And what will the GOP do about it? Of course, not a damned thing.George Santos, whose election to Congress on Long Island last month helped Republicans clinch a narrow majority in the House of Representatives, built his candidacy on the notion that he was the “full embodiment of the American dream” and was running to safeguard it for others.
His campaign biography amplified his storybook journey: He is the son of Brazilian immigrants, and the first openly gay Republican to win a House seat as a non-incumbent. By his account, he catapulted himself from a New York City public college to become a “seasoned Wall Street financier and investor” with a family-owned real estate portfolio of 13 properties and an animal rescue charity that saved more than 2,500 dogs and cats.
But a New York Times review of public documents and court filings from the United States and Brazil, as well as various attempts to verify claims that Mr. Santos, 34, made on the campaign trail, calls into question key parts of the résumé that he sold to voters.
Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, the marquee Wall Street firms on Mr. Santos’s campaign biography, told The Times they had no record of his ever working there. Officials at Baruch College, which Mr. Santos has said he graduated from in 2010, could find no record of anyone matching his name and date of birth graduating that year.
There was also little evidence that his animal rescue group, Friends of Pets United, was, as Mr. Santos claimed, a tax-exempt organization: The Internal Revenue Service could locate no record of a registered charity with that name.
His financial disclosure forms suggest a life of some wealth. He lent his campaign more than $700,000 during the midterm election, has donated thousands of dollars to other candidates in the last two years and reported a $750,000 salary and over $1 million in dividends from his company, the Devolder Organization.
Yet the firm, which has no public website or LinkedIn page, is something of a mystery. On a campaign website, Mr. Santos once described Devolder as his “family’s firm” that managed $80 million in assets. On his congressional financial disclosure, he described it as a capital introduction consulting company, a type of boutique firm that serves as a liaison between investment funds and deep-pocketed investors. But Mr. Santos’s disclosures did not reveal any clients, an omission three election law experts said could be problematic if such clients exist.
And while Mr. Santos has described a family fortune in real estate, he has not disclosed, nor could The Times find, records of his properties.
fake Congressman George Santos
fake Congressman George Santos
So, a surprise come-from-behind GOP congressional candidate in New York turns out to be like most other Republicans - he's a lying sack of shit. But maybe to a greater degree than most. Donald Trump would love him. Via the NYT:
Re: fake Congressman George Santos
I don't care who the person is or what party they belong to, when they make a phony resume to get elected to a public office or even just to get a job they are telling you they can't be trusted. I don't know if he broke any law but if he did he should be prosecuted, convicted, and removed from office.
When you vote left, you vote right.
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five minutes is all it would have taken for the DNC to find all this out.
That they did not is maddening. OF COURSE the media, which goes out of its way to NEVER disclose on the GOP, didnt.
That they did not is maddening. OF COURSE the media, which goes out of its way to NEVER disclose on the GOP, didnt.
I sigh in your general direction.
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But it is ok for Blumenthal to lie about Vietnam.
You people are hypocrites one and all.
You people are hypocrites one and all.
" I am a socialist " Bernie Sanders
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I’m pretty sure the House of Representatives are the only ones who can remove him.Number6 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 4:05 pm I don't care who the person is or what party they belong to, when they make a phony resume to get elected to a public office or even just to get a job they are telling you they can't be trusted. I don't know if he broke any law but if he did he should be prosecuted, convicted, and removed from office.
Re: fake Congressman George Santos
DId any board cons call out MTG or Boebert or Gaetz not standing for Zelensky, thus showing support for our enemy?
I sigh in your general direction.
Re: fake Congressman George Santos
Wrong again unlike you who have a double standard I believe both should be removed from office.
If I was a hypocrite I would excuse one and be " outraged" about the other.
" I am a socialist " Bernie Sanders
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No you don’t. You defended him. You’re fine with ANYONE who has an (R) behind their name. I mean, they just passed a bill supporting molested children, written by two dems along with YOUR SENATOR, Lindsey Graham along with Ted Cruz, and your Congressman, Ralph Norman, voted AGAINST the bill.
And you’ll happily vote for Norman in 2024.
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Of course he will, owning the libs (i.e. behaving like a child) is ALL that matters to him.gounion wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 7:17 pm No you don’t. You defended him. You’re fine with ANYONE who has an (R) behind their name. I mean, they just passed a bill supporting molested children, written by two dems along with YOUR SENATOR, Lindsey Graham along with Ted Cruz, and your Congressman, Ralph Norman, voted AGAINST the bill.
And you’ll happily vote for Norman in 2024.
Oh wait, that and making sure rich people dont have to pay taxes.
I sigh in your general direction.
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Blumenthal did lie. He claimed he misspoke which of course is typical of politicians. He was in the reserves and did not do any tours in Vietnam.
But your response is nothing more than what I would expect from you. Whataboutery is one of your main playing cards. So let us look a little closer. Santos has completely fabricated his life story. Blumenthal did not. Yet all we heard out of your piehole is whataboutery and nothing about Santos.
So, what is your opinion about Santos? Don’t reach for the whataboutery card as that has been removed from the deck.
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i dunno..........Where i came from a phony resume would get ya drummed out of the sand box with no court needed.Number6 wrote: ↑Fri Dec 23, 2022 4:05 pm I don't care who the person is or what party they belong to, when they make a phony resume to get elected to a public office or even just to get a job they are telling you they can't be trusted. I don't know if he broke any law but if he did he should be prosecuted, convicted, and removed from office.
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. [Will Rogers]
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It's becoming increasingly clear that it's hard to find something Santos wasn't lying about. Even his staffers were lying about their activities.
I guess in a different age this would trigger an Ethics investigation; these days, jaded voters and reps just shrug.
I guess in a different age this would trigger an Ethics investigation; these days, jaded voters and reps just shrug.
"Don't believe every quote attributed to people on the Internet" -- Abraham Lincoln
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Yeah, what’s crazy is that he may be lying about being gay, too. He’s said he’s been openly gay for years and years. Yet he got divorced from a woman in 2019.
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Well, we don’t need a court. The House can remove him. I suspect there will be back channel negotiations to get another republican appointed to replace him.
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Give it some time.ProfX wrote: ↑Sat Dec 24, 2022 9:53 am It's becoming increasingly clear that it's hard to find something Santos wasn't lying about. Even his staffers were lying about their activities.
I guess in a different age this would trigger an Ethics investigation; these days, jaded voters and reps just shrug.
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First, the GOP House won’t remove him because, second, there would have to be another election.
So they won’t do a damned thing. Criminality is perfectly acceptable in the GOP.
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Yeah I'm with you Gou there's no way McCarthy will ever remove Santos from that seat but if there's a chance that happens i personally don't want Jay Jacobs to pick a weak ass candidate to run for that district if there is a special election since he the GOP Judge & Machinima fucked us over with the gerrymandering map mess.
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That ain't happening for three reasons:
1. McCarthy and the republicans wouldn't remove him unless he was a Democrat.
2. It would require two-thirds of the members of the House to remove him and there aren't enough republicans who would vote to remove him.
3. In New York, vacancies are not filled by a political party but by a special election depending upon the date the vacancy took place. New York law requires a vacancy be filled by a special election in a Congressional office if the vacancy occurs before July 1st of the last year of the term (that is, July 1, 2024).Over the decades, several forms of discipline have evolved in the House. The most severe type of punishment is expulsion from the House, which is followed by censure, and finally reprimand. Expulsion, as mandated in the Constitution, requires a two-thirds majority vote. Censure and reprimand, which evolved through House precedent and practice, are imposed by a simple majority of the full House.
https://history.house.gov/Institution/O ... iscipline/
The voters of Long Island got played by a con man.4. a. A special election shall not be held to fill a vacancy in the
office of a representative in congress unless such vacancy occurs on or
before the first day of July of the last year of the term of office, or
unless it occurs thereafter and a special session of congress is called
to meet before the next general election, or be called after three
months before the general election in such year.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PBO/42
When you vote left, you vote right.
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Did Santos claim to have won international awards, finish near the top of his class, earn 3 degrees, have a full ride scholarship, turned down an appointment to Annapolis.bird wrote: ↑Sat Dec 24, 2022 6:35 am Blumenthal did lie. He claimed he misspoke which of course is typical of politicians. He was in the reserves and did not do any tours in Vietnam.
But your response is nothing more than what I would expect from you. Whataboutery is one of your main playing cards. So let us look a little closer. Santos has completely fabricated his life story. Blumenthal did not. Yet all we heard out of your piehole is whataboutery and nothing about Santos.
So, what is your opinion about Santos? Don’t reach for the whataboutery card as that has been removed from the deck.
Whataboutery? How about hypocrobatery
" I am a socialist " Bernie Sanders
Re: fake Congressman George Santos
See my previous post and answer why is it OK for Biden to lie about his academic record.
Imo all three should not be in office.
" I am a socialist " Bernie Sanders
Re: fake Congressman George Santos
So how is Joe Biden lying about his education different.
Wait I know because when a Democrat lies it is different than when a republican lies.
None should be in office is the opinion of those who have one standard and who aren't hypocrites
" I am a socialist " Bernie Sanders
Re: fake Congressman George Santos
It's the difference between shoplifting and grand theft. I mean, there's nothing about this man that ISN'T a lie.
But you'll defend him, won't you?