Republican Congressman-elect is a total charlatan with an entirely fake résumé

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone synopsize the R's arguments for voting "No" in this case? Do they question the evidence, or just don't want the precedent of expulsion?

They don’t want Hochul to appoint a D to the seat, which she is going to do.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He is out!!!

McCarthy knew that Santos had lied about his qualifications and Santos should never have been allowed to be sworn in.

Again, a competent media would be asking what else is the GOP hiding from America.

+1 new Republican representatives Anna Paulina Luna and Andy Ogles have similarly suspicious résumés and we hardly hear anything about it.

He didn't get expelled because of the lying. He got expelled because of the blatant misuse of campaign funds.

+1. When it was only the lying, he survived two earlier attempts to oust him. It wasn't until the House Ethics committee report came out which got referred to the Justice Department because their research suggested illegal misuse of campaign funds, that suddenly 105 Republicans voted with the Democrats to oust him.

DOJ had already indicted him twice when Congress decided to refer the Ethics Committee report, though. And he had at least one staffer who had already pleaded guilty.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone synopsize the R's arguments for voting "No" in this case? Do they question the evidence, or just don't want the precedent of expulsion?

They don’t want Hochul to appoint a D to the seat, which she is going to do.

No, she’s not going to do that, she’s going to set the date for a special election as proscribed by state law, ignoramus.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone synopsize the R's arguments for voting "No" in this case? Do they question the evidence, or just don't want the precedent of expulsion?

They don’t want Hochul to appoint a D to the seat, which she is going to do.

It will be a special election.

[Anonymous]

“When I spoke to Republicans about how to prevent another George Santos, they all said they couldn't stop another one. "How does the Democrat party do better opposition research as well?" This is blaming a bartender for getting a DUI for not cutting you off.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/george-santos-expulsion-house-republicans-b2456507.html

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He is out!!!

McCarthy knew that Santos had lied about his qualifications and Santos should never have been allowed to be sworn in.

Again, a competent media would be asking what else is the GOP hiding from America.

+1 new Republican representatives Anna Paulina Luna and Andy Ogles have similarly suspicious résumés and we hardly hear anything about it.

He didn't get expelled because of the lying. He got expelled because of the blatant misuse of campaign funds.

Dp- lying is the same as stealing in the regard. They stole the seat under false pretense. And they stole them likely from another republican. Their party has been infiltrated.

There's no realistic way to enforce truth-telling in a campaign. It's up to a candidate's opponents (both in the primary and general elections) to call out the lies. The Dem who ran against Santos claims he did but that nobody was paying attention.

[Anonymous]

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I wonder how many GOP House members were fraudulently charged but will still support his bid to stay in the body?

The Ds always step on the rake when they create new precedent. And usually regret it pretty soon.

[Anonymous]

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I wonder how many GOP House members were fraudulently charged but will still support his bid to stay in the body?

The Ds always step on the rake when they create new precedent. And usually regret it pretty soon.

There’s no new precedent. The last two House members expelled were already convicted, but the expulsions were based on the evidence in the Ethics Committee reports and not on the DOJ evidence that convicted them. If the founders had wanted conviction to be a requirement before expulsion they would have put that in Article 1.

[Anonymous]

From the screenwriter of Eddie Murphy’s The Distinguished Gentleman: “I Wrote a Movie About a Con Man Elected to Congress. I Never Imagined Anyone Could Actually Pull It Off.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/11/28/mag-kaplan-santos-screenplay-00128730

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

I wonder how many GOP House members were fraudulently charged but will still support his bid to stay in the body?

The Ds always step on the rake when they create new precedent. And usually regret it pretty soon.

If there was a new precedent set it was the Republicans with a series of weak Speakers who didn’t put any pressure on this clown to resign.

[Anonymous]

Santos’s Twitter last night was lit:

Last night George Santos went on a revenge tour against NY House Rs that led the charge to expel him:

11:48pm — accuses Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) of questionable stock trading

12:08am — accuses Mike Lawler (R-NY) of laundering money

12:19am — accuses Nick LaLota (R-NY) of stealing public funds

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Santos’s Twitter last night was lit:

Last night George Santos went on a revenge tour against NY House Rs that led the charge to expel him:

11:48pm — accuses Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) of questionable stock trading

12:08am — accuses Mike Lawler (R-NY) of laundering money

12:19am — accuses Nick LaLota (R-NY) of stealing public funds

I love to see some good GOP on GOP fighting but Santos needs to just go away at this point. Ignore him.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Santos’s Twitter last night was lit:

Last night George Santos went on a revenge tour against NY House Rs that led the charge to expel him:

11:48pm — accuses Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) of questionable stock trading

12:08am — accuses Mike Lawler (R-NY) of laundering money

12:19am — accuses Nick LaLota (R-NY) of stealing public funds

By definition, Congress can't make questionable stock trades. They are exempt from insider trading rules.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

I wonder how many GOP House members were fraudulently charged but will still support his bid to stay in the body?

The Ds always step on the rake when they create new precedent. And usually regret it pretty soon.

Oh, I know of at least one occasion on which the Democrats have begun to use the Republicans’ precedent and the Republicans didn’t like it. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dick-durbin-judiciary-committee-biden-judges_n_6568fef4e4b066e398b6fb64/amp