Yesterday's
Philadelphia Inquirer lays out yet another case of Rick Santorum's hypocrisy. While Rick was publicly pushing to add a provision to ethics reform legislation that would end corporate-subsidized flights for members of Congress, he was taking advantage of those very same corporate-subzidized flights to travel to fund raisers.
Speaking from the Senate floor, U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (R., Pa.) urged his colleagues to curtail a popular perk: private corporate-sponsored flights at bargain rates for members of Congress.
"This is clearly a subsidy," he said March 8.
Two days earlier, he had taken a BellSouth plane from a runway near his home in Leesburg, Va., to fund-raising events in North Carolina and South Carolina. The jet ferried Santorum, two aides and Ward White, BellSouth's top Washington lobbyist.
Santorum paid $6,955 - first-class rates, as Senate rules require, but a fraction of what it costs to operate the plane.
Not surprisingly, the corporate travel provision he was pushing while he was the "point man" on ethics reform was not included in the final package.
