Senator MARCO ANTONIO RUBIO flew back to Washington, D.C. on Saturday to fire trusted Chief of Staff, CLINT REED, for allegedly extorting sex from employees. Good career move for RUBIO, but how long has this been going on? RUBIO has publicly praised REED's management skills -- hiring REED as Chief of Staff in December 2016 after he ran his re-election campaign and several state campaigns in RUBIO's presidential run. On his website in 2015, Senator RUBIO wrote, “For over a year, I’ve gotten to know and work closely with Clint on my campaigns, including two in Florida. He’s a superb manager who loves Florida, has earned my trust, and relishes the challenge of solving tough problems.”
On Capitol Hill, each Senator and Congressman has a "Chief of Staff."
Some are ethical, honorable civil servants. But in Republican offices, the Chief of Staff is too often a clueless political apparatchik who helped him/her get elected, unelected Lord of a domain with a million dollars a year or more in payroll.er
As Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-Wisc.) once said, "Politics is a lot like coaching football -- you've got to be smart enough to know the rules but dumb enough to think it's important."
CLINT REED was smart enough to help RUBIO and others get elected, but dumb enough to think he had a right to "dip his pen in company ink."
Sick twist.
These unelected demigod Chiefs of Staff have power of life and death over dozens of employees, many in their first jobs, working in Washington and their home state or district.
Chiefs of Staff supervise legislation, case work, correspondence, and political activities.
During the 1970s, there was a ring of them (then called Administrative Assistants or AAs) in the House of Representatives. Young women from "back home" applying for jobs were passed from AA to AA for sex. Groups of four or five of them would chip in to rent small apartments in buildings adjoining the House side of the Capitol. AAs would do a Hollywood-style "casting couch" interview and then pass the young woman along to one of his friends. Sick twists. No one was ever indicted for these rampant rapes, typifying the genre of white male privilege on Capitol Hill.
It appears that Florida's junior Senator MARCO ANTONIO RUBIO, (R-KOCH INDUSTRIES) is at best, guilty of hiring poorly -- negligent hiring actionable in tort law in some jurisdictions.
Tortfeasor CLINT REED, the fired hobbledehoy in RUBIO's employ, was caught extorting sex from employees. We don't know if they were men or women. But there were threats to withhold employment benefits if they did not put out. These are possible federal crimes. RUBIO should hang his head in shame for hiring a debauched libertine satyr and possible whoremonger.
Senator MARCO ANTONIO RUBIO says he won't be disclosing any details. That dog won't hunt. We have a Right to Know, Senator. Your office is a crime scene. The FBI must investigate federal crimes, including extortion. Perhaps RUBIO will resign like corrupt Florida U.S. Senator Mel Martinez before him.
Your dupey, dopey, deluded right-wing fundamentalist supporters in Flori-DUH will be talking about you after church today, LITTLE MARIO (the nickname bestowed by Donald Trump in 2016).
RUBIO is perhaps most noted locally for his October 12, 2016 visit to Davis Shores after Hurricane Matthew, exploiting hurricane survivors' pain for political gain. Sick twist. Senator RUBIO, who eschews climate change science ("I'm not a scientist") did not visit any African-American neighborhoods in his exploiting the hurricane damage for his re-election campaign, accompanied by fellow reprobate Republican, U.S. Rep. RONALD DEON DeSANTIS, supercilious City Commissioner "ODD TODD NEVILLE." apparatchik KEVIN SWEENEY, et pals.
From The New York Times:
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida announced late Saturday that he had fired his chief of staff after allegations of improper conduct.
After an internal investigation, he determined that the employee had “violated office policies regarding proper relations between a supervisor and their subordinates,” Mr. Rubio said in a statement posted to his website. “I further concluded that this led to actions which in my judgment amounted to threats to withhold employment benefits.”
Mr. Rubio’s statement did not identify his chief of staff by name. Clint Reed is listed in that position in the Washington Information Directory published by Congressional Quarterly; he also identified himself as the chief of staff on his social media accounts as of early Sunday.
Contact information for Mr. Reed was not available. He joined Mr. Rubio’s staff in December 2016 after managing his presidential campaign in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida.
Mr. Rubio’s statement said his office would “not be disclosing any further details about the incidents which occurred.” It said Mr. Rubio, a Republican, was directly informed of the allegations on Friday afternoon.
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