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Marco attended a LIBRE town hall meeting where he told supporters that he learned a lot about the American Dream in Nevada. As the Miami Herald reports:
His old working-class neighborhood in North Las Vegas, where Marco Rubio spent six impressionable years of his youth, looks more like the majority of Latino America than Rubio's hometown of West Miami. Restaurants sell tacos. Bars advertise soccer matches. Conversations sound distinctly Mexican. The Florida senator says he feels right at home. He's speaking at the Catholic school he attended "for a month" before pleading with his parents to go back to public school with his friends. He's just driven past the community pool where he learned how to swim. "I learned a lot about the American Dream in Nevada," Rubio says. After getting a tour of Pawn Plaza, the
Las Vegas Review-Journal reports he watched Rick Harrison perform the ribbon-cutting ceremony with a samurai sword.
Rubio, a U.S. senator from Florida and Republican presidential candidate, was in town on Friday to campaign. That included a stop at the ribbon-cutting ceremonies at Harrison's Pawn Plaza, next to the home of TV's "Pawn Stars." … After giving Rubio a tour of the $4 million center, a mix of restaurants and retail shops, Harrison performed the ribbon-cutting with a samurai sword. Joining Rubio for the ribbon-cutting was Mayor Carolyn Goodman and Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison. Pawn Stars’ Rick Harrison recounts how he met Marco. As the
Las Vegas Review-Journal reports: Rubio and Harrison became fast friends earlier this year. After meeting at a political fundraiser, they happened to be in Los Angeles at the same time a couple months later and had breakfast. "We sat around for close to two hours," said Harrison, "and he never once asked me for money and never once mentioned what's best for the party," said Harrison.
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