Marco Rubio Is Being Funded by Private For-Profit Prisons
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Everyone’s favorite water-guzzling Republican, Marco Rubio, wants to be the next President of the United States. And as all campaigns typically go, politicians need money to get noticed.
Big Pharma, oil corporations, bankers and the gun lobby are notorious for wielding their checkbooks to buy influence in Washington. The script is no conspiracy at this point. Wealthy companies target a Brooks Brother’s suit-wearing panhandler attempting to claw their way to the top of the political food chain. Cash is exchanged, and alliances are made.
One rising player in the game of buying and selling politicians is surprisingly going unnoticed: the private, for-profit prison industry. While one can only assume that it is not by accident that these companies and their contributions are flying under the general public’s radar, we as a people need to place a media tracking device on the activities of these professional jailers....
Marco Rubio, the US Senator from the state of Florida and current presidential candidate, is a direct beneficiary of the racket that is the private prison system in the United States. In fact, Rubio is the US Senate’s top career recipient of contributions from previously mentioned GEO, the country’s second-largest for-profit prison company. GEO has put nearly $40,000 in Rubio’s campaign fund and given another $2 million to the Republican Party of Florida, Rubio’s home state. The prison company and current Senator have been in bed together going all the way back to when Rubio served as the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. While leading the House, GEO was awarded a state government contract for a $110 million facility. It was not long after that when Rubio hired an economic consultant who just so happened to be a former trustee of a GEO real estate trust. It should also be noted that GEO Group’s co-founder and chief executive, George Zoley, has personally donated $6,480 to Rubio since 2009.