{"id":362653,"date":"2010-02-25T14:59:41","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T19:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69127"},"modified":"2010-02-25T14:59:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T19:59:41","slug":"marco-rubio-opposed-to-excessive-spending-except-on-his-rental-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/362653","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio Opposed to Excessive Spending, Except on His Rental Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Well, well, well. Another “fiscal conservative” exposed as a fraud.<\/a><\/p>\n

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U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio charged grocery bills, repairs to the family minivan and purchases from a wine store less than a mile from his West Miami home to the Republican Party of Florida while he was speaker of the Florida House, according to records obtained by The Miami Herald\/St. Petersburg Times.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Those expenses include a $1,000 charge at Braman Honda in Miami for repairs to the family car in January 2008. Rubio said the minivan was damaged by parking attendants at a political function and that the party agreed to cover half of his insurance deductible. The party also paid $2,976 for him to rent a car in Miami for five weeks, according to the records provided by a confidential source.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now the good folks at Hertz will rent you a perfectly nice Chevy Cobalt for a mere $646 a month in Miami.<\/a> But it appears that’s not fancy enough for a guy who wants to “control the excessive and wasteful spending in Washington that threatens to leave future generations with crushing debt and a country worse off than that of their parents and grandparents<\/a><\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marco also ran up these bills with his wingnut welfare card.<\/p>\n