Game Changer? Rubio Charged Grocery Bills And Car Repairs To GOP-Issued Credit Card

They just cant help being on the grift...even for nickels and dimes.

Why is this an issue? WELCOME to the world of politics.
This will be a minor dent to his supporters, but it might change attitudes from the independents.

Rubio's a real standup guy, isn't he? Rather than acknowledge wrongdoing, he blames the whistleblower.

Where have we seen this tactic before...?

Minor dent?

Yes unless it triggers criminal fraud statutes. Somehow a defence of "I wasn't stealing fro
the People of Florida everytime, sometimes I was just stealing from the Republican Party of Florida" might pass the Huey Long/Louisiana test but may not fly in Florida.

GOP Boilerplate Response:

(1) It's a partisan/liberal media smear.
(2) I don't recall the details.

Just more GOP pond scum....you think Glenn and Rush and Sean will "investigate"?

It probably won't make a difference because many of his supporters are indifferent to facts.

Unless he was/is an employee of the GOP in some capacity,why would he even have a GOP-issued credit card? As a Florida State Representative and Speaker Of The House he is a state employee.

i think rubio is a tool, but this [potentially] doesn't really bother me. i had a corporate amex card a long time ago in my first job (NOT a government job, btw), and i used it for just about everything. at the end of the month, i had to pay the whole bill, and i submitted a "travel & expense" report for the non-personal stuff.

that said, we did eventually get an email that said we weren't supposed to use it for personal stuff, so i stopped. but because of how we handled the reimbursements -- the bill coming to my house, me actually having to pay the whole thing directly to amex and THEN me submitting the itemized monthly statement to my employer for reimbursement, i didn't really see it as a problem. but i did stop when we got the email.

if that's how it was handled here, then i don't have a problem with it. if, on the other hand, amex sent the bills to the RPOF instead of rubio, and the RPOF paid the bills, then i think it's a problem. it's not clear to me how the billing issue worked, though, or even if he really did submit only professional costs for reimbursement (if it indeed worked the way it did at my job).

No surprise here. Another one of the seemingly inexhaustible supply of nasty Hitler Youth style wingnuts feeding at the public trough. Corrupt bastard.

Most of politicians are bastards!

Wait. The media dug up the fact this guy's a crook BEFORE he was elected? What's up with that? They usually wait until after the election to tell us this kind of stuff. Not that I have any high hopes the people in Florida will do anything about it, but still, it's certainly an oddity in political news coverage.

I can't wait for the new campaign adds:

-Marco Rubio: He spends less than Sarah Palin.
-Elect Marco Rubio: He kids want to go to Chucky Cheese.
-Rubio For Senate: He need to make a car payment.

Just another GOPer acting like a corporate CEO: grab as many goodies as you can while you can.

Oh, dem honest value voter conservatives; you gots to luv dem, nah? They only care bout "handouts" (getting over) when it's for others than themselves.....

Using a Republican credit card for personal expenses is no different from using political donations for personal expenses. The former governor of my state, Connecticut, John Rowland, went to jail for building his vacation homes with money from political supporters. I don't really see the difference.

That said, I love the discord among the Republicans.

Maybe I misread or did not fully comprehend Rubio's explanation, but the crux seems to be that when making these personal expenses, he questioned whether he should bill Florida taxpayers or the GOP.

Did he ever think about a third choice...paying with his own money?

Rubio was asked about plane reservations he'd made for his wife. His response was one of the funniest things I've read in a long time: "'My wife was the First Lady of the Florida House of Representatives and it is absolutely appropriate for her to accompany me to official events and party functions,' Rubio said." First Lady of the Florida House of Representatives"? That's a new one. Is Paul Pelosi the First Gentleman of the U.S. House of Representatives?

As much as I hate this clown, come on, an Apple Store purchase could easily be a computer, the food and drinks, very common business expense. He might actually be saving money and eating healthier by getting groceries rather then take-out for a late meeting.

I don't see anything suspicious, where is the story ?

Unless he charged hookers or flew to Bermuda on that card this is going nowhere. The reason corporate cards are so easily abused is because it's nearly impossible to prove what they purchased wasn't professional in nature. It's the reason strip clubs use billing pseudonyms.

I am not saying he didn't abuse it, but there isn't anything he cannot easily account for. Without the actual receipt, there is absolutely no way to prove what he purchased.