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Santorum's first job was a paper job working for Jake's father, then state senator Doyle Corman. You know, like on the Sopranos when mob members were on the books at a big construction job, but didn't actually have to work.
Here's the story on that first link in the chain between the Cormans & Santorum - I apologize for the length of this, but it's necessary to support my statement. I posted this earlier in another thread:
"Santorum's father supported his family as an employee/psychologist at a VA hospital, i.e., govt. entitled health care. Rick got his bachelor's degree(1980) and MBA(1981) from two state supported universities. Then Rick took a job as a full time staff member for a Republican state senator, Doyle Corman, in the state capitol. For 3 years Rick was listed on the state payroll as the executive director of a state senate committee on local government. For the next 3 years, until 1986, he was executive director of a state senate committee on transportation.
According to Wikipedia, "After earning his Juris Doctor, Santorum became an administrative assistant to Republican State Senator J. Doyle Corman (until 1986). He was director of the Pennsylvania Senate's local government committee from 1981 to 1984, then director of the Pennsylvania Senate's Transportation Committee until 1986."
That statement is clearly in error. He didn't receive his JD until 1986. The entry should state, after receiving his MBA, he went to work for Doyle Corman. In fact, Santorum "worked" as an executive director for the state senate for 5 years, during which same 5 years he completed a law degree.
Having worked as an executive director of a state legislative committee myself(AFTER I received my JD), I can tell you being an ED is a full time job, and when the chambers are in session, involves long hours and late nights. Yet, Santorum graduated with his law degree from Dickinson School of Law in 1986. At that time, Dickinson School of Law did NOT offer part time programs for law school.
Classes were offered during the day, on weekdays only. The schedule for 1st years was and remains: "first year program consists of required courses that include two semesters of research and writing. During their first year, 1Ls must complete courses in Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Criminal Law, Property, Criminal Procedure and Torts."
As a former law student (3 years) and professor (2 years), I can tell you that 1 hour of class requires 3 hours of preparation/reading. First year law students (Santorum's era was pre-computerized access to case law) LIVED in the classroom and the law library - no way in hell any full time, 1st year students had part-time, let alone full-time jobs. During 2nd and 3rd years, people clerked in the summer, and some worked two afternoons a week for local law firms. Dickinson may have cut Santorum a deal and let him stretch out the course work for the second and third years, but first year required Monday through Friday attendance and the other 2 years would also have been daytime/weekday classes. Dickinson is located in Carlisle, PA - a good 60 minute commute from the State Capitol Building where Santorum ostensibly was working.
So how's that for a govt. entitlement? Receive a salary and very generous benefits from the state while going to law school? And his GOP godfather, Corman, must have had to hire another staff member to do the work Santorum was supposed to be doing for the state Senate."
End of Act One in the Corman/Santorum drama.
Act Two: Young Corman starts out his political career as Field Service Director for the Pennsylvania Builders Association (the most despicable group to lobby in Harrisburg, in my experience there) from 1993 through 1994.
Act Three: Santorum hires Corman, the Younger. He was State Director for Central Pennsylvania for United States Senator Rick Santorum from 1994 through 1998. The good times were rolling and even with all his political pull, he was convicted for drunk driving in 1995. Imagine that! He was working for a US Senator and his father was one of the most powerful state senators, but he still got convicted. Must have been a pretty nasty situation.
Act Four:
In 1998, Corman's father, J. Doyle Corman, a Pennsylvania State Senator for 21 years, announced his retirement from the Senate. Corman announced that he would run for his father's seat. During the three-way GOP primary, Corman was attacked by the other candidates for a 1995 drunk driving conviction as well as his admission to experimenting with marijuana in the 1980s. Despite the minor controversy, Corman prevailed in the won a three-way GOP primary and went on to defeat Democrat Scott Conklin (now a member Pennsylvania House of Representatives) in the general election.
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Corman is bush league compared to Casey. Nobody outside of his home county knows his name. I don't think he has a shot in hell of beating Casey. I particularly like the idea that Corman will flaunt his experience working for Santorum, cause we all know the low opinion of Santorum in Pennsylvania.
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