Your taxes at work for Rick

Rick Santorum will remain a U.S. Senator and continue to receive a taxpayer-funded salary to represent the people of Pennsylvania until January 3rd. He also has 9 offices that will continue to operate at taxpayer expense.

So we found it very interesting when we learned that Santorum is apparently no longer interested in providing constituent service, or even responding to requests or inquiries sent to his office.

How did we learn this? A reader recently sent us a copy of the following auto-response email she received after submitting an email through Santorum's senate web site. We then also submitted an email to Rick's office and received the same response. Here it is:

Thank you for contacting me. As always, I appreciate hearing from you.
As you may know, the United States Senate is currently in a period of
transition. Accordingly, your concerns may be better met by contacting
your new Senator, Bob Casey, Jr. You may call the Capitol Switchboard for
Senator Casey’s contact information at 202-224-3121. I also recommend
that you contact Senator Arlen Specter or your Representative in the
House.

Thank you again for contacting me.

Sincerely,
Rick Santorum
United States Senate

Since Rick is no longer interested in serving his constituents, do you think he'll stop collecting his salary from the taxpayers? Of course not, because Rick has always believed the rules are different for him.