Democracy for Pittsburgh targets Santorum home exemption.

[madfloridian]

http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/tribeast/s_330720.html

"A political advocacy group wants Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala to look into U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum's homestead tax exemption for his home in Penn Hills.
Democracy for Pittsburgh plans Thursday to present a petition with more than 500 signatures calling for the inquiry.

The tax break is supposed to be applied to a primary residence, and counts for about $70 off county property taxes a year. Santorum, the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, lives most of the year in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Leesburg, Va., with his family.

Democracy for Pittsburgh is part of Democracy for America, which grew out of Democrat Howard Dean's presidential campaign. "

Good for the DFA groups...fighting and organizing.

[Carolab]

1. Very encouraging.

Makes ya proud.

[madfloridian]

2. Picture and info of home.

http://www.chuck2006.com/blogDetail.asp?id=99

Clowns in a Volkswagen, or Rick Santorum's PA Home by Tim :: Posted on Monday, March 14, 2005.

Article 1: Section 3: Clause 3 of the of the United States Constitution:

Clause 3: No Person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.

Shorter, more appropriate version: If you are not a resident of the state, you aren't allowed to run for the U.S. Senate.

A lot has been made of Rick Santorum's residency in the past few months.

1.) Penn Hills (PA) school district paying $38,000 a year for his children's cyber schooling.

2.) His wife won a $350,000 civil suit against a chiropractor. The claim was filed and the judgement was awarded in Virginia. (Umm, yeah, Santorum is trying to limit these types of judgements to $250,000 -- she filed for $500,000 and Rick Santorum testified on her behalf)

3.) The Pittsburgh Post Gazette wants to know if Senator Santorum (R-VA/PA) is behind the recent push-polling done against members of the Penn Hills School District.

4.) Then there are the actual home that Rick Santorum owns in Pennsylvania. The home that supposedly houses his wife, six children, and the two people that he rents it to in Pennsylvania.

That's a total of 10 people that live in this place: