Pgh P-G: Casey faults Santorum over (Virginia based AJS) ads

State Treasurer Bob Casey yesterday urged U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., to disavow an independent group's TV ad that lauds the incumbent's position on Social Security.

Mr. Casey, a Democrat who hopes to unseat Mr. Santorum in next year's election, said that Mr. Santorum should call for the ad to be taken off the air because its sponsor, a group known as Americans for Job Security, declines to identify its donors.

He charged further that the ad distorts Mr. Santorum's position on the controversial issue. And in a news conference Downtown, Mr. Casey raised questions about similarities between the TV commercial and an Internet ad on the Social Security issue, posted on the Santorum campaign's Web site.

"Sen. Santorum and his supporters are not being honest on who paid for these ads and who these people are and he's not being honest about his record on Social Security,'' Mr. Casey said.
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