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Rubio: I'd Have Taken Stimulus $$$

11:44 AM, Dec 10, 2009 • By MICHAEL GOLDFARB
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Adam Smith reports:

We've struggled lately to get a clear answer from Marco Rubio on whether as governor he would have accepted money from the federal stimulus package about which he is so critical. Keith Cate on Tampa Bay's NBC affiliate got a clearer answer:

"Ultimately I would have accepted those portions of the money that would not have put Florida in a worse position off in the future than it is right now," Rubio said.

Obviously there is a difference between taking stimulus money and campaigning on behalf of the stimulus, as Crist did, but Rubio has in the past suggested that he would have refused stimulus dollars had he been the governor at the time.

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