So Long Santorum!

Santorum loses. Sweet!! Best moment of this election. Alas, Musgrave and Tancredo won.

Santorum quote:
"I was basically pro-choice all my life, until I ran for Congress. But it had never been something I thought about"

Santorum corruption:
(from wikipedia article)
On his campaign Web site, Santorum boasts of winning $8.5 million in federal aid for the riverfront redevelopment of an abandoned Peco Energy plant—an effort that culminated in the earmarking of $6 million in highway money last year.

But good-government experts were troubled by the appearance of a developer giving money to the senator's charity at the same time it was lobbying for federal dollars. Unlike a campaign contribution, checks to a charity can be written by a corporation and are not subject to any limit.

"It's a neat window into how Washington works", said Gary Ruskin of the Congressional Accountability Project, one of several watchdogs troubled by the potential conflicts when a member of Congress also solicits funds for a charity he runs. "It shows that, more and more, Washington is for sale".

The Operation Good Neighbor Foundation is a charity that Santorum established in 2001 with the aim of helping faith-based groups and others battling poverty and social ills. But it came under fire for spending considerably less on aid and more on expenses than the Better Business Bureau and other charitable watchdogs recommend. Further, several campaign aides are on the payroll or connected with the charity, including Santorum's campaign finance chief, lobbyist Rob Bickhart, who has been paid $75,000 by Operation Good Neighbor in salary and whose company, Capitol Resource Group, rents office space to the charity. A Santorum campaign fundraiser, Maria Diesel, received nearly $200,000 in fundraising fees from Operation Good Neighbor. All in all, the foundation spent $1.25 million in 2001–2004, but devoted just 40 percent of that to charity.[62]

In 2002, the Preferred Real Estate Inc., the developer of the Wharf at Rivertown project in Chester wrote a $25,000 donation to the foundation—the largest known giver. This occurred during the time Santorum working to win as much as $8.5 million in federal aid for the donor's project in Delaware County. In addition to the charitable gift, officials from Preferred Real Estate and their spouses have donated $22,350 to Santorum's re-election campaign and $6,000 to his political action committee, America's Foundation.