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Fla GOP paid for Crist flowers, campaign expenses
Some other curious charges on the party credit card of former Florida GOP executive director Delmar Johnson: an Oct. 21 $359.20 charge for an airline ticket for Andrea Saul.
Saul, communications director for the Crist campaign, said she did not know why the party paid for the ticket, and that the campaign paid the cost of the flight directly to American Express. She was working for Orrin Hatch at the time but flew down on a Sunday to attend a Crist campaign meeting at the Hyatt in Orlando.
Crist has hammered Marco Rubio for excessive spending of donor money on Rubio's party credit card, so it was striking to see a some Delmar Johnson charges directed at Crist's family: $213.97 for flowers listed as for Emory Wood, Crist's brother-in-law and $96.30 for Carole Crist's birthday.
"That sounds excessive," Crist said when asked about the flowers.
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