Source: Santorum to receive Secret Service protection
(CNN) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum will receive Secret Service protection this week, a source familiar with the situation told CNN.
At this time, GOP presidential rival Mitt Romney is the sole candidate granted protection.
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A spokesman for the Secret Service declined to comment on the matter when contacted by CNN.
Meanwhile, a source with Newt Gingrich's campaign confirmed the former House speaker also requested protection. The source did not know when the paperwork was submitted but said discussions about putting in the request began last week.
Gingrich's campaign has not yet received a response from the Secret Service, the source said.
- CNN's Kevin Bohn and Shawna Shepherd contributed to this report.
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Hooray for romney. I hope he is safe
What a waste of our money. These losers spout their hateful rhetoric, and now we the people are supposed to pay for it.
Good, it looks like they are going to do it !!!!!!!
He is worried about getting glitter-bombed. You don't really get beaten for being straight... but you may end up dead just for going out in public for being gay. What does merit Secret Service protection is human dignity not hate.
Huh. Isn't Secret Service paid by the Federal government? And doesn't Rick Santorum say he wants to cut the Federal government down to the bare minimum? Well then I say no Secret Service for him... If someone comes after him, then he can stun them with his arguments about how evil the government is.
the secret service doesnt think gingrich will win. if you want to kill him now is the time.
I have no problem with this. I would like to know if Ron Paul would accept it if he became the nominee? I don't want anyone hurt or killed over being a candidate.
Who's going to protect the public from Santorum and Gingrich?
Who pays for this? Hope its not my tax dollars. They don't want tax dollars paying for birth control, but they can get protection!! It is a mans world after all.
Ron Paul doesn't have to worry though. The fact that he's still in the running proves that he's just a crazy OLD man..
Just more proof that Ron Paul won't waste our money, and the others...
Does the Secret Service even employ the number of agents it would take to form a circle around Gingrich?
I am running for president so can I get free secret service protection also?
I wish the secret service would protect my rights from being violated by Santorum.
so now I guess we as tax payers have to pay to protect a guy that says stupid stuff. Geesh will it ever end?
I wonder if Ron Paul is politically opposed to Secret Service protection. Wonder how he feels about this in time of war (say the U.S. was attacked).
He doesn't need the Secret Service. God is on his side isn't he?
It looks like all the two faced small government proponents want some big government protection. They're all pro second amendment, have them carry their own protection.
Santorum is the best candidate.
Is it just me or does the connotation of the SS (secret service?) sort of look like the nazis are running this country anyways? Next we'll have a 'Blitzkrieg' ? Already do, in the Mid-East, LOL
Fine. But who is going to protect the American people from Mr. Santorum?
I feel so sorry for the poor secret service agents that have to hang around all day with the likes of either of these annoying imbeciles, Santorum or Gingerich!
Wait, why does Santorum need the Secret Service? After all, isn't God looking after him?
Why bother? Nothing can penetrate the bubble of 1950 that Santorum lives in.
The Secret Service can protect him from assassins, but can they protect Santorum from himself?