Rubio is trying to dodge and weave. When asked about this he says Gee, I wasn't born rich. My parents were legal immigrants. And this wasn't a state credit card it was a state charge card.
Well not many of us who aren't rich have the luxury of using a state credit card when we are struggling. And he makes close to $200,000 a year in this Senate job he's so bored with which doesn't sound like struggling but a guy who doesn't live with in his means-while demanding crushing austerity for the rest of us.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2015/10/25/28cfaff0-6d59-11e5-9bfe-e59f5e244f92_story.html
He may be calling it a charge card now but he called it a credit card in his own book.
http://www.amazon.com/American-Dreams-Restoring-Economic-Opportunity/dp/0143109030/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446724104&sr=8-1&keywords=marco+rubio
This issue has been framed as him somehow being 'confused.' I don't get it. You go out with both your own personal credit card and the state GOP card and somehow you keep using your state GOP credit card rather than your personal one?
If it had happened once, or even a couple of times, maybe, though this is a pretty glaring error. But this is a long pattern with him and his longtime associate David Rivera who has been the focus of criminal probes for his credit card schemes.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/03/marco-rubio-s-slimy-pal-slithers-back.html?via=desktop&source=twitter
Rubio has this long history of clerical errors.
"From 2005 until when he left the state Legislature in 2009, Rubio had access to an American Express credit card paid for by the Republican Party of Florida. During his time as speaker, from 2007 to 2009, Rubio often used this card to pay for personal expenses—and some of those expenses ended up paid by the state GOP. In early 2010, when Florida newspapers began to dig into these credit card records, Rubio said he had done nothing wrong and had paid American Express around $16,000 between 2007 and 2008 to cover personal expenses that he had charged, such as $181.56 at the Museum of Natural History in New York City. Rubio also put a $10,000 charge on a party card for a family vacation at a resort in Georgia before ultimately gathering money from family members and paying American Express directly, according to The New Republic."
"In 2010, reporters at the Miami Herald and the St. Petersburg Times (which has since become the Tampa Bay Times) identified thousands in personal expenses for Rubio that the Republican Party was never reimbursed for, including $68.33 for "beverages" and a "meal" from a liquor store near his West Miami home, $765 from Apple's online store for "computer supplies," and $1,024 in payments to a Tallahassee property manager for personal business. Since Rubio has not released his credit card records from 2005 to 2007, it's unknown how he used the card during those years."
"In 2012, when he was on the list of possible running mates for Mitt Romney, Rubio sat down for an interview with Fox News' Bret Baier and tried to dispense with the credit card issue. Every month, Rubio explained, he would get a statement from American Express and directly pay off any personal expenses. Rubio insisted that "the Republican Party of Florida never paid my personal expenses" and that the issue was "totally resolved years ago."
But after the interview, Beth Reinhard, one of the reporters who exposed the Rubio credit card story noted, "[Q]uestions remain about the more than $100,000 in charges from Nov. 2006 to Nov. 2008." And she presented what she called the "obvious" question: "Why would such a savvy politician continually use a state party credit card for non-party business, requiring him to reimburse the credit card company after the bill had been paid?"
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/03/scandals-marco-rubio-has-escaped
So when will he release all his credit card statements? He has held back the statements in the 2005 to 2008 era.
It almost makes you feel like getting Harry Reid after him. Maybe Harry can get it from him. Remember Harry's success with Mitt and those tax returns in 2012?
http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/07/harry-reid-of-course-romney-paid-his-taxes-i-still-wont-apologize-video/
P.S. Harry shouldn't' apologize and this exchange by Ramos is just silly.
Reid said that the issue had been “blown way out of proportion,” and said it was important the American people see Mitt Romney’s tax returns. “He’ll say, ‘I always paid taxes.’ He refused to show the American people his tax returns.”
“He told CBS, ‘Let me also say… I have paid taxes every year. A lot of taxes,'” Ramos pointed out.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/07/harry-reid-of-course-romney-paid-his-taxes-i-still-wont-apologize-video/#ixzz3qcNs4qXs
I never got why we were supposed to just take Romney's word on that. Ok, he says 'I paid taxes, I paid lots and lots of taxes' and we're just supposed to take it at face value-how do we know if he's telling the truth or not? Why not release the tax returns so we would know for sure?
And the context if you recall was that Mitt was embarrassed because what he had released showed him paying such a low effective tax rate.
Harry, maybe you should have a chat with Rubio.
Well not many of us who aren't rich have the luxury of using a state credit card when we are struggling. And he makes close to $200,000 a year in this Senate job he's so bored with which doesn't sound like struggling but a guy who doesn't live with in his means-while demanding crushing austerity for the rest of us.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2015/10/25/28cfaff0-6d59-11e5-9bfe-e59f5e244f92_story.html
He may be calling it a charge card now but he called it a credit card in his own book.
http://www.amazon.com/American-Dreams-Restoring-Economic-Opportunity/dp/0143109030/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1446724104&sr=8-1&keywords=marco+rubio
This issue has been framed as him somehow being 'confused.' I don't get it. You go out with both your own personal credit card and the state GOP card and somehow you keep using your state GOP credit card rather than your personal one?
If it had happened once, or even a couple of times, maybe, though this is a pretty glaring error. But this is a long pattern with him and his longtime associate David Rivera who has been the focus of criminal probes for his credit card schemes.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/03/marco-rubio-s-slimy-pal-slithers-back.html?via=desktop&source=twitter
Rubio has this long history of clerical errors.
"From 2005 until when he left the state Legislature in 2009, Rubio had access to an American Express credit card paid for by the Republican Party of Florida. During his time as speaker, from 2007 to 2009, Rubio often used this card to pay for personal expenses—and some of those expenses ended up paid by the state GOP. In early 2010, when Florida newspapers began to dig into these credit card records, Rubio said he had done nothing wrong and had paid American Express around $16,000 between 2007 and 2008 to cover personal expenses that he had charged, such as $181.56 at the Museum of Natural History in New York City. Rubio also put a $10,000 charge on a party card for a family vacation at a resort in Georgia before ultimately gathering money from family members and paying American Express directly, according to The New Republic."
"In 2010, reporters at the Miami Herald and the St. Petersburg Times (which has since become the Tampa Bay Times) identified thousands in personal expenses for Rubio that the Republican Party was never reimbursed for, including $68.33 for "beverages" and a "meal" from a liquor store near his West Miami home, $765 from Apple's online store for "computer supplies," and $1,024 in payments to a Tallahassee property manager for personal business. Since Rubio has not released his credit card records from 2005 to 2007, it's unknown how he used the card during those years."
"In 2012, when he was on the list of possible running mates for Mitt Romney, Rubio sat down for an interview with Fox News' Bret Baier and tried to dispense with the credit card issue. Every month, Rubio explained, he would get a statement from American Express and directly pay off any personal expenses. Rubio insisted that "the Republican Party of Florida never paid my personal expenses" and that the issue was "totally resolved years ago."
But after the interview, Beth Reinhard, one of the reporters who exposed the Rubio credit card story noted, "[Q]uestions remain about the more than $100,000 in charges from Nov. 2006 to Nov. 2008." And she presented what she called the "obvious" question: "Why would such a savvy politician continually use a state party credit card for non-party business, requiring him to reimburse the credit card company after the bill had been paid?"
So when will he release all his credit card statements? He has held back the statements in the 2005 to 2008 era.
It almost makes you feel like getting Harry Reid after him. Maybe Harry can get it from him. Remember Harry's success with Mitt and those tax returns in 2012?
http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/07/harry-reid-of-course-romney-paid-his-taxes-i-still-wont-apologize-video/
P.S. Harry shouldn't' apologize and this exchange by Ramos is just silly.
Reid said that the issue had been “blown way out of proportion,” and said it was important the American people see Mitt Romney’s tax returns. “He’ll say, ‘I always paid taxes.’ He refused to show the American people his tax returns.”
“He told CBS, ‘Let me also say… I have paid taxes every year. A lot of taxes,'” Ramos pointed out.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2015/04/07/harry-reid-of-course-romney-paid-his-taxes-i-still-wont-apologize-video/#ixzz3qcNs4qXs
I never got why we were supposed to just take Romney's word on that. Ok, he says 'I paid taxes, I paid lots and lots of taxes' and we're just supposed to take it at face value-how do we know if he's telling the truth or not? Why not release the tax returns so we would know for sure?
And the context if you recall was that Mitt was embarrassed because what he had released showed him paying such a low effective tax rate.
Harry, maybe you should have a chat with Rubio.
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