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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2017 AT 1:47 P.M. BY TIM ELFRINK
Remember over the summer when Marco Rubio waxed eloquent about how he and his fellow U.S. senators would be a strong "check and balance" on Donald Trump? Hahahaha! That was a funny one, Marco.
Rubio now has a sterling 100 percent voting record backing all of President Trump's nominees and plans, according to FiveThirtyEight's Trump tracker. He did his latest solid for the Don today by voting to confirm Betsy DeVos as secretary of education over protests from basically every public school teacher in the nation.
But Rubio's help in DeVos' razor-thin approval is especially unsurprising. It turns out DeVos a multibillionaire with zero educational experience and her family have been especially generous donors to Rubio's campaign coffers. In fact, Rubio accepted more DeVos cash than any other senator who backed her nomination today.
Rubio has taken a total of $98,300 from DeVos and her family members, according to Federal Election Commission reports crunched by the Center for American Progress (CAP).
http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/marco-rubio-took-almost-100-000-from-betsy-devos-family-before-confirming-her-today-9123691
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)FSogol
(45,519 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)Our own Toomey sold out for only $60,050. You obviously have a much better senator!
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)she'll save on textbooks when all science classes are taught by special minister guest lecturers. "Bring your family bible to class children, and we will get right down to discussing where humans and animals come from."
Scopes trial part II...
Initech
(100,099 posts)These people are terrorists - economic terrorists at that.
DFW
(54,436 posts)Now, you, too, for a mere $98,300................
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Let's see if we can haggle down the price for a U.S. Senator.