Rubio Used Official Position To Aid Felonious In-Law

This can't be good for the otherwise somnolent campaign of that slippery gusano, Sen. Marco "Glug Glug" Rubio (R-MIAmi):

When Marco Rubio was majority whip of the Florida House of Representatives, he used his official position to urge state regulators to grant a real estate license to his brother-in-law, a convicted cocaine trafficker who had been released from prison 20 months earlier, according to records obtained by The Washington Post.

In July 2002, Rubio sent a letter on his official statehouse stationery to the Florida Division of Real Estate, recommending Orlando Cicilia “for licensure without reservation.” The letter, obtained by The Washington Post under the Florida Public Records Act, offers a glimpse of Rubio using his growing political power to assist his troubled brother-in-law and provides new insight into how the young lawmaker intertwined his personal and political lives.

Rubio did not disclose in the letter that Cicilia was married to his sister, Barbara, or that the former cocaine dealer was living at the time in the same West Miami home as Rubio’s parents. He wrote that he had known Cicilia “for over 25 years,” without elaborating.  (our emphasis)

Wow.  We wonder who/ what oppo research outfit prompted the once great Washington Post Bezos Bugle to dig up this 13- year- old letrina now?  What's that, Jeet Heer?

The Bushes play for keeps.  https://t.co/zjMb0UlGOo

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) December 30, 2015

Oh, riiiight.

BONUS:  BooMan has more detail on the felonious brother- in- law that Glug Glug vouched for.

BONUS II:   Oh, and this upstanding Glug Glug pal, too.

(Image:  "We're going to need more water over here, stat!")

Marco Rubio - The Next Clown Emerges From The Republican Clown Car

Steve Benen assesses one-term Sen. Marco "Glug Glug" Rubio (Weak Tea-FL), who is announcing his candidacy for the Republican nomination for President tonight:

In some cycles, voters are presented with candidates who embrace a moderate platform, but who win over the party’s base with a combative and confrontational tone. [snip]

Rubio is a great example of the polar opposite – the Florida lawmaker is a fairly radical ideologue who presents himself with a more mild-mannered, congenial posture.

But if one looks past the rhetoric – and the Beltway media’s affection – there’s simply nothing moderate about Rubio’s approach to governing. Rubio, for example, is a climate denier, despite representing Florida. He embraced a far-right line on contraception access and marriage equality. Rubio voted against the Violence Against Women Act. He’s argued that social-insurance programs like Medicare and Social Security “actually weakened us as a people.”

Rubio, who has no meaningful legislative accomplishments to his name after four years in the Senate, believes in debt-ceiling hostage strategies; he sees government shutdowns as a worthwhile tool; he’s rejected the very idea of a federal minimum wage; and he remains convinced that George W. Bush did a “fantastic job” as president.

He recently presented a tax-reform package that includes numbers that don’t quite add up: “Either Rubio is promising to run up bigger deficits than any president in history, or he’s swindling someone.”

Rubio has picked foreign policy as his signature issue, which is a poor choice given that it’s the issue he seems to know the least about.

Let's not forget Glug Glug's expedient, chickenshit abandonment of immigration reform, while we're at it.

Glug Glug has told political fat cats he hopes will bankroll his Presidential run that he is "uniquely qualified" (pause for uncontrolled laughter).  Given the dishonor roll above, the only thing Glug Glug can present for general election voters is his biography, and even there,  some veracity issues have surfaced.

Also, along with Sen. "Tailgunner Ted" Cruz (Crackpot-TX), Glug Glug is the second clown announced Republican candidate to partake, with his family, of that sweet, sweet Obamacare socialized medicine.  You see, he has a pre-existing condition:  dry mouth with complications from acute hypocrisy.

El Mentiroso*

Rethuglican Sen. Marco "Pinocchio" Rubio has been caught in a significant lie about his background. The Kaplan Daily reports today that Marco Pinocchio "embellished" his anti-Castro roots in repeatedly saying that his family fled Cuba after the Cuban revolution in 1959. He said it in campaign appearances, in campaign literature, and on his website. In fact, his parents emigrated to the U.S. in 1956, years before Castro seized power.

Marco Pinocchio is now engaged in an self-righteous offensive to muddy the fact that he lied about his family's immigration to America for political purposes, which helped him in Florida politics. He now claims that his statements were based on family "oral history." Can you imagine a Cuban boy asking his parents the story about their flight from Castro, and them getting it wrong? Neither can we.

Some are saying this dooms any chance he had for the Vice Presidential slot on the 2012 Rethuglican ticket; alternatively, what better credential for a Rethug politician?
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*The liar