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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Latest Rising Movement Republican Star Marco Rubio Already Being Revealed as the Usual Scumbag

St. Petersburg Times:
Marco Rubio was barely solvent as a young lawmaker climbing his way to the top post in the Florida House, but special interest donations and political perks allowed him to spend big money with little scrutiny…. Rubio's high-roller political spending belies his image as an outsider riding a wave of antiestablishment fervor and gunning to knock off Gov. Charlie Crist for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination… "Having expenditures in the tens of thousands of dollars to pay off credit cards, it's clear to me… [t]he Rubios were living off it,'' said state Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, a strong Crist supporter…. In December 2002, Rubio was a 31-year-old political hotshot set on becoming speaker of the Florida House. Rounding up support from legislators across 67 counties is no easy task for a young lawyer and local government lobbyist with a net worth of negative $103,000…. So Rubio did what many aspiring Florida legislative leaders do -- he created a political committee, Floridians for Conservative Leadership, to "support state and local candidates who espouse conservative government policies," according to IRS records. But for 2003, the committee spent nearly $150,000 on administrative and operating costs and $2,000 in candidate contributions. Over 18 months, only $4,000 went to candidates other than Rubio, while similar political committees gave tens of thousands of dollars to candidates… Rubio's wife, former Miami Dolphins cheerleader Jeanette Dousdebes, served as the committee's treasurer. In reports filed with the state, Rubio and his wife failed to disclose more than $34,000 in expenses over an 18-month period…. "[Rubio]'s playing fast and loose with the rules,'' said Ben Wilcox of Common Cause Florida, a government watchdog group.

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