Marco Rubio's credit card story isn't going away. It's getting a new audience.

[eridani]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/11/06/1445762/-Marco-Rubio-s-credit-card-story-isn-t-going-away-It-s-getting-a-new-audience

Marco Rubio's financial troubles have drawn coverage in a media outlet not best known for its political coverage: People. It's the same basic information we've seen elsewhere:

During the GOP presidential hopeful's 2010 Senate race, the Tampa Bay Times and the Miami Herald obtained his 2006 and 2007 credit card statements, which allegedly showed that he regularly charged personal expenses – including a four-day, $10,000 family reunion and repairs to his family minivan, according to the Times.

The investigation also found he failed to disclose $34,000 in expenses, including $7,000 he paid to himself and $5,700 he paid his wife, Jeanette, as reimbursement for "gas and meals," Politifact reports. (Jeanette was treasurer of one of two political committees he created in order to accept contributions toward his travel and other political expenses.) Plus, Rubio reportedly gave family members an additional $14,000 and racked up $51,000 in travel expenses on his own credit cards.

Similar information, new audience. And while Rubio likes to roll his financial struggles into his man-of-the-people act, emphasizing that he didn't come from wealth, it's going to be hard for a lot of voters to relate to a guy who was charging personal expenses on a Republican Party credit card while paying his wife out of his PAC funds while earning $300,000 a year as a lawyer in addition to his salary as a member of the Florida state House. To most of us, that sounds like a lot of money to be earning and still relying on political fundraising and debt.

[tblue37]

1. It's grifting. nt