If Santorum is the candidate, I think the Dems will actually use the school district case against him.
When Santorum was living in Virginia (because he was a Senator) he falsely claimed an address in Pennsylvania that was a house that belonged to him, near his parents’ house, but where he had never lived or possibly lived for only a few months after he was married. At any rate, he didn’t live there when he got these home-schooling distance learning internet courses from that school district.
A local Dem activist found out about this and sued, and the State of Pennsylvania settled out of court and paid $50,000 for Rick Santorum’s “home schooling” lessons.
This may sound trivial, but it shows up a lot of things about Santorum. For one thing, why did he lie? If he really wanted to “home school,” there are other ways of doing this, and he obviously did this to save money.
And I guess that’s why he didn’t pay the $50,000 fine himself but left it to the taxpayers.
Also, if he’s such a great Catholic, why didn’t he send his kids to Catholic school or get one of the on-line Catholic homeschooling programs (where the kids have to be tested by their states, but will certainly be able to pass those tests)? If he objects to public school education, why have them educated by the State of Pennsylvania using the state curriculum?
I think this will blow up big and the Dems are just holding it. And, btw, someone who defended him did so by saying that as a Senator, he had a “right” to special treatment. That’s not going to fly.
Ping to you both because I think this is going to be an issue with St. Santorum.