Posted on 11/02/2015 11:52:26 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A leading GOP fundraiser and donor, who has used his money to urge GOP politicians and lawmakers to support LGBT-inclusive laws in the past, is ignoring Marco Rubio's HRC rating of 22 and is officially backing the Florida senator's bid for president.CNN reports.
Paul Singer, who has a gay son, according to LGBTQ Nation, lauded Rubio and said he is "one of the best communicators the modern Republican Party has seen," in a letter sent out Friday to his donor network, as reported by the New York Times.
"Marco Rubio can appeal to both the head and the heart. He can lead our nation by inspiring it," Singer wrote.
According to CNN, Singer's Rubio endorsement is a "major boost for the Florida senator's campaign and is a setback for Jeb Bush, whose campaign has far out raised his rivals this year."
But Singer's support for Rubio goes against his past LGBT support, as the presidential hopeful opposes same-sex marriage and LGBT rights. He's been against measure allowing same-sex couples adopting children because kids shouldn't "be part of a social experiment," LGBTQ Nation points out. He's also voted against ENDA.
Singer, however, created the American Unity Fund and the American Unity PAC in 2012, which urged Republicans to support LGBT rights. In 2013, he teamed up with Democratic donor Jonathan Lewis and each of them donated $250,000 to the Americans for Workplace Opportunity, a group aiming to pass ENDA. The same year, he donated money with Daniel S. Loeb Family Foundation to the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.
Rubio said he was "grateful" to received Singer's support.
"He's someone that's successful at raising money," Rubio told reporters at a campaign event in Iowa. "I'm grateful that, you know, when people donate to us they buy into our agenda, and I'm glad that he has and it will help us with resources. But you know, resources alone are not enough. You have to have the right ideas and the right principles and convince people that you're the right person for the job. But we're grateful to have his help, obviously."
We must run wussie Rubio down. Not good for America anyway you look at him.
Honest Money is honest money when you’re running for such high office. Ask Bill and Hillary Clinton how they feel about palling around with a Jeffery Epstein, a billionaire who is also a CONVICTED PEDOPHILE?
Americans better wake up if they think this silver-tongued turncoat is to be president. Remember - they dance with who brought ‘em.
His nickname on Wall Street is the Vulture.
Here’s one of his ‘deals’. He bought a couple billion in bonds for a defunct country in Africa, Congo I think, for pennies on the dollar.
The US then made a ‘humanitarian’ loan to the new country (Democratic Republic of the Congo (maybe)) and told the them the condition of the loan is that they have to pay off all their old debts. The Vulture sold his bonds back for face value.
There are more stories like this about the guy.
I would not vote for this two faced clown(Rubio) if my life depended on it.
And the only reason bath house barry was there is the opening of the world series....and to see Reggie, of course!!!
Don’t forget Rubio was caught trying to break into his ex-girl friends bedroom window after she told him she didn’t want anything to do with him anymore....
Birds of a feather, flock together!!!
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