LowerCaseRepublican Posted November 16, 2004 Share Posted November 16, 2004 http://rittenhouse.blogspot.com/2004/11/sm...picking-up.html Sen. Rick Santorum ®, Pennsylvania's biggest embarrassment in the U.S. Senate, though only by a hair, continues to draw scrutiny for his unconventional use of local taxes to pay for the unconventional education of his children. According to the Associated Press ("Paying for Santorums' School Costs Questioned," by Jennifer C. Yates), Sen. Santorum in 1997 bought a two-bedroom house in Penn Hills, a small town east of Pittsburgh, for $87,800. Right off the bat that simple statement should raise eyebrows. As you know, Sen. Santorum has a large family: a wife and six children. It's a hard fact to miss given the senator mentions his family at every opportunity and they often travel together around the state. Now, as someone from a large family myself, I can assure you that a two-bedroom home is too small a space to properly raise six children. (I'm one of 10 children; the house in which I spent most of my childhood had eight bedrooms. A few more rooms, while not necessary, would have been nice.) The question some in Penn Hills have raised is not whether Sen. Santorum is adequately caring for his progeny, but rather whether he's sticking his neighbors with the hefty tab associated with the kids' private, home- and road-based education. You see, since 1997 the Penn Hills school district has paid $100,000 for the senator's children to "attend" the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, an internet-based educational outfit. The crux of the matter is that it's doubtful the Santorums ever -- or ever planned -- to live in the town whose taxpayers are paying his tuition bills. According to the A.P., "Santorum's spokeswoman, Christine Shott, said she did not know whether the senator and his wife, who have six children, had ever stayed in the two-bedroom house they own in Penn Hills." In the same article Shott says she doesn't know and can't comment on whether the family ever stayed at the home or rented it out. More likely, of course, the Santorum family lives in another house entirely: a home in Leesburg, Va., assessed at $757,000 this year. The Santorums pay taxes in both locales, but Pennsylvania law requires the school district in which a student lives to pay the tuition charged by cyber charter schools. Virginia makes no such requirement. So Sen. Santorum has himself a pretty good deal here: Pay the property taxes on a modest, forgotten little Pennsylvania house and let others worry about the cost of the "free-market" choice he's made for his children's education. Penn Hills school board member Erin Vecchio has asked school superintendent Patricia Gennari to conduct a formal review this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Kickass Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Another politician who claims to be a "conservative," but games the system and doesn't exercise the personal responsibility he expects the rest of the country to follow themselves. Wonderful. In the interest of full disclosure, I loathe Rick Santorum. This was a politician who last year compared homosexual activity as being on the same level as bestiality. I felt, oh, just a little insulted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CubKilla Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Either Howard Stern or Kevin Matthews (can't remember who) reported today that some bible thumper congressman wants to rename "Highway 69" in his state for obvious reasons..... although the name of the congressman and his state escapes me at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Either Howard Stern or Kevin Matthews (can't remember who) reported today that some bible thumper congressman wants to rename "Highway 69" in his state for obvious reasons..... although the name of the congressman and his state escapes me at the moment. It is actually about Interstate 69 in Indiana. They want to change it to I-63, a more "moral" number :rolly I can't remember who the idiot was though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POTUSChris Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 It is actually about Interstate 69 in Indiana. They want to change it to I-63, a more "moral" number :rolly I can't remember who the idiot was though... It's Congressman John Hostettler from the Indiana 8th (I freakishly know all this about him because I saw his office everyday for four months). He's also saying that according to some federal interstate code or something like that 69 is too high of a number and is breaking the code. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 It's Congressman John Hostettler from the Indiana 8th (I freakishly know all this about him because I saw his office everyday for four months). He's also saying that according to some federal interstate code or something like that 69 is too high of a number and is breaking the code. Interstate numbers run sequentially from east to west, so I-69 should be lower than I-65 if they go through with the extension. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CubKilla Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Interstate numbers run sequentially from east to west, so I-69 should be lower than I-65 if they go through with the extension. Also, N-S interstates are odd numbers, E-W interstates are even numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUKE_CLEVELAND Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 I saw that on Fark recently. ITS NOT TRUE! It was posted on a satire web site and everyone caught on like it was for real. Some people will believe anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hawaiisoxfn Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 It's Congressman John Hostettler from the Indiana 8th (I freakishly know all this about him because I saw his office everyday for four months). He's also saying that according to some federal interstate code or something like that 69 is too high of a number and is breaking the code. I know someone named Jon Hostettler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowerCaseRepublican Posted November 17, 2004 Author Share Posted November 17, 2004 Nuke the AP covered the story. http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1104/187355.html http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/1-1...004-399535.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,138485,00.html I looked for a while and found nothing that said it was a fake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUKE_CLEVELAND Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Nuke the AP covered the story. http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1104/187355.html http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/1-1...004-399535.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,138485,00.html I looked for a while and found nothing that said it was a fake. Dude I was talking about the Interstate sign thing. Guess I shoulda quoted huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowerCaseRepublican Posted November 17, 2004 Author Share Posted November 17, 2004 Dude I was talking about the Interstate sign thing. Ah LOL. But this does burn my ass...fleecing taxpayers out of $100,000 for their own personal gain...and how does he run in Pennsylvania as a senator when he doesn't technically live in the state? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Honda Civic Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Dude I was talking about the Interstate sign thing. Guess I shoulda quoted huh? I didn't see it on FARK, but I'm willing to bet it from the Hoosier Gazette... /googles it Yep.... http://www.hoosiergazette.com/News/Nov2004/news003.htm That's the 4th time that I know of that the Hoosier Gazette has been mistaken for a real paper... I remember when Jim Rome ran with some story that Purdue gave a sholarship to the wrong "mike smith" or some other common name like that, citing only a story from the online farce site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maggliopipe Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 santorum.... anyone read dan savage's column? frothy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Kickass Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Ah LOL. But this does burn my ass...fleecing taxpayers out of $100,000 for their own personal gain...and how does he run in Pennsylvania as a senator when he doesn't technically live in the state? His real house is in a suburb of D.C. He's a senator who doesn't really live in his home state anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Honda Civic Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 santorum.... anyone read dan savage's column? frothy I stopped reading right about the time they were turning Santorum into a verb... I've actually heard a couple of gay guys use it in a sentence, and well, let's just say that I'm glad I don't know what it means. I stopped working in a place that would allow me to read it for free in the Reader while wasting away my day... I do have an RSS feed to the Village voice now, so I'm starting to get back in the habit... If it wasn't for Savage Love, I'd have no idea what furries where. --------- Also check out the poll on the site i just linked.... 8% of people are against legal prostitution??? Who knew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knightni Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Nuke the AP covered the story. I looked for a while and found nothing that said it was a fake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Honda Civic Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=2...11&nav=3w6oTC9A From fark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rex Kickass Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 I stopped reading right about the time they were turning Santorum into a verb... I've actually heard a couple of gay guys use it in a sentence, and well, let's just say that I'm glad I don't know what it means. I stopped working in a place that would allow me to read it for free in the Reader while wasting away my day... I do have an RSS feed to the Village voice now, so I'm starting to get back in the habit... If it wasn't for Savage Love, I'd have no idea what furries where. --------- Also check out the poll on the site i just linked.... 8% of people are against legal prostitution??? Who knew. Savage Love is at http://www.theonionavclub.com too. Santorum is now also not just a senator but also the new voguish term for the frothy mixture between poop and lube. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POTUSChris Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 His real house is in a suburb of D.C. He's a senator who doesn't really live in his home state anymore. Most senators and members of Congress don't really live in their home state anymore. They have a home there and visit it every once and while, but for the most part they live in DC. Pretty much all 535 of them have some type of home/condo here, and that's just because they spend most of their year here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NUKE_CLEVELAND Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 His real house is in a suburb of D.C. He's a senator who doesn't really live in his home state anymore. Kinda makes sense that he spends most of his time close to where his place of employment is dont you think? :rolly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreye Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Interstate numbers run sequentially from east to west, so I-69 should be lower than I-65 if they go through with the extension. Is that why the I-5 is in California? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 Is that why the I-5 is in California? And I-95 runs up and down the east coast... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mreye Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 And I-95 runs up and down the east coast... So then...wouldn't that be sequentially from west to east rather than east to west? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted November 17, 2004 Share Posted November 17, 2004 So then...wouldn't that be sequentially from west to east rather than east to west? Yeah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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