PA congress members educate children in state - Santorum only exception

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Congress members educate offspring in state
Santorum only one to use cyber school

Wednesday, November 17, 2004
By Eleanor Chute, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Eight of the 21 people who represent Pennsylvanians in Congress have school-age children. Seven of them own homes in Pennsylvania -- and live in them -- and send their kids to either regular public or private schools in the state.

The eighth, U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, has five of his six children enrolled in the Western Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School in Midland, Beaver County, with the Penn Hills School District footing the bill of about $38,000 a year.

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The Penn Hills house owned by the Santorums has a market value of $106,000, according to Allegheny County records. County election records show that, in addition to the Santorums, two others at the same address are registered to vote.

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This is a classic case of the rich man's Robin Hood," Rooney said. "Mr. Santorum makes a generous salary and lives in a very expensive home in Virginia, but he didn't let that stop him from unfairly taking from the Pennsylvania students who need those school funds desperately."

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1. Your subject line should read

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3. oops - corrected

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2. Santorum CYBERGATE SCANDAL links - updated 11/17/04

Santorum CYBERGATE SCANDAL links – 11/17/04


DATE / SOURCE / AUTHOR / NOTES


Print media

10/20/04 Penn Hills Progress.. Vera Miller.. Original source
http://www.gatewaynewspapers.com/pennhillsprogress/36884/

11/06/04 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.. Vera Miller
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/pittsburgh/s_269995.html

11/10/04 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.. Sally kalson.. Has PA supreme ct info
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04315/409553.stm

11/11/04 Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.. Frazier & Jewell
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_271582.html

11/12/04 Tallahassee Democrat.. AP(Jennifer Yates).. picked up nationally
http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/10169219.htm

11/13/04 Philadelphia Daily News / philly.com.. AP.. need to log in
http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/10171378.htm

11/14/04 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.. Eleanor Chute.. possible fraud???
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04319/411623.stm

11/16/04 Allentown(PA) Morning Call / mcall.com.. Editor.. 1st(?) negative editorial
http://www.mcall.com/news/opinion/all-editorial2nov16,0,5294825.story?coll=all-newsopinion-hed

11/17/04 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.. Eleanor Chute.. only Santorum does it!!!
http://www.postgazette.com/pg/04322/412987.stm

Web media

11/13/04 FOXNEWS.COM.. AP.. fear and unbalanced
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,138485,00.html



Other resources

N/A Allegheny County (PA) Property Assessment Web Site.. official PA property info
http://www2.county.allegheny.pa.us/RealEstate/General.asp?CurrBloLot=0367G00075000000&HouseNum=111&Street=STEPHENS%20LN&SingleResult=True

N/A Loudon County (VA) Real Property Site.. enter 17650 Tobermory in address field
http://inter1.loudoun.gov/cgi-bin/db2www.exe/webpdbs/re.d2w/INDEX

11/16/04 - Rooney Demands Refund For Santorum's Cyber School Costs

PA Dem Chair Says Santorum “Robbing Pennsylvania Students” for Personal Gain

HARRISBURG, PA: After days of news reports detailing how Senator Rick Santorum has taken $100,000 in Pennsylvania taxpayer dollars for cyber-schooling his children, Rep. T.J. Rooney, Chair of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, today called on Santorum to refund Pennsylvania's children the taxpayer dollars he has taken from their education to put towards the education of his own children.

Santorum and his family live in Virginia.

Rooney said today, “Senator Santorum keeps going around trumpeting family values, trying to convince citizens that he is the voice for the Pennsylvania family. Now we learn that apparently Mr. Santorum believes that family values means taking from the children who need our help to pay huge bills for his own family, even though they don't live in Pennsylvania.”

According to the Associated Press, the Penn Hills School District in suburban Pittsburgh has spent $100,000 on the Internet-based education of Santorum's children since 2001-2002. Santorum purchased his two bedroom residence in the school district in 1997 for $87,800. His Leesburg, Virginia home was assessed at $757,000 this year.

“This is a classic case of the rich man's Robin Hood,” Rooney followed. “Mr. Santorum makes a generous salary and lives in a very expensive home in Virginia, but he didn't let that stop him from unfairly taking from the Pennsylvania students who need those school funds desperately.”

NOTE: I DO NOT HAVE A LINK FOR THIS STORY

[VivaKerry]

4. That $106K house is merrely a FRONT

so he can SAY he lives in PA!! I wonder who the other two people are who USE that address for voting? My god, we could get that guy thrown out of congress if we can prove that he is fraudulently holding himself out as a pennsylvanian!!

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5. SPECTER - "...number one priority... is to reelect Sen. SANTRORUM."

"Sen. Santorum has been enormously helpful,” said Specter Tuesday. “He’s gone above and beyond the call of duty. My number one priority in the next two years is to reelect Sen. Santorum.”

NOT Pennsylvania, NOT America, NOT the economy, NOT Iraq, NO, NO. NO.

the NUMBER ONE PRIORITY for specter is reelecting SANTORUM !!!

full story -

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6506958/