More on Marco Rubio's silence, Fanjul's executive assistant tied to the American Nazi Party ... by gimleteye

To read the report in The New York Post, Chloe Black worked for thirty five years as the executive assistant to Pepe Fanjul, one of the GOP's top campaign contributors from Florida and a key supporter of US Senate hopeful Marco Rubio, before Fanjul found out that she is married to "Don Black, a former KKK grand wizard and member of the American Nazi Party. He (Black) now runs white-supremacist Web site StormFront.org." Rubio should return the contributions from Pepe Fanjul.

Rubio, supported by The Tea Party, represents the resurgent wing of the Republican Party led by Bush family interests. Kendrick Meek, the Democratic candidate for US Senate, is supported by Pepe's brother, Alfie, who takes the Democratic side of business. I'm guessing that if it was Alfie whose executive assistant was married to a former KKK grand wizard and white supremacist, Meek-- who is African American-- would have said something about the six degrees of separation from former KKK David Duke and Don Black's, "Did you know the civil rights movement was Jewish controlled?" But Marco Rubio, so far, is silent.

Here is what is troubling. Most Floridians who are immigrants don't realize that Senate hopeful Marco Rubio supports the Arizona immigration law that would empower police powers at a time when civil society in the United States is groaning at the seams. To Florida voters, Rubio is an earnest, fresh face and they have no clue what he did, or does, or who he owes.

It is widely known that the sugar industry, from which the Fanjul fortune is based, is entirely dependent on corporate welfare in the form of price supports and import barriers, the suppression of pollution regulations, and federal farm policies established by Congress. How many Florida voters, are aware? Ask Rubio or Meek, or any politician in Florida: the weight of the Fanjuls in domestic politics is as transparent as the Koch brothers, Charles and David, in the world of conservative foundations. On a related note, the great offense that Governor Charlie Crist committed, to drive him from the Republican Party in Florida, was supporting the land deal to buy the Fanjul's chief competitor-- US Sugar Corporation-- without consulting them. Even the Fanjuls know that returning sugar fields to the purpose of helping to restore water quality in the Everglades, badly damaged by their toxic runoff is what stands in the way of progress.

So here you have an executive assistant to the Fanjul patriarch who is Republican, who has no idea--none apparently until yesterday-- that after thirty five years of employment, his executive assistant has a direct line into the American Nazi Party. So when Pepe Fanjul is calling on members of Congress or Republican media consultants or Karl Rove to advance prospects for the Farm Bill or how to thwart the EPA, those calls are being placed through an executive assistant whose husband is tied to the American Nazi Party.

Last but not least, it escapes no one's attention that corporate contributions to GOP causes this election cycle are verging on 7-1 against Democrats. This is the result of the US Supreme Court on Citizens United, springing the barn doors wide open to unlimited contributions from corporations. When in March 2009, Alfie Fanjul hosted a fundraiser for Kendrick Meek at his home in Coral Gables, Florida, the top ticket price was $10,000. This past July, the Pepe Fanjul event for Marco Rubio,reported in The Palm Beach Daily News last July, was $42,500 per person with the caveat this is paying cash, "the organizers only accepted bills with pictures of Republican presidents."

If American voters are dazed and confused by the economic crisis, stirred to passion and the wages of fear, they are also largely ignorant how the levers of power are tightening down against freedom and liberty in favor of corporations. If I were Glen Beck, I'd pay more attention to Pepe Fanjul than George Soros and why Marco Rubio should return the dough.