Jenna Buzzacco-Foerster
Marco Rubio’s campaign is hitting back after a Washington Post story reported the Florida senator was arrested in 1990 for being in a park after closing time.
In a fundraising email to supporters Saturday, the campaign decided to come clean with a few other offenses: He colored outside the lines as a kid, double dips his chips, and once took 11 items through the 10-item express lane.
“Marco’s survived $22 million in attacks from the Establishment already, but more is coming,” the email said. “Our opponents wouldn’t think twice before putting ‘Caught in Municipal Park After House at 18 years old’ on billboards all around Des Moines. Will they send videos of him double-dipping his chips to opinion leaders in key early states?”
The email asks supporters to pitch in “to help our cover-up efforts,” and calls on people to “chip in and become an accessory to Marco’s campaign.”
“It’s a national conspiracy — you don’t want to miss out,” reads the tongue-in-cheek fundraising pitch.
They might need better reporters. @washingtonpost missed a lot about my “criminal” past… https://t.co/StpYWQV0BX #rubiocrimespree
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) January 23, 2016
The email blast comes one day after the campaign released a fundraising video “voluntarily disclosing the rest of Rubio’s crime spree.” In the minute long video, people sporting the swag of his opponents spell out Rubio’s other offenses followed by the #RubioCrimeSpree hashtag.
“Everything we’ve fought for is almost here. Help Marco fight back,” appear on the screen.
This isn’t the first time the campaign took to mocking the media over reports of Rubio’s past. In June, after The New York Times published a story outlining Rubio and wife Jeanette’s past traffic violations, the campaign and supporters took to Twitter to poke fun of the publication using the hashtag #RubioCrimeSpree.
This campaign was back at it Friday when it tweeted The Washington Post story “was only the beginning.”
Rubio is currently in third place in Iowa, behind Donald Trump and Ted Cruz. The Iowa caucuses are Feb. 1.
