Santorum's Income Has Soared Since He Left Senate
WASHINGTON Losing his Senate seat might have been the best thing that ever happened to Rick Santorum's bank account.
In 2006, the Republican presidential hopeful earned about $200,000 from his Senate salary and book royalties. From January 2010 to August 2011, he earned at least $1.3 million as he cashed in on his 16 years in Congress by working as a corporate consultant, political pundit and board member.
The financial disclosure report Santorum filed last August shows how his income has changed. Many voters are taking their first hard look at the former congressman and two-term senator from Pennsylvania following his near-win in the Iowa caucuses.
Santorum's resume contrasts with campaign rhetoric that casts him as an outsider who would shake up Washington. It also appears at odds with the image that Santorum stresses as a candidate with hardscrabble roots in blue-collar Pennsylvania and as the grandson of an Italian immigrant coal miner.
Much of the money Santorum earned in recent years was for his work as a board member for a large health care company* and consulting for a Pennsylvania energy company and a Washington lobbying firm.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/07/santorums-income-has-soar_n_1191153.html
*a health care company which, apparently, mistook autism for demonic posession
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002128565#post12
Enrique
(27,461 posts)was his answer when Laura Ingraham questioned him about this.
DeathToTheOil
(1,124 posts)Hasn't she sworn a Masonic vow never to do that?
JJW
(1,416 posts)is that Santorum is a war criminal. He knew exactly where the WMDs are was his cry pre-invasion of Iraq.
mopinko
(70,210 posts)Gringostan
(127 posts)Just another welfare queen living of taxpayer dollars!
47of74
(18,470 posts)But at least the thread is getting a kick here.
onpatrol98
(1,989 posts)I thought you had to be rich to be in the Senate. They're the fattest of cats.
CarmanK
(662 posts)He will return to the private sector with the potential of being a very rich man. Corporate AMERICA rewards "Failure to protect the common good" and loyalty to business and corporate america policies.
rocktivity
(44,577 posts)The devil made him do it.
rocktivity
hughee99
(16,113 posts)Can you imagine someone leaving the senate and making a ton of money this way? Tom Daschle, John Corzine, Al Gore, Bill Bradley and John Edwards would be shocked to hear being a former Senator could be so lucrative.
There's easily a million reasons to dislike Santorum, and this doesn't even crack my top 100K. Personally, I'm far more concerned about people who's income soars when they're still in Congress.
24601
(3,962 posts)Thanks!
24601
(3,962 posts)aren't you?
OK, here are the links, and you can even throw out the $1.4M for the Nobel as he has plenty of earned income.
2006 (elected to US Senate)
http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/presreturns.nsf/Returns/5B21CE7185D279F48525741700789CA2/$file/B_Obama_2006.pdf
2007 (1st year in US Senate)
http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/presreturns.nsf//7F7592F649AC6CA78525759900763FA0/$file/B_Obama_2007.pdf
2008 (last year in US Senate)
http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/presreturns.nsf/Returns/0EACFBA6297986E285257706005CEB7B/$file/B_Obama_2008.pdf
2009
http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/presreturns.nsf/Returns/CBBA4F0CDB3C35198525742F005A334A/$file/B_Obama_2009.pdf
2010
http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/presreturns.nsf/Returns/02F3F5B2D15B756385257876006F5ADB/$file/B_Obama_2010.pdf