Re: Ethics-starved Repug Rectum Santorum's put in charge of ethics

Harry Hope wrote:
In the wake of the Jack Abramoff scandal, the GOP announced that Sen.
Rick Santorum (R-Fecal Matter) would be their point man on ethics.

Great plan!

Perhaps Santorum can now explain why, according to the Huffington
Post, he "received a $500,000, five-year mortgage for their Leesburg,
Va., home from a small, private Philadelphia bank run by a major
campaign donor - even though its stated policy is to make loans only
to its 'affluent' investors, which the senator is not."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/02/21/sen-santorum-gets-5000_n_16094.html

Santorum owns a $757,000 "estate" in northern Virginia, despite the
fact that, according to the American Prospect, "his financial
disclosure forms since 2001 have shown little family income beyond his
Senate salary, now $162,100."
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=11174

From the Prospect:


The Prospect decided to heed Santorum's advice by taking "an honest
look at the family budget" - his family budget.

What we found is that Santorum's exurban lifestyle is financed in ways
that aren't available to the average voter back home in Pennsylvania -
namely a political action committee that lists payments for such
unorthodox items as dozens of trips to the Starbucks in Leesburg, a
number of stops at fast-food joints, and purchases at Target,
Wal-Mart, and a Giant supermarket in northern Virginia.

Although a Santorum aide defends those charges as legitimate political
costs, good-government experts say the expenditures are at best
unconventional, and at worst a possible violation of Senate rules, and
the purchases appear to be unorthodox when compared with other
senators' filings.

Santorum's PAC - a "leadership PAC," whose purpose is to dispense
money to other Republican candidates - used just 18.1 percent of its
money to that end over a recent five-year period, a lower number than
other leadership PACs of top senators from both parties.


Ethics watchers may also be interested to learn that Santorum's
charity Operation Good Neighbor "donated about 40 percent of the $1.25
million it spent during a four-year period, well below Better Business
Bureau standards - paying out the rest for overhead, including several
hundred thousand dollars to campaign aides on the charity payroll,"
according to the Associated Press.

"The Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance says charitable
organizations should spend at least 65 percent of their total expenses
on program activities."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060225/ap_on_go_co/santorum_charity

Looks like the GOP have picked just the right fox to keep watch over
their hen house.


From The Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/

Harry

Santorum is the fine man who brought his dead baby home from the
hospital for his children to play with. Twisted ***.

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