Posted on 11/04/2015 1:04:16 PM PST by jimbo123
Marco Rubio's routine use of a Republican Party of Florida credit card for personal expenses while speaker of the Florida House brought renewed calls Thursday for the party to disclose charges racked up by former and current elected officials.
Rubio, who is battling Florida Gov. Charlie Crist for the party's U.S. Senate nomination, says he repaid all personal expenses to American Express in 2007 and 2008, amounting to $16,052. The party picked up the rest of the $93,566 charges on Rubio's card, including nearly $4,000 in costs to repair his family minivan and rent a car for five weeks. Rubio said the minivan was damaged by parking attendants at a political event.
Records show the personal expenses included a $134 trip to an upscale Miami barber. Crist, called the charge "pretty disturbing.'' Rubio accused Crist of "desperate smears.''
An outcry over Republican Party spending has spiraled for months. Revelations about chartered jets and lavish meals charged by the former state party chairman, Jim Greer, and former executive director Delmar Johnson spurred party leaders to sweep in new leadership last week.
Asked whether the party should release credit-card records to clear the air before the 2010 election, former state party chairman Tom Slade on Thursday said, "Hell, yes.''
"We should not under any circumstances attempt to make this not totally transparent,'' Slade said. "We've got to take a hit for it because we have mismanaged money that people gave us and used it for purposes they did not intend it to be used.''
Miami lobbyist and Rubio donor Ana Navarro said he should have released the card statements himself.
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For that type of money I hope he got a “happy ending”.
Great — a Republican John Edwards.
Bill Clinton you mean. At least he didn’t shut down the airport while getting it.
Women spend that kinda money all the time on their hair. They are digging pretty deep for amnesty boy.
Nothing compared to the Clinton runway harlircut, but doesn’t presentation care count as a real campaign expense since he is promoting himself?
Yeah, he still has a ways to go to match Bill Clinton’s $400 haircut (1993 dollars) that he had while his plane was on the runway holding up all other traffic.
DT probably pays more for his haricuts. Cruz probably doesn’t but then some folks around here like to say he isn’t good looking enough.
There are things to rag Rubio over, but an expensive haircut is a poor choice.
$134 Haircut? Must be nice to have so much extra $$$ to spend on a freaking haircut...the guy is balding on the front too...he should get half off at least
LMAO! Oh, the horrors!
“Women spend that kinda money all the time on their hair.”
Go higher, much higher. $134 doesn’t cover color much less a perfect cut and blow out.
And the TIP.
Dude’s got to do it. Only in his 40s and that comb-over is going already. Guy’s gonna be Carl Levin in training by 50.
Yeah, but it is MY money, not the taxpayers’ money.
Embezzling is theft and he is trying to HIDE it.
If Rubicon cannot determine $100+ for a haircut is excessive he has no business being a president.
Indeed we do, and he likely got a facial too. It’s none of our business what he has done at a salon.
If the Florida GOP illegally “reimbursed” $93,566 in charges on Rubio’s Amex card, Rubio should have paid taxes on the money.
Fla. needs its own coast guard.
The haircut was paid for by the Florida GOP and Rubio should have declared it as income on his taxes.
“DT probably pays more for his haricuts.”
Yep. Trump’s is done by sector.
We’re supposed to be upset about Rubio spending $139 of party money on himself, but we’re not supposed to be upset about Obama wasting or giving away trillions of our money to his cronies.
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