Marco Rubio will have to explain immigration bill: Paul

If you watched Fox Business Network in the lead-up to the primetime debate tonight, you may have noticed an ad by a pro-Marco Rubio group with a very curious name… Rubio’s campaign said he made eight personal charges, totaling $7,243.74 out of the $64,777.82 charged to the card during that 22-month time period. Rubio has been taunted by Donald Trump for being financially irresponsible, according to a previous report by HNGN. “Further, taxpayer funds were not used for any political or personal charges on the card”, the campaign said Saturday in a statement.

Rubio was among several state GOP lawmakers given access to American Express cards through the Republican Party of Florida, which offered a way for lawmakers to get around the state’s strict ban on accepting gifts that was put into law in 2006.

At one point, Rubio’s credit card spending was the subject of an investigation by the Florida Ethics Commission, which subsequently dismissed a citizen complaint against him, the Washington Post detailed.

We already knew that all Marco Rubios policy agenda consists of is pursuing failed, conservative policies that hurt women and families, Marcy Stech, communications director for the group, wrote in an email to reporters.

In a few ways, however, the statements, which he previously refused to make public, raise more questions about how Rubio used the card, rather than laying them to rest. He then pivoted to say that while he told the truth, Hillary Clinton “lied” about Benghazi. Headlines have included What Is Marco Rubio Hiding?, Rubio Tax Plan Debate Claims Nonsense and Rubios evasiveness and apparent misstatements. The personal charges, again, were later paid to American Express, according to the campaign.

Were by no means predicting whats going to happen, the official said, adding that Trump and Carson have held on to the top two spots for months.

Still, the official said, Rubio is obviously worth looking at.

In an interview with Sean Hannity, Rubio declared, “Now the majority position in our party is it should stop at just a work permit…”

This line of argument, however, is likely to open Rubio up to substantial criticism, since critics of the 1,200 page bill have argued that his 2013 immigration expansion bill was substantially more progressive than the 2007 McCain-Kennedy bill, which a number of Democrats opposed.