Akkam’s Razor

It’s over, Ricky.  Via Attytood:

Charles Howder, the director of acquisitions for Preferred Real Estate, based in Conshohocken, acknowledged that Santorum was one of a number of government officials helpful in winning aid for the redevelopment of the formerly abandoned and polluted power plant.

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Preferred bought the Chester site in 1999 for $1, although company officials said they spent at least $50 million on fixing it up. In May 2001, Santorum held a news conference at the site to announce that it had landed its first tenant, the software company Synygy Inc. The next month, the senator wrote a letter to then Housing and Urban Development Secretary Mel Martinez — now a U.S. senator from Florida — in a successful push for a $1.4 million HUD grant.

In 2002, Preferred was listed as one of three entities that gave $25,000 to Santorum’s charity. The next year, the company hired a D.C.-area lobbying firm — Mehl, Griffin & Bartek, Ltd. — and paid it more than $60,000 to lobby Congress and federal agencies for highway and HUD dollars.

Now, I wouldn’t be voting for Santorum anyway, but for other reasons…he’s messed up in the head:

Santorum gained national prominence in 1996 when he spearheaded the Republican effort to override President Clinton’s veto of the ban on partial-birth abortion. Santorum writes that managing the bill was “one of the most memorable and transforming moments of my life.” During the debate, a sonogram showed that a baby Karen was carrying had a fatal birth defect and would die shortly after birth. At 20 weeks, Karen lay in the hospital near death with a 105-degree fever. Doctors warned that Karen could die unless labor was induced — an option the Santorums considered an abortion since it would result in the certain death of the child. Karen went into labor before a decision had to be made.

Gabriel Michael Santorum lived for only two hours. The Santorums spent the night in the hospital bed with their lifeless baby lying between them. The next morning they brought the palm-sized corpse to Karen’s parent’s house. They had their other children pose for pictures and cuddle with Gabriel. They sang lullabies and held a private mass.

I’m sure some people would say this is a normal response - I would have to disagree.