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Marco Rubio spent lavishly on a GOP credit card, but some transactions are still secret
Tampa Bay Times ^ | 11/3/15 | Alex Leary

Posted on 11/03/2015 5:38:45 PM PST by jimbo123

It has become legend in Florida political circles, a missing chapter in Marco Rubio's convoluted financial story: two years of credit card transactions from his time in the state House, when he and other Republican leaders freely spent party money.

Details about the spending, which included repairs for Rubio's family minivan, emerged in his 2010 U.S. Senate race. But voters got only half the story because the candidate refused to disclose additional records.

Now Sen. Rubio's past is under fresh scrutiny as he emerges as a top presidential prospect. During last week's debate he deflected questions about his financial discipline - most recently, he liquidated a retirement account - but those questions will only intensify.

"For years I've been hearing that his credit cards are a disaster," Donald Trump said Tuesday during a news conference in New York City.

"It's fair game," Jeb Bush said as he campaigned in New Hampshire, noting the party never gave him a credit card.

The Tampa Bay Times asked Rubio's team for the records in June and again in early October.

A top strategist, Todd Harris, said Tuesday they would be released soon, possibly within the month, but declined to answer questions about what they might contain.

As speaker of the Florida House, Rubio was one of about a half-dozen lawmakers given Republican Party of Florida credit cards. During the Senate race, the Times/Herald obtained Rubio's statements from 2006 and 2007, showing he routinely charged personal expenses, from a $10.50 movie ticket to a four-day, $10,000 family reunion.

In those two years he charged about $110,000, and he said he sent about $16,000 to American Express to cover personal expenses, though the expenses were never detailed. In a 2012 memoir, he wrote, "From January of 2005 until October of 2008 I charged about $160,000

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: amnesty; amnestypimp; chamberofamnesty; chamberofcommerce; cheaplaborexpress; cheaplaborlobby; creditcardgate; deportmarcorubio; elections; gope; illegals; marcorubio; rubio
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1 posted on 11/03/2015 5:38:45 PM PST by jimbo123
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What is Rubio hiding?


2 posted on 11/03/2015 5:41:21 PM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: jimbo123

Tell me he ain’t good buddies with Michael Steele .......


3 posted on 11/03/2015 5:41:31 PM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: jimbo123

Some of the expenses were when no-show Rubio
was wined by Mexicans and enjoyed their lap dances.

Can’t show that to voters who paid for no-show to vote.


4 posted on 11/03/2015 5:41:38 PM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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The guy is a train wreck.


5 posted on 11/03/2015 5:41:40 PM PST by VTenigma (The Democratic party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: jimbo123

Team Yeb! dishing dirt on Rubberio. LOL!


6 posted on 11/03/2015 5:42:02 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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This is getting too easy.

What do you hungers call it?

First Christie, thenjeb, then Fiorina, Graham never got off the ground. Paul done, now Rubio. RINOs are pretty big to go down so easily.

Time to take down the insane Rino doctor


7 posted on 11/03/2015 5:42:05 PM PST by dp0622
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8 posted on 11/03/2015 5:45:06 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: tennmountainman
Apparently he is hiding something. I'd say money management is not Rubio's strong point.

BTW, Paul Singer, the billionaire who is his big donor, must be expecting something from Rubio. Singer is known for his support of amnesty and same-sex marriage.

9 posted on 11/03/2015 5:46:58 PM PST by Dante3
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ROTFLMAO!


10 posted on 11/03/2015 5:47:36 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: jimbo123

Rubio acts like a child, totally unworthy and unqualified for POTUS. Can’t trust this puke, he’s slimy.


11 posted on 11/03/2015 5:48:22 PM PST by gwgn02
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So when are they gonna ask Hillary about the $6,000,000,000 the State Department “lost?”


12 posted on 11/03/2015 5:49:20 PM PST by Prince of Space (Be Breitbart, baby. LIFB.)
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Darn it, we might have to pitch in to keep Rubio in the race until he finishes Jeb!™ off ...
13 posted on 11/03/2015 5:53:32 PM PST by SecondAmendment (Restoring our Republic at 9.8357x10^8 FPS)
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Rubio has got champagne type spending with other people’s money.


14 posted on 11/03/2015 5:53:32 PM PST by Red Steel
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“Apparently he is hiding something. I’d say money management is not Rubio’s strong point.”

People are either moral or they aren’t. In the business world I was a stickler for keeping my personal business separate from company business. I never used a company credit card for personal use. The times my wife accompanied me to a business dinner I paid for her meal out of my own money. I carried two cell phones, one for personal use and one for company use. I never sent or accepted personal emails on the company email system and I never received or sent company emails on my personal email account. I turned down vendor trips and Christmas gifts so there would be no real or perceived obligations to any supplier.

Rubio’s issue isn’t money management. It is a moral issue. If he doesn’t understand he shouldn’t use money he hasn’t earned to pay personal expenses, he is not an honorable man. Doing the right thing is not something a virtuous person has problems with, whether or not he is good with math.


15 posted on 11/03/2015 5:59:03 PM PST by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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“The wisdom and maturity to handle a 17 trillion dollar economy”
What a joke...all you have to do is spend, spend spend. Sounds like he’d hit the ground running. Better yet, maybe he can spend some other countries money instead of ours!


16 posted on 11/03/2015 6:06:39 PM PST by parmamenian
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To: tennmountainman

I read something indicating that he has a woman problem.

Other than that, he sure is like Obama...one term non voting inexperienced at anything senator with a slick line of pure b.s. and trying to trade on his race.

No thank you.


17 posted on 11/03/2015 6:10:02 PM PST by Aria
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To: jimbo123

If you have aspirations to rise to high office, keep your nose clean when you are in low office, especially if you are a Republican. Just sayin’.


18 posted on 11/03/2015 6:12:25 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (The only fiscally sound thing dems ever did: create a state run media they don't have to pay for)
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Plus he’s taking about $170,000 a year to be a Senator and doesn’t show up much and he said he hates the Senate and that’s why he’s missing votes as he doesn’t like to be there. He should resign and definitely shouldn’t be president.


19 posted on 11/03/2015 6:13:44 PM PST by Marcella (CRUZ (Prepping can save your life today.))
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Then the politicians wonder why we have come to loathe them.


20 posted on 11/03/2015 6:14:35 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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