Marco Rubio downplays questions about past finances

Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that he will “soon” release additional records that will detail those expenditures, brushing aside continued criticism about his personal finances. “And every month I would get a bill in my home, and I would review it. And if it was something on it that was personal, I would pay it. And if it wasn’t, the party paid it”.

Sen. Marco Rubio reportedly said he plans to release his controversial spending records from his time in Florida’s House of Representatives.

The last time Marco Rubio was in Connecticut, the White House hopeful was the headliner at a Republican fundraising dinner named after the grandfather of Florida rival Jeb Bush.

Rubio, 44, said that if he could go back in time and change the way he handled the charge card, he would not have made any personal purchases with it to avoid all the “confusion it’s created in the minds of a few”. Rubio supports the Obama administration’s trade moves, though his campaign said he has not come to a final position on the Trans Pacific accord.

Cruz, after months of never criticizing any Republican candidate by name, is increasingly doing so – and Rubio has found himself the target.

Most of the information about the cards we know from statements that were leaked to the Tampa Bay Times in February of 2010.

The campaign said that Rubio wasn’t talking about statements from those years. In 2010, Rubio acknowledged charging $16,052.50 during 25 months of the four years he had the card.

What did Rubio use the American Express card for? Immigration, chiefly, but also Rubio being more of a follower than leader on the Obamacare shutdown. “I have no problem releasing it. We have nothing to withhold here”.

Rubio accused former Florida Gov. Charlie Christ, his opponent for U.S. Senate at the time, of orchestrating the leak. But what readers should remember is that Rubio’s total charges – about $160,000 total on the corporate card – were relatively small compared to other state party officials who ran up $500,000, even $1.3 million, on their party cards. Politifact judged the claim “mostly false”. There was an instance when Rubio did repay the party for an expense that should not have been charged to the party; he double-billed the party and the state for airline tickets for state business. “A Democratic activist filed a complaint against me in 2010, the Florida ethics commission looked at it and dismissed it”.