By the way, does anyone know where did Santorum publish his tax returns? After South Carolina, he said he was going home to fill them up and release them.
Where are your tax returns, Rick? Hello?
Hey marguerite, Hope all is well. What happened with regards to the tax returns is he went home and his precious daughter got sick so he didn’t finish them. He has until 15 April to finish them. He will release them after the due date.
“What happened with regards to the tax returns is he went home and his precious daughter got sick so he didn’t finish them.”
I don’t buy IT.
His daughter is NEVER well, as she suffers of a very severe genetic condition. I rather think that was just a pretext used by PRick Santorum not to reveal his tax returns too early on the campaign trail, because they show him taking advantage of dubious money providers and links to the lobbyists he pushed during his activity in K Street project.
We will never know what impact his source of income would have had, if PRick released the tax returns before the caucuses, to be vetted on what they could reveal .
“In the years before he lost his Pennsylvania Senate seat in 2006, Rick Santorum worked hard to win hundreds of millions of dollars in additional Medicare money for hospitals in Puerto Rico.
He sponsored at least two Senate bills and pushed to amend a mammoth Medicare overhaul to include the extra spending, which would have benefited Universal Health Services, a Pennsylvania-based hospital management company with facilities in Puerto Rico. If it seems at odds with the small-government philosophy Mr. Santorum now espouses in his presidential campaign, it was in line with his legislative efforts to help businesses in his state.
Within months of leaving the Senate, Mr. Santorum joined the board of Universal Health Services, where he collected $395,000 in director’s fees and stock options before resigning last year (in 2011).
...Santorum strong showing in the Iowa caucus, so too has the scrutiny of his activities since leaving the Senate. When he left office he was not especially wealthy, but records show he wasted little time fashioning a lucrative post-government career based largely on income from businesses that had benefited from his work in Congress.
... by the time his Senate career drew to a close, he had become an emblem for some of a pay-to-play culture on Capitol Hill.
Mr. Santorum enjoyed unusually close ties to Washington lobbyists while in office. For several years, he held regular breakfast meetings with a handpicked group of 30 to 40 power players, ostensibly to brief them on the Republican agenda...”