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"Santorum, the "compassionate Christian conservative" founded a charity that was actually a scam. In 2001, following up on a faith-based urban charity initiative around the 2000 GOP convention in Philadelphia, Santorum launched a charitable foundation called the Operation Good Neighbor Foundation. While in its first few years the charity cut checks to community groups for $474,000, Operation Good Neighbor Foundation had actually raised more than $1 million, from donors who overlapped with Santorum's political fund raising. Where did the majority of the charity's money go? In salary and consulting fees to a network of politically connected lobbyists, aides and fundraisers, including rent and office payments to Santorum's finance director Rob Bickhart, later finance chair of the Republican National Committee. When I reported on Santorum's charity for The American Prospect in 2006, experts told me a responsible charity doles out at least 75 percent of its income in grants, and they were shocked to learn the figure for Operation Good Neighbor Fund was less than 36 percent. The charity – which didn't register with the state of Pennsylvania as required under the law --- was finally disbanded in 2007."

"Likewise, a so-called "leadership PAC" created by Santorum that was supposed to fund other Republicans instead seemed to mostly pay for the lifestyle of Santorum and those around him. Only 18 percent of its money went to fund political candidates. What America's Foundation did spend a lot on with what looked like everyday expenses, including 66 trips to the Starbucks in Santorum's then hometown of Leesburg, Va., his multiple fast-food outings and expenditures at Wal-Mart, Target and Giant supermarkets. Santorum also funded his large Leesburg "McMansion" with a $500,000 mortgage from a private bank run by a major campaign donor, in a program that was only supposed to be open to high-wealth investment clients in the trust, which Santorum was not, and closed to the general public."

Santorum is walking a thin line with his pious attitude. There has been child abuse in the catholic church by priests; the bible itself has many risque tales...starting with Adam and Eve.

There are already laws on the books that deal with child abuse and child porn. I do know there was rampant cover ups dealing with child molestation in certain churches. America is broke! our economy is in dire straits and there are serious problems with the war in Afghanistan, Iran, Africa and the middle east. Our energy problem is getting so far out of control that God help us if something isnt done. Soc Sec is another issue that needs to be addressed NOW! Vesty has cut his throat with this one...too bad he and Mitt won't debate Newt in Portland and clarify their postions on how they would solve the economic issues and how they would change our military BACK ..etc.