Santorum Charity Low on Giving, Up on Fees

[mzteris]

WASHINGTON - Sen. Rick Santorum (news, bio, voting record)'s charity donated about 40 percent of the $1.25 million it spent during a four-year period, well below Better Business Bureau standards — paying out the rest for overhead, including several hundred thousand dollars to campaign aides on the charity payroll.

The charity, Operation Good Neighbor, is described on its Web site as an organization promoting "compassionate conservatism" by providing grants to small nonprofit groups, many of them religious.

The Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance says charitable organizations should spend at least 65 percent of their total expenses on program activities.

Operation Good Neighbor is based at the same address as Pennsylvania Sen. Santorum's campaign office in suburban Philadelphia, and some of the same people who have worked on his campaign are working for his charity and collecting money from it, records show.

Among them:

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Don't they know charity begins at home?


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[Doctor_J]

1. Good God, 40%???

Not very compassionate, are they. I remember when Paul Schafer said he liked informercials, but preferred the merrcial part to the info part. Looks like man-on-dog's charity is heavy on the conservativism, light on compassion.

[acmejack]

2. All of the Cons have these ersatz "charitable" funds set up

And they all use them in exactly the same manner. Delay has one which allegedly has something to do with children, he was playing fast and loose with it during the GOP convention when he wanted to rent the Cruise ship & tie it up for the "private" parties.

They're dogs! No wait, my dogs are moving in on me in a threatening manner, no no I didn't mean it down down sit argh

[Faygo Kid]

3. Pennsylvania: Please lance this boil

The good people of the Keystone State would not return this buffoon to office - would they?