Santorum charity fell short of giving goal (60% spent on "overhead")

[TomInTib]

WASHINGTON - 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, records show.
The charity, Operation Good Neighbor, provides 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 Santorum's campaign office in West Conshohocken, and some of the same people who have worked on his campaign are working for his charity and collecting money from it, records show.

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[MADem]

1. Wow, an Ambramoff-style SLUSH FUND!!!

They need to pound that drum early and often in PA!

[DS1]

3. No, it's just a connection of Republicans filling their coffers

What do you mean they shouldn't be earning 6 digits for running a charity? They deserve it because they're GOOD PEOPLE!

:sarcasm:

[Dr Fate]

2. Compare this to other evangelical charities- The Salvation Army is 83%.

As I said b/f- Ricky has some 'splaining to do!

[pinto]

4. Good catch. Way over standard practices for non-profit/charities. Looks

like, on the face of it, that he's paying campaign staff with the funds.