Marco Rubio, lobbyist

Marco Rubio, lobbyist
former House Speaker Marco Rubio and U.S. Senate candidate was a Miami-Dade County lobbyist from 1997 (when he was a West Miami Commissioner) until 2005. By then, he secured the needed votes to become House Speaker. Also that year, he reported a new salary of $300k with his new firm, Broad & Cassel, which has had dozens of clients who do business with the state.
Rubio never talked about his lobbying and that's because, his campaign said, he wasn't really a lobbyist. He was a lawyer representing clients best interest, a lobbyist?
The reason Marco Rubio never spoke about his “lobbying” is because he was never a “lobbyist,” in the Tallahassee-influence-peddling sense of the word that Charlie Crist is all too familiar with,' said campaign spokesman Alex Burgos, who has way more to say on this below****.
Still, it's called a lobbyist registration by Miami-Dade. So the 'L' word is tough to avoid, though early stories on him running for the Legislature in 1999 merely identified as commissioner and a lawyer.
His entire bio underscores that Rubio, despite his supporters describing him as an outsider in his race against fellow Republican Gov. Charlie Crist, is a consummate insider. Consider: City commissioner, lawyer, lobbyist*, one-time Republican Party of Florida American Express card holder, top echelon House leader and, ultimately, House Speaker, Jeb Bush sword-of-Chang bearer."
Fact is, when you live in glass houses, you should not throw stones. Rubio tossed one at Crist, now it is time to break some glass.