Rubio campaign writes $1,500-check to sister-in-law's charity

[Scurrilous]

Marco Rubio staffers had to explain a $1,500 campaign check written to a Catholic school.

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"Last spring, Marco Rubio's momentum in the U.S. Senate race was threatened by a series of revelations about him repeatedly using GOP campaign donations to pay for personal expenses -- including personal care products, groceries and even a family reunion.

But if Rubio worried the revelations would damage his surging campaign or image as a fiscal watchdog, he sure didn't show it. On March 31, the Miami Republican's campaign wrote a $1,500-check to St. John Neumann Catholic Preparatory School. It was listed as a "registration fee" on Rubio's federal campaign reports.

When a Miami-based Democratic blogger, Joy Reid, flagged the unusual expense on her Reid Report blog, the Rubio campaign scoffed.

"It's B.S. His kids don't even go there,'' the campaign responded to a St. Petersburg Times inquiry. "It was to sponsor some event they were doing and as it turns out they couldn't take money from a campaign so the check was never cashed and then voided."

Turns out, though, that there was a Rubio family connection: The money went to a school fishing tournament fundraiser organized by Rubio's sister-in-law."

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/10/14/1872556/rubio-campaign-writes-1500-check.html#ixzz12JSoyKbB

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