SORRY, He was a legal resident of Penn Hills, PA. He owned a home there, he paid income and real estate taxes at that property, he was registered to vote at that property and he represented the state of PA while he was in the U. S. Senate.
That is the law, if you don't like the state law, work to change that law. He was entitled to that money as anyone else who lived there would be.
I am sorry that your personal bias and jealousy won't allow you to understand the simple fact that he was allowed to get that money and he chose to use it for a cyber education school instead of a local public school. That was the choice he and his wife made. It is called freedom of choice and doesn't only include the right to kill unborn children.
He refused to pay it because he didn't owe it. What the Republicans and the Dept. of Education choose to do is on them. As a legal resident, HE WAS ALLOWED THE MONEY! If Penn Hills and the Pittsburgh Pack of Garbage wanted to get the money back they should have taken legal actions. They didn't, BECAUSE they know they would have lost the case.
It is black and white law, He was a legal resident, whether you like it or not, he was entitled to the money and he took advantage of that entitlement.
How can you be so obtuse?
If Santorum and kids lived in Virginia - and I don't dispute him this right, he can live anywhere he chose - his kids should be schooled in Virginia, not Pennsylvania.
"Where, exactly, does Santorum call home?
Santorum became mired in a residence controversy after stating that he spent only “maybe a month a year” at his Pennsylvania home on Stephens Lane, which is part of the Penn Hills real estate market just outside of Pittsburgh.
When he was the Pennsylvania senator, Rick Santorum and his family lived in this Leesburg, VA home.
In reality, Santorum and his family were living in Leesburg, VA, prompting serious questions about why the school district in Penn Hills was paying for his children’s online school tuition for instruction between 2001 and 2004.
Critics complained that Pennsylvania taxpayers were paying 80 percent of the tuition for five of Santorum’s seven children — who lived in Virginia — to attend an online “cyber school.” The flap forced Santorum to pull his kids from the cyber-school program, but the issue helped doom him against Democrat challenger Bob Casey, who beat Santorum by 18 points. In 2006, the Pennsylvania state Department of Education agreed to pay $55,000 to settle the dispute.
Meanwhile, since his 2006 re-election defeat, Santorum has since moved into another home in Virginia. In 2007, he spent $2 million to buy a 5,000-square foot home in Great Falls, VA, his filing papers with the Pennsylvania Department of State lists his home municipality as Fairfax County, VA.
http://www.zillow.com/blog/2012-02-14/pennsylvania-roots-were-source-of-controversy-for-santorums-2006-senate-race/
I can sum up that long winded apology for the Santimonius Rick in one word........HYPOCRITE.
And by all means, let him keep on blabbering with no set limit. That way he will prove beyond a doubt that all he knows how to do, is talk about things, he knows very little about, of forgot that he is guilty of it himself. And we have his actual history in front of us to check out for ourselves.