Age of Reason

Santorum: Hypocrite

No no, not because he's a gay homophobe. This is being submitted to the Harrisburg Patriot-News:

Let's see if I have this straight:  Rick Santorum was first elected to Congress largely because he made a big issue out of his opponent living in the Virginia suburbs of D.C. rather than in Pennsylvania.   But after Santorum was elected to the Senate, he promptly moved his family out of Pennsylvania to become a full-time resident of those very same Virginia suburbs.   He then bought a house in Penn Hills so that he could technically fulfill the residency requirement needed to represent Pennsylvania.   But he cheated on his taxes by claiming a Homestead Exemption on the Penn Hills house, which should only be available to a person if the home is their permanent residence.   He then bilked the Penn Hills School District out of almost $100,000 in tuition for a cyber-school by claiming that his children were district residents.   And now his spokesperson is trying to cover this up by claiming that the Santorums split their time between their $757,000 house in the Virginia suburbs and the one in Penn Hills, which they have actually rented out to another couple.   If Rick Santorum thinks that the hard working taxpayers of Pennsylvania are going to believe that he, his wife, and their five children are sharing a two-bedroom house in Penn Hills with two other people, he isn't just out-of-state and out-of-touch, he is also out-of-his-mind.

posted by conchis @ 1:06 AM