Getting nasty!

Santorum: Mittens earmarks too!

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As Mitt Romney celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Rick Santorum campaigned in Ohio, blasting Romney for soliciting earmarks while heading up the games.

"One of Mitt Romney's greatest accomplishments, one of the things he talks about most is how he heroically showed up on the scene and bailed out and resolved the problems of the Salt Lake City Olympic Games. He heroically bailed out the Salt Lake City Olympic Games by heroically going to Congress and asking them for tens of millions of dollars to bail out the Salt Lake games -- in an earmark," he said. "In an earmark for the Salt Lake Olympic Games."

"One of his strongest supporters, John McCain, called it potentially the worst boondoggle in earmark history," Santorum continued. "And now Governor Romney is suggesting, 'Oh Rick Santorum earmarked' as he requested almost half a billion dollars in earmarks as governor of Massachusetts to his federal congressmen and senators. Does the word hypocrisy come to mind?"


http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/02/santorum-returns-fire-on-earmarks-114918.html