Marco Rubio’s Career Bedeviled by Financial Struggles
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 5:03 pm
Poof goes another Republican candidate. No wonder Mittens wouldn't touch him.
But as Mr. Rubio, 44, seeks to counter questions about his stature and readiness for the presidency, his financial history creates particular complications. It has made him unusually reliant on a campaign donor, Norman Braman, a billionaire who subsidized Mr. Rubio’s job as a college instructor, hired him as a lawyer and continues to employ his wife.
And it could undermine Mr. Rubio’s well-crafted political persona: The senator has long portrayed himself as a champion of financial austerity, railing against excessive government spending and runaway debt.