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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I was glad Rubio beat Crist but there has always been something about the little fancy boy I couldnt trust. This kind of thing lends clues.
It’s not possible to be upset with both Rubio and Obama?
My hair and pedi plus tip every six weeks is around $225.
These guys should all pay for their own haircuts, sheesh. Any wonder people are sick of politicians.
It upsets me that any MAN pays $139 for a haircut. Utter ridiculous and pompous.
Seriously! The “entitlement” mindset of politicians is sickening, I don’t care who they are, where they’re from! Sheesh! It’s called integrity! Hard to find anyone with integrity any more.
$134 haircut. Shades of John Edwards. LOL!
That’s a good point. Nobody would dare question a woman politician about how much they spend for a day in the salon. And rightfully so; that’s their prerogative.
I personally would never spend $134 for a haircut but hey, we all squander money on things we enjoy. I’m not a Rubio supporter, but this haircut thing just seems like a trivial matter to me.
And some people want this pool boy running our economy?
Once they get to Washington, integrity goes out the window. Its called Potomac Fever, and all the professional politicians get the disease. They forget about serving the folks back home and only care about their own careers.
Integrity quickly morphs into entitlement.
“DT probably pays more for his haricuts.”
I wouldn’t brag about it if I were him.
If a politician wants to spend $100 or $1000 of their own money on a haircut, I don’t care as long as they have the money to do so. This has brought Rubio down a notch for me because he seems to have no problem spending other people’s money. It’s brought the Florida Republican Committee down even lower — they were either okay with these personal expenses or didn’t bother to recoup them. If I lived in Florida, there would be no chance I’d ever give the Republicans money.
Rubios main problem is the gang of eight/immigration one
“Women spend that kinda money all the time on their hair.”
Hmm, did not know Rubio was a woman. In today’s world, cannot tell which sex a person is/or was/or wants to be. :o)
Its the GOPs money and all quite legal.
I could give a crap about any money he spent on a haircut. I care about his position on amnesty.
Exactly. Definitely the Gang of Eight matter is highly important. The selective, delayed outrage about the haircut issue is comical.
At the moment he had to pay for the hair cut he made a choice. He chose to use other peoples money, embezzlement in fact.
Rubio at that moment established that he can be bought for $130+ haircut.
What will he do when the choice is a hundred times more, a thousand times more?
Petty thieves remain such only because richer targets don’t present themselves.
Heck there’s a company that offers shaves for $70 and men get them.
I mean cmon
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