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Supporters dismiss Marco Rubio's use of Florida GOP credit card
St. Petersburg Times ^ | February 28, 2010 | Adam Smith

Posted on 02/27/2010 4:13:55 PM PST by Brandonmark

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1 posted on 02/27/2010 4:13:55 PM PST by Brandonmark
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To: Brandonmark

How do you double bill a plane ticket on a credit card?


2 posted on 02/27/2010 4:16:40 PM PST by screaminsunshine (i)
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To: screaminsunshine

This article doesn’t pass the smell test.


3 posted on 02/27/2010 4:18:30 PM PST by stephenjohnbanker (Support our troops, and vote out the RINOS)
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To: Brandonmark

I think I’m going to let Mr. Rubio use my personal credit card.

Mr. Crist, it’s cash only for you.


4 posted on 02/27/2010 4:20:30 PM PST by chris37
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To: screaminsunshine

Easy, his staff billed to one card and he billed to another ... When you have a busy office things get screwed up and errors don’t get caught.

Hey isn’t an even better question, how do you forget to tell the IRS and the House about 100s of thousands of dollars in other investments, like Charlie Rangel did.

Or for that matter how do you explain Turbo tax cheat Geitner.


5 posted on 02/27/2010 4:21:00 PM PST by Tarpon ( ...Rude crude socialist Obama depends on ignorance to force his will on people)
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To: Brandonmark

It bothers me. On the other hand, the party has given us a choice between Rubio and Crist, and the two party system will give us a choice between the winner of that contest and a liberal Democrat.

I am not going to vote for Crist, and I am not going to vote for a Democrat. If I have to hold my nose and vote for Rubio in order to avoid doing that, then that’s what I’m going to do.

To me, it shows more that our political system is a failure than anything else. And the best way to control a failed political system is to make it smaller. The smaller it is, the less the crooks can steal from us.

Between Rubio and Crist, I would bet that Rubio will more likely vote for smaller government.


6 posted on 02/27/2010 4:21:21 PM PST by Brilliant
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To: screaminsunshine

Pro’ly use the cc to charge the ticket and then file an expense report asking for reimbursement. Intentional or staff error? If it was only for one type of charge could well be a procedural glitch especially if different staffers were involved. $3K over how many years? That’s a long way away from Rangel-class issues.


7 posted on 02/27/2010 4:21:57 PM PST by NonValueAdded ("Roll back Pelosi" Rush Limbaugh, 2/12/10)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

SP Times.


8 posted on 02/27/2010 4:23:15 PM PST by screaminsunshine (i)
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To: Brandonmark

The article at the link does not link to the alleged story about double billing so maybe there is a story and maybe there isn’t.

It then goes into a bit about how Kendrick Meek is really a centrist and not a liberal.


9 posted on 02/27/2010 4:23:35 PM PST by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: Brilliant

I’d like to see all of Crist’s credit card info.


10 posted on 02/27/2010 4:29:56 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: Brandonmark

Say it ain’t so, Marco.


11 posted on 02/27/2010 4:31:43 PM PST by Al B.
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To: Brandonmark

Crist worked with the Democrats to cook this one up, hoping to eliminate his primary rival from contention. It seems to have been a fairly small sum, and easy enough to count as an honest mistake.


12 posted on 02/27/2010 4:34:39 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Brandonmark

I can’t find independent evidence of the comments by Erickson or Connolly either which the article also does not link.


13 posted on 02/27/2010 4:37:13 PM PST by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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My congressman got hit with a $210,000 fine for campaign finance violations immediately after his election. (basically it amounted to money laundering among democrats)


14 posted on 02/27/2010 4:39:20 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin!)
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Marco Rubio says double-billing of nearly $3,000 for flights was ‘mistake’

U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio admitted Friday that he double-billed state taxpayers and the Republican Party of Florida for eight plane tickets when he was speaker of the Florida House.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/legislature/marco-rubio-says-double-billing-of-nearly-3000-for-flights-was-mistake/1076068


15 posted on 02/27/2010 4:41:49 PM PST by Brandonmark (News Coverage)
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To: Brandonmark; Jim Robinson; ConjunctionJunction; Al B.; SolidWood; Leisler; greyfoxx39; ...
Question to all FReepers:
Can even 1 week, nay 1 day, go by without an attack on the GOP
and conservatives by someone on Team Mitt-Romneycare?

Adam D. Smith, G.O.P. has 157 friends including Mitt Romney on Myspace.


16 posted on 02/27/2010 4:49:28 PM PST by Diogenesis ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." --Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Brandonmark

Thanks, Brandonmark. Appreciate it.


17 posted on 02/27/2010 4:54:30 PM PST by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: Brandonmark
It is tough to be a successful conservative when you have to beat your opponent, and his willing accomplices in the media.

Dan Quayle was a smart guy with a record of accomplishment in both private and public sectors. JOEBIDEN is an IQ point away from free rides to the grocery store, but you'd would never now it by the press coverage.

18 posted on 02/27/2010 4:55:09 PM PST by OldDeckHand
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To: cripplecreek

WOW! Did the fine come out of his own pocket?


19 posted on 02/27/2010 4:55:32 PM PST by presently no screen name
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I’m guessing stimulus money probably paid the fine.

http://www.rightmichigan.com/story/2009/2/25/95012/4337

Only in politics can you break the law to get a job, get caught, and still get to keep the job.


20 posted on 02/27/2010 4:58:50 PM PST by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin!)
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