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I’d like to know how Mr Santorum has supported himself and his large family since his Senate re-election defeat, and how has he afforded to live in a pricey D.C, suburb, instead of toiling at a minimum wage in a steel mill in Pittsburgh, where he claims his roots lie. It’s an honest question, and why is it that his supporters are not asking it? We know Newt’s and Mitt’s sources of income, why don’t we know this steel mill town boy’s?

GO NEWT!

He owns and manages several rental properties in Pennsylvania

Remember, Ricky is probably still working on his taxes, which he said were sitting on his home computer, thus making him unable to release them when the other candidates released theirs.

Ricky reminds me of a particularly odious TV preacher and seems to have about that same very loose connection with the truth about his personal life.

“...and how has he afforded to live in a pricey D.C, suburb, instead of toiling ... in a steel mill in Pittsburgh, where he claims his roots lie.”

C’mon, everybody knows that’s all hyperbole and Santorum and wife are a husband-wife lawyer team, just like Bill and Hillary and Barack and Michelle. Or do they?

I’d like to know how Mr Santorum has supported himself and his large family since his Senate re-election defeat, and how has he afforded to live in a pricey D.C, suburb, instead of toiling at a minimum wage in a steel mill in Pittsburgh, where he claims his roots lie. It’s an honest question, and why is it that his supporters are not asking it? We know Newt’s and Mitt’s sources of income, why don’t we know this steel mill town boy’s?

Well, here's a start, and not too pretty. I am sure more will be coming out. the entire article is worth a read..

Santorum-becomes-millionaire-in-six-years-after-losing-u-s-senate-seat.

excerpt:

"Since his 2006 re-election defeat, the former Pennsylvania lawmaker has gone from being one of the poorer members of the U.S. Senate to earning $1.3 million between January 2010 and August 2011. In 2007, he spent $2 million to buy a 5,000-square foot home in Great Falls, Virginia, according to property records.

Santorum’s financial rise was powered by consulting contracts with fuel producer Consol Energy Inc. (CNX), faith advocacy group Clapham Group and American Continental Group, a Washington consultancy, as well as media engagements. “If he’s claiming he’s not an insider, this is the thing that insiders do -- after public office they cash in,” said Kent Cooper, a campaign finance expert and former Federal Elections Commission assistant staff director."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-01-05/santorum-becomes-millionaire-in-six-years-after-losing-u-s-senate-seat.html

Primarily he turned to those who lobbied him as a senator, a swamp he helped create as the GOP senate leader of "the K street" project. That netted him around $600K of his million dollar unemployed income. He made another quarter million appearing on Fox News. He has five rental properties in PA worth $1.75m. They have also sold some stock.

The "story" is primarily told through his tax releases. He maintains his lobbying and consulting is strictly virtuous, only for things he really believed in.