Ana Navarro (Investigate those in front of the camera who scream the loudest. #742)

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/mckaycoppins/the-future-of-the-republican-party-is-by-the-pool-at-the-bil

The Future Of The Republican Party Is By The Pool At The Biltmore February 12, 2013

The talk at the Miami hotel, where Jeb Bush works and Marco Rubio works out, is of the next president. But can the young senator get out from under Jeb’s shadow?

It has become a matter of social survival here to develop a playful non-answer when asked which candidate one would support if both men decided to run for president in 2016 — something Ana Navarro knows better than anyone. A high-profile Republican strategist, longtime girlfriend to the Biltmore's owner Gene Prescott (democrat bundler)

"DO YOU WANT TO SEE MY BUSH SHRINE?"

Navarro gestures toward the far end of her ornately decorated living room, where a shelf displays about half a dozen framed photos of her with various members of the Bush family.

Ana Navarro laughing on a tarmac with 41.

Ana Navarro posing in a group shot with Dubya.

Ana Navarro grinning alongside Jeb.

And one in the back, mostly covered by the rest, that stands out: Ana Navarro smiling at the camera next to Bill Clinton.

"We only bring that one out when Gene has Democrats over," she says.

"Gene" is Gene Prescott, the Biltmore's proprietor and the Democratic fundraiser who shares an expensive Spanish revival — along with a Mercedes and high-end golf cart parked out front — with Navarro in the palm-lined Miami suburb of Coral Gables. Prescott bought the shuttered Biltmore, which had once hosted the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, and Al Capone, in 1992. Within four years, he had convinced Bill Clinton to hold a summit of Latin-American leaders at the hotel, and kept luring him back for vacations and fundraisers. Since then, he and Navarro have turned the place into a bipartisan hub of the political money circuit, and the collection of Beltway boldface names that have graced the hotel's guest list over the years is among the couple's proudest achievements. Navarro, who co-chaired Senator John McCain's Hispanic Advisory Council in 2008, takes obvious pleasure in showing it off.

"It's not uncommon to go down to the breakfast area and see Nancy Pelosi meeting with someone, or John McCain holding court in the lobby," she boasts. "One time, George W. Bush and Harry Reid were here on the same night for different events. I thought I was going to have a heart attack."