Saturday, November 7, 2015

ABC: What Marco Rubio Paid for With His Florida GOP Charge Card - Despite excuses, still seems fraudulent. How many Americans can merrily 'borrow' $16,000 for personal expenses? --tma


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Movie tickets, Costco and grocery store runs, Walt Disney World trips, flowers and flights for his wife –- those are some of the charges listed in two years of statements for Marco Rubio’sAmerican Express card issued by the Republican Party of Florida.
The charges -- which have surfaced along with questions about his personal finances as an issue for the GOP candidate in the 2016 campaign -- are listed in two years (2007-'08) of statements obtained by ABC News that have been widely circulated in Florida political circles since Rubio ran for Senate in 2010. The Rubio campaign plans soon to release the records for the two other years (2005-'06) he had the card.
ABC News has not been able to determine all of the charges that were personal, though Rubio’s campaign has identified some that were. Rubio wrote in his 2012 memoir "An American Son" that nearly all were for party business, "but from time to time a few personal expenses were charged to the card as well." ...