--- title: Bush Super PAC Slams Rubio Attendance Record description: The super PAC backing Jeb Bush's presidential campaign released a brutal ad Tuesday attacking Sen. Marco Rubio. canonical: https://time.com/4163089/jeb-bush-marco-rubio-ad/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-29T15:13:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:40:32.031Z article:section: Politics og:title: Bush Super PAC Slams Rubio Attendance Record og:description: "Politics first: that's the Rubio way." og:url: https://time.com/4163089/jeb-bush-marco-rubio-ad/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Bush Super PAC Slams Rubio Attendance Record twitter:description: "Politics first: that's the Rubio way." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Bush Super PAC Slams Rubio Attendance Record by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Dec 29, 2015 3:13 PM UTC by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Dec 29, 2015 3:13 PM UTC The super PAC backing Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign released a brutal ad Tuesday attacking Sen. Marco Rubio for skipping an all-Senators briefing following the San Bernardino terrorist attack. The ad notes that Rubio, who has the worst attendance record in the Senate as he travels the country to boost his campaign, missed the briefing to attend a campaign fundraiser—one of many national security briefings he has missed over the years. “Politics first: that’s the Rubio way,” the ad concludes. The ad is part of a $1.4 million television buy in Iowa this week by the super PAC, Right to Rise. “Bush’s team dishonestly omits that Marco is on the Senate’s Intelligence Committee, where he attended the highest level briefings on the Paris attacks,” Rubio spokesman Alex Conant said in a statement. “No other candidate for president has received more classified Intelligence briefings or better understands the threats facing our nation today than Marco. It’s sad to see Jeb’s ‘joyful’ campaign reduced to such intellectual dishonesty.” **Read Next:** [_These 30 Numbers Explain the 2016 Election_](http://time.com/4162651/2016-election-numbers/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4163089/jeb-bush-marco-rubio-ad/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4163089/jeb-bush-marco-rubio-ad/"},"headline":"Bush Super PAC Slams Rubio Attendance Record","datePublished":"2015-12-29T15:13:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:40:32.031Z","description":"The super PAC backing Jeb Bush's presidential campaign released a brutal ad Tuesday attacking Sen. Marco Rubio.","url":"https://time.com/4163089/jeb-bush-marco-rubio-ad/","keywords":["jeb bush","2016 Election topic","Sen. Marco Rubio","campaign ads"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Zeke Miller","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/jeb-bush/","name":"jeb bush"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4163089/jeb-bush-marco-rubio-ad/","name":"Bush Super PAC Slams Rubio Attendance Record"}}]}] ```