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Crist: Rubio charged credit card for back wax
2010-03-10
Whoops, I think we just lost Crist. Even if it were true, he should be careful of accusing someone with that much testosterone of anything like this as he might just get his arms pulled out of their sockets.
Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio has been taking heat for charging a $130 barber shop visit to his Republican Party of Florida credit card when he was the state House Speaker.

Now his GOP primary opponent, Gov. Charlie Crist, is insinuating that Rubio was paying for something other than a haircut. A back wax, to be precise.

During an interview Monday evening on Fox News, Crist attacked Rubio for "trying to pawn himself off as a fiscal conservative."

"And yet just in recent weeks, two weeks ago it has come out in news accounts he had a Republican Party of Florida credit card that he charged $130 haircut, or maybe it was a back wax," he said. "We are not sure what all he got at that place."

Host Greta Van Sustern interrupted. "Wait a second, stop. A back wax? Wait a second."

"I don't know what it was, you know," Crist continued.

Van Sustern responded, "I know, but was there a suggestion it was for a back wax? Or a haircut? Or are you being flip?"

"I don't know what it was," Crist replied. "Initially we were told it was a haircut. And then he said it wasn't a haircut."

"The detachment from reality is stunning to me," he continued. "And to try to say that you're a fiscal conservative, yet you spend $130 for maybe a haircut and maybe other things, I don't know what you do at a salon when you are a guy."

"I get my haircut for $11 from a guy named Carl the Barber in St. Petersburg, Florida where I grew up. And to me that's real fiscal conservatism."

Rubio has said he later paid for the personal charges on his party credit card, including the barber shop visit, out of his own pocket. While Rubio did charge for a haircut at the Miami barber shop, his campaign said his tab also included several other items purchased as gifts.

His campaign called Crist's interview "disastrously bizarre."

"Today, Charlie Crist is the sitting governor of the 4th largest state who has fallen so far and so fast that he's now reduced himself to making up stories about his opponent's grooming habits," said Rubio spokesman Alex Burgos.
Posted by:gorb

#8  That's happened and more than once: a moderate Pub, defeated in the primary, endorses the Dem instead of the conservative Pub.

If you are referring to Scozzafava, she is not a moderate Pub, she is a full blown Liberal pretending to be a moderate Pub.
Posted by: Pliny Unavimble6666   2010-03-10 13:52  

#7  The only question is: will he go third party and throw this senate seat to the Dems.

Or he could just endorse the Dem. That's happened and more than once: a moderate Pub, defeated in the primary, endorses the Dem instead of the conservative Pub.

Frankly if I were the Florida state party chair, if Charlie does anything other than endorse Rubio after the primary (assuming Rubio wins, of course), I'd spend the rest of my political days ensuring that Charlie loses at everything he tries.
Posted by: Steve White   2010-03-10 12:35  

#6  One ohter thing: the receipts he is discussing were STOLEN by his ally at GOP HQ, before they booted his ass out.

Crist is a crook, old school country club liberal powermongering POS who deserved to be thrown oon his head.
Posted by: OldSpook   2010-03-10 09:48  

#5  sniff. sniff. Ahhh.

I love the smell of desperation in the morning. Its smells like victory. Sorry Charlie.

Charlie is done. The only question is: will he go third party and throw this senate seat to the Dems.

And FYI, it was a $20 haircut that included a razor cut in the back.
Posted by: OldSpook   2010-03-10 09:47  

#4  I haven't followed the Florida press on this, and am certainly no fan of the Governor, but regardless of whatever Mr Rubio spent, has anyone asked why the chief law enforcement officer of the state is discussing someone's credit card receipts? And why that person should become a Senator opining on all matter of financial reform, privacy, and security issues?

Back wax, back rubs, back to the future Mr. Fusion machines - it hardly matters given how tone deaf and amateurish the Crist campaign is proving itself. You'd think this guy had never run a competitive race. Come to think of it . . .
Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division   2010-03-10 09:38  

#3  The mud wax slinging begins.
Posted by: JohnQC   2010-03-10 09:07  

#2  for someone who uses enough spray-on tan to look like an Ooompa-Loopma, he should refrain from criticizing others' grooming habits. He has no idea what the charge was for, and is just flinging feces throwing mud. What a putz. Bye Charlie
Posted by: Frank G   2010-03-10 07:57  

#1  I am a fiscal conservative - I spend other people's money carefully. With my own money, I am sometimes profilgate - extravagant, even.
Posted by: Bobby   2010-03-10 05:50  

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