{"id":373096,"date":"2010-02-28T14:30:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T19:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69687"},"modified":"2010-02-28T14:30:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T19:30:56","slug":"%e2%80%9cfiscally-conservative%e2%80%9d-marco-rubio-double-billed-taxpayers-for-personal-expenses-spends-133-on-haircuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/373096","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFiscally Conservative\u201d Marco Rubio Double-Billed Taxpayers for Personal Expenses, Spends $133 on Haircuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_69698\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 160px\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-69698\" href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/02\/28\/fiscally-conservative-marco-rubio-double-billed-taxpayers-for-personal-expenses-spends-133-on-haircuts\/marco_rubio-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69698\" title=\"Marco_Rubio\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/02\/Marco_Rubio1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Would you pay $133 for this haircut?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;First Senator from the Tea Party&#8221; Marco Rubio <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/02\/25\/marco-rubio-opposed-to-excessive-spending-except-on-his-rental-cars\/\">got hammered last week<\/a> when it came out that he ran up large personal expenses on the Florida GOP&#8217;s credit card &#8212; and that was just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2010\/02\/27\/1502946\/marco-rubio-double-billing-of.html\">the tip of the iceberg. <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p><strong>U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio admitted Friday that he double-billed state taxpayers and the Republican Party of Florida for eight plane tickets when he was speaker of the Florida House<\/strong>. Calling the billing &#8220;a mistake,&#8221; Rubio said in a written statement that he will personally repay the party about $3,000 to cover the flights because the trips in 2007 were for state business, not politics.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And Rubio still isn&#8217;t coming clean.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>His campaign said Friday it had not identified any additional expenses that need to be repaid.<strong> The credit card records, however, indicate that at least some of Rubio&#8217;s personal expenses were covered by the party.<\/strong> [&#8230;] <strong>Rubio&#8217;s campaign would not provide a list of all the personal expenses he repaid.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And here&#8217;s why. One tidbit that has emerged is that Rubio spends <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tampabay.com\/buzz\/2010\/02\/marco-rubios-credit-card-scandal-priceless.html\">an embarassing amount of money on his hair<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, Charlie Crist is having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc-2.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=12054403\">a lot of fun with that<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>What&#8217;s up with getting a $133 haircut? What is he a model? <\/strong>I don&#8217;t understand this kind of behavior and <strong>this is the guy that says he is going to spend less money?<\/strong> <strong>I spend $11 on a haircut<\/strong>,&#8221; said Crist.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>George Will praised Rubio for his &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marcorubio.com\/the-facts\/\">spending restraint.<\/a>&#8221; Guess that didn&#8217;t apply to his hair care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagList\">Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/marco-rubio\/\" rel=\"tag\">Marco Rubio<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/republican-hypocrisy\/\" rel=\"tag\">Republican Hypocrisy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/tea-party\/\" rel=\"tag\">Tea Party<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/teabaggers\/\" rel=\"tag\">teabaggers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/us-senate\/\" rel=\"tag\">US Senate<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/winguttia\/\" rel=\"tag\">Winguttia<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=69687&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_69687\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Would you pay $133 for this haircut? &#8220;First Senator from the Tea Party&#8221; Marco Rubio got hammered last week when it came out that he ran up large personal expenses on the Florida GOP&#8217;s credit card &#8212; and that was just the tip of the iceberg. U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio admitted Friday that he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}