His shooting star is tarnished...
Marco Rubio denies juicing up family history
By SCOTT WONG & MANU RAJU | 10/20/11 6:48 PM EDT
Updated: 10/21/11 6:56 AM EDT
Freshman Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican often mentioned as a prospective candidate for higher office, is facing questions about his family history after the Washington Post reported Thursday he embellished the story that his parents were forced to flee Cuba after Fidel Castro overthrew the government.
In speeches and on his official Senate website, Rubio has maintained that his parents came to America after Castro, whom he’s described as “a thug,” took power on New Year’s Day 1959. But naturalization papers and documents reviewed by the Post reveal that Rubio’s parents first arrived in the U.S. and received permanent resident status more than 2½ years earlier, in 1956
Read much more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/66509.html#ixzz1bPtpHVV8

DO SOMETHING!