Marco Rubio Team Uses Unemployment Figures to Bash the Stimulus, Obama and Charlie Crist

With new reports out that the nations unemployment rate stands at 9.5 percent, the campaign team of likely Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio is reminding Florida voters that the Obama administration claimed the federal stimulus would lower that rate to 7 percent. The Rubio camp is also reminding voters that Gov. Charlie Crist, running in the Senate race as an independent, backed the Obama stimulus.

The Obama-Crist $862 billion stimulus has failed to live up to Washington's promises, and the consequences have been tragic for Florida, said Alex Burgos, a spokesman for the Rubio campaign. Instead of creating the 206,000 jobs that Charlie Crist promised, more than 213,000 Floridians have lost their jobs since the stimulus passed. Charlie Crist placed his bet on Washington, and today more Floridians are out of work, more money has been borrowed from overseas, more government programs have been created and more billions have been wasted. Marco Rubio is the only candidate who has put forth a pro-growth agenda as an alternative to Washingtons failed policies that either hurt job growth or fail to live up to the hype, despite their massive price tags.