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Contact: Matthew Kandrach
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August 20, 2010 or
Alexandria, VA – Legendary entertainer Pat Boone, spokesman for a national non-partisan senior citizen group, announced today that Marco Rubio has won the 60 Plus Association’s Honorary Guardian of Seniors’ Rights award. Rubio is a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Florida.
Boone, still performing at concerts, was a recording, movie and TV star second to none in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and had 38 top 10 hits during his career. Now a national spokesman for 60 Plus, Boone labeled Rubio a “fighter for the elderly.”
The Association’s Guardian Award is presented to Democrats and Republicans in Congress based on their “senior friendly” voting records. The Honorary Award is given to those running for office and is based on their views on seniors’ issues.
“Marco Rubio can always be counted on to protect Social Security and Medicare,” Boone said. “Marco Rubio will be a tax cutter, protecting the pocket books of senior citizens. 60 Plus calls on nearly 5.5 million seniors nationally for support, including nearly one million in the Sunshine State, and as a native Floridian I believe I can speak on behalf of seniors when I say that they can count on Marco Rubio. Clearly, seniors will have no finer friend in the Senate than Marco Rubio.” (Pat Boone was born June 1, 1934 in Jacksonville).
Previous award winners include former U.S. Senator Mel Martinez (R-FL) Senator George LeMieux (R-FL), and Florida Reps. John Mica (R-7th), Ander Crenshaw (R-4th), Ginny Brown-Waite (R-5th), Connie Mack (R-14th), Bill Posey (R-15th), Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-21), Mario-Diaz Balart (R-25) Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-18), as well as Democrats, Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico and Rep. Sanford Bishop of Georgia, the latter a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
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The 60 Plus Association is an 18-year-old nonpartisan organization working for death tax repeal, saving Social Security, affordable prescription drugs, lowering energy costs and other issues featuring a less government, less taxes approach as well as a strict adherence to the Constitution. 60 Plus calls on support from nearly 5.5 million citizen activists. 60 Plus publishes a newsletter, SENIOR VOICE, and a Scorecard, bestowing awards on lawmakers of both parties who vote “pro-senior.” 60 Plus has been called, “an increasingly influential senior citizen’s group” and since 1992 “the conservative alternative to the AARP.”
