Does Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa) Live in Pennsylvania?

Apparently not. As the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorializes:

The Penn Hills School District asked Sen. Rick Santorum a $38,000 question. That is whether his children are residents of the municipality to the point that their educations should be paid for by Penn Hills taxpayers.

On Wednesday he gave his answer and it was no.

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The senator's office issued a statement two days ago saying he and his wife, Karen, are withdrawing their children from the cyber school. But that doesn't mean they'll be attending any of the brick-and-mortar schools of the Penn Hills district either. The commute from the Santorum home in Leesburg, Va., would be onerous.

All of which begs a much bigger question: Is Rick Santorum R-Pa. or R-Va.? No one should represent Pennsylvania in the U.S. Senate because he once lived here or because he visits all 67 counties every year. A traveling salesman can do that.

Indeed. And this is important not just for the Constitutional issues raised by the location a Senator inhabits.

There is, unsurprisingly, a hypocrisy issue issue. As the Post-Gazette continues:

It's a strange case of political turnabout. In his initial House race against Rep. Doug Walgren in 1990, challenger Santorum attacked the incumbent from Mt. Lebanon for buying a house and raising his children in McLean, Va. Now Rick Santorum of Leesburg, Va., is saying that he is and he isn't a resident of Pennsylvania.

Alas, it is not that strange. It is just another example of a Republican leader holding others to a standard to which he refuses to hold himself.

This is about personal responsibility and honesty, Senator Santorum. Where do you live?

And if it is not in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, are you willing to take some of the personal responsibility about which you and your fellow GOP leaders often talk -- and resign?

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