Posted on 4/24/2010, 11:02:54 PM by Steelfish
Potential Clouds for Fla. Senate Front-Runner Rubio has dislodged Crist as favorite despite questions about spending
John Raoux / AP
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Now that Republicans have made him the U.S. Senate front-runner, Marco Rubio is trying to weather potentially damaging revelations about his credit card use, double billing for airfare and murky finances.
A few months ago, the former Florida House speaker seemed an unlikely bet to beat Gov. Charlie Crist in the party's Senate primary. And in those months, Rubio's lavish spending has come under scrutiny of federal investigators.
In that same stretch, his poll numbers have soared, carrying him well ahead of Crist and forcing the once seemingly unbeatable governor to consider running as an independent for Senate. Crist has until Friday to decide.
The federal investigation of Rubio's spending habits comes as the Republican National Committee and its chairman, Michael Steele, draw ridicule for excessive expenditures, including a nearly $2,000 bill to entertain campaign donors at a Hollywood club featuring simulated bondage and lesbian sex.
Spending by Rubio and other GOP officials who cast themselves as fiscal conservatives opens them to charges of hypocrisy in a state hard hit by the recession. Florida's unemployment rate was 12.3 percent in March, above the national average, and home foreclosures are widespread.
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the MSM are in overdrive to derail Rubio while trying to get Crist voted in or meeks.
If it is Meeks or Crist they are in a win win, Rubio will derail their efforts to take FL over
The msm is hard at it to try and discredit Marco. However hey will ignore the Blago story out of Chicago and all the serious implications associated with that trial.
It’s funny how the kommie kiddies in the state run liberal “media” refuse to do stories on all the trouble their comrade ‘RATS are in. They only tell us about all the trouble Republicans are in. Weird.
This is probably Crists doings, not the DNC.
The guy is a real slimeball that needs to go.
Yep, Crist is their man. And so is McCain and Graham.
If you ask me, stories like this one will make the day after election day that much sweeter. Don’t let them throw any macaca in your way Marco.
Probably terrifies these folks to know Marco would become a national figure and just maybe a serious presidential candidate for president in 2016. If he is able to win a larger share of the Hispanic vote than McCain, Bush etc then it is very bad news for Dems.
More lies from the dimwits.
AP Report! No doubt you knew it was coming. That pos propaganda machine at its finest.
They expect charlie would caucus with the RATS.
I agree 100% it is Crist especially after the FBI said they are not looking at Rubio this week. If you read to the bottom of the article, it basically clears Rubio by why let the truth hurt a good story for Crist.
” Among the charged items were repairs to Rubio’s family minivan, grocery bills, plane tickets for his wife, and retail purchases,
including one from a wine store.”
Well, that does it.
Repairs to a minivan !!
Buying a bottle of wine !!
And a quart of milk !!
Does the lying, dying media really hope to derail Rubio with this silliness ?
As others have noted, Barry may have perjured himself in the Blago case and he’s hiding all his records, with media complicity ,
from birth to the Illinois Senate, but, the big scandal is a broken water hose on Rubio’s minivan and a loaf of Wonder bread charged to a credit card.
Garbage like this is why most Americans hold cockroaches in higher regard than then they do the media.
The feds said Rubio was never a target. The AP is spinning for their pet RINO to vote split for their democrat.
but the AP is going to put the worst spin first in order to have the search engins find the negative first.
Well said!
You can take that to the bank — they buried the truth as usual. This reads more like a Charlie Crist press release since it doesn’t mention the FBI is investigating charges they comingled State Party and Governor funds when he ran in 2006.
Well .. everybody needs to understand one thing - Dick Cheney would never, ever support anybody who was a crook.
If Dick Cheney supports Rubio .. I would too.
Crist is floundering and about to sink - so the only thing he can think of to do is personal destruction.
I hope nobody’s buying it in FL.
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