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Sen. Rick Santorum calls himself the Republican point man on lobbying reform in Washington. But Santorum's reform plan doesn't deal at all with lobbyists running charities on behalf of members of Congress. Good thing for the Senator, because Team 4 has discovered that's exactly who's in charge of his charity, Operation Good Neighbor. Santorum has been handing out lots of checks from his charity, Operation Good Neighbor, since he formed it in 2001. "To me, it was part of a mission that I set out, which is I'm a great believer in the non-profit sector. I strongly believe we have...

Santorum Charity For The Poor Spent Most of Its Money On Management, Political Friends By Carol D. Leonnig and Dan Eggen, Published: January 13 As Republicans gathered for their national convention in Philadelphia a decade ago, Rick Santorum, who was then an up-and-coming senator from Pennsylvania, launched a charity he said would improve the lives of low-income residents in his home state. Though Santorum's old-fashioned, shoe-leather approach to campaigning paid off in Iowa, the question for him now is how far he can go from here, given his lack of resources and the need to ramp up a national organization....