Marco Rubio is among the new crop of Repub darlings, and he's pretty much all set to stomp Charlie Crist in the primary for Florida's senate race. But now it's come out that Rubio used his GOP-issued credit card to pay for groceries and car repairs and a bunch of other personal expenses when he was Speaker of the House in Florida's legislature.
Here's a quickie at TPM.com.
Of course, Rubio denounced the revelation as a desperate act of his political opponent, in that tried-n-true tactic of attacking the attacker - if you make a bold enough statement about what a dirty trick it was to reveal your corruption, then people will be likely to remember that part of the episode more than the feeble bullshit you sling trying to explain your actions.
Now really, we're talking about less than $14,000 over 4 years time. Not a huge thing, but there're a couple of things about it that bug the crap outa me.
1) It's just too typical for a politician to feel entitled to spend other people's money on perks for himself.
2) $14,000 divided by 4 years = $3500 per year. Did Rubio declare that money as income on his tax returns?
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