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Title: Records show Marco Rubio spent thousands with GOP credit card
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URL Source: http://www.tampabay.com/news/politi ... s-with-gop-credit-card/1075692
Published: Feb 24, 2010
Author: Beth Reinhard and Scott Hiaasen
Post Date: 2015-10-30 01:13:16 by A K A Stone
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U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio charged grocery bills, repairs to the family minivan and purchases from a wine store less than a mile from his West Miami home to the Republican Party of Florida while he was speaker of the Florida House, according to records obtained by the St. Petersburg Times/Miami Herald.
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That will get you in hot water in the Army.
"For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly."---Romans 5:6
Looking at the 5 week and two locations for pick up and drop off of the rental car, I'd say he got ripped off.
Just for fun, I went to Expedia.com and replicated the dates, locations and applied them to this Dec and Jan. Using Avis, maybe he didn't get ripped off as they are high. Had he used Enterprise he could have saved about 67% of his original bill - I looked at full-size cars in my sample test. Enterprise cost was about $1,000.
This is a rehash of an issue from his 2010 race .The desperate Crist campaign leaked the bill . Rubio said at the time that he was permitted to put personal expenses on the card .He claims he paid for anything the party said he was responsible for. The FBI ,IRS, and The U.S. Attorney’s office all investigated it then. It was totally resolved years ago. But let me walk you — it's a very valid question. First of all, I've already said that if I had to do it again, I would not do it that way. What I had was not a credit card; it was an American Express card, as a charge card. So basically, you charge things on a card and, at the end of the month, you have to pay it off completely. At the end of every month, we would get those statements, we would see what was on there that was party-related, and the party would pay that. If it wasn't party-related, I would pay that — directly to American Express. It wasn't like I reimbursed the party; I paid it directly to American Express at the time. Now obviously, in hindsight, it looks bad, right? I mean, why are you using the party credit card at all? Well, some of these expenses were because a travel agent had the number — you know, the credit card number — and they billed it to that card instead of the other card. Sometimes, it was just a mistake. I just reached for the wrong card. The point is that, if I had to do it again, I'd be a lot more careful. And I am because, in politics, perception is often reality. But it's important people understand: I did not bill personal expenses to the Republican Party of Florida. The Republican Party of Florida never paid my personal expenses. Never. I paid them directly to American Express, in the month that I would get those statements. Fox: And you addressed this in the campaign? Oh, sure. You think I would have been elected if I hadn't? We did, repeatedly. And I answered questions like that all the time. It's a valid question and, you know, it was a mistake. If I had to do it over again, I'd do it very differently. And I think in life, you live and you learn. But again, let's be ver clear: we're talking about, at the time — it wasn't like somebody found out about this, and then I went back and paid it. These charges were on there, if they didn't belong on there, I paid them directly to American Express. But, look, I shouldn't have done it that way. Lesson learned. http://video.foxnews.com/v/1614293882001/the-complete-sen-rubio-interview/? #sp=show-clips This probably was a factor when Romney was vetting running mates in 2012 . Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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