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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSantorum charity for the poor spent most of its money on management, political friends
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/santorum-charity-for-the-poor-spent-most-of-its-money-on-management-political-friends/2012/01/11/gIQAGDKVwP_story.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpoliticsWhat a fine example of 'christian' values.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)really not surprised. A republican stealing from the poor. Fox news will probably give him a metal.
shraby
(21,946 posts)the word Metal is what you make keys out of.
Medal is a prize for doing right.
So many people have made this mistake, it's time to clarify it.
RZM
(8,556 posts)shraby
(21,946 posts)RZM
(8,556 posts)shraby
(21,946 posts)xtraxritical
(3,576 posts)blue neen
(12,322 posts)Gold comes to mind. Silver, platinum, anything that transfers to cash for Slick Rick.
WCGreen
(45,558 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Theives
LiberalFighter
(50,950 posts)provis99
(13,062 posts)was rated one of the three most corrupt Senators in 2006:
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/santorum-named-one-of-three-most-corrupt-senators-in-2006/politics/2012/01/07/32863
jsmirman
(4,507 posts)when those assholes tell us that "charity" will take care of everything, and is what a society should rely on to help those in need.
I guess they get all confused and start thinking, "in need of what, exactly?"
nxylas
(6,440 posts)As they never tire of reminding us, even though it's hard to see how paying to have opera houses named after themselves benefits most of us.
jsmirman
(4,507 posts)Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)I hate them all.
The Second Stone
(2,900 posts)despicabilities. It's about using poor people to get rich by taking money meant for poor people to further enrich themselves.
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)who always say the government can't do anything right because of waste.
malaise
(269,054 posts)ReTHUG in name and nature
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PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)-66 visits to various Starbucks, totaling $558.65
-$380 worth of coffee from HMS Host of Bethesda, MD
-A $175.05 meal at Smith and Wollensky's steakhouse in Philadelphia, PA
-11 Arby's meals totaling $118.25
-Four meals at various Burger Kings, totaling $50.36
-A $29 meal at TGI Friday's in Pittsburgh
-Two meals at Giovanni's New York Pizzaria in Leesburg, VA, totaling $21.73
-Several meals at Great Wall Express in Alexandria, VA, including one for just $5.74
-A $4.48 ice cream purchase at Ben & Jerry's and a $3.71 purchase at Goodnoe Farms ice cream store
-A $2.49 purchase at an Auntie Anne's pretzel store
Clearly, no charge was too small for Santorum's PAC to bust out the company credit card. The committee also paid for several more expensive items, including hundreds of dollars of office supplies and tens of thousands of dollars in travel expenses.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/article/strange-true-rick-santorums-pac-spent-thousands-coffee-fast-food
Santorum is s scam artist. He also scammed PA taxpayers when he enrolled his children who lived in Virginia in a PA cyber school.
d_r
(6,907 posts)one meal at a time.
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)In my experience, the harder/louder the bible thumping the bigger the crook/liar/cheat etc, etc.
Thanks for posting this.
AzDar
(14,023 posts)flexnor
(392 posts)for heavy handed hounding of funds from ordinary people, that get $howered on their top management, and fundrai$ing buddies
i know someone who made a rule of not giving to any charity that paid their ceo more than obama (400k), and you wouldnt beleive how many charities that cut off
(the total amount given didnt change, it was just diverted to under 400k ceo charities)
Alcibiades
(5,061 posts)Much like Karen Handel, who said publicly that she had dedicated her life to fighting cancer, when in fact she was being paid $500,000 a year to do whatever it was that she was doing. They treat these jobs like titles of nobility, so of course they must be compensated royally, as befits their station as well-connected GOP insiders.
They have also imported some bad habits from the private sector. Many businesspeople I know, particularly conservatives, treat their businesses as a personal entitlement. Why pay for your own coffee when you can put it on the company expense account, where it suddenly also becomes a tax deductible expense? Using your employees as personal servants, using a company vehicle for personal use and then deducting 100% of the milage, describing your den with a computer in it as a "home office," claiming personal furnishings as tax-deductible business expenses, using the company postage account to send out personal packages, even using company money for personal trips to Las Vegas or Atlantic City. Quite naturally, people such as this cannot understand what it is like for normal people who earn $40,000, $20,000 or less and try to support a family. These folks don't even pay for their own coffee if they can get out of it.
The positions at places such as Santorum's "charity" also create a stipend for conservative activists who are able to be relied upon when the time arises, so they can do things such as participate in the "Brooks Brothers riot."
jwirr
(39,215 posts)not give to any of them.
blue neen
(12,322 posts)It's good to see now that the rest of the country gets to see what a sanctimonious jerk Ricky Santorum really is.
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)wants to be a problem for all of us.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,489 posts)From six years ago:
http://www.parentadvocates.org/nicecontent/dsp_printable.cfm?articleID=6774
Capitol Hillbillies
Santorum aides live large off charity payroll
By KIMBERLY HEFLING
Feb 25, 2006, 02:11
LINK (http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_8199.shtml)
Sen. Rick Santorum's charity donated about 40 percent of the $1.25 million it spent during a four-year period, well below Better Business Bureau standards -- paying out the rest for overhead, including several hundred thousand dollars to campaign aides on the charity payroll.
The charity, Operation Good Neighbor (http://operationgoodneighbor.net/FoundersLetter.html), is described on its Web site as an organization promoting "compassionate conservatism" by providing grants to small nonprofit groups, many of them religious.
The Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance (http://www.give.org/) says charitable organizations should spend at least 65 percent of their total expenses on program activities.
Operation Good Neighbor is based at the same address as Pennsylvania Sen. Santorum's campaign office in suburban Philadelphia, and some of the same people who have worked on his campaign are working for his charity and collecting money from it, records show.
....
From 2001 through 2004, filings show Operation Good Neighbor took in a total of $1.6 million and spent about $1.25 million. Of that amount, just over $501,000 was awarded in grants, helping people from the homeless to AIDS patients. The charity has not yet reported 2005 figures.
Its IRS filings are signed by Bonfiglio. Its secretary is listed as Mark Rodgers, Santorum's former chief of staff and now staff director at the Senate Republican Conference, where Santorum is chairman.
bayareaboy
(793 posts)sweater vests are. Go to a nice store and price them out. They are just as much a regular sweater. This is totally unfair and when I Rick Santorium, become President this Nov. I will have the congress, which will rightly be GOP bagmen, submit a bill that takes all the sex out of marriage, but also standardizes prices for sweater vests to 1/2 the cost of sweaters with sleeves.
Sorry, I got carried away, being Rick!
beac
(9,992 posts)Rick "Role" is so 2008!