Perry goes after Santorum over earmarks, faces questions from some Iowans
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Gov. Rick Perry turned his attention Thursday to an opponent he has long ignored, questioning former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum's conservative credentials on fiscal issues.
Perry's decision to target Santorum served as another reminder that, with less than a week to go until Tuesday's Iowa caucuses, Perry's presidential campaign is not going as planned. Santorum, who has struggled for months to attract Republican voters, has moved up to third place in some Iowa polls — surpassing Perry.
Perry knocked Santorum, a former member of the U.S. House and Senate from Pennsylvania, for seeking and defending earmarks, which allow members of Congress to direct federal funding to pet projects in their districts. Earmarks have come to serve as symbols of wasteful spending to many voters.
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Perry bashed earmarks at each campaign stop Thursday, but Texas officials have sought numerous earmarks during his tenure. For example, in a 2006 report, officials with the state Office of State-Federal Relations bragged that they worked with Texas transportation officials "to secure over $669 million in highway earmarks for the state, $78 million in bus and bus facility earmarks, and $505 million in New Starts transit earmarks in the five-year surface transportation bill."
http://www.statesman.com/news/texas-politics/perry-goes-after-santorum-over-earmarks-faces-questions-2067132.html
The governor is consistent in his hypocrisy. 
