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Interesting article in Newsweek about the up-and-coming conservative and candidate for senate, Marco Rubio.
Sadly, there is no explanation for the photo:
Portrait of a Tepid Tea Partier
U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio hopes to harness the movement without getting burned.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/23318…"Rubio maintains that he has never voted for a tax increase, yet PolitiFact found that he "repeatedly voted to force school districts statewide to collect more property taxes."
"While House speaker in 2008, he also blocked a half-dozen bills that sought to crack down on illegal immigration, an issue that infuriates many conservatives. (He responds that the legislature had its hands full that year and that immigration is a federal matter.)"
"Then there's Rubio's record on cap-and-trade. He has hammered Crist for supporting the program to reduce carbon emissions, but, as it turns out, Rubio declared in 2008 that such a regimen was "inevitable" and that Florida should prepare for it."
"He also ushered an energy bill through the Florida House that gave the Department of Environmental Protection the authority to create a cap-and-trade program. (He says any such plan would have required approval from the legislature, which would have blocked it—a claim many find nonsensical.)"