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kairos12

(12,862 posts)
Mon Nov 9, 2015, 03:34 PM Nov 2015

Rubio was late 21 times paying his credit card bill

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/11/rubio-late-21-times-party-credit-card

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But those payments were routinely late - 21 times over the course of those four years - sometimes because he did not pay on time, and sometimes because the Republican Party fell behind. The account, which was listed under his name, was assessed delinquency charges seven times, adding up to $1,639.47.

Hopefully his credit rating is lower than his poll numbers.

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randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. He is a con man and a flake, but he will also be the GOP nominee, I think.
Mon Nov 9, 2015, 03:39 PM
Nov 2015

All he has to do is say "liberals bad, Blacks lazy"

and the entire right will fall in love with him

 

Dodo

(39 posts)
3. If it was just any other person, the credit card would have been cut off
Mon Nov 9, 2015, 03:43 PM
Nov 2015

and no other credit card issuer will give him one.

I damaged my credit by not paying my bills on time, so I'm paying the consequences of it. Fortunately, the damage has been repaired and most of my debts are settled. Hopefully I'll be out of it by early next year.

 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
5. It wasn't his card. His credit rating wasn't affected
Mon Nov 9, 2015, 03:47 PM
Nov 2015

He will spin this about how the Obama economy is hurting struggling families. Find out tomorrow night.

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
10. I remember him saying it was a card HE applied for and iot WAS in his name
Mon Nov 9, 2015, 04:53 PM
Nov 2015

He laughed a bit and said if he had it to do again, he would do it differently..

It's a classic scheme:

He gets/has a card...

He convinces the "bosses/GOP HQ".. that since he already HAS the card, there's no need to open a new account..

No one challenges him ..

He charges a bunch of stuff.

The bill is sent to his house..

He highlights the stuff he says the GOP owes for..

He waits for them to cut him a check

That's why the bill gets paid late..

He's BROKE and has to wait for the check the GOP cuts to HIM..

When that check arrives, it gets deposited as a "reimbursement" to HIM..and that's how the scheme works..

Over time, a "careful" person can get others to pay for things they are not responsible for. and it provides a steady cash-flow to guys like Rubio



ryan_cats

(2,061 posts)
4. Is this
Mon Nov 9, 2015, 03:44 PM
Nov 2015

Is this a bad thing?

Let me write his commercial:

Marcos Rubio, a humble man of the people, knows full well the crushing debt left in the wake of Obama's policies and easily relates to people who are late making credit card payments to enormous corporations so they can feed their ten disabled kids.

H*ll, it writes itself.

If the payments were late before January 2009, Rubio comes out as prescient regarding future Obama policies.

Of course I'm not cynical enough to believe the Republicans would do this.

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
8. Rubio wins again!
Mon Nov 9, 2015, 04:34 PM
Nov 2015

See, if Marco had been running his government office more like a business, his credit would have been revoked, his financing would have dried up, and he would have gone out of business. But since he was in the government with a party-issued charge card, he just kept charging stuff and paying late or failing to pay, and no one (until now) questioned it at all.

Can't refudiate that argument, can you libruls? Thought not. Rubio wins again!

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