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Saturday, August 26, 2006

Santorum and Social Security

Have you seen the Santorum ad where he's dancing around some seniors and dancing around his record on Social Security? The fact is Tricky Ricky wanted to eliminate Social Security by privatizing it and making Wall Street brokers very rich. In early 2005 he did a tour od 14 stops where he received a LOT of negative reaction from Pennsylvania seniors about his position. We haven't heard much more from the Junior Senator about this since.

One of these forums was in Philadelphia at Penn and some Drexel University College Republicans were in attendance. When some protestors from Philly for Change chanted hey hey ho ho Rick Santorum's got to go the YR's began chanting themselves. It revealed their true agenda for Social Security.

Tim Tagaris was there with the trusty Pennacchio for Pennsylvania camcorder. I drove to Plumsteadville that afternoon to get the tape and download it to my computer. I then burned it to a dvd and took it back to the campaign office the next morning. Tim edited the segment and uploaded it to the Chuck2006 website where national media picked it up. MoveOn sent it all over the country in an email message.

I've uploaded it to YouTube so no one forgets Rick's true position.