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To: Road Walker who wrote (277813)	3/2/2006 1:52:15 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575450

How Santorum got $8.5 million for his charity's largest donor Once again, Attytood gives you tomorrow's news today. Here's our piece that will appear in tomorrow's Philadelphia Daily News: The largest known giver to a controversial charity founded by U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum made its $25,000 donation as the senator was working to win as much as $8.5 million in federal aid for the donor’s project in the Philadelphia suburbs. Federal tax records show that Preferred Real Estate Inc., the developer of the Wharf at Rivertown project in Chester, Pa., wrote the check to Santorum’s Operation Good Neighbor Foundation in 2002. 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.”

To: Road Walker who wrote (277813)	3/3/2006 8:53:04 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575450

One of our favorite characters from the 2000 elections is back in the news.... Harris tried to help donor Just when I thought it was safe to read the thread again. WASHINGTON - Katherine Harris, the Longboat Key congresswoman running for U.S. Senate, is refusing to honor a pledge to reveal her requests for federal earmarks - so-called pork barrel spending. Do people in FLA see her for what she is......obviously the ones outside her district? Seriously, she ranks right up there with the worst partisan politicians.....and she's not even clever about it. She has stretched the peter principle to its limits.