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  • The comments came after the senator's spokesman, Alex Burgos, announced Mr. Rubio would give the GOP's first-ever bilingual rebuttal to President Obama's State of the Union speech, The Miami Herald reports.

    Univision staffer calls Rubio a 'token slave boy' on Facebook →

  • Following the telephone call with Lee and other Univision officials, Rubio spokesman Alex Burgos wrote Univision President Randy Falco on July 8, stating "we were disappointed and disturbed by the editorial policy your team made clear that Univision has now adopted when covering private persons who are completely uninvolved in politics, but simply happened to be related to a public official."

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