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Rick to the Rescue!

Posted on | January 5, 2006

Bill Frist, the pinnacle of ethical behavior, has selected our good buddy Rick Santorum to head up the effort to clease the US Senate of unethical behavior. I find this laughable since Santorum’s been rented by lobbiests a few times.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) put out a press release criticizing the choice of Santorum and lists a few “highlights” of Rick’s gloriously ethical career as a US Senator. Among them are:

  • Sen. Santorum runs the K Street project, created by conservative activist Grover Norquist and former Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX), in which he ensures that all top lobbying and trade association jobs are filled by Republicans.
  • Two days before Sen. Santorum introduced a bill that would benefit private national weather companies at the expense of the National Weather Service, the Senator’s political action committee, America’s Foundation, received a $2,000 donation from the chief executive officer of AccuWeather, Inc., a leading weather data provider located in State College, PA.
  • Working to undermine public confidence in the National Weather Service, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina Sen. Santorum stated in an interview with a local Philadelphia radio station that the National Weather Service failed to predict the storm’s fury and that its warnings were “not sufficient.” In fact, the early warnings about Hurricane Katrina issued by the National Weather Service were praised for their accuracy by news organizations such as Associated Press, NBC News and The New York Times.
  • Since the 2001-2002 school year, at least three of Sen. Santorum’s children have attended a Pennsylvania cyber charter school in Penn Hills, PA, costing local taxpayers about $67,000, despite the fact that the Senator and his family spend most of the year in Virginia.

Sounds like just the kind of guy we need to clean up ethics in the Senate.

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