Marco Rubio's house of horrors - (article from March)

[flamingdem]

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/marco-rubios-house-of-horrors-116075

A home co-owned by a scandal-plagued ex-congressman is the locus of questions about the senator’s finances and judgment.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The brick-fronted tract house with a satellite dish and a yellow fire hydrant in front looks like many middle-class homes in Florida’s capital, except for the two names on the deed.

In many ways, it has been a house of horrors for Rubio, a financial and political liability heading into the 2016 election. While he and Rivera were state legislators, they paid way too much for it in 2005, only to see foreclosure proceedings embarrassingly initiated against them during Rubio’s 2010 Senate race. At another point, a tropical storm flooded the entire neighborhood so badly that neighbors used canoes to get around.




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Marco wants little to do with David, and you can’t blame him — who would want that guy by their side as they’re running for president?” said Ana Alliegro, Rivera’s former girlfriend, who pleaded guilty last year to campaign-finance violations and making false statements in the most recent federal case involving Rivera. She recently gave grand-jury testimony against Rivera.

[flamingdem]

1. Note that he sleazed out of answering questions last night related to:

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Like Rivera, Rubio also double-billed taxpayers for flights paid for by a political group, in his case the Republican Party of Florida. When the matter was brought to Rubio’s attention during his 2010 Senate race, Rubio told The Miami Herald and St. Petersburg Times that it was an error, and he agreed to pay back the party $2,400. During the 2010 campaign, Rubio’s state GOP-issued American Express bills from 2005-08 were obtained by the Herald.

In all, Rubio racked up about $100,000 in charges for meals and travel as well as a few groceries, a family minivan repair, a salon expense and even a family vacation in Georgia. Rubio said at the time that most of the charges were for party-building reasons and that any personal charges rung up on the cards — such as the Georgia trip — were paid directly to the credit-card company by him.

In some cases, Rubio said, his travel agent made an error by using the wrong card. Other times, he acknowledged he did the same thing, as at a home-improvement store.

“For example, I pulled the wrong card from my wallet to pay for pavers,” he disclosed for the first time two years ago in his autobiography, “American Son.” In the book, Rubio dismisses most of the criticisms against him and his spending as motivated by politics or the news media’s thirst for scandal. Still, Rubio did acknowledge in his book that it was a book-keeping “disaster” for him and his wife to manage two political committees that raised about $600,000 to help his bid for speaker.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/marco-rubios-house-of-horrors-116075#ixzz3q1UCbZ2t

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. Rubio is skillfully at using these events in his life to imply he's like the rest of us

Us.

[flamingdem]

3. Yes, I thought he was succeeding

so I posted this. Marc Caputo the reporter who dogged Riviera and wrote this story after he left the Herald was on the Maddow show tonight. He didn't bring any of this up so I guess Marco has sleazed his way out of it - it's not enough because it's in the past, oh we've all made mistakes like... what? that kind of mistake is telling - and looks like he's getting a pass at missing all those votes.

That is a kind of talent I suppose, the talent of a con man!