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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I’m not a Rubio fan, but who cares?
And he didn’t get the electric chair. Our country is too soft.
+1
If public intoxication in a skeevy area disqualifies one for office later in life, I sure hope nobody finds out about that college road trip I made to New Orleans circa 1995...
I had a very good reason for chasing that lizard in the French Quarter, I’ll have you know...
And I drank while underage in my fraternity and, HORRORS, sometimes got barfing drunk. BTW I’m a Trump supporter who has no use for the Rube.
It is rumored that Donald Trump has never smoked cigarettes, drank alcohol or done drugs.
This is so lame. I’m not a Rubio fan, but REALLY???? Who the hell cares?
I’m not a Rubio supporter but this story is utterly ridiculous. I could not possibly care less about Rubio drinking beer in public when he was an 18-year-old.
There are reasons to avoid voting for Rubio. This is absolutely not one of them.
Agree. Beer. The gateway drug.
My immediate thought also. I don't like or trust Rubio. But WTH does this have to do with him now??
To the best of your knowledge, how large was the lizard and what color was it? Also, was it accompanied by any snakes, and of what size and color. BTW I was once dubbed “the Patron Saint of the Linen Growler”. Looks like this thread is rapidly degenerating to old college fraternity days, always hilarious and usually obscene.
As long as it wasn’t Coors or Coors lite...
Can’t have a president with an awful taste in beer.
True. But he and son Barron like to go to McDonalds for cheeseburgers. oh the horror!
‘Tis the season to be (really) silly.
You’ll probably get away with crucifixion.
Crucifixion!?
First offence.
Oh my God. The horrors. s/
Arrested? He wasn’t even given a summons. Who comes up with this stuff.
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