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."