Apparently, Marco Rubio thinks red lights and stop signs are optional and his wife is a speed demon who can’t be bothered to carry proof of insurance or attend court-ordered remedial driving classes. This is typical sociopathic behavior, and it isn’t helped by the lack of accountability they typically enjoy.
The Rubios have spent more than $1,000 paying traffic penalties over the years, but after Mr. Rubio was elected to the Senate in 2010 they took a different approach to handling their tickets.
Mr. Rubio hired Mr. Hanna, a Miami-based lawyer and donor, whose website sales pitch says, “Have you received a traffic ticket? Don’t pay it.” With Mr. Hanna’s help, Mr. Rubio’s last two citations were dismissed and seven of Ms. Rubio’s last eight were cleared.
Whoa. Ms. Rubio has had eight traffic citations since her husband was elected to the Senate five years ago?
Earlier this year, Ms. Rubio, a former cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins, sideswiped a Porsche Panamera while driving her husband’s Ford F-150 truck to a donor event at the Delano Hotel in Miami Beach. According to the Miami Herald, the police declined to take a report on the incident because it was a “minor” fender bender.
More likely, the Porsche driver was headed to the same fundraiser and the police were properly impressed with the “Do you know who my husband is?” belligerence they encountered on the scene.
This is the kind of behavior I expect from conservatives. If you don’t accept that you’re part of a greater society, every other car on the road is just a nuisance and an obstacle threatening to make you late. Rules are for other people. Paying fines and attending court-ordered driving classes are things that poor people with no lawyers have to do.
And if your husband is a U.S. Senator, everything is a “minor” fender bender.
Well, at least the last part of the Times story delivers some decent snark. Amusing that the Rubios are employing this “Better Call Saul” character. Suggests they have no interest in improving their behavior.
What I learned. Despite perceptions of outsiders, there are traffic laws in South Florida that sometimes get applied to the locals–even VIP locals.
If this were the Clintons, it would be a one-week story, another example of the Clinton Rules, until Hillary was forced to address it and explain.
But since it’s a Republican, barely a one-minute piece on Msnbc and likely to wither away over the weekend. And I thought I heard the host — Chris Hayes or Steve Karnacki — dismiss the story as trivial, noting that he had friends who get 17 traffic citations in a month.
“If this were the Clintons, it would be a one-week story, another example of the Clinton Rules, until Hillary was forced to address it and explain.”
And rightly so!
Ordinarily, I would consider this kind of story to be idiotic.
However, if she is using her clout to get out of tickets, that’s another matter altogether.
Dataguy, I thought you were from Illinois. Clout gets you out of a murder charge! At least until your patron leaves office.
a “minor fender bender” on a Porsche Panamera.
This is a car which STARTS at $76k and goes up from there
http://usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/cars-trucks/Porsche_Panamera/
You are talking somewhere in four figures just to drive it into the specialized auto-body shop and God help you if you need to replace a fender or door and perfectly match your (almost certainly custom) paint and finish.
You can bet if it was anyone else, say the parking valet or some random N Florida Cracker who dinged this person’s car with that F-150 SOMEBODY or his insurance company would be out of pocket. Or if black, in jail.
Indeed, there is no such thing as ‘minor’ with that car.
If black, dead. “He was reaching for something (wallet with insurance card), I thought it was a gun.”
Earlier this year, Ms. Rubio, a former cheerleader for the Miami Dolphins, sideswiped a Porsche Panamera while driving her husband’s Ford F-150 truck to a donor event at the Delano Hotel in Miami Beach. According to the Miami Herald, the police declined to take a report on the incident because it was a “minor” fender bender.
So the Rubio clan gave the Porsche owner a number to call and get things taken care of? Otherwise why wouldn’t the owner of the Porsche want a police report when they called the insurance company? As another commenter here stated, a Panamera starts at about $76,000 and goes from there.
Patting them on the wrist or ignoring these violations can lead to tragedy… as in blowing through a rural stop sign at 71 MPH and broadsiding a motorcycle: http://www.keloland.com/ClassLibrary/Page/Information/DataInstances/1347/Files/1418/charges.pdf
At some point, the odds are this is what happens: “The South Dakota Highway Patrol released their report today. In it they say that Congressman Bill Janklow was driving 70 to 75 miles an hour on a county road when he failed to stop at a stop sign and collided with a motorcycle on Saturday. The speed limit on that road is 55 miles an hour. The pictures tell part of the story that started Saturday afternoon when prosecutors say the Cadillac failed to stop on a rural highway. Looking at the 1995 car, you can see the back driver’s door is pushed a couple feet into the backseat, where Randy Scott’s motorcycle hit the car. There are two deflated airbags, the driver’s and passenger’s, and the windshield is shattered in two places…. Instead of Hardwick, Minnesota, Randy Scott’s home, this is where his Harley Davidson sits today. The front wheel is off of the 55-year-old’s bike and pieces of grass and dirt still stick out from the wheels and seat. Remnants of the rural road and the accident scene where Scott lost his life.” http://www.keloland.com/newsdetail.cfm?Id=26370
What the hell is up with Chris Hayes? He totally dismissed the story on his show on Friday. He mocked the Times for reporting it, and said I have friends that get that many tickets in a month. It was really bizarre and disturbing. He actually seemed annoyed the story was even being reported at all. You would have thought you had Fox on, based on the extent to which he was defending Rubio and mocking the story.
The “friend” that gets that many tickets is probably him.