I’m more concerned with Santorum’s lack of honesty!
He’s a “compassionate Christian” who founded a charity in the State of Pennsylvania then forgot to register it with the state!
In 2001, following up on a faith-based urban charity initiative around the 2000 GOP convention in Philadelphia, Santorum launched a charitable foundation called the Operation Good Neighbor Foundation. While in its first few years the charity cut checks to community groups for $474,000, Operation Good Neighbor Foundation had actually raised more than $1 million, from donors who overlapped with Santorum’s political fund raising.
Where did the majority of the charity’s money go? In salary and consulting fees to a network of politically connected lobbyists, aides and fundraisers, including rent and office payments to Santorum’s finance director Rob Bickhart, later finance chair of the Republican National Committee.
Experts say a responsible charity doles out at least 75 percent of its income in grants. Shockingly, the figure for Operation Good Neighbor Fund was less than 36 percent. The charity – which didn’t register with the state of Pennsylvania as required under the law -— was finally disbanded in 2007.
Add the above to his supposed stance against government waste, but not when it came to his family.
During his years in the Senate, Santorum raised his family in northern Virginia and rarely if ever seemed to use the small house that he claimed as his legal residence, in a blue-collar Pittsburgh suburb called Penn Hills.
Pennsylvania voters were shocked when they found out the Penn Hills School District had paid out $72,000 for the home cyberschooling of five of Santorum’s kids, hundreds of miles away in a different state. The cash-strapped district was unsuccessful in its efforts to get any of its money back from Santorum.
Romney is a Democrat pretending to be a conservative Republican, so his honesty is questionable, too. Between Romney and Santorum there isn’t much in the way of integrity.