Rubio, on stump in Puerto Rico, says island needs new leadership

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Rubio, on stump in Puerto Rico, says island needs new leadership

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/rubio-says-chapter-9-puerto-rico-not-solve-170025391.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/5U3D_Gq2Tdbi5EWE3NapPA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3NfbGVnbztmaT1maWxsO2g9ODY7cT03NTt3PTEzMA--/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2015-09-04T170025Z_1_LYNXNPEB830XJ_RTROPTP_2_USA-POLITICS.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Republican presidential candidate, Senator Marco Rubio participates in &quot;Restoring American Leadership: A Conversation with Senator Marco Rubio&quot; at the 3 West Club in New York" align="left" title="Republican presidential candidate, Senator Marco Rubio participates in &quot;Restoring American Leadership: A Conversation with Senator Marco Rubio&quot; at the 3 West Club in New York" border="0" /></a>Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio told residents of Puerto Rico on Friday the island needed new political leadership as it grapples with its fiscal crisis, but protection under bankruptcy laws would not solve the U.S. territory's problems. &quot;I believe the Puerto Rico government has the ability to solve its own issues,&quot; Rubio, a Cuban-American, told a crowd in San Juan, speaking in Spanish. &quot;What you need is new political leadership that has the courage and willingness to do the right and needed reforms.&quot; Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla said in June the U.S. territory could not afford to pay its debts, totaling $72 billion, and called for the commonwealth to be allowed to restructure its debts under the U.S. bankruptcy code.</p><br clear="all"/>

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