nytimes.com - MIAMI — FOR nearly 20 years, Florida politicos watched Jeb Bush groom Marco Rubio for power. In the late 1990s, Mr. Bush, then a new governor, handed his young protégé Mr. Rubio, then a West Miami city commissioner, his political and financial network, asking friends like Al Cardenas — until recently the head of the American Conservative Union, which puts on the Conservative Political Action Conference — to give Mr. Rubio the connections and money he needed to ascend.
When Mr. Rubio muscled his way to the Florida House speakership after six years, former colleagues say, by double-crossing a friend and fellow Miamian, Gaston Cantens, Jeb Bush even gave him a ceremonial sword.
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