Posted on 11/15/2004 9:23:00 AM PST by crushelits
I'm a little upset that he sends his kids to public school instead of parochial school, though, I have to say.
No wonder he's weak on the Specter thing.
They are setting it up..
I'm telling you right now.. Bob Casey will crush Santorum in 2006. We are going to lose that seat. Bet the bank on it!
re: your tagline,
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Schools in Loudon County, where Santorum lives, are not that great. And he certainly does not make enough as a Senator to send six kids to private schools in Virginia; they are astronomically expensive. But he may just be trying to have his cake and eat it too. He can campaign and say he is sending his kids to Pennsylvania public schools, even though they don't live in Pennsylvania.
I thought Santorum lived in Mt. Lebanon before moving to Virginia. So he bought an inexpensive house to keep a house in that school district?
He is a Senator from PA and, therefore, must have a residence in PA (Penn Hills). However, he is about as pro-family as they come and simply wants to have his family actually be with him where he needs to be to do his job (Virginia).
It really is that simple. Would you prefer that he not have his family be with him while he is in Washington working?
This is the first of many attacks you'll see against the Senator between now and 2006 (and beyond). This is politics - plain and simple.
A $750k home is slightly above normal for northern VA. Were not talking mansion, just hyper-inflated real estate pricing. Consider that a basic townhouse is getting over $350k and won't stay on the market for more than a week here.
If the story is true.
I agree. Santorum is in trouble in 2006. His seat is the Dems No. 1 target in 2006. They ran a nobody against Specter because he was on their team, but they'll set their top gun on Santorum for sure. It should be Casey, but you never know...Fast Eddy make make a run for it... and I'm sure other big name Dems will take a crack.
My reaction is that this is a politically motivated smear. The rest of the article does nothing to dispell that reaction.
lol good one
And what is the cost of the illegals enrolled in the school district? Much more than 100k I'd bet.
Actually they have a gripe. for residency reasons, he owns a cheap home in PA, pays little taxes, never resides there. He owns $750K home in VA pays a bundle of taxes. School district in PA pays nearly $8000 a year for each of his 5 kids.
Santorum is just another politicians, do as I say not as I do.
Little bit early for chicken little to be running around screaming "The sky is falling!"
My wife is the technology coordinator for this Internet school system. They do take very good care of Mr. Santorum and brood as well as everyone else who is enrolled. This is a political smack-down.
Did I miss it or did they explain why it cost $100,000? Is this just a funny money tally... fixed costs associated with an internet system that would have occured whether his kids were participating in the internet classes or not? Sounds strange $100,000 just to give a few kids access to a system.
I'm a PA resident and am constantly on my local school district to trim costs in an effort to lower property taxes. $100K to educate 6 kids since the 01-02 school year is a tremendous bargain. The average cost to educate a student in PA is somewhere between $8K-12K. Do the math! They should be touting this as huge savings to the taxpayer.
It's never too early to start painting your target into a corner. I'm sure the GOP would pay you big bucks if you could come up with a credible and effective response to this future attack ad.
Well, I'm just thinking how schools do accounting ... they take the school system's total expenditures and divide it by the number of students, and then claim it "costs" $10,000 a year per pupil.
In the case of the extension service, they probably took the entire costs of the program, including all its start-up costs (much of which probably came from Federal funds, but who's counting?) and then calculated a per-pupil-per-year cost based on that.
As a Catholic homeschooler, I'm disappointed in the Santorums for using public schools :-), but I don't buy these numbers' being "their" cost for a minute! We've have 4 "school-age" children this year, and I spent less than $1,000 on curriculum.
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