Santorum Charity Low on Giving, Up on Fees

[RedEarth]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Rick Santorum's charity donated about 40 percent of the $1.25 million it spent during a four-year period, well below Better Business Bureau standards - paying out the rest for overhead, including several hundred thousand dollars to campaign aides on the charity payroll.

The charity, Operation Good Neighbor, is described on its Web site as an organization promoting "compassionate conservatism" by providing grants to small nonprofit groups, many of them religious.

The Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance says charitable organizations should spend at least 65 percent of their total expenses on program activities.

Operation Good Neighbor is based at the same address as Pennsylvania Sen. Santorum's campaign office in suburban Philadelphia, and some of the same people who have worked on his campaign are working for his charity and collecting money from it, records show.

Among them:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060225/D8FVS4Q80.html

[ShockediSay]

1. Is there an honest politician to be found

in the "compassionate conservative" camp?


or is it all about rip off skimming?

[The Magistrate]

2. My Goodness, Sir, What A Surprise....

A rightist pimp rakes off charity contributions for campaign aides. Who would have thought it?

[Mithras61]

3. I guess with these ...

(I don't really know what to call them... slimes I guess...) charity begins (and ends!) at home...

[CatholicEdHead]

4. Just encourage donations to Catholic Charities Rick

not money laundering through your own ones.

[corporatemedia]

5. Remember what the Catholic Nun told T-Ricky? (No, this is NOT a joke!)

In her letter to the editor in the Pittburgh Post-Gazette:

http://santorumcybergate.blogspot.com/2005/07/you-got-that-right-sister.html

[TaleWgnDg]

6. Wooohoooo . . . another "non-profit" scam . . . attaway, Ricky-boy.

[Bozita]

7. Religious Ricky starts up charity; uses funds to enrich friends

Just another slimy fucking hypocrite.

Is anybody surprised by this?

[Frank Cannon]

8. What a frothy mixture of lubricant and fecal matter this guy is

Is there a Republican in government that WOULDN'T steal the pennies off a dead man's eyes?

[Shelor]

9. It's getting awfully hard to find an honest GOP politician.