14 July 2005

Santorum gets away with cheating the taxpayers

In a scandal that broke last fall, we learned that Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) was educating his children at the expense of a school district in Pennsylvania while they actually resided in Virginia.

In a preliminary ruling on Monday, it was determined that Santorum does not owe the Penn Hills School District thousands of dollars for his children's education. However, this ruling was based on a technicality.

An editorial in yesterday's Delaware County Daily Times does a good job of exposing the hypocrisy in how Santorum constantly preaches "morality and ethics" while taking money from a Pennsylvania school district to educate his children at an Internet-based charter school in Virginia. [Read the editorial.]

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