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Another presidential candidate has secured space as an Iowa campaign headquarters.

Pennsylvania’s Rick Santorum has set up shop in Urbandale, he told The Des Moines Register this morning.

A grand opening celebration is scheduled for 11 a.m. to noon this Saturday, according to his campaign staff.

Santorum’s office is at 11306 Aurora Ave. in Urbandale in the Aurora business park.

Republicans Tim Pawlenty and Ron Paul also have Iowa headquarters.

In a news conference with reporters today at Informed Choices Medical Clinic, a crisis pregnancy clinic that’s about to open in West Des Moines, Santorum said:

ON INTERROGATION (referring to U.S. Sen. John McCain): “What I said was that we have a very different opinion of how the enhanced interrogation program works and I’ve been very clear about that. We still have that disagreement.”

TUESDAY UPDATE: SANTORUM TO PLEDGE. TUESDAY UPDATE: SANTORUM TO PLEDGE. One of the nation's most well-known anti-tax advocates will join recently announced GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum in Manchester on Wednesday.

Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist is slated to be on hand to witness Santorum sign ATR's “Taxpayer Protection Pledge” at Central Paper, 350 Gay St., Manchester, at 2:30 p.m.

Santorum will then tour the facility and talk tax and regulatory challenges facing small businesses.

Two days before kicking off his presidential campaign, former Sen. Rick Santorum told attendees at the Faith and Freedom Conference that he brings a record of leadership on issues important to social conservatives, a point of contrast with other White House hopefuls.

"I just don't take the pledge - I take the bullets," said Santorum, speaking at the Faith and Freedom Conference that has attracted nearly every major presidential candidate this weekend. "I stand out in front and lead."