Santorum by 5% on election night. Polls be d@mned.
Posted on 10/10/2006 10:32:57 AM PDT by SelectiveJNJ
Outside Santorum's Sanctum
By JERRY BOWYER October 10, 2006
Rick Santorum is in big trouble. He had already been on the ropes for the past year, but last week it got a lot worse. Carl Romenelli, a Green Party candidate for Senate lost — lost his last legal hope for ballot access. Not enough signatures. The Greens would have siphoned votes away from the Democrats, and now they won't.
The national press corrps is already rehearsing its soliloquies on the meaning of the loss by Senator Santorum. They are all about President Bush, Iraq, the economy, and an alleged backlash against conservatism. But, anyone who actually lives here knows what the real problem is — Rick Santorum.
http://www.nysun.com/article/41237
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A friend of mine lives in Loudoun county and told me she knew Rick Santorum because he lives near here and her kids knew his kids.
I thought she was pulling my leg but they read about how he lives there most of the time. Doesn't seem like a smart thing to do.
With all this talk about reform, they should think about reforming election law. I really believe that minority parties such as the Greens, Libertarians, Constitution Party, and Independents of whatever hue should have easier access getting their name on the ballot. Folks talk about choice--America needs more choice than what it has with the major parties.
D@mn the national press corps to he11. Santorum might lose (but I suspect he won't), and if he does, it will be for a lot of reasons other than Pres. Bush, Iraq, the economy, and conservatism. If the good people of Penn. sign-on to the Democrats' "Suicide Pact With America," the only explanation is that enough voters in PA have been afflicted with mental illness that they no longer can act politically in a responsible way.
Wait, I thought the Lamont / Lieberman race this November was going to be the real test on Bush, Iraq and the economy. Don't hear much about that one since Lieberman is leading in the polls.
"I thought she was pulling my leg but they read about how he lives there most of the time. Doesn't seem like a smart thing to do."
Please do not buy into this crap about Santorum "living" in Virginia. He is a US SENATOR. He MUST live in metro-DC. ALL senators, in effect, live in metro-DC.
When you work in a place 9,10, 11 months out of the year... you pretty much HAVE to live there most of the year, yes? As for the tiny house Santorum still owns in PA ...he bought that before he had so many kids he didn't know what to do.
Please understand that, if Santorum were to spend a majority of his time in PA, his enemies would pound on him for not being in DC enough, representing his constituents.
You are correct. Not only does Rick live with his kids in VA, but he billed the Penn Hills (PA) school board over $50K for the online education of his kids. When confronted by irate taxpayers in Penn Hills, Rick refused to repay the money.
It's not fair. VA gets 3 U.S. senators and my fellow residents of Murrysville and other towns in PA only get 1 senator residing in our state.
So? I'd guess that every US Senator "lives" within commuting distance from Capitol Hill. They are in session over 200 days a year. I suppose they could leave their families back at home and bunk at the YMCA but those with young families like Santorum would seldom see their children. I believe that Rick has six kids.
Good points! It is essential for every single conservative and Republican to:
1. Get to the polls and VOTE for the GOP!
2. Get all your family, neighbors, and friends and get them to vote GOP!
3. VOTE to cancel out the dead Democrat fraud vote!
Nah, I'm sure Virginia has atleast 20, Maryland probably had 20, and the rest are in Georgetown....well maybe one or two in Dupont Circle...
Are you saying that Santorum doesn't have a residence in PA? Or that most, if not all, Senators who spend most of their year in DC, shouldn't have a residence and their families close by? That seems very naive to assume they only have one residence when their work is in DC.
Tell the truth Mom. It wasn't "irate" taxpayers -- it was a union thug/local Democrat chairwoman who also got herself elected to the Penn Hills school board. She didn't broach the information to the school board or to the state or even Santorum, but went directly to the press. And the fact is, Rick pays school taxes in Penn Hills and the Penn Hills school district still came out ahead on the deal since the state gives more money to Penn Hills for having those students on the rolls than Penn Hills paid to the Cyber School.
"You are correct. Not only does Rick live with his kids in VA, but he billed the Penn Hills (PA) school board over $50K for the online education of his kids. When confronted by irate taxpayers in Penn Hills, Rick refused to repay the money.
It's not fair. VA gets 3 U.S. senators and my fellow residents of Murrysville and other towns in PA only get 1 senator residing in our state."
You are incorrect, MurryMom, even though we have been in near-full agreement on so many issues in the past. Gonna repeat an earlier post of mine on this thread:
"Please do not buy into this crap about Santorum "living" in Virginia. He is a US SENATOR. He MUST live in metro-DC. ALL senators, in effect, live in metro-DC.
When you work in a place 9,10, 11 months out of the year... you pretty much HAVE to live there most of the year, yes? As for the tiny house Santorum still owns in PA ...he bought that before he had so many kids he didn't know what to do.
Please understand that, if Santorum were to spend a majority of his time in PA, his enemies would pound on him for not being in DC enough, representing his constituents."
Rick did not "bill" Penn Hills School District for the cyberschool charges, the legally chartered Pa Cyber Charter School did, as prescribed and mandated under state law.
If his kids are PA citizens (if, if only for argument's sake, you accept the idea that he can hold legal residencies in both states), then why can't they attend an online school from anywhere in the world?
I grant you that he should have handled the whole thing much better than he did, and should have scrambled to make things better with constituents, and communicated clearly.
You sound disappointed and angry with him...but do you want to be represented by Senator Casey?
I agree. I see it around me. It's sickening.
Casey JR (he rarely uses the Junior, hoping to confuse voters, I've heard) is a slimey apple who fell far, far from the tree. It's hard to imagine that the late Gov Bob Casey was ever his dad. That being said, the good people of PA are afflicted with the evil illness of unionism and the dem overlords who push it. Even people I know sick of Rendell, will dutifully vote for him. Gag. I suspect and hope Rick will win. News stories like this one point to how the dems must be thinking it too, how desperate they've become in the closing weeks.
Wow, Arlen Specter goes from Pennsylvania from Capitol Hill and back every day, huh? And I thought the folks living in Frederickburg had a rough commute! Pretty impressive for a man of his age.
Yes she does.
Well, was. So afraid are the DUmmies in other states that Rick will win a 3rd term, that they have made a local senatorial election into a national, or at least regional, issue. And I think they must know that unless they, the dummies opposed to him, get involvement of others outside the state to sling mud with them, he will surely win. Hopefully he will in spite of their efforts. They must be desperate. Casey is one slimey guy, not his father's son.
As a senator and in a leadership position, most of his work has to be done in Washington DC. I suspect you'd be bashing him if he was in Washington DC 9 or 10 months out of the year WITHOUT his kids also. Wouldn't you want your family around?
How much time does Arlen Specter spending Washington DC? How about Ted Kennedy or John Kerry?
If you have a problem with a senator spending so much time in Washington DC, then maybe you ought to look at the root cause of it - that government has too be a role in our lives, the economy, etc. If people like you didn't want government's hand in every aspect of your life, senators wouldn't have to be in Washingon DC so much because they wouldn't have that much to do there.
Jerry Bowyer is the type of Republican who holds to his views even after a court has ruled contarary to what he says on the identical issue. Folks, if you live in VA and want to cyberschool your kids, PLEASE do not send the bill to Penn Hills or any other school district in PA especially if you are thinking of running for public office in our fair state. Penn Hills won't pay your bill anymore (they paid the Santorums' bill the first time because they didn't discover the Santorums' fraud in time) and Jerry Bowyer won't pay your cyberschool bill either.
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