I wasn’t particularly moved by the Santorum camp complaining that Casey rarely showed up for work as state treasurer, but mostly because whenever the topic turns to Casey, I, like most normal people, start to doze off. But today the Santorum camp is highlighting this fallout from his inattention to work: Evidently some $7 billion in state money has gone companies that support terrorist-sponsoring governments. Santorum is currently holding a presser with the state treasurer of Missouri who has a “terror free” investment fund going there. Santorum’s argument: If this guy showed up to work, Pennsylvania money wouldn’t be going to Sudan. It’s especially worth pointing out when you consider that other state treasurers have confronted the issue and that Santorum has been a leader in the Senate on a whole panoply of issues — including Sudan , terrorism, human rights, religious liberty …
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Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.
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