Marco Rubio's Personal Finances Don't Match His Rhetoric

[Lakhota]

By Jason Cherkis and Ryan Grim

WASHINGTON -- Addressing the nation on Tuesday night, Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio came with a simple message.

"More government isn't going to create more opportunities. It's going to limit them. And more government isn't going to inspire new ideas, new businesses and new private sector jobs," Rubio said. "More government isn't going to help you get ahead. It's going to hold you back."

That might be true for you. But it's not true for Marco Rubio.

For Rubio, a rising star in the Republican Party, more government did indeed create more opportunities. As the Tampa Bay Times reported during his U.S. Senate run in 2010, it's hard to determine with Rubio where politics stops and the private begins:

As Rubio climbed the ranks, he began to use little-noticed political committees to fund his travel and other expenses and later had a Republican Party of Florida credit card.
What emerged, records show, is a pattern of blending personal and political spending. Over and over again Rubio proved sloppy, at best, in complying with disclosure requirements.

Virtually broke, the 31-year-old lawmaker began campaigning to be House speaker in 2003 and created a political committee -- Floridians for Conservative Leadership -- to help elect other Republican candidates and curry their support.

With his wife serving as treasurer, Rubio did not wait for the state to authorize the committee before accepting campaign donations.

The committee listed its address as Rubio's home, a modest place he and his wife bought in West Miami in 2002, but reported spending nearly $85,000 in office and operating costs and $65,000 for administrative costs.

Over 18 months, nearly $90,000 went for political consultants, $51,000 went for credit card payments and $4,000 went to other candidates. That's less than the $5,700 that went to his wife, Jeanette, much of it for "gas and meals.'' (Mrs. Rubio does not work and the couple file joint tax returns.)​

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[Lakhota]

Rubio sounds like a shady con man.

 

[Dot Com]

I knew he was a tool

That former RNC chair in Florida is in court this month too about the Florida Repubs fast & loose practices w/ finances G.O.P. Chief in Florida Pleads Guilty

 

[francoHFW]

If you're GOP, you have to be a hypocrite or a dupe lol...

 

[OKTexas]

Rubio sounds like a shady con man.

At least you're trying to make it sound that way, were there any charges filed? You got any evidence he actually did anything wrong? Or is innuendo all you got, as usual?

 

[S.J.]

He's the new front runner, which explains why the left is wasting no time going after him with their usual smears.

 

[blackhawk]

Rubio sounds like a shady con man.

Calling the Latino a shady con man hmmm sounds racist to me the Democrat war on Latino's has begun.

 

[Lakhota]

Rubio sounds like a shady con man.

At least you're trying to make it sound that way, were there any charges filed? You got any evidence he actually did anything wrong? Or is innuendo all you got, as usual?

Are you talking about Obama or Rubio...?

 

[regent]

The guy was born in a log cabin, just another Abe Lincoln.

 

[RosieS]

Rubio got in trouble with the credit card because he's not the brightest crayon in the box. Of 8, not 64

Regards from Rosie

 

[UKRider]

After last night, Marco's rhetoric is bad enough. He had a chance to meet on immigration reform and he opened with a right to life statement?

He better learn, and quick.

 

[Lakhota]

Found this on bottom of my screen. Hilarious...

 

[OKTexas]

Rubio sounds like a shady con man.

At least you're trying to make it sound that way, were there any charges filed? You got any evidence he actually did anything wrong? Or is innuendo all you got, as usual?

Are you talking about Obama or Rubio...?

What, you didn't get to go to head start, I was responding to the post I quoted, duha.

 

[Politico]

Rubio sounds like a shady con man.

At least you're trying to make it sound that way, were there any charges filed? You got any evidence he actually did anything wrong? Or is innuendo all you got, as usual?

That's how trolls roll.

 

[Lakhota]

At least you're trying to make it sound that way, were there any charges filed? You got any evidence he actually did anything wrong? Or is innuendo all you got, as usual?

Are you talking about Obama or Rubio...?

What, you didn't get to go to head start, I was responding to the post I quoted, duha.

Yeah, I got it - but apparently you didn't get my drift...

 

[OKTexas]

Are you talking about Obama or Rubio...?

What, you didn't get to go to head start, I was responding to the post I quoted, duha.

Yeah, I got it - but apparently you didn't get my drift...

Seriously, you trying to hijack your own post by changing the subject? I don't do drift, is that an indian thing?

 

[Lakhota]

Paul Krugman Tears Apart Marco Rubio's SOTU Response

 

[UKRider]

What, you didn't get to go to head start, I was responding to the post I quoted, duha.

Yeah, I got it - but apparently you didn't get my drift...

Seriously, you trying to hijack your own post by changing the subject? I don't do drift, is that an indian thing?

 

[OKTexas]

Paul Krugman Tears Apart Marco Rubio's SOTU Response

Can you say off topic post, I think I'll report it. Never mind, it just makes you look like the A.D.D. idiot you are. BTW you never answered my questions.

 

[MikeK]

Rubio comes across to me like a candidate for high school class president. I believe he is and will remain popular with Hispanics and others who like cute young boys.