Capitol Police Visit Santorum’s Penn Hills Home
Neighbor Don Gingery said, “The place has been empty for three or four months.”
“Empty? How do you know?” asked Channel 4 Action News reporter Bob Mayo.
“I live right here,” Gingery said.
It’s almost too easy to take shots at US Senator Rick Santorum (R- 13th Century). I mean, where do you start? Santorum’s oft-professed Conservative Catholicism has often been described as something close to Stone Age theology, while his anti-woman moral stands put him at odds with fully 50% of Pennsylvania’s electorate. Combine all of that with a penchant for putting his foot in his mouth and coming off as an ignoramus and a fool, and you have half of Pennsylvania’s Senate delegation. Yep…wind him up, and watch the fun begin.
The chair recognizes the Senator from Pleasantville…. Then again, there seems to be some controversy as to where Sen. Santorum is actually calling home these days. Though he calls Penn Hills, PA “home”, there has been some question of late as to whether Santorum actually even still lives in Pennsylvania.
Isn’t it about time that Pennsylvania residents made that question moot and toss Santorum out on his ass? Surely, they can do better than this judgemental, narrow-minded twit?
PENN HILLS, Pa. — On Wednesday, Capitol Police agent dispatched from Washington spent nearly 90 minutes doing a security check on Sen. Rick Santorum’s Penn Hill’s house.
“Why would he call Capitol Police when we have Penn Hills police right here? If he’s a resident of Penn Hills, why didn’t he call the Penn Hills police? And for his kids to be in danger? That’s a big joke because his kids are never in this house,” Santorum critic Erin Vecchio said.
Indeed, it sounds as if no one is at home these days.
This is the latest twist in Santorum’s long-running clash with a local Democratic couple that Santorum accuses of trespassing and peeking into windows in a bid to prove he doesn’t really live there.
“The fact is, that we never stepped foot on that property. I put a challenge out to Rick, saying that I would take a lie detector test if he would take a lie detector test if he ever lived in that house,” Vecchio said.
Vecchio is the Penn Hills Democratic chairwoman whose husband was quoted in news reports as saying Santorum’s home was emptied of furniture and had no curtains until days ago.
The Santorum campaign launched radio ads describing the couple as operatives of his Democratic opponent Bob Casey, stalking the senator’s home and children.
Well, if you can’t come up with a coherent, sensible argument, there’s really nothing left but to trash your adversary as Democrats and agents of Satan, eh?
Vecchio was also the Penn Hills School Board member who tried to force Santorum to repay the district thousands of dollars it had to pay for his kids’ cyber schooling.
“We never went on that property. His whole issue with me is pay back Penn Hills the money that you owe us and I’ll go away,” Vecchio said.
Santorum’s staff said the Capitol Police visit was to ensure the safety and security of the Santorum family home. They said, “It is extremely disappointing that because of hardball politics, we have come to this.”
The Casey campaign said Santorum’s accusations lack any credibility and that he should repay Penn Hills taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars for not living in the district.
Who knows what they real truth is here. While there is no doubt that Santorum spends most of his time in Washington (he is, after all, an elected US Senator), if his official in-state residence has no furniture or curtains, and if the grass hasn’t been mowed in awhile, should Santorum really be held to be a Pennsylvania resident?
In addition to deciding whether or not they want an intellectual midget and a far Right-wing panderer to represent them in the Senate for six more years, now Pennsylvania voters have to decide if Rick Santorum is even still a resident of the Keystone State. Let’s hope that Pennsylvanians are smart enough to see through Santorum this time around.
