ZVUGKTUBM wrote:Nobody fears Marco Rubio. Should he ever run for President, his shady financial dealings as a Florida state politician will haunt him:
Marco Rubio's Personal Finances Don't Match His Rhetoric
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/13/marco-rubio-finances_n_2678744.html
Now I get it! This is what the Republicans mean when they say government should be run like a business!! They think it should be run like their own private business. This explains a lot of the corporate welfare, tax expenditures for individual corporations, non-bid contracts, cost-plus contracts, it is all becoming more clear now. All along I mistakenly thought the phrase "government should be run like a business" meant it should be run efficiently.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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