I wrote that Marco Rubio is disgusting when he exploited the massacre at Pulse as a justification for getting back in the Senate race. Soon after he dropped out from his failed presidential bid, he quickly realized that the job offers and prospects he had expected didn't materialize. What happened next was sickening even by Florida's low standards of shamelessness.
The most anti-gay Senator serving in Washington—one who has repeatedly voted against even the most basic protections for the LGBT community that other minority groups enjoy—claimed that he was so affected by their deaths that he decided to change his mind and "serve" us in the Senate for another six years.
Gays and lesbians have it hard enough. They are already under attack every day. We really don't need a failed Senator collecting a six-figure salary from us just so he can attack them from Washington as well. It was bad enough that right after he walked the blood-soaked street in front of Pulse, he immediately voted against terrorists on the watch lists from getting assault rifles and explosives. (So, NOW you decide to show up for work? Ass.)
Standing on the dead bodies of people Marco Rubio has vilified to launch his Senate campaign is awful enough, but Marco Rubio is a special kind of sleaze ball.
Rubio is going to be the headliner at a group well-known in Florida for their intolerance of LGBT people, whose head, David Lane, said gays will lead to the “utter destruction” of the US. Joining him on stage will be some of “this country’s most vehement anti-LGBT activists.” There will be Mat Staver, who actually dared to call our memorials for the Pulse nightclub victims “homosexual love fests”.
Dave Barton, who claims AIDS is God's "divine penalty" for gays, and another nut job named Bill Federer, who believes that gays are coordinating with terrorists in the Middle East to bring about our destruction. This repugnant group scapegoats gays for all of America’s ills, and directs vile rhetoric against them that has directly contributed to the rise in hate crimes against this peaceful community.
We can’t let Rubio win.
There is no question that his opponent will be Patrick Murphy in the general election. Murphy has nearly a 10-point lead against his closest opponent in the primary, but more importantly, he is currently neck and neck with #RevoltingRubio in the general election matchups. Florida has a ridiculously late primary, August 30, so Murphy needs the help now.
I invite you to join ActBlue in supporting his campaign.
For the record, I do like Pam Keith, a primary opponent, but she is polling under 5% and that just won't cut it. Like most Florida liberals, I was strongly in Alan Grayson's corner for most of the year, but his bid has completely fallen apart. Progressive groups have stopped funding him, and people have already taken back their endorsements, due to both his ethics violations and recent accusation of decades of domestic violence. Grayson has responded by getting very ugly as of late, and his campaign has drifted into the bizarre with this nonsense.
Nonetheless, to be fair, his website his here. Pam Keith’s is here.
The fact is, however, that this fight is going to be between Marco Rubio and Pat Murphy; and I'll be damned if it's going be the man who stood on the victims of LGBT violence for his own personal ambition just to spit on them a few weeks later.
#revoltingrubio