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  • Marco Rubio’s compelling family story embellishes facts, documents show

    10/20/2011 5:54:25 PM PDT · by Seizethecarp · 53 replies
    Washington Post ^ | October 20, 2011 | Manuel Roig-Franzia
    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 21 / 2 years before Castro’s forces overthrew the Cuban...
  • Florida senator denies embellishing family history

    10/21/2011 2:36:00 PM PDT · by Jet Jaguar · 38 replies
    AP via Breitbart ^ | Oct 21, 2011 | By BRENDAN FARRINGTON and LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ
    In Florida, where Cuba and Fidel Castro can be highly combustible political issues, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio is defending himself against allegations he embellished his family's story in saying his parents left the island after Castro came to power. So far, prominent members of the Cuban American community are standing by him, including the head of one of Miami's oldest and most respected exile groups, who said Friday he is willing to give the rising GOP star a pass. The 40-year-old freshman senator has always publicly identified with the exile community and has a strong following within it. Rubio's biography...
  • Pushing Back on the Rubio Story

    10/21/2011 3:32:48 AM PDT · by Recovering_Democrat · 13 replies
    Politico ^ | 10/20/11 | A Burns
    The Miami Herald’s Marc Caputo casts a wary eye on the Washington Post report on Marco Rubio, and suggests the senator may be guilty of a lesser offense than deliberately misleading the public: sloppiness.
  • Pushing Back on the Rubio Story

    10/21/2011 3:32:38 AM PDT · by Recovering_Democrat
    Politico ^ | 10/20/11 | A Burns
    The Miami Herald’s Marc Caputo casts a wary eye on the Washington Post report on Marco Rubio, and suggests the senator may be guilty of a lesser offense than deliberately misleading the public: sloppiness.
  • Rubio Fires Back at Report That He Embellished Family Story

    10/20/2011 6:57:57 PM PDT · by Hunton Peck · 21 replies · 1+ views
    FoxNews.com ^ | October 20, 2011 | unattributed
    Sen. Marco Rubio is firing back at a Washington Post report that claims he embellished his Cuban family’s history. *** “To suggest my family’s story is embellished for political gain is outrageous,” he said in a written statement. “The dates I have given regarding my family’s history have always been based on my parents’ recollections of events that occurred over 55 years ago and which were relayed to me by them more than two decades after they happened. I was not made aware of the exact dates until very recently. “What’s important is that the essential facts of my family’s...
  • A possible solution for Rubio regarding the eligibility issue. He may be a natural born citizen.

    10/20/2011 7:52:13 AM PDT · by ZachJones · 106 replies · 1+ views
    Dr. Orly Taitz ^ | Oct. 20, 2011 | Zach Jones
    Important constitutional issues regarding Rubio: does a child of political refuges have split allegiance? ....Prominent birther, Orly Taitzrecently met with Sen. Rubio’s staff during a visit to Washington. “We need the court to finally adjudicate this issue, who is a natural born citizen,” Taitz, a California dentist and lawyer told the St. Petersburg Times. … Yesterday I was interviewed at length in regards to Marco Rubio and other issues by Alex Leary, reporter from St. Petersbug times. I have to say, that he was very well informed and respectful during the interview, far outcry from many other reporters and I...
  • Birthers say Marco Rubio is not eligible to be president

    10/20/2011 1:47:23 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 168 replies
    St. Petersburg Times ^ | October 20, 2011 | Alex Leary
    Unable to prevent Barack Obama from becoming president, rigid followers of the Constitution have turned their attention to another young, charismatic politician many think could one day occupy the White House. The birthers are calling for U.S.Sen. Marco Rubio, the budding Republican star from Florida. "It's nothing to do with him personally. But you can't change the rules because you like a certain person. Then you have no rules," said New Jersey lawyer Mario Apuzzo. Forget about allegedly Photoshopped birth certificates; the activists are not challenging whether Rubio was born in Miami. Rather, they say Rubio is ineligible under Article...
  • Rubio praises Herman Cain for offering ‘detailed’ tax reform plan

    10/18/2011 12:22:24 PM PDT · by Brookhaven · 18 replies · 1+ views
    Daily Caller ^ | 10-18-11 | Alex Pappas
    Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio says he hasn’t formulated an opinion on Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain’s “9-9-9” tax reform plan, but praised the Georgia businessman for stepping up and offering a specific proposal to reform the tax system. “I think it’s a very good thing that we have candidates running on the Republican side that is offering real, economic, detailed plans, whether people agree with him or not,” Rubio, a tea party favorite, told The Daily Caller outside the Senate floor on Tuesday. “I hope the response to his plan won’t just be criticism, but alternatives,” Rubio said. “And...
  • Marco Rubio Denies His Office Influenced Florida Primary Date

    10/16/2011 11:01:14 AM PDT · by Recovering_Democrat · 8 replies
    American Spectator ^ | 10/14/11 | Robert Stacy McCain
    In an e-mail message to editors of The American Spectator, an aide to Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) writes: The main story on the Spectator's website right now about Rubio's chief of staff is wrong. Cesar did not have anything to do with the Florida primary date. I'm not sure who his "source" is, but he didn't check with our office before publishing the story - if he had, we would have told him the truth, which is that our office had nothing to do with the primary date.
  • Top Rubio Staffer Reportedly Pushed for Early Florida Primary to Help Romney

    10/13/2011 1:26:58 PM PDT · by Bigtigermike · 21 replies
    The other McCain ^ | Thursday October 13, 2011 | John Stacy McCain
    When Florida defied Republican National Committee rules to move the state’s 2012 presidential primary from an RNC-approved March date to Jan. 31, conservatives immediately suspected that state party insiders had orchestrated the move to help former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney thwart the momentum of Tea Party-backed candidate Herman Cain. Some Florida activists focused their suspicion on moderates in state party leadership – former Gov. Charlie Crist — as orchestrating the change in the date. The move was seen as helping the centrist Romney, whose superior fund-raising resources would enable him to score an early knockout in the Sunshine State before Cain could fully...
  • Protest Held Outside Marco Rubio's Office (Hussein's Hacks Hate Hispanics)

    10/13/2011 5:51:39 AM PDT · by Recovering_Democrat · 8 replies
    WCTV.com ^ | 10/13/11
    DORAL, FL -- Some Floridians are not happy with Senator Marco Rubio. About a hundred folks demonstrated outside the Republican senator's office in Doral -- a day after he voted against the president's job plan.
  • Univision Accused of Blackmailing Rubio (Media Ignores Muck Raking Against Conservative)

    10/11/2011 6:34:20 AM PDT · by Recovering_Democrat · 18 replies
    Commentary Magazine ^ | 10/6/11 | A Goodman
    This sordid story about Spanish-language news outlet Univision allegedly blackmailing Sen. Marco Rubio is a few days old, but it’s getting renewed attention now that Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Jon Hunstman announced they’re boycotting Univision’s GOP debate as a protest. Here’s a quick recap: Over the summer, Univision reportedly contacted Rubio and tried to persuade him to appear on Al Punto, a show hosted by illegal immigration advocate Jorge Ramos. Ramos is a vocal supporter of the DREAM Act; Rubio is a vocal opponent. To make the TV appearance more attractive to Rubio, Univision allegedly sent its investigative team...
  • Marco Rubio will not be the GOP VP pick, Marco Rubio says

    10/06/2011 12:08:49 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 23 replies
    IBD Editorials ^ | October 6, 2011 | Andrew Malcom, Political News & Commentary
    For those of you who've pretty well settled on the Republican Party's vice presidential nominee next year, Sen. Marco Rubio has some news for you: It won't be him. It won't be him. The freshman Republican senator from Florida said it twice: "I am not going to be the vice presidential nominee. I am not going to be the vice presidential nominee." The 40-year-old American-born son of Cuban exiles is a former speaker of the Florida House. He's a fiscal conservative and a tea party favorite who came from virtually nowhere to knock Gov. Charlie Crist out of the GOP...
  • Rubio Vs. Univision

    10/05/2011 6:31:19 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 5 replies
    IBD Editorials ^ | October 5, 2011 | Editor
    Media: The president of Univision, the top Spanish-language network, made an apparent attempt to extort a TV appearance from Sen. Marco Rubio in exchange for not broadcasting dirt on a relative. Can it go any lower? Last July, representatives of the Florida-based Hispanic national television network contacted the Florida Republican to urge him to appear on "Al Punto," a Spanish-language talk show whose host, Jorge Ramos, is a loud proponent of amnesty for illegal aliens. Like most Americans, Rubio is no amnesty proponent and said no to an appearance on the show. But Univision wouldn't take no for an answer....
  • Sen. Maro Rubio: “I am not going to be the VP nominee”

    10/05/2011 7:35:56 PM PDT · by Drrdot · 37 replies
    abc news ^ | October 5, 2011 | Sunlen Miller
    When asked at the Washington Ideas Forum at the Newseum in Washington DC, Rubio repeated twice for emphasis, “I am not going to be the Vice Presidential nominee. I am not going to be the Vice Presidential nominee.” Asked during the forum if he would turn down an offer if the Republican presidential nominee asks him to, Rubio responded, “Yea, I believe so,” adding again, “the answer is gonna be no.” ... As he has in the past when asked, today Rubio spoke about the seriousness with which he takes his job as a U.S. Senator, held up as his...
  • Major GOP Candidates Boycott Univision Debate Over Rubio Flap [follow Perry, Huntsman lead]

    10/04/2011 1:24:52 PM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 31 replies
    Fox News ^ | October 4, 2011
    The Univision-Marco Rubio flap over whether the network tried to strong-arm the Florida Senator is widening. On Tuesday, presidential candidates Rick Perry and John Huntsman said they were boycotting an upcoming televised debate on Univision, scheduled for January 29th, because they say the network treated Rubio unethically, according to The Miami Herald. A short while later, Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney joined the boycott, Fox News Latino confirmed.
  • Univision’s Compromised Journalism Still Targeting Rubio (Liberal Media Hate Machine)

    10/03/2011 7:55:08 AM PDT · by Recovering_Democrat · 2 replies
    Shark Tank ^ | 10/2/11 | Javier Manjarres
    The Spanish television network Univision is apparently still carrying its grudge against Senator Marco Rubio, as new information regarding the inner dealings and reasons of why the the network ran a very questionable feature story on Rubio’s brother-in-law that was jailed on drug charges when Rubio was a 16 year old scratch-face kid at the time of the incident. The Shark Tank was all over this egregious case of yellow journalism back in July of 2011
  • Mark Levin - Marco Rubio Was Born In Miami Florida He Is A Natural Born United States Citizen

    09/29/2011 8:43:31 AM PDT · by Politics4US · 681 replies · 1+ views
    The Mark Levin Show ^ | Sept 27, 2011
    Mark Levin says Rubio is a natural born citizen, and threatens to ban birthers on his social sites.
  • Republican senators travel to Libya to meet transition government

    09/29/2011 2:29:57 PM PDT · by La Enchiladita · 13 replies
    The Hill ^ | 9/29/11 | Meghashyam Mali
    Four Republican senators traveled to Libya on Thursday, reports The Associated Press. Sens. John McCain (Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Mark Kirk (Ill.) and Marco Rubio (Fla.) are expected to meet with members of the governing National Transitional Council and later tour Tripoli's Martyrs's Square. The senators were strong supporters of President Obama's decision to authorize U.S. involvement in NATO's campaign to oust Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, a move which faced opposition from both Democratic and GOP lawmakers. Although opposition forces now control the capital and much of the country, fighting has continued and Gadhafi remains on the loose.
  • The Anti-Serb Thing — from a Cuban-American. [Rubio] (Really?) (I Mean, Really?)

    09/26/2011 3:01:44 PM PDT · by Ravnagora · 12 replies
    Republican Riot ^ | September 21, 2011 | Julia Gorin
    As the son of Cuban exiles, junior Florida senator Marco Rubio should be particularly sensitive to attempts at painting a people as crazed criminals, often done in service of an underlying political agenda. But in his speech last week at the Jesse Helms Center in North Carolina, Senator Rubio said, “The American armed forces have been one of the greatest forces of good….They stopped Nazism and Communism and other evils such as Serbian ethnic cleansing.” A year after our leaders lied to us in 1999 about the particularly insidious but ultimately mythical “Operation Horseshoe” (the ethnic cleansing plan subsequently shown...