In 2009 Tour Of West Miami, Marco Rubio Shows Pride In His Community
In 2009 Tour Of West Miami, Marco Rubio Shows Pride In His Community
NPR's Robert Siegel took a drive through West Miami with Marco Rubio in 2009 before he was elected to the U.S. Senate.
AUDIE CORNISH, HOST:
Back in 2009, our colleague Robert Siegel got a tour of West Miami from Rubio himself.
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MARCO RUBIO: See that little wood swing?
ROBERT SIEGEL, BYLINE: Yes, yes.
RUBIO: That's where my West Miami campaign was run out of, right there. This is the house I grew up in. If you look down there in the cement - I don't know if you can see where I carved our family's last name right there on the - do you see it, Rubio on the ground there? That's our family's home. That's kind of where we grew up here. It was good. I liked living here.
CORNISH: Rubio showed great pride in his community.
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RUBIO: And this is just a working-class neighborhood. One of the decisions we made to stay here was 'cause just we just like kind of being surrounded by folks that get their hands dirty for a living.
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And he had to take us into a Cuban bakery there.
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RUBIO: (Speaking Spanish). You guys want something - coffee? (Speaking Spanish). You want some Cuban coffee? Try it.
SIEGEL: Sure. That'd be great.
RUBIO: Do you guys want to eat something? Do you want to sample one of the pastries? Are you sure?
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: This guy has a lot of good pastry here.
RUBIO: He sure does. That's why I brought my friends here so they could try some.
CORNISH: A tour of West Miami with Marco Rubio before he became a U.S. senator. Now he's a presidential candidate, and we've been exploring the places the 2016 hopefuls call home.
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