Rick Santorum symbolizes everything wrong with Washington. He's a career politician who has consistently
looked out for his own interests rather than those of his constituents. He has a long history of hypocrisy that makes corporate
politicians like Tom Delay blush.
Let's look at few examples:
* Slick Rick is supposed to represent the citizens of Pennsylvania, yet he lives year-round in Virginia.
Rick has refused to post a list of official visits to Pennsylvania in 2004 and 2005 on his website. Ask him for such a list
and you'll get a nice convoluted response that says nothing.
* Even though he was full-time resident of Virginia, he had the taxpayers of Penn Hills pay to send his
kids to a Pennsylvania cyber school for several years. After the media got wind of the impropriety, he quickly pulled his
kids out of the school. It has been reported that he owes upwards to $100,000
* He's supposed to be pro-family, yet he accepted more than $50,000 from Adelphia÷one of the largest purveyors
of soft-core video pornography in the country. Slick Rick has refused to return the money.
* He's against stem-cell research, yet he has accepted more than $50,000 by six companies that perform such
research, including Becton Dickenson, General Electric and Pfizer. So much for his staunch moral values.
* Slick Rick claims to be a fiscal conservative, yet he has pocketed automatic congressional pay raise for
the past six years (about $3,000 per year) even though the Republican-controlled Congress has racked up record deficits. Personal
enrichment triumphs over public service for Virginia's third senator.
These are just the tip of the iceberg. You can read more at www.santorumexposed.com, which documents many more of Slick Rick's hypocrisies in greater detail.
Greg Colburn, Hanover
