Now we know why Santorum hesitated to release his tax returns

[mrbigstuff]

they only make SUVs in America, not the sedans.

[Gutenberg]

I am not convinced that $3.6 million over five years is regular income for people in his degree bracket. He needs to STFU about being a Washington outsider. He is as inside as they come.

Note: I think it's fine that pols peddle their influence within the rules and after they leave Congress. But they should not run for office screaming about pols who peddle their influence within the rules and after they leave Congress when they are doing the same themselves.

That's the point of this story.

[Grace62]

True, but I'd take one of the SUV's any day.
They make that ugly R-class Mercedes crossover in Alabama, looks more like a family-mobile that Rick could match his image to.

[$tevie]

Gutenberg wrote:
I am not convinced that $3.6 million over five years is regular income for people in his degree bracket. He needs to STFU about being a Washington outsider. He is as inside as they come.

Note: I think it's fine that pols peddle their influence within the rules and after they leave Congress. But they should not run for office screaming about pols who peddle their influence within the rules and after they leave Congress when they are doing the same themselves.

That's the point of this story.

I don't know how these politicians keep getting away with this non-insider stuff. It just shows how much marketing trumps reading, I guess. Pretty sad state of affairs.

[Grace62]

Romney is trying to hit him on that, plus "no executive experience,"
in fact it's the only thing that Romney can hit him with without being seen as bashing Republicans in general. We'll see if it works.

[decay]

then there's this:

http://hillbuzz.org/why-rick-santorums-p...f-it-95754

With Rick Santorum’s close second place finish in last night’s Iowa Caucus, renewed attention will focus on the residency scam and tuition fraud Santorum perpetrated while serving as a United States Senator representing the Keystone state in the early 2000s.

Here’s a detailed look at what Santorum did, why it was illegal, and how this will affect his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination going forward.

The other shoe to drop in all of this was the question of where, exactly, Santorum’s children were living and who was paying for their education — the people of Pennsylvania or the people of Virginia. Even though Santorum’s family was clearly living in Virginia, Santorum was billing the state of Pennsylvania — and the Penn Hills School District in particular — around $40,000 per child to educate each of his five children in the “Western Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School”. After the Pittsburgh local news stations started showing viewers the tours of Santorum’s empty and abandoned Penn Hills home, irate citizens started demanding an investigation into the legality of Santorum charging the Penn Hills school district for the expensive education of five children who didn’t really live there, and instead were living in Virginia.

* Things got incredibly ugly as this was all hashed out in both the media and in the court of public opinion. Ultimately, Santorum yanked his kids out of the “Cyber Charter School” program and had his wife Karen start homeschooling them instead — but he refused to reimburse the state for the hundreds of thousands of dollars that were spent “cyber-schooling” the Santorum children while they lived in the state of Virginia. When confronted about any of this, Santorum became incredibly brittle on camera, lashing out at those who questioned him, and earning a solid reputation as an insufferable and impersonable jackass.

* A paperwork error on the part of the Penn Hills School District resulted in Santorum never having to reimburse the state for the hundreds of thousands of dollars in “cyber tuition” money, because the school district missed a deadline in filing their complaint.


Read more http://hillbuzz.org/why-rick-santorums-p...f-it-95754

[max]

decay wrote:

* Things got incredibly ugly as this was all hashed out in both the media and in the court of public opinion. Ultimately, Santorum yanked his kids out of the “Cyber Charter School” program and had his wife Karen start homeschooling them instead — but he refused to reimburse the state for the hundreds of thousands of dollars that were spent “cyber-schooling” the Santorum children while they lived in the state of Virginia. When confronted about any of this, Santorum became incredibly brittle on camera, lashing out at those who questioned him, and earning a solid reputation as an insufferable and impersonable jackass.

* A paperwork error on the part of the Penn Hills School District resulted in Santorum never having to reimburse the state for the hundreds of thousands of dollars in “cyber tuition” money, because the school district missed a deadline in filing their complaint.

Now that is a good, relevant story....