Marco Rubio

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the Mexican boxer of the same name, see Marco Antonio Rubio (* 1980).

Marco Rubio (2018)

Marco Antonio Rubio (* 28. May 1971 in Miami , Florida ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . He was a member of the Florida House of Representatives and has served as Senator for Florida in the United States Senate since January 2011 . He ran in his party's primary election for the 2016 presidential election . Rubio stands in the tradition of neoconservative foreign, supply-oriented economic and restrictive fiscal policy .

Family and youth

Marco Rubio was born in Miami as the third child of Mario Rubio (1927-2010) and Oriales García (* 1931), who at the time were not yet US citizens . His parents were Cuban exiles who had arrived in the United States with their eldest son on May 27, 1956 - more than two years before the overthrow of pro-American dictator Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro came to power on January 1, 1959. Even after Castro came to power, his parents repeatedly traveled to Cuba, in Rubio's words, in order to sound out the possibilities of an absolutely desired return, which, however, had proven impossible. Rubio's account of these circumstances aroused criticism in October 2011 when the Washington Post questioned Rubio's allegation that his parents fled the Fidel Castro government after the 1959 revolution .

Rubio's parents' first stop in the USA was New York in 1956. The following year the family moved to Miami, where the father found work at the Roney Plaza Hotel in Miami Beach. The father then went into business for himself and opened a number of businesses, all of which went bankrupt. In 1964 the family moved to Los Angeles and a few weeks later to Las Vegas . Soon after, the family returned to Miami, where the father resumed work at the Roney Plaza Hotel. In 1978, when Marco Rubio was seven years old, his family relocated to Las Vegas, where his father worked as a bartender and his mother as a housekeeper. In 1985 the family returned to Miami, where his father worked as a bartender again until 1997. He then earned his living as a school guide until his retirement in 2005. His mother worked as a warehouse manager at Kmart until she retired in 1995 .

In 1998 Rubio married Jeanette Dousdebes, a bank clerk and cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins , whose parents immigrated to the United States from Colombia. The marriage had four children, two daughters and two sons.

That of his parents catholic behaved Rubio is again a Catholic today, after spending several years as a member of the youth and young adults each long first Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormons ) and a Baptist had been community.

education and profession

As a result of his parents moving, Marco Rubio attended various schools. First the Henry M. Flagler Elementary School in Miami, from the beginning of 1979 the CC Ronnow Elementary School (Second Grade) in Las Vegas, then the South Miami (Senior) High School , which he graduated in 1989. He then attended Tarkio College , Missouri , for a year because he had been granted a football scholarship for 1989/90. He then moved to Santa Fe Community College (today: Santa Fe College ) in Gainesville , Florida.

Rubio graduated from the University of Florida , where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in political science in 1993 . He continued his studies at the University of Miami (School of Law), where he graduated in 1996 with the Juris Doctor cum laude.

He then worked in several law firms. In 1996, Al Cardenas , then vice-chairman of the Florida Republican Party, whom he had met during Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign, offered him a job at Tew Cardenas, which he founded in 1991 with C. Thomas Tew. His earnings were $ 57,000 a year.

In 1998 the law firm Ruden, McClosky, Smith, Schuster & Russell, PA offered him a better paid job in Miami. From 2001 to 2004 he worked for the law firm Becker & Poliakoff, and from 2004 to 2008 for Broad & Cassel, Miami (annual earnings 300,000 US dollars). In 2008 he founded his own law firm, at the same time the consulting firm "Rubio Consulting", and became a partner of "Florida Strategic Consultants", another consultancy firm.

politics

Political career

On January 25, 2000 Rubio was elected to the Florida House of Representatives in an extraordinary by-election and was its spokesman from 2006 to 2008 , succeeding Allan Bense .

Marco and Jeanette Rubio with US Vice President Joe Biden after Rubio was sworn in as Senator

In the 2010 election to the US Senate , he applied for a seat for his state. His election campaign was strongly supported by the right-wing populist tea party movement . Florida Governor Charlie Crist , who also ran, resigned from the Republican Party. Rubio's candidacy was overshadowed by investigations because he had used a party credit card for private purposes without paying any tax. He was elected to the Senate in November 2010. He is the second Cuban American Senator in Florida after Mel Martínez .

In his first years in the Senate, he introduced a number of ambitious projects and bills, but almost all of them failed - for example as part of the non-partisan "Gang of Eight", which drafted a comprehensive immigration reform and brought it through the Senate in 2013 - due to resistance from the House of Representatives . Rubio has repeatedly made clear his frustration with the immobility of the US Congress and was among the senators with the least attendance in 2014/15.

On April 13, 2015, Rubio declared that he wanted to run for his party in the US presidential election in November 2016. On March 16, 2016, he dropped out of the presidential primary after he was beaten by Donald Trump, who led the Republican nomination process, in Rubio's home state of Florida. Trump had often discredited Rubio as a political lightweight in the primary campaign and gave him the nickname "Little Marco" ("little Marco"). Rubio announced that he would not pursue any other political positions - some media had speculated about candidacies as US vice president or governor of Florida - to fulfill his mandate in the US Senate until the end of January 2017 and then to withdraw from politics.

After leading Republicans, particularly Senate parliamentary leader Mitch McConnell , put pressure on Rubio over the difficult prospects for the party in the 2016 Senate election, Rubio said after the June 12th 2016 Orlando massacre that he had reconsidered it , “Where he can be most useful to his country”. On June 22nd, two days before the application deadline, Rubio announced that he would be running again. Republican applicants with good prospects to date, such as Vice-Governor of the State of Carlos López-Cantera , with whom Rubio is also a private friend, withdrew their applications. His opponent in the November Senate election was MP Patrick Murphy . Rubio won re-election as Senator from Florida on November 8, 2016 with 52.0% of the vote.

During the Obama administration

During the first four years of his six-year tenure as senator, the Republican Party was in the minority; since January 2015 it has been in the majority. Rubio was considered part of the conservative wing of the Republican Party. He was known from Florida's legislature as a skillful negotiator who organized approval of bills across party lines. His voting behavior in the US Senate (with the exception of his support for a non-partisan immigration reform) was received as emphatically conservative in 2015: According to a statistical survey by the website FiveThirtyEight from 2015, Rubio voted further to the right in the political spectrum than 77 percent of his party colleagues. In 2013, Rubio introduced a law in the Senate to limit the possibility of abortion .

In terms of foreign policy, Rubio was seen as the hope of the neoconservatives in 2011 . In 2011 he said that the USA had to continue to be a “guardian of the wall of world peace”, thereby opposing the growing trend in 2011 at the grassroots level of his party, which wanted less engagement from his own country overseas. In relations between Cuba and the United States , Rubio, like his political mentor Ileana Ros-Lehtinen , was counted among the hardliners; For example, he described the Cuban Revolution as the "accident of history" and opposed any opening of US foreign policy towards Cuba. In connection with the civil war in Syria , he called President Obama's policies erroneous and inadequate several times. He accused him of failing to intervene against President Bashar al-Assad at an early stage and thus promoting a situation in which the Syrian opposition was now dominated by forces hostile to America such as al-Qaeda .

Rubio at CPAC 2015

Rubio criticized Obama's economic policy in 2013; it is wrong to raise taxes and government spending. This is only a burden on middle class taxpayers. Rubio expressed doubts that climate change was man-made and therefore criticized environmental guidelines. In 2013 he also advocated the constitutional right to own guns and criticized plans for stricter gun controls.

Rubio also turned down Obama's immigration plans. Illegal immigrants would in fact have priority over people who have been trying to immigrate to the US for years and thereby abide by the law. Rubio stated in 2013: “Like any sovereign nation on this planet, we have the right to say who we want to let in; but unlike other countries, we are not afraid that strangers will come to us. "

During the Trump administration

Rubio is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee . This examines u. a. the question of whether members of Trump's campaign team or transition team had illicit contacts with the Russian government . He also worked on a partial lifting of the trade and tourism facilities for Cuba introduced during the Obama administration in order not to support "the military, the secret service and the security forces of communist Cuba".

Fonts

• 100 Innovative Ideas for Florida's Future . Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC 2006, ISBN 978-1-59698-511-7 .
• An American Son: A Memoir . Sentinel HC, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-59523-094-2 .
• American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone . Sentinel HC, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-59523-113-0 .

literature

• Manuel Roig-Franzia: The Rise of Marco Rubio . Simon & Schuster, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-4516-7545-0 .

Web links

Commons : Marco Rubio  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Campaign website
• Web presence at the congress
• Marco Rubio in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Marco Rubio in the nndb (English)
• Marco Rubio on the Florida House of Representatives home page

Individual evidence

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34. ↑ Harry Enten: Why Aren't Republican Leaders Rallying Behind Marco Rubio? He Might Be too Conservative. In: FiveThirtyEight , January 22, 2016 (English).
35. ↑ Fred Barnes: Rubio to Introduce Senats Bill to Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks. ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: The Weekly Standard , July 2, 2013, accessed March 18, 2016. 
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39. ^ Robert Menendez and Marco Rubio Support Bigger US Role in Syria Conflict . ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Fox News Latino June 17, 2013, accessed March 18, 2016. Jay Newton-Small: Rubio Supports Giving Ammunition, But Not Arms, to Syria. In: Time , February 28, 2013, accessed July 19, 2013. 
    
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