Ethics watchdogs question necessity of the US secretary of state flying between DC and Gainesville so often
Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, has emerged as a superfan of the University of Florida’s football team, spending more than $1.2m of taxpayers’ money on frequent personal trips to watch them play, a report published on Wednesday claims.
Ethics watchdogs have questioned the necessity of the country’s top diplomat shuttling so often between Washington DC and Gainesville, where his son Anthony has a walk-on role as a running back for the team known as the Gators.
An investigation by the Washington Post found that Rubio has attended at least 10 games in the last two seasons, including five this fall, and that of 23 total trips made to Gainesville on military aircraft, 15 were “personal” in nature.
Probably the most wholesome corruption in this admin. They’re all criminals.
He sucks as a representative of his people but he’s a really good sycophant and a great dad!
Lol as a Gators fan this is crazy, his son doesn’t even play. He ran a few times in garbage time early in the season. He’s like dead last on the depth chart
Was he any good in high school? This feels like a political choice by the University. Might as well be putting him on the crew team like the Varsity blues scandal.
I doubt he was good in HS. He is a walk on at UF, very undersized/slow, and only on the roster because of his Daddy
So has Jeffries or Schumer mentioned getting reparations for the tax payers?
Every single Democrat in the Senate voted in favor of Marco Rubio’s nomination to Secretary of State
Indeed, I’m referring more to the upcoming majority leaders vote and how those two refuse to relinquish their power even though they have no plans on helping the working class.
To be fair when he was nominated he looked like one of very few people that were somewhat qualified. Turns out that requirements of this position changed to be the White House jester.
To be fair when he was nominated he looked like one of very few people that were somewhat qualified.
Foam Party Marco? The guy who got his start selling cocaine for his cousin?
Rubio’s sum total of political qualifications was being in tight enough with the Miami Mafia guys to get easy credit while looking fuckable enough to satisfy the twink hunters in DC.
Everything he’s achieved since has been an extension of one or the other. Drug cartels and trafficking gangs are his two biggest constituencies.
Yeah, he doesn’t look like much, but compare him to the rest of the cabinet.
Of course not. They’re Republicans dressed in Democratic clothing.
Haven’t Americans figured that out yet?
The guy is second in command after the king! Show respect!
He’s right behind Miller?
I think it’s called fealty when you can’t criticize or investigate them
Nah, it’s fascist to criticize them. But also they’re anti-antifascist because fascism is also when you care about Democracy.
Could have sent 15 people to get their master’s degrees.
Guys, calm down! He has to go to the games. He’a the official child genital inspector.
Surprised gym Jordan didn’t volunteer
Not every father would spent this much to make his son happy. /s
But seriously, why is he even holding this position? It is not like he is doing anything important.
Might be the first misappropriation of taxpayer funds I can kind of get behind
Sorry?
No need to applogize
If he’s catching a jumpseat on an existing flight I don’t really care.
I really-read the article. He’s prohibited from flying commercially. This sounds like an excessive use of money but it’s not something we should worry about. There’s a lot more corruption going on elsewhere.
Rubio is prohibited from flying commercially, because of security protocols that also cover the secretary of defense and FBI and CIA directors
I do care. Because if any official in Biden’s admin did this it would fill an entire news cycle and be condemned by Chuck Schumer and half of the Democrats in the name of optics. It would become a voting issue, and a national emergency, and probably even a new war in the mideast somehow if a Democrat was doing this.
My tax dollars should go towards Americans’ benefit, not enabling a diplomat to watch his son sit on the bench in a college football game. Watch it on TV like the rest of us poors.
I can’t go watch my niece’s soccer game because I have bills to pay, so please justify to me why my paycheck should fund these trips for Marco Rubio to watch his son not play football.
You shouldn’t care because Biden, you should care because it’s a blatant misappropriation of taxpayer funds.
Sec of state and other top officials are a security risk. I’m ok with flying them to their kids football game every weekend. I don’t like it, and I don’t like it even more when it’s Rubio, but it’s a necessity for the job.
That was only 8 of the 23 military flights. 15 were classified for personal use, meaning $80k per flight.
I think you know he isn’t.
Most recently, on 7 November, Rubio arrived in Gainesville on board an Air Force C-37, a plane used frequently for the VIP transport of high-ranking government officials, and was seen on the sidelines as the Gators lost 23-7 to Oklahoma. Anthony Rubio played no part in the game.
