Sunday, September 23, 2007

Marco Rubio's Double Standard

Marco Rubio lectured counties to make budget cuts. This same man who lavishly used taxpayer dollars for his own staff.

Press Sec. Jose Fuentes - $119,484

Staff Director Todd Reid - $103,008

Consultant Donna Arduin - $10,000-a-month

Rubio has awarded his alma mater, the University of Miami, the money for it's medical school. The state legislature is asking other universities to cut $188 million from their budgets.


the University of Miami, a private 11,000-student school in Mr. Rubio's political district, is in line to get not only $12.5 million in annually recurring money for its medical school, but also $80 million that is tucked into the general government budget to establish a new program at UM called the Institute of Human Genomics.


I am not shocked by the hypocrisy. Rubio is on an anti-gambling crusade and has received $4,000 in campaign contributions from gambling organizations.

Update: Rubio talks about the need for budget cuts.


"We need to get this $1 billion spending reduction squared away," the West Miami Republican said. "It's a big task, an important one. Once we've done that, those other issues could come into play."

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