{"id":189291,"date":"2010-04-22T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/22\/charie-crist-gets-lucky\/"},"modified":"2010-04-22T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T00:53:00","slug":"charie-crist-gets-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/22\/charie-crist-gets-lucky\/","title":{"rendered":"Charie Crist Gets Lucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I am not talking about some sort of sordid liaison, I am referring to the fact that his primary opponent in the Florida Senate campaign, Mark Rubio, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/politics\/national\/us-attorney-irs-and-fbi-investigating-florida-gop-credit-card-use\/1088979\">is being investigated by the, &#8220;U.S. attorney, IRS and FBI,&#8221; for misusing Republican Party of Florida credit cards for personal use<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Meanwhile, in a separate inquiry, the IRS is also looking at the tax records of at least three former party credit card holders \u2014 former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio, ex-state party chairman Jim Greer and ex-party executive director Delmar Johnson \u2014 to determine whether they misused their party credit cards for personal expenses, according to a source familiar with the preliminary inquiry.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Rubio billed the party for more than $100,000 during the two years he served as House speaker, according to credit card statements obtained by the<span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> St. Petersburg Times<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Miami Herald<\/span>. The charges included repairs to the family minivan, grocery bills, plane tickets for his wife and purchases from retailers ranging from a wine store near his home to Apple&#8217;s online store. Rubio also charged the party for dozens of meals during the annual lawmaking session in Tallahassee, even though he received taxpayer subsidies for his meals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m kind of hoping for Rubio to win the Republican primary, and Crist to run as a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> party candidate, because I don&#8217;t see Democrat Kendrick Meek winning any other way.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a good guy, but there are a lot of people in Florida who just won&#8217;t vote for a black man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I am not talking about some sort of sordid liaison, I am referring to the fact that his primary opponent in the Florida Senate campaign, Mark Rubio, is is being investigated by the, &#8220;U.S. attorney, IRS and FBI,&#8221; for misusing Republican Party of Florida credit cards for personal use: Meanwhile, in a separate inquiry, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1000,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-elections","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189291"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}