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Inside Marco Rubio’s messy American Express statements
Washington Post ^ | 11/7/2015 | Manuel Roig-Franzia, Sean Sullivan, Tom Hamburger

Posted on 11/07/2015 7:28:26 PM PST by HomerBohn

Surging Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio sought to tamp down an escalating controversy Saturday, releasing previously secret records that detailed his use of a Florida Republican Party credit card for personal expenses.

The records, which cover a 22-month period in 2005 and 2006, combined with previously disclosed credit card statements, show that Rubio charged more than $22,000 in personal expenses to the card while the account incurred more than $1,700 in delinquency and late fees over a four-year period while he was in the Florida legislature.

Rubio has maintained that he paid out of his pocket for any personal expenses on the American Express card, which he used from 2005 to 2008. But he has been beset with questions from political rivals about his spending, and been criticized by opponents for his years-long refusal to detail personal spending and release statements for most of the first two years he had the card.

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Your account is cancelled, the statement read. Please consider a Personal Card.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: 2016election; election2016; elections; florida; gangof8; goodbyemarco; marcorubio; rubio; rubiofinances
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Your campaign is over, Marco, step aside and make room for someone who knows how to use credit....honestly!
1 posted on 11/07/2015 7:28:26 PM PST by HomerBohn
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To: HomerBohn

Go ComPost go! We hate Rubio’s guts too!


2 posted on 11/07/2015 7:30:31 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (I am going to get those guns out of peoples hands. - Hillary Clinton 10/05/2015)
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To: HomerBohn

Rubio cannot be trusted. No way.


3 posted on 11/07/2015 7:34:10 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (I LOVE JESUS CHRIST because He first loved me!)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

As Trump said - he is trying to live beyond his means. Wants to be a mover and shaker. So far, he has been a shaker.


4 posted on 11/07/2015 7:37:32 PM PST by Catsrus ( I callz 'em as I seez 'em.)
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To: HomerBohn

The Obama economy hurts people at all levels.


5 posted on 11/07/2015 7:42:50 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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To: Catsrus

Plus he sweats like a teenage boy on his first date.


6 posted on 11/07/2015 7:43:13 PM PST by bimboeruption ("Occupy till I come" ~ OPORD issued by CIC Jesus Christ)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Rubio see the Presidency as a way to become rich. The only time he has applied himself in the Senate was to try to pass amnesty. Now he wants TPP.

Go Away Marco!


7 posted on 11/07/2015 7:44:16 PM PST by conservativejoy (We Can Elect Ted Cruz! Pray Hard, Work Hard, Trust God!)
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To: HomerBohn

At the very bottom the poor taxpayer foots the bill for these “Credit Card Clowns.”


8 posted on 11/07/2015 7:50:47 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: HomerBohn

...and another one bites the dust...


9 posted on 11/07/2015 7:57:15 PM PST by HarleyLady27 (I have such happy days, and hope you do too!!!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Yes, it's time.
Stick A Fork In Him

10 posted on 11/07/2015 7:58:39 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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At the very bottom the poor taxpayer foots the bill for these “Credit Card Clowns.”

How so? Did GOP of Florida default on their credit card? How did the tax payers suffer? I see you wearing the clown suit.

11 posted on 11/07/2015 7:59:09 PM PST by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: bimboeruption

I want my money back from those two stupid water bottles I bought off him....


12 posted on 11/07/2015 7:59:58 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: conservativejoy

If he wants to get rich, stay in the Senate and mimic Harry Reid. Usually I think stuff like this is small ball,but there is a real pattern here, and not much evidence Rubio has learned anything over time.


13 posted on 11/07/2015 8:08:34 PM PST by bigbob
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Arent you the person that just had a whole thread surrounding you saying you think Bill Clinton is a decent president and you like him? And then spent a couple hours posting scripture to defend your support of a rapist?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3357549/posts?page=46#43

Why should conservatives listen to you exactly?


14 posted on 11/07/2015 8:15:49 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
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To: Norm Lenhart

wow Norm. thanks for the heads up.


15 posted on 11/07/2015 8:32:11 PM PST by dadfly
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To: HomerBohn

Do now he is a thief too, besides being a PRO-Amnesty RINO?


16 posted on 11/07/2015 8:35:33 PM PST by GailA (If You don't keep your Promises to Our Troops, thu won't keep them to anyone. Ret. SCPO's wife)
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To: dadfly

Gladly. We have enough leftists subverting us without having them rub our faces in it.


17 posted on 11/07/2015 8:37:32 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Well my experience is that the “American Express Corporate Card” is so ineptly administered, that I paid off my balance and put the card in a drawer. No more “late charges” for bills paid promptly. No more “negotiations” regarding “What business did you discuss over lunch?” that delayed bill-payment.

And these were problems with “friendly” bill payers — not angry pro-Crist drones.

So, I give the benefit of the doubt here to Senator Rubio.


18 posted on 11/07/2015 8:44:01 PM PST by pfony1
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To: Starstruck
Taxpayers typically provide some support to the parties both directly and indirectly. The parties must meet at a minimum a certain number of adherents in order to get the funds. Florida law will determine the criteria. Besides who pays the salaries and perks(credit cards) of the individual politician? At the bottom of every politicians life stands the poor taxpayer. Politicians live to lie and be supported in a life of ease and fine wines. While he is out politicking he is spending taxpayer time(economic cost.)

Go learn how your political money is raised and spent before you criticize me. Money is raised by donation, taxpayer funds, the individual candidate themselves(Such as Trump) Rubio wears the look of a corrupt politician.

19 posted on 11/07/2015 8:45:40 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: pfony1

Thats your mistake to make. AmEx didn’t make him support Amnesty.


20 posted on 11/07/2015 8:46:26 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Existential Cage Theory - Embrace it)
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