Rubio Sets the Record Straight

I'm Friday with Marco Rubio Mr revealed great to have you come across the back alright let's begin with some tough

stuff things that they will get to the big issues which you like but here's an issue which I think is on the news and that is

your spending habits when you were running to be the speaker of the Florida house according to the Saint Pete times Miami Herald you

raised about six hundred thousand dollars and they say roughly twenty percent of that money you

never accounted for but that's not true but let me begin by laying the context of it because I think a lot of it's been mis characterized the

one we're not talking about taxpayer money number two every penny of it has been accounted for number three all of it was spent on political operations and it does cost money to

be involved in politics you have to travel state responses associated with our and number four on those few occasions when there were things on there that were personal in nature and

months ago not last week when the story rant of the week before well you know here in two thousand three according to the times and and

Carol you created something called Floridians for conservative government right I'm country but it

raised it gave eighty nine thousand dollars to political consultants fourteen dollars on reimbursements

the new fifty one thought on travel expenses for food launching an airfare but it side exactly

where you spent the money well that's how it's reported to the state I mean that's the way the law has reported reporter

according to the way it's supposed to be reported that committee was created not so much for the purpose of traditions as it was for the purpose of traveling the state and advance conservative

principles and that's what we did for twelve months in hindsight Michael be the first to tell you I wish we had done a more thorough job at

the accounting of it it became cumbersome at the end and that's why we close that committee and opened up a new one that we handed over to an account and

handle for us you know I I do feel compelled to say that I know that other people who have served as the Florida house speaker Senate president of course they create these committees the committee in and of itself is

is not unusual but I don't know that they hired their wife to be an administrator treasurer was

travel charges like airlines that were put on her credit card machine is not paid and what about these cousins

who were listed as couriers and there was one address for one of these young men that in fact was not there was nonexistent that's

going back to their hiring anybody who's been involved in politics and political campaigns will tell you that one of the backbones of a successful campaign are

young people that will work long hours for little pay and on three separate occasions at different times during the existence of the second committee we

traveling with me we pay them less than five hundred dollars a week for the work they did and I'm probably tell you how proud I am of that one

of them works for me now is my travel late and the other is graduating from FSU as a political science major hopefully

will be working for us and we all politicians have traveling says that there's no question about this I I guess the larger issue isn't

it it also speaks to and I don't want to rehash old news which is the amex card from the Republican a