Posted on 01/21/2016 8:33:18 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Marco Rubio once "arrested for drinking beer in public park" By Robert Tait, Los Angeles 3:23AM GMT 22 Jan 2016
Marco Rubio, the Republican presidential contender who has been touted as a possible choice of the party's "establishment", was once arrested in a Miami park notorious for gang violence, drug-dealing and prostitution, a newspaper profile has revealed.
He was detained along with two friends while going through a wayward late teenage phase for drinking alcohol in his home city's Alice C Wainwright Park after it had been closed to the public for the night.
Mr Rubio, a United States senator for Florida, was not charged after the arrest and the case was eventually dismissed.
Todd Harris, a spokesman for the candidate, said he had been arrested for breaking a municipal code by drinking beer but added that Mr Rubio had not been held in custody or appeared in court.
But the May 1990 incident - which occurred five days before his 19th birthday - marked an important turning point in Mr Rubio's development, according to an investigation by the Washington Post, which uncovered the episode.
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If they can only come up with silly stuff against Rubio, it makes him look good. What's their point?
Well Fan My Brow!
Now, about those campaign contributions to Hitlery Rotten Abedin's non-profit.
I'll go grab a spot of tea while you work on that.
Rubio is GOPe.
Bravo, Washington Post! Bravo!
The spirit of Woodward and Bernstein lives.
LOL....well that beats my 3 arrests for drinking on the interstate when I came back to the states.
Poor boy...such a horrible crime..
Now knock that off...I am a Coors guy..
My god! The country is exploding in debt, over-run with Marxists and Islamists, a Muslim is in the Oval Office, our military is eroding by the minute, the stock market is crashing, we’re giving nukes to mullahs and some idiot wants to yak about Marco drinking a beer!
I’ve NEVER liked Marco but this is ridiculous!
As long as it didn’t happen last week, I will give him a pass. But he is not my first choice anyway. Good luck to him in his future endeavors.
Won’t this help him with the male Hispanic vote?
No snakes, thankfully.
As for the lizard, I was 100% certain at that time it was a chameleon. I was certain because I lost sight of it when it darted behind a red fire hydrant, and therefore deduced - in a sober, logical, and not at all loud and boisterous manner - that it must have changed colors. :-)
My thoughts, exactly.
But we still have no idea what this President taught in college...
The Jeb! campaign leaked this(Florida politics) and it’s pathetic.
Desperation.
Dittos.
How freaking trivial can you get?
There are plenty of reasons not to sipport this bozo (Gang of 8), but this crap? I don't think so.
A teenage boy drinking beer with his buddies in the park after it's been closed!
What's the next show to drop? Did he fail to clean his room after his Mom told him to do so? Did he try to get lucky on Prom Night?
RACISM!!!
They believed neither of my stories (1) I didn't do it and (2) I had won it in a bar raffle.
I'm fairly forgiving of youthful misdeeds. Especially if they happened in the French Quarter, where stuff doesn't even count if you get right down to it.
What’s with the towels on the stairwell ?
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