Santorum Keeps Low Profile With Specter

Posted on Fri, Nov. 19, 2004


Santorum Keeps Low Profile With Specter

DAVID ESPO
Associated Press


WASHINGTON - Ordinarily, Sen. Rick Santorum might figure to be Sen. Arlen Specter's most public of allies in a fierce and ultimately successful battle for the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee, one Pennsylvania Republican aiding another in a classic Capitol power struggle.

But while home state concerns prodded Santorum to help Specter, a moderate who supports abortion rights, his own budding national constituency of conservatives pulled angrily in the other direction. The result was uncharacteristic reticence on the part of the Senate's third-ranking Republican, a 46-year-old, second-term lawmaker who seems to relish political combat and may harbor national ambitions as well.

"I don't want to usurp the power of the committee by making a recommendation one way or the other," he told reporters Wednesday. "This is the committee's decision," he added of the panel that reviews President Bush's appointments to the federal courts.

Nor did Santorum attend a key leadership meeting this week at which Specter underwent an extraordinary vetting.
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/10221104.htm

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Santorum school flap continues

By Daniel Reynolds
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Friday, November 19, 2004


U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum should reimburse $100,000 to the Penn Hills School District for taxpayer money used since 2001 to cover online charter school tuition for his children, four school board members said Thursday.
The senator will not respond until the board makes a formal request, said Santorum's deputy chief of staff, Robert Traynham.

"He has done nothing wrong," Traynham said. "The Penn Hills School District for the last four years has paid for (Santorum's) children to attend the charter school and have seen nothing out of the ordinary. They have basically said, 'This is OK.' "

Questions over his residency prompted Santorum to announce Wednesday that he is withdrawing his five school-age children from Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School in Midland, Beaver County. The No. 3 Republican in the Senate, Santorum owns a $106,000 home next door to his wife Karen's parents in Penn Hills, but he and his family split time between there and a $757,000 house in Virginia. Santorum's annual Senate salary is $157,000.

"He's admitted he's not a resident. I'm going to put up a motion for him to pay back the entire amount," said Penn Hills School Board member Erin Vecchio, chairwoman of the local Democratic Committee.
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http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_274635.html

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This whole Spector thing is just insane.

His whole party other than Orrin Hatch has labled him a piranah because of one comment. Talk about FICKLE. *shaking head*

Edit: And this article does not surprise me in the least, all these bad ethics seem to be coming out all of a sudden..

have a regular boyfriend?:think:

if Rick Santorum is gay.... but it wouldn't surprise me. So often, the most outspoken gay-bashers are themselves gay -- they hate themselves deep down, because they've been programmed to believe "gay = bad" -- it's called INTERNALIZED HOMOPHOBIA.

Regardless of whether he's gay or not, he is hateful and has that ugly look on his face to boot. Something's definitely eating away inside the guy, IMHO.

removed from the Senate. Get to work, PA.

I promise!

cover online charter school tuition for his children, why is he pulling them out of the school just at the sound of what might be the beginnings of an uncovering of abuse of power on the part of sanctimonius sanctorum? and ... with an annual salary of $157,000.00 isn't Sanctimonious Sanctorum living beyond his means in a $757,000.00 house, plus owning another $106,000 house while supporting self, wife and children? Was either house a gift to him by any one of powerful and rich lobbyists lobbying for anyone measures which might have received Sanctorum's support?

Maybe this thing with using public funds illegally pay for his children's online charter school tuition is just the tip of the iceberg of many other illegalities and things that Santorum has done wrong and maybe he is trying to keep the presstitutes from finding out more about his misuse of public trust and public funds. He is not the bush boy and perhaps the presstitutes would not mind going after him if they smelled a rat.

(I did not read the link to the entire article, so if the body of the article makes clear one or the otehr any of the above questions in my mind prompted by the four paragraphs from the article pasted above, I apologize. Otherwise, the might be legit questions to ask).