege that Rubio’s donors have benefited in other ways from his immigration legislation. For instance, according to open-secrets, Carnival Corporation is one of the top 20 contributors to Rubio’s campaign committee since 2011, having donated $14,500.
According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, Section 4606 of the Rubio-Obama immigration bill included a “backroom deal” that, “creates a new nonimmigrant Z visa to admit individuals who possess ‘specialized knowledge’ to perform maintenance on airlines and cruise ships” in place of American labor. Rubio’s top immigration lawyer during the Gang of Eight push was Enrique Gonzalez. Prior to working for Rubio, Gonzalez had formerly made his living, in part, by bringing foreign workers into the country on behalf of large corporations. Gonzalez had been a partner at the nation’s largest immigration firm Fragomen, where, as Bloomberg reports, “he helped Carnival, Viacom, and other companies obtain visas for their foreign workers.” Gonzalez features this Bloomberg article on his profile on Fragomen’s website.
Enrique Gonzalez – High-powered Miami immigration attorney who joined Rubio’s Senate staff in 2013 to help craft the failed “Gang of Eight” immigration proposal. Rubio and Gonzalez, who has returned to private practice, have been friends since they served together on the West Miami City Commission in the late 1990s.
GANG OF EIGHT: (RHINO's)
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-CO Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-IL
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-AZ Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC
Sen. John McCain, R-AZ Sen. Bob Menendez, D-NJ
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY
Yet beyond Rubio’s legislative action on immigration, reports document how Rubio’s donors may have shaped many more of his policy platforms.
For instance, according to OpenSecrets, Fanjul Corporation is the fourth biggest contributor to Rubio’s campaign committee since 2011, donating $25,200. The Fanjul family has boosted Rubio throughout his career. As Yahoo Finance’s Rick Newman reports, the Fanjul’s sugar empire “includes Domino and Florida Crystals… Donors associated with Florida Crystals have given Rubio at least $81,100 since 2009.” The Washington Post has described Jose “Pepe” Fanjul as part of Rubio’s “inner circle”: “Over the years, Fanjul has played a key role in raising money for Rubio and introducing him to well-heeled donors.” In April, the Fanjuls hosted a fundraiser in Palm Beach for Rubio. The cost of attending the reception and lunch was $2,700. Rubio’s closeness with the family has been well-documented, as The Daily Caller’s Joanne Butler notes, “It’s been reported that one of the first people Rubio greeted after making his presidential campaign announcement was Pepe Fanjul, Sr.”
He's a climate denier. Or an environmentalist. Or...As speaker of the Florida Legislature, Rubio shepherded a landmark bill to limit greenhouse gas emissions, voiced caution about drilling off the Sunshine State's coast, and argued that climate change was real. "Global warming, dependence on foreign sources of fuel, and capitalism have come together to create opportunities for us that were unimaginable just a few short years ago," he told his House colleagues in 2007. Of drilling, he said it should only be done if it could be proven environmentally safe, and it wasn't a silver bullet: "Even if we started drilling tomorrow morning, it could take close to 10 years before we start seeing the benefits."
But as soon as he jumped into the US Senate race, his love for Mother Earth faded. He stumped for a Palinesque pro-oil campaign called "Drill Here, Drill Now." He ridiculed cap-and-trade emissions plans as "European-style" or "California-style" social engineering. And he attacked his Senate opponent, the moderate Republican-turned-independent Charlie Crist, as "a believer in man-made global warming." "I don't think there's the scientific evidence to justify it," he told the Tampa Tribune.
2010 Race - Rubio lied to Tea Party members in the 2010 senate race saying that he would never support amnesty. He even said Reagan made a mistake signing the amnesty bill , because it only caused a wave of new illegal immigration. Karl Rove, who is at war for the heart and soul of the Republican Party said "Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates, we spent $2.9 million for Marco Rubio, more than any other group." Let’s be clear here, Rove isn’t’ interested in backing Tea Party candidates, he’s out to destroy the Tea Party.
Many Tea Party people in Florida were upset with Rubio as to his actions during the race never saying "thank you" for all the hard work done for him. Tea Party members across the country should remember who Rubio considers stakeholders in this illegal immigration issue. It’s not the taxpayers, Rubio won’t mind pushing the 2.6 trillion dollar price tag of amnesty on taxpayers any more than he minded sticking the 3.8 billion illegal immigration cost to Floridians when he was Speaker.
Rubio just another one of these guys who rolls with the wind!
He has been mentored by Jeb Bush since he first got involved in politic's. He recently got a big funding gain in the form of hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer’s decision to throw his financial weight behind Sen. Rubio. This recent action has sparked fresh questions about Rubio’s coziness with the financial interests funding his career.
Singer “quietly got involved in the fight for immigration reform, making a six-figure donation to the National Immigration Forum”— a George Soros-backed organization that lobbied for Rubio’s legislation to issue 33 million green cards to foreign nationals in the span of a single decade.
There is a growing chasm between the more than 9 in 10 GOP voters, who want to see future immigration rates cut, versus GOP donors that are desperately seeking to install leaders in the White House and Congress who will further expand the nation’s already record breaking immigration rates that are transforming the country’s economy and electorate.
Even though Rubio’s donors stand to make an enormous profit from a surge of low-wage migrant labor, Rubio has repeatedly denied that his wealthy backers have influenced his agenda. “People buy into my agenda. I don’t buy into theirs,” Rubio has said.
However, a review of several of Rubio’s top donors reveals that many of them have benefited from the Floridian’s rise to power.
Perhaps one of the most widely-criticized areas of Rubio’s campaign pledge to create “A New American Economy” on migrant labor is his support for tripling the controversial H1B visa program.
Rubio has co-authored two pieces of legislaton that would massively expand the wage-depressing H1B visa program used to replace American workers in white-collar jobs. His most recent bill—known as I-Squared—would triple the number of H1B visas imported into the United States despite the fact that the U.S. Census Bureau reports 3 in 4 Americans trained in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) are not employed in those fields. The Walt Disney Company used H1B's to lay off hundreds of American workers and forced them to train their low-wage foreign H1B replacements. Disney’s CEO has endorsed Rubio’s I-Squared bill.
According to Open-secrets, Goldman Sachs has been one of Rubio’s biggest financial boosters. Since 2011, Goldman Sachs was the top donor to Rubio’s campaign committee, contributing $53,200. Interestingly, Goldman Sachs is also among the top 50 corporate users of the H-1B visa, which labor experts call an “indentured servitude” program. According to USCIS data analyzed by Computerworld’s Patrick Thibodeau, Goldman Sachs is the ranked number 33 among the biggest users of the program.
Behind Goldman Sachs, Microsoft is the second largest contributor to Rubio’s campaign committee since 2011, donating $33,100. Similarly, Microsoft is the 12th biggest user of the H-1B program, having brought in 1,048 foreign workers on H-1Bs in 2013. Last year, Microsoft announced its plans to lay off 18,000 workers at the same time the company was lobbying to increase the H-1B program, prompting strong condemnation from U.S. Senator Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a top opponent of Rubio’s H-1B expansion plan.
Morgan Stanley has also been one of Rubio’s top financial contributors— having donated $47,564 to Rubio throughout his career. Morgan Stanley is the ranked 66th among the biggest H-1B users.
Larry Ellison, the founder and executive chairman of the Oracle Corporation, has been another one of Rubio’s financial boosters. In July, 2015 the WSJ reported that Ellison gave $3 million to the pro-Rubio super PAC. In June, 2015 Ellison hosted a $2,700 per-person fundraiser for Rubio. Oracle is the 20th biggest users of H1B and has endorsed Rubio’s Gang of Eight and I-Squared immigration bills.
H1B expansion critics allege that Rubio’s donors have benefited in other ways from his immigration legislation. For instance, according to open-secrets, Carnival Corporation is one of the top 20 contributors to Rubio’s campaign committee since 2011, having donated $14,500.
According to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, Section 4606 of the Rubio-Obama immigration bill included a “backroom deal” that, “creates a new nonimmigrant Z visa to admit individuals who possess ‘specialized knowledge’ to perform maintenance on airlines and cruise ships” in place of American labor. Rubio’s top immigration lawyer during the Gang of Eight push was Enrique Gonzalez. Prior to working for Rubio, Gonzalez had formerly made his living, in part, by bringing foreign workers into the country on behalf of large corporations. Gonzalez had been a partner at the nation’s largest immigration firm Fragomen, where, as Bloomberg reports, “he helped Carnival, Viacom, and other companies obtain visas for their foreign workers.” Gonzalez features this Bloomberg article on his profile on Fragomen’s website.
Enrique Gonzalez – High-powered Miami immigration attorney who joined Rubio’s Senate staff in 2013 to help craft the failed “Gang of Eight” immigration proposal. Rubio and Gonzalez, who has returned to private practice, have been friends since they served together on the West Miami City Commission in the late 1990s.
GANG OF EIGHT: (RHINO's)
Sen. Michael Bennet, D-CO Sen. Richard J. Durbin, D-IL
Sen. Jeff Flake, R-AZ Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-SC
Sen. John McCain, R-AZ Sen. Bob Menendez, D-NJ
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-FL Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY
Yet beyond Rubio’s legislative action on immigration, reports document how Rubio’s donors may have shaped many more of his policy platforms.
For instance, according to OpenSecrets, Fanjul Corporation is the fourth biggest contributor to Rubio’s campaign committee since 2011, donating $25,200. The Fanjul family has boosted Rubio throughout his career. As Yahoo Finance’s Rick Newman reports, the Fanjul’s sugar empire “includes Domino and Florida Crystals… Donors associated with Florida Crystals have given Rubio at least $81,100 since 2009.” The Washington Post has described Jose “Pepe” Fanjul as part of Rubio’s “inner circle”: “Over the years, Fanjul has played a key role in raising money for Rubio and introducing him to well-heeled donors.” In April, the Fanjuls hosted a fundraiser in Palm Beach for Rubio. The cost of attending the reception and lunch was $2,700. Rubio’s closeness with the family has been well-documented, as The Daily Caller’s Joanne Butler notes, “It’s been reported that one of the first people Rubio greeted after making his presidential campaign announcement was Pepe Fanjul, Sr.”
He's a climate denier. Or an environmentalist. Or...As speaker of the Florida Legislature, Rubio shepherded a landmark bill to limit greenhouse gas emissions, voiced caution about drilling off the Sunshine State's coast, and argued that climate change was real. "Global warming, dependence on foreign sources of fuel, and capitalism have come together to create opportunities for us that were unimaginable just a few short years ago," he told his House colleagues in 2007. Of drilling, he said it should only be done if it could be proven environmentally safe, and it wasn't a silver bullet: "Even if we started drilling tomorrow morning, it could take close to 10 years before we start seeing the benefits."
But as soon as he jumped into the US Senate race, his love for Mother Earth faded. He stumped for a Palinesque pro-oil campaign called "Drill Here, Drill Now." He ridiculed cap-and-trade emissions plans as "European-style" or "California-style" social engineering. And he attacked his Senate opponent, the moderate Republican-turned-independent Charlie Crist, as "a believer in man-made global warming." "I don't think there's the scientific evidence to justify it," he told the Tampa Tribune.
2010 Race - Rubio lied to Tea Party members in the 2010 senate race saying that he would never support amnesty. He even said Reagan made a mistake signing the amnesty bill , because it only caused a wave of new illegal immigration. Karl Rove, who is at war for the heart and soul of the Republican Party said "Crossroads is second to none in our support of Tea Party candidates, we spent $2.9 million for Marco Rubio, more than any other group." Let’s be clear here, Rove isn’t’ interested in backing Tea Party candidates, he’s out to destroy the Tea Party.
Many Tea Party people in Florida were upset with Rubio as to his actions during the race never saying "thank you" for all the hard work done for him. Tea Party members across the country should remember who Rubio considers stakeholders in this illegal immigration issue. It’s not the taxpayers, Rubio won’t mind pushing the 2.6 trillion dollar price tag of amnesty on taxpayers any more than he minded sticking the 3.8 billion illegal immigration cost to Floridians when he was Speaker.
Rubio just another one of these guys who rolls with the wind!
