Sunday, February 28, 2010
Teabagger hell! The kid is a hardcore Republican
Teabagger wunderkind Marco Rubio, according to the latest reporting from the Miami Herald, actually embraces the values of a traditional party Republican.
U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio admitted Friday that he double-billed state taxpayers and the Republican Party of Florida for eight plane tickets when he was speaker of the Florida House.Two years later he fixes a mistake when he is found out. This comes on top of using his party credit card for personal uses like:
Calling the billing ``a mistake,'' Rubio said in a written statement that he will personally repay the party about $3,000 to cover the flights because the trips in 2007 were for state business, not politics.
On Wednesday, in response to questions from The Miami Herald and St. Petersburg Times about his party credit card, Rubio said the GOP paid for all travel when he served as speaker in 2007 and 2008. But records released to The Herald/Times Thursday afternoon show that eight flights from South Florida to Tallahassee were also billed to the state.
``Billing the party was a mistake which needs to be fixed,'' Rubio said in the statement. ``So, out of an abundance of caution, I am personally reimbursing the party for the cost of all eight flights.''
Those personal expenses include $181.56 at the Museum of Natural History in New York, a $10.50 movie ticket, and more than $10,000 for 20 rooms at a Georgia resort where his extended family celebrated his swearing-in, according to records obtained by The Herald/Times.How about that! Florida politician celebrates his swearing in with all his family at a Georgia resort and makes the Florida party pay for it. They don't come anymore mainstream Republican than Marco Rubio.
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