Posted on 05/09/2015 9:00:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
MIAMI — One day in the State Capitol in Tallahassee, Marco Rubio, the young speaker of the House, strayed from the legislative proceedings to single out a lanky, silver-haired man seated in the balcony: a billionaire auto dealer named Norman Braman.
This man, Mr. Rubio said in effusive remarks in 2008, was no ordinary billionaire, hoarding his cash or using it to pursue selfish passions.
“He’s used it,” Mr. Rubio said, “to enrich the lives of so many people whose names you will never know.” As it turned out, one of the people enriched was Mr. Rubio himself.
As Mr. Rubio has ascended in the ranks of Republican politics, Mr. Braman has emerged as a remarkable and unique patron. He has bankrolled Mr. Rubio’s campaigns. He has financed Mr. Rubio’s legislative agenda. And, at the same time, he has subsidized Mr. Rubio’s personal finances, as the rising politician and his wife grappled with heavy debt and big swings in their income.
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So Braman is who Rubio takes his marching orders from. Too bad he didn’t take them from the people who elected him over the Orange Menace.
Are the accusations false? Not good for an official to be anybody’s pet.
Go ahead and waste your money, Braman. I won’t vote for him.
Is billionaire Norman Braman an amnesty shill, too? Let me guess. Norm probably hires a lot of illegals.
I stand with Ted
Former Philadelphia Eagles owner.
must need want some giverment funded gooooodies...
One of the worst owners in NFL history. Infamous for not even offering a contract to Reggie White.
But show me a Hillary-like quid pro quo, or this is a nonstory.
~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz the only true Conservative in this race.
Since Rubio was speaker of Florida house for 7 years, and Floridians elected him to US Senate 4 years ago, I must conclude Floridians must approve of what he has done for them.
Walker or bust!
This looks like a classic case of one's making the perfect the enemy of the good...
Conservatives are how and why he got elected. Without them, the Orange Menace would be there today. He sold them out before the ink on his election certificate was dry.
One of many members of The Cheap Labor Express who bankroll politicians to get them to keep the borders open and the laws unenforced.
Rubio is working for The Cheap Labor Express and not the citizens.
He proved that when he schemed with Schumer against the citizens.
Rewarding fraudulently dcumented foreigners for breaking into the country gets us more of them. In 1986 we amnestied 3 million and that has gotten us 30 million fraudulently documented foreigners.
Retain the rule of law or lose your country.
He lied in his Senate campaign to fool the voters of Florida that he opposed amnesty and then stabbed them in the back. He’s giving up his Senate seat because he could not get re-elected.
He's not going to be POTUS, so unless he makes it official and joins the Democrat party, he's done.
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