On Glenn Beck Show, Rubio Slams Crist for Everglades Purchase: "A Bail-Out of a Sugar Company"

Strong words from Marco Rubio during a phone interview with Glenn Beck. Looks like he's grabbing the football tossed to him by the New York Times, which published this article about the colossal rip-off engineered by Charlie Crist's administration for the purchase of U.S. Sugar land.Crist's almost making it too...

By Thomas Francis

March 9, 2010

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Strong words from Marco Rubio during a phone interview with Glenn Beck. Looks like he's grabbing the football tossed to him by the New York Times, which published this article about the colossal rip-off engineered by Charlie Crist's administration for the purchase of U.S. Sugar land.

Crist's almost making it too easy. If Rubio believes that this was a "bail-out" of U.S. Sugar -- which it clearly is -- then it calls for a federal investigation, as we pleaded in a post yesterday.

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