Posted on 06/05/2015 4:42:25 PM PDT by Kaslin
The New York Times has been fairly dogged in its pursuit of details regarding the Clinton Foundation "slush fund" -- with new questions about quid quo pro pocket-lining and influence-mongering arising virtually every single day. In the interests of scandal coverage balance, the Times is out with a red hot scoop about Marco Rubio and his wife. The question is not whether this is a game-changing bombshell. The question is whether this is merely disqualifying, or an impeachable offense:
...Politics is not the only area where Mr. Rubio, a Republican from Florida, has an affinity for the fast track. He and his wife, Jeanette, have also shown a tendency to be in a rush on the road. According to a search of the Miami-Dade and Duval County court dockets, the Rubios have been cited for numerous infractions over the years for incidents that included speeding, driving through red lights and careless driving. A review of records dating back to 1997 shows that the couple had a combined 17 citations: Mr. Rubio with four and his wife with 13. On four separate occasions they agreed to attend remedial driving school after a violation. Mr. Rubio’s troubles behind the wheel predate his days in politics. In 1997, when he was cited for careless driving by a Florida Highway Patrol officer, he was fined and took voluntary driving classes. A dozen years later, in 2009, he was ticketed for speeding on a highway in Duval County and found himself back in driver improvement school. Things got more complicated in 2011 when Mr. Rubio was alerted to the fact that his license was facing suspension after a traffic camera caught him failing to stop at a red light in his beige Buick. His lawyer, Alex Hanna, paid a $16 fee to delay the suspension and eventually it was dismissed.
Records show that each of the citations mentioned by the New York Times were pulled in person by American Bridge operatives on May 26, 2015...Neither of the reporters, Alan Rappeport and Steve Eder, appeared on the docket records for any of the traffic citations for Rubio and his wife. An additional researcher credited in the New York Times, Kitty Bennett, also does not appear on any of the court records...None of the reporters involved responded to Washington Free Beacon requests for comment by press time. In a recent Times story that actually cited Democratic sources by name, Jeremy Peters reported that “A Hillary Clinton Match-Up With Marco Rubio Is a Scary Thought for Democrats.” So scary, indeed, that Democrats appear to be feeding opposition research to the Times.
To recap the scandals so far: Rubio bought a house that lost money. Rubio bought a fridge. Rubio has four traffic citations since 1993.— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) June 5, 2015
I'll leave you with two additional thoughts:
If Rubio would just go ahead kill someone with his bad driving, maybe they'll call him the "Lion of the Senate" someday.— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) June 5, 2015
Rubio has been ticketed four times since 1997. Hillary hasn't driven a car since 1996.— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) June 5, 2015
Democratic Presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton's security detail led a handful of journalists on two lengthy high-speed chases to homes of influential Democrats on Monday. Her lone official appearance on her first day in New Hampshire was a carefully stage-managed small-business roundtable in Keene. But a lunchtime visit to a main-street bakery and two more appointments later in the day were off-the-books and under the public's radar. If police radar had been engaged, however, it would have clocked Hillary's signature black conversion van - 'Scooby', for the uninitiated – hitting 92 mph in a driving rainstorm on Interstate 89, where the top speed limit is 65. No one in the motorcade displayed flashing lights or blasted a siren.
Sure he is... if he thinks we should just forget the Gang of 8 all the while going on the radio driving home the need to clean out the party of the unprincipled Republicans...well Rubio was not conned into the Gang of 8...he knew exactly what he was doing and still is a pro-amnesty pathway shill. Thank you for taggin’ Mark here...this is the time we need to fight for TRUE CONSERVATIVES not frauds like Rubio.
There are a ridiculous number of conservatives (supposedly) that somehow thing that one can back RINOS and liberals and still be considered conservatives.
If words mean anything then a guy repeatedly backing an illegal supporter isn’t a conservative. If that logic is incorrect, I would love to know how.
Actually, for me this is a resume’ enhancer.
That said, if Mister Rubio were not for amnesty for illegal aliens, and if he did not think we were completely stupid and he could talk about the "Dream Act" as if it were not (ultimately) amnesty for illegal aliens...
Then I just might give a darn.
Dems, progressives, Marxists... All of you.
Thank you for going after GOP supporters of amnesty for illegal aliens.
This makes it much easier for us GOPers in our forthcoming primaries.
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Whoop-dee-doo
It the Rubios were Democrats, Al Sharpton would say it’s obvious that they have been victims of racial profiling.
Maybe we should ask Ted Cruz to explain his immigration stance more thoroughly. He seems to be all over the place too.
http://www.newsmax.com/t/newsmax/article/641637
Rubio had FOUR non-moving violation tickets in 17 years???!?
Get a rope.
I can think of one big reason why Schumer’s Huckleberry isn’t on my electability list. Having fewer car related tickets than me in an equivalent time period isn’t one of them.
Rubio’s got 99 problems but parking ain’t one...
All of this while Hillary’s motorcade zooms across Iowa at 95mph.
Same here. First major debates he gets into will put him permanently at the top.
When will the @nytimes feature a hard hitting 3 part story about Ted Cruz’s “alleged” history of jaywalking?!
WHEN?! WHEN?
meanwhile, the right has never published any opposition research on 0bama or hillary.
if you vote gop you might as well democrat, for all the difference it makes
Next up, a 9,000 word spread in the NYTimes on Cruz not eating his vegetables in 1975, riding his bike on the wrong side of the street in 1979, and saying the word ‘booger’ in ‘81.
One a year between the two of them? BFD. I suspect a false flag op to try to make Rubio look squeaky clean and thereby hurt Cruz. Then if he get nominated, they let loose with anything actually damning that they have.
If each of them gets a ticket once every two years, it would work out to that number. Doesn’t sound so bad to me... regardless of the fact that the NYT just printed up the opposition research handed them by Hillary dirt diggers.
“The question is not whether this is a game-changing bombshell. The question is whether this is merely disqualifying, or an impeachable offense:”
If only Rubio had just smoked weed and snorted coke. That would have been fine, right?
Hey Mark...you’re being a big DOPE...
Mark is a dope like HELLary Clintoon is an honest law abiding faithful citizen..
He got four tickets over seventeen years.
She thirteen.
Title of article is misleading, but I guess:
“Wife can’t drive” is not a news story..
Luckily, Presidents don’t drive.
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