Marco Rubio: I Still Live in da ‘Hood — Sorta!

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   becca, 3 months ago Reply

   This complete stretch of the truth, will be his downfull. It was a blatant LIE, which he casually said on NATIONAL TELEVISION. What does that say about how little he thinks of, and respects, the voters? Compare to ROMNEY’S 12 MILLION DOLLAR TEAR DOWN IN CA., a $675,000 home is ghetto, though. So, by the REPUBLICAN class standards, it is realistic. Yeah, real man of the people, real party of the RICH people. He so badly wants to be rich, rich, rich.

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     Andy, 3 months ago Reply

     Hey, I know liberals like you like to live in a fantasy world where they’re always right and facts don’t matter, but here’s some data on Rubio’s neighborhood, in case you were too lazy to read up on whether Rubio’s neighborhood was ACTUALLY working class or not, instead of just accepting it as truth because a website told you it was:

     http://www.zillow.com/local-info/FL-West-Miami-people/r_7850/

     http://www.zillow.com/local-info/FL-West-Miami-home-value/r_7850/

     In case you’re too lazy to click on those links, I’ll sum up some of their data for you:

     Average West Miami household income: $34,000/year

     Average West Miami home value: $202,000

     And if you want to get more specific, and look at his zip code, here you go:

     http://www.zillow.com/local-info/FL-33144-home-value/r_72447/

     Average home value for 33144: $186,000.

     It seems you liberals don’t like to read, or do your research.

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       MiamiNice57, 3 months ago Reply

       I also live in a working class neighborhood 33134 (coral gables where the median home is valued at 199K.
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     bob, 3 months ago Reply

     If only the photo you posted accompanying the headline of this article was contextual. Perhaps I should post a photo, under a similar headline, of barack obama dining and hanging with george clooney, jay z, beyonce, warren buffet, oprah whinfrey, and the list goes on. Please, for the love of truth and integrity, write an article with about something real, about something that matters, and, oh yea, support your premises with facts. Good Day sir

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       Jose Lambiet, 3 months ago Reply

       Thank you for your comment Bobby. Here you go: http://gossipextra.com/2013/02/17/obama-golf-tiger-woods-florida-2306/
       Cheers.
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   Toni Anderson, 3 months ago Reply

   And, he probably paid for it with the Republican Committee credit card that he bought everything else with until the Miami Herald and Tampa Tribrune found out about it. Rubio thinks everyone else is stupid and he is oh so smart! That’s how he got caught lying about how and why his parents came from Cuba. Rubio is a sleaze.
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   Maggie, 3 months ago Reply

   i thought about you inmediately!
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   Andy, 3 months ago Reply

   The title of the first article that is linked to this Gossip Extra post : “Sen. Marco Rubio’s $675,000 ‘working class’ home.”

   What Rubio actually said in SOTU response (which even this article points out):

   “Mr. President, I still live in the same working class neighborhood I grew up in. My neighbors aren’t millionaires. They’re retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare. They’re workers who have to get up early tomorrow morning and go to work to pay the bills. They’re immigrants, who came here because they were stuck in poverty in countries where the government dominated the economy.”

   Maybe the “journalists” at the Herald and the barely literate editors at “Gossip Extra” can help me out with this, but NOWHERE in what Rubio said does he say he lives in a “working class home.” He just mentions his neighborhood.

   Conclusion: the Herald article – and this Gossip Extra post – are a smear. They’re fabricating a topic out of nothing, by trying to paint Rubio as a hypocrite for saying something he never said; i.e. that he lives in a working class home.

   I think all of you at the Gossip Extra, The Miami Herald and your lefty friends in the media need to renew your membership in Pravda’s summer camp training courses in Propaganda, ’cause your attempts to undermine the President’s opponents are getting more glaringly obvious and weak by the day.

   Oh, and here’s a little data about Rubio’s neighborhood, if you’re still not convinced (or want to deny) that it can qualify as working class:

   http://www.zillow.com/local-info/FL-West-Miami-people/r_7850/

   http://www.zillow.com/local-info/FL-West-Miami-home-value/r_7850/

   In case you’re too lazy to click on those links, I’ll sum up some of their data for you:

   Average West Miami household income: $34,000/year

   Average West Miami home value: $202,000

   And if you want to get more specific, and look at his zip code, here you go:

   http://www.zillow.com/local-info/FL-33144-home-value/r_72447/

   Average home value for 33144: $186,000.

   It seems you liberals don’t like to read, or do your research.

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     Dan, 3 months ago Reply

     That actually hurts your argument. West Miami is a very broad area. It is generally better off than most of the rest of Miami proper, and in Rubio’s own neighborhood, houses are selling for 400k, 500k, 600k and up. Which dwarfs the rest of West Miami.

     And his house has over 7,000 square feet! So it’s a bit misleading for him to talk about his “working class” background when he lives in a 7,000 square foot house with a pool and is on the market for $675k
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     MiamiNice57, 3 months ago Reply

     Andy,

     Rubio’s home $675,000
     average -$202,000
     =$473,000

     I could buy three very nice homes in Miami for $675K in a working neighborhood before the bust.
     I’ve been ling in Miami for the past 43 years.

     Independent, He has was less than ethical with my Moms case. I’ll be happy to share with anyone. It’s public record.
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   Keith Lewis Simmons, 3 months ago Reply

   So, to be honest, and not a Lying Chupacabra like he actually is….Estupido Rubio would have said, “I own a million and half dollar home (before the boom caused by my backers) in a working class neighborhood.” And he could have added, “I actually grew up in Las Vegas while mi padre paid off his debts to the familia.”

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     MiamiNice57, 3 months ago Reply

     I love you please give details. . . the chupacabra title suits him well.
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   Keith Brekhus, 3 months ago Reply

   Marco Rubio’s home at 675K is worth nearly four times the average median home value in Florida (179K), and he bought it in 2005 (He didn’t exactly grow up there). It is a stretch to call that working class, and no just because other parts of West Miami or other parts of the Zip Code have more modest homes, doesn’t mean Marco Rubio’s neighborhood is working class. I have lived in Zip codes that have included public housing projects before but just because I lived four blocks away didn’t mean I was living in a poor or working class neighborhood.
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   Keith Brekhus, 3 months ago Reply

   Another site lists it as 2649 Square feet, which is large but not as opulent as 7300 square feet…http://www.palmbeachflorida.com/print_listing/A1710808
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   Keith Brekhus, 3 months ago Reply

   And a Bird’s eye view of the neighborhood shows some pretty nice homes and swimming pools on Rubio’s little cul-de-sac. All of those homes look less than thirty years old. I don’t think Rubio grew up in that neighborhood.
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