Monday, April 11, 2005
Santorum Raised $250k During Visit To Schiavo Family...
The junior Senator "from" the state of Pennsylvania went to Florida under the guise of comforting Terri Schiavo's family in their time of need.
He even went so far as to cancel a scheduled Social Security event "out of respect" for the family.
Santorum ran out of respect pretty quickly, it seems, since he went ahead with a campaign fundraiser the same day and raised a cool $250,000 for his re-election battle next year.
John Baer from the Philadelphia Daily News has penned a wonderfully sarcastic editorial that talks about Santorum's alleged concern for Terri Schiavo. He ties it up quite nicely here:
The trip was made on a Wal-Mart jet paid for by Santorum's campaign fund.
Total take, according to Santorum finance director Rob Bickhart, was about $250,000 (en route to an April 15 FEC filing expected to show the senator with close to $3 million already).
So my hat's off.
Down and back on a corporate jet, grab a quarter-mill, get some national attention. This, my friends, is poetry in motion.
What's that you say? Seems a tad crass to cash in on a heartbroken family and get your mug on TV because you happen to be in the neighborhood lining your pockets?
If you cancel one event "out of respect," why not others?
Doesn't the culture of life outweigh the culture of cash?
Well, your problem is you just don't understand politics (and, hey, Jesse Jackson went down there!) or the way it's played by the big boys.
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