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I lived in Pennsylvania for several years. Philadelphia is the dominant metropolis in my part of the world, so Philadelphia news is daily stuff around these parts. Though I won’t be voting in the Pennsylvania elections (since I live in Delaware), I do follow them.

And it’s really disgusting that Little Ricky Santorum whored out his kids in his campaign ads. Not only was it icky, it was deceptive (and that surprises us how?). From FactCheck:

Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Rick Santorum shows his children claiming that political opponents have criticized him “for moving us to Washington,” and that “they criticized us for attending a Pennsylvania public school over the Internet.” In fact, the critique was of Santorum, not his children. And the controversy was over money, not Santorum’s family values.

The ad is Santorum’s response to accusations by local officials that he exploited a Pennsylvania program that paid tens of thousands of dollars in tuition for his children to be educated via a publicly supported Internet charter school while the family was living in Virginia.

Note that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania will be reimbursing the school district for a portion of the funds it gave Santorum to support his children’s cyber-schooling from Pennsylvania while he was resident in Virginia.

Susie reminds us that mail to Santorum’s reputed residence in Pennsylvania gets returned as undeliverable.

This November, I will be voting for at least one Republican: Congressman Mike Castle is a man of integrity who represents Delaware well. But, if I still lived in Pennsylvania, I would vote against Santorum as many times as I could. And, Pennsylvania being Pennsylvania, that would probably be several times.

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