Her aides told him "we have no money to hire you". He said, "I will work for free."
The aid said, "in that case come on down!"
The rest as they say, is history.
He presided over the Fla Senate where he made his reputation as a super hard worker and consensus builder while maintaining conservative values.
His fight against Metro charlie Crist is legendary and almost Reaganesque. He knocked a sitting Governor out of the box and is now our proud Senator from Fla.
Being around the guy was awe inspiring for me. We(The Republican Executive Committee for the Keys) introduced him as the future President of the U.S. for his speech and it too was awesome.
That's just a little about Marco.
Gave me the creeps. ATD? His handlers should do something about that.
Thanks for the history. It'll be nice to see what sort of record he establishes. I'm looking forward to that.