MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) â€" Republican presidential carefree Rick Santorum pushed behind Friday opposite critique from a opposition for his office of appropriation for home-state projects during his reign in Congress.
As he campaigned in Iowa, Santorum vowed to pull for low cuts in sovereign spending should he win a White House, though that oath drew usually renewed ridicule from another candidate, Texas Gov. Rick Perry.
Perry took a poke during Santorum while compelling himself as a Washington outsider. He labeled Santorum a "serial earmarker," a assign he's done before, and ticked off pork-barrel projects like an indoor sleet timberland and a barbarous "Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska.
Santorum, who has surged in many polls in Iowa, was asked about a critique during a city gymnasium assembly in Marshalltown.
"I see a small bit of hypocrisy," pronounced a former congressman and senator from Pennsylvania. "He had a paid lobbyist in Washington looking for earmarks."
Santorum pronounced he's already apologized for a use of earmarks, though he also shielded them as a apparatus to force bureaucrats to follow a will of Congress. The right thing to do, he said, is to listen to voters about their priorities for spending sovereign money.
"You can't only trust a bureaucracy to make a right call," he said.
Throughout his debate day, Santorum focused on stepping adult his grassroots efforts, branch his courtesy to delivering backers to subsequent week's caucuses.
Santorum worked his approach by a loud sports bar in Ames to watch Iowa State play Rutgers in a New Era Pinstripe Bowl.
Followed by a host of cameras, Santorum pronounced his debate is operative tough on audience efforts and has in place 1,000 patrol captains to make a box for him Tuesday.
Santorum has sent out a fundraising interest on a heels of his alleviation in polls and pronounced he only had his best fundraising day ever. He gave no sum though pronounced he'll go on a atmosphere in New Hampshire on Monday.
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