....Santorum Surge Brings Ethics Questions
One of the top donors to Santorum's charity was also the beneficiary of an $8 million Santorum-sponsored federal earmark, according to published reports. Melanie Sloan, a former federal prosecutor who filed an ethics complaint against Santorum in 2006 on behalf of a watchdog group, said her organization's website received a tidal wave of visitors in the past 24 hours, and in an interview she said she believes people will discover that the GOP presidential contender is "hardly the moral paragon he purports to be."
"There were several instances in which Santorum appeared to have taken campaign contributions in direct exchange for legislative assistance," said Sloan, whose organization, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), spent months investigating Santorum's activities while he was in office. "He violated Senate gift rules by accepting a mortgage from a bank in which he had no interest and which otherwise made loans only to its own investors."
http://news.yahoo.com/santorum-surge-brings-ethics-questions-152702229.html
Myrina
(12,296 posts)Sorry Ricky. You got some splainin' to do ...
SpiralHawk
(32,944 posts)Scuzzbucketry up the wazoo.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)arbusto_baboso
(7,162 posts)Is anyone on DU surprised by this? really?
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)woodsprite
(11,916 posts)hedgehog
(36,286 posts)Santorum introduced the National Weather Service Duties Act of 2005 to "clarify the duties and responsibilities of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration[3] and the National Weather Service (NWS), and for other purposes".[84] This legislation, if enacted, would prohibit the NWS from publishing weather data to the public when private-sector entities, perform the same function commercially. At the same time, Santorum said that the National Weather Service needed to be a robust organization capable of predicting serious weather conditions.[85] The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association was galvanizing support to lobby against this bill,[86] but it never passed committee. Opponents of the bill suggested it was corporate welfare, where the private weather service companies, which often receive data from the National Weather Service, would be enabled to charge government and military agencies for that information.[86] The motivations surrounding this bill were controversial, as AccuWeather, a commercial weather company based in Santorum's home state, stood to profit from this legislation, and Accuweather employees had contributed at least $5500 to him since 1999.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santorum
Liberal Veteran
(22,239 posts)tpsbmam
(3,927 posts)yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)so, Ricky! I am SHOCKED!