Ricky...you got some 'splainin' to do!

Little Ricky, GOP ethicosity point man in the Senate, flashes a bit more than the appearance of impropriety at his constituents, as the Philly News blog explains.

Attytood: How Santorum paid for his Va. house...and his Starbucks coffee

1. Santorum and his wife received a $500,000, five-year mortgage for their Leesburg, Va., home...from a small Philadelphia private bank run by a major campaign donor — even though its stated policy is to make loans only to its “affluent” investors, which the senator is not.

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2. A political action committee chaired by Santorum, America’s
Foundation, spends less money on direct aid to GOP candidates — its
stated purpose — and more on expenditures than similar PACs. And its
expenditure reports are littered with scores of unorthodox expenses for
a political committee, with charges at coffee and ice cream shops and
fast-food joints as well as supermarkets and a home-hardware store.

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3. A little publicized charity founded by Santorum in 2001, called the Operation Good Neighbor Foundation, is not registered here in Pennsylvania, even though the majority of its fundraising and spending takes place here. What’s more, three years of public tax returns show the charity spending just 35.9 percent of the nearly $1 million it raised during that time on charity grants, well below the 75 percent threshold recommended by experts.

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