Hate to break it to you, but Santorums tax returns show he earned $923,000 last year
He lives in an inflation-value-boosted upper MIDDLE CLASS NoVa tract mansion woth less than a million
Now, that may seem rich unless you live here in the DC area, but that is not “greedy and ambitious “ by any standards here
In fact that would make him one of the most modestly financially successful people to run for potus
There are actually idiots in PA who ate up the democrat campaign that Santorum, living in VA as a Senator from PA, enrolled his kids in a homeschool-based online PA charter school at PA resident rates, as an example of his “greed”
Oh then there is the “K street project” (muttered darkly as if Santorum was pulling down $90M bonus from Fanny - oh wait that was Frank Raines never mind)
“K Street”, that dastardly partisan effort by lobbies to get REPUBLICANS hired by local policy wonks so that REPUBLICANS would influence govt policy
oh the humanity
Did Santorum ever do anything illegal? Yes. He founded a charity which didn’t register with the state of Pennsylvania as required under that state’s law.
Senator Santorum founded the Operation Good Neighbor Foundation, a charity that was actually a bit of a scam. In 2001, following up on a faith-based urban charity initiative around the 2000 GOP convention in Philadelphia, Santorum launched a charitable 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.
This charity (2001-07), doled out just 36% of income as grants, far less than the 75% of responsible causes. It can only be coincidence the charity which spent most of its money on lobbyists, aides and fundraisers closed after he was defeated for reelection in 2006.
Note: my file on Santorum is now 24 pages long. This is really sad, and most Republicans are getting suckered into believing this man is decent.
I will not vote for Santorum. When a middle-class citizen is elected to Congress and returns home 12 plus years later a multi-millionaire, it is due to corruption in government.
We have to change Washington in order to get our nation back on the right track.
I am a Conservative Republican who will vote for all other Republicans down ticket, but not for either Romney (really a liberal Democrat), Santorum (corrupt), nor for Paul (a Libertarian).