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04-13-2013, 06:44 PM
Woah, this is good dirt.
Someone has posted a file at FreeRepublic on Cesar Conda who is now Rubio's chief of staff. Previously he worked for Deadly Dick as his domestic policy adviser so that tells you all you need to know. He also has ties to billionaire Soros (!).
Back in 2010 Conda was working hard to defeat Rand Paul in Kentucky. He sent the following email to several neocons such as Billy Kristol, Liz Cheney and Robert Kagan, The establishment rag and known propaganda outfit POLITICO (who Conda has written for) eagerly ran the hit piece:
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Recognizing the threat [of Rand], a well-connected former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney convened a conference call last week between Grayson and a group of leading national security conservatives to sound the alarm about Paul.
“On foreign policy, [global war on terror], Gitmo, Afghanistan, Rand Paul is NOT one of us,” Cesar Conda wrote in an e-mail to figures such as Liz Cheney, William Kristol, Robert Kagan, Dan Senor and Marc Thiessen.
With an attached memo on Paul’s noninterventionist positions, Conda concluded: “It is our hope that you can help us get the word out about Rand Paul’s troubling and dangerous views on foreign policy.”
In an interview, Conda noted that Paul once advocated for closing down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and sending some suspected terrorists to the front lines in Afghanistan.
“This guy could become our Republican senator from Kentucky?” he exclaimed. “It’s very alarming.”
SOURCE:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34582.html
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What's alarming is that between working for Deadly Dick and Rubio Conda worked for DC Navigators which is a Washington lobbying shop.
Here's some information from when he was announced as Rubio's chief of staff:
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Conda has worked as a lobbyist and analyst for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and founded the Washington office of Navigators, a lobbying/consulting firm where another top Rubio adviser, Todd Harris, also worked.
The firm's clients included GlaxoSmithKline, At&T, Visa and Citigroup, which got $45 billion under the bank bailout. Rubio on the campaign trail was highly critical of bailouts.
A Navigators official said Friday that the company started working for Citigroup in 2009 and that while Conda was initially listed as a lobbyist, he did not do work for Citigroup.
SOURCE:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/sen-marco-rubio-hires-cesar-conda-to-be-chief-of-staff/1148232
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The file at FreeRepublic alleges that they were involved with AIG too but I've not done any digging yet.
I'd appreciate any help!
Here's the file at FreeRepublic. Whoever put it together is highlighting his ties to pro-immigration reform lobbyists but there's other bits and pieces in there:
h ttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3007546/posts
Someone has posted a file at FreeRepublic on Cesar Conda who is now Rubio's chief of staff. Previously he worked for Deadly Dick as his domestic policy adviser so that tells you all you need to know. He also has ties to billionaire Soros (!).
Back in 2010 Conda was working hard to defeat Rand Paul in Kentucky. He sent the following email to several neocons such as Billy Kristol, Liz Cheney and Robert Kagan, The establishment rag and known propaganda outfit POLITICO (who Conda has written for) eagerly ran the hit piece:
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Recognizing the threat [of Rand], a well-connected former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney convened a conference call last week between Grayson and a group of leading national security conservatives to sound the alarm about Paul.
“On foreign policy, [global war on terror], Gitmo, Afghanistan, Rand Paul is NOT one of us,” Cesar Conda wrote in an e-mail to figures such as Liz Cheney, William Kristol, Robert Kagan, Dan Senor and Marc Thiessen.
With an attached memo on Paul’s noninterventionist positions, Conda concluded: “It is our hope that you can help us get the word out about Rand Paul’s troubling and dangerous views on foreign policy.”
In an interview, Conda noted that Paul once advocated for closing down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay and sending some suspected terrorists to the front lines in Afghanistan.
“This guy could become our Republican senator from Kentucky?” he exclaimed. “It’s very alarming.”
SOURCE:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0310/34582.html
-
What's alarming is that between working for Deadly Dick and Rubio Conda worked for DC Navigators which is a Washington lobbying shop.
Here's some information from when he was announced as Rubio's chief of staff:
-
Conda has worked as a lobbyist and analyst for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and founded the Washington office of Navigators, a lobbying/consulting firm where another top Rubio adviser, Todd Harris, also worked.
The firm's clients included GlaxoSmithKline, At&T, Visa and Citigroup, which got $45 billion under the bank bailout. Rubio on the campaign trail was highly critical of bailouts.
A Navigators official said Friday that the company started working for Citigroup in 2009 and that while Conda was initially listed as a lobbyist, he did not do work for Citigroup.
SOURCE:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/national/sen-marco-rubio-hires-cesar-conda-to-be-chief-of-staff/1148232
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The file at FreeRepublic alleges that they were involved with AIG too but I've not done any digging yet.
I'd appreciate any help!
Here's the file at FreeRepublic. Whoever put it together is highlighting his ties to pro-immigration reform lobbyists but there's other bits and pieces in there:
h ttp://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3007546/posts