Rick Santorum’s hypocritical homeschooling lies exposed.

Thanks to MotherJones we get the truth- that Rick is a lying, hypocritical asshole when it comes to his recent rant about Obama and public education in general. From their writeup (all emphasis mine):

But Santorum wasn’t always so opposed to government-run schools—especially one Pennsylvania cyber charter school that offered students free computers, internet service, and online classes. Between 2001 and 2004, that online school allowed the Santorum family to live in Virginia, while sticking Pennsylvania taxpayers with a $100,000 bill.

In 2004, Santorum spawned a minor scandal when news broke that he was no longer residing in the state that sent him to Congress and was living instead outside the Beltway in Leesburg, Virginia. Santorum owned, and still does, a house in Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, next door to his in-laws. The Santorums bought the three-bedroom house in 1997 for $87,800. But after Santorum got elected to the Senate in 1994, he bought a much larger home in Virginia that would accommodate his ever-growing family. Some relatives moved into the Penn Hills house, but Santorum continued to use it to claim residency in Pennsylvania, where he voted by absentee ballot.

Despite moving his family to Virginia, Santorum didn’t enroll his children in a local public school. Nor did the Santorums simply home-school the kids. Instead, in 2001, they enrolled five of their kids in the Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School, based out of tiny Beaver County, Pennsylvania. The school was founded by Nick Trombetta, a former wrestling coach who set up an online charter school in a depopulated part of the state and turned it into a financial powerhouse that rakes in millions annually in public education funds. (In 2007, Trombetta, a major Republican donor in the state, was the subject of a state grand jury investigation into his use of millions in public funds to build a performing arts center near the school’s headquarters, among other things. No charges have been brought.)

Considered a public school, the online charter’s students are required to take state-mandated assessments and meet other formal requirements not demanded of traditional home-schoolers. But it offers home-schoolers lots of advantages, notably free computers and internet connections. When Santorum enrolled his kids there, the local school district in Penn Hills was forced to pick up the tab for the cyber school, which cost the district $38,000 a year for the Santorum children.

Besides being a lying,  hypocritical fuck about homeschooling his kids, he stole money from the pockets of taxpayers in not one, but two states.

What. A. Guy! Just the type everyone wants to run our nation right? A lying sack of shit that can’t even pay his share when he gets busted for ripping off the taxpayers?

Fuck…I hope not. Too bad the Corporate Media hasn’t reminded the rest of the country about this blatant bullshit and theft. Thanks to MotherJones we know about it, and my thanks to Denise at Pass the Douchey’s for reminding me about the homeschooling  history of Man On Dog Santorum. Her post is about his bullshit-laden rant about public education during the latest opportunity that idiot had to run his piehole about the evils of public education and of course anyone that doesn’t believe as he does.

Did Ricky repay the tax payers he fucked? Oh hell no:

When the scandal broke, Trombetta, the founder of the charter school, offered to let Santorum’s kids stay enrolled for free if Santorum would pay the technology costs. In the end, with Democrats challenging his residency in the state, Santorum withdrew his kids from the school. He never repaid a dime. The state ended up settling with the school district and repaying $55,000 in tuition fees. (The Santorum campaign did not respond to a request for comment.)

Below is Ricky blowing his own cover, which I filched from Denise’s blog:

It doesn’t disappear just because you were run out of office Ricky…your bullshit is still out there, thanks to the Internet. Hope you kids read the Mother Jones piece the next time they are online.