Rick Santorum's alleged Penn Hills home sat vacant for months, and until conveniently one week prior to the election he showed up and scared his neighbors. The citizens of Pennsylvania deserve to have a U.S. Senator who is going to reside in Pennsylvania, not just hand out candy on Halloween. To remain connected to the people of Pennsylvania it is important for a U.S. Senator to be an "inhabitant" of the state that elects him.
For years we have never seen anyone at Santorum's alleged residence and tonight he shows up with a camera crew from the O'Reilly Factor?" "The working men and women of Pennsylvania will see this for what it is. A staged, phony night at a home he does not live in," said Anna Lombardo a Penn Hills Neighbor.
The entire residency flap is just another in a series of errors resulting from Santorum's arrogance and sense of entitlement. The law permits a member of Congress to live in D.C. during a term of service without losing legal residency in the home district. (But note, the law expressly says D.C. -- not anywhere else.) It was not that Santorum moved his residence to Virginia which caused this problem for him.
He was elected, in part, based on vicious attack ads claiming his opponent had done the same and promising never to move to Virginia. Then, in his arrogance, he did exactly the same. Compounding his arrogance, he treated his former fellow-Pennsylvania residents like idiots and denied that he had moved. He claimed to live in a house which was too small by half for his brood, which was rented out to others during most of his last (and final) term in office, and for the last six months has been empty -- without furniture or carpeting.
But even that wasn't enough to create this flap. It was then his sense of entitlement that was the final straw -- he demanded and received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the tax payers in the school district where his empty house stood. The money was used to indoctrinate his children in the perverse ideology of the Church of Sanatoriumism (they called it "home schooling").
Santorum lied to his electorate when he promised never to move his family to Virginia, he lied after he moved about moving, and then he demanded that the citizens of the school district turn their tax money over to him so that he could protect his dozen children from the savages at the Virginia public schools, and ensure that they grow up steeped in the same twisted mind ideology that Santorum spews for any microphone with power.
If Santorum's fevered brain is looking for the reason for his under-40 approvals and his imminent retirement from the United States Senate, all he needs to do is take a hard look at the insane mental munchkin in the mirror.
Buh-bye, Rick.
(h/t Modesto Bee for the pic)
He was elected, in part, based on vicious attack ads claiming his opponent had done the same and promising never to move to Virginia. Then, in his arrogance, he did exactly the same. Compounding his arrogance, he treated his former fellow-Pennsylvania residents like idiots and denied that he had moved. He claimed to live in a house which was too small by half for his brood, which was rented out to others during most of his last (and final) term in office, and for the last six months has been empty -- without furniture or carpeting.
But even that wasn't enough to create this flap. It was then his sense of entitlement that was the final straw -- he demanded and received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the tax payers in the school district where his empty house stood. The money was used to indoctrinate his children in the perverse ideology of the Church of Sanatoriumism (they called it "home schooling").
Santorum lied to his electorate when he promised never to move his family to Virginia, he lied after he moved about moving, and then he demanded that the citizens of the school district turn their tax money over to him so that he could protect his dozen children from the savages at the Virginia public schools, and ensure that they grow up steeped in the same twisted mind ideology that Santorum spews for any microphone with power.
If Santorum's fevered brain is looking for the reason for his under-40 approvals and his imminent retirement from the United States Senate, all he needs to do is take a hard look at the insane mental munchkin in the mirror.
Buh-bye, Rick.
(h/t Modesto Bee for the pic)
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