Senate President Jeff Atwater is the only elected official with a Republican Party of Florida credit card in recent years who said he doesn't mind if the party releases the card. So why not release them himself? Because, he said, "it's the party's card."
"I have asked the chairman, Chairman (John) Thrasher, if he would release the statements of the RPOF credit card that was assigned to me and he said no…That is the party's card. It is not my card. I do not have the statements….It's the RPOF's card…It is the party's card….There is a chairman of the Republican party, the card belonged to the Republican party….It's not my card. It's not my card. It's not my card…You ask any member of the Legislature who carries a company card with them whether it's for their law firm or whatever institutution they work for, the statements go to the company…I don't have the statements. They were sent to the RPOF. It's the RPOF's card."
Okay, okay, it's the party's credit card. But that's not what former House Speaker Marco Rubio said on Saturday when asked why he frequently put personal expenses on the card.
"It's not the party's credit card It's my…. It's secured under my personal Social Security number. If you look at the policies of American Express it says those cards are personal in nature and need to be paid for directly by the person, and we endeavored to do that with my personal money.''
Rubio's personal expenses included a $133.75 bill at Churchill's barber in Miami, $181.56 at the Museum of Natural History in New York, a $10.50 movie ticket, and more than $10,000 for 20 rooms at a Georgia resort where his extended family celebrated his swearing-in, according to records obtained by The Herald/Times.
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