Scandal in the Wind 2023. George Santos gets Sashayed

[Spectator]

This guy is going to prison. Only a matter of time when.

[Hammy]

What sort of horrible opposition research did the dems do with this guy?

NY Dems really botched this whole election, not just with this seat

[coloradocowboi]

What sort of horrible opposition research did the dems do with this guy?

NY Dems really botched this whole election, not just with this seat

Well the good news is that if he’s a Florida resident as alleged then they will almost certainly have an opportunity to win this seat back in a special election. Everything else reported on thus far is constitutionally ok, but lying about state residency is an enormous no-no.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

What sort of horrible opposition research did the dems do with this guy?

NY Dems really botched this whole election, not just with this seat

Well the good news is that if he’s a Florida resident as alleged then they will almost certainly have an opportunity to win this seat back in a special election. Everything else reported on thus far is constitutionally ok, but lying about state residency is an enormous no-no.

It would not surprise me if he did feel like he could get away with lying about his state residency. After all, he got away with lying about everything else...

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

https://twitter.com/JasonKander/status/1605990888399855616

[kwabbit]

What sort of horrible opposition research did the dems do with this guy?

NY Dems really botched this whole election, not just with this seat

Well the good news is that if he’s a Florida resident as alleged then they will almost certainly have an opportunity to win this seat back in a special election. Everything else reported on thus far is constitutionally ok, but lying about state residency is an enormous no-no.

Cracking down on a state residency requirement violation would open up a can of worms. A huge amount of congressmembers are really residents of DC and not their home states. Santos may live in Florida but if he's registered to vote in NY that's about as much half of congress.

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/Rschooley/status/1606060827437436928

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

So, apparently Zimmerman did uncover a lot of this and tried to hit Santos with it, but the media refused to pick it up because they were more interested in puffing up a fictionalized crime wave *shrugs*.

[Oryxslayer]

What sort of horrible opposition research did the dems do with this guy?

NY Dems really botched this whole election, not just with this seat

Well the good news is that if he’s a Florida resident as alleged then they will almost certainly have an opportunity to win this seat back in a special election. Everything else reported on thus far is constitutionally ok, but lying about state residency is an enormous no-no.

Cracking down on a state residency requirement violation would open up a can of worms. A huge amount of congressmembers are really residents of DC and not their home states. Santos may live in Florida but if he's registered to vote in NY that's about as much half of congress.

I mean the NY Assembly is planning to refuse to seat and call a special election for said seat come the new year cause the victorious republican resided in Manhattan pre-election, not Brooklyn.  But that's based on state law and codes, which may apply only to her legislature,  not congress.

[Brittain33]

What sort of horrible opposition research did the dems do with this guy?

NY Dems really botched this whole election, not just with this seat

Well the good news is that if he’s a Florida resident as alleged then they will almost certainly have an opportunity to win this seat back in a special election. Everything else reported on thus far is constitutionally ok, but lying about state residency is an enormous no-no.

Cracking down on a state residency requirement violation would open up a can of worms. A huge amount of congressmembers are really residents of DC and not their home states. Santos may live in Florida but if he's registered to vote in NY that's about as much half of congress.

How many states have congressional residency requirements as rigorous as New York’s, though?

[Storr]

Aaaaaaannnnnnd, he was previously married to a woman.
 
https://www.thedailybeast.com/openly-gay-rep-elect-george-santos-didnt-disclose-divorce-with-woman

Ehhhhh a lot of gay people were married while in the closet.

Sure, but the article quotes him saying this as recently as October:

I am openly gay, have never had an issue with my sexual identity in the past decade.

Which would certainly seem to suggest that he came out a long time ago, and makes this marriage seem pretty mysterious, considering he's never once mentioned it.

It's especially suspicious because his divorce with this woman was finalized just 12 days before Santos filed the paperwork for his first run for Congress on October 2, 2019. I get you can be married while in the closet, but that timing is awfully suspect.

[Storr]

okay so what do we actually know about this guy

Honestly nothing. I’m not even 100% sure his real name is George Santos.

"George Santos, whose middle name is Anthony, sometimes uses Devolder, his late mother’s maiden name. He incorporated it into his campaign—“Devolder Santos for Congress”—as well as his own supposed financial services company, the Devolder Organization."

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The good news for Democrats is that DCCC chair Sean Maloney lost.

[coloradocowboi]

What sort of horrible opposition research did the dems do with this guy?

NY Dems really botched this whole election, not just with this seat

Well the good news is that if he’s a Florida resident as alleged then they will almost certainly have an opportunity to win this seat back in a special election. Everything else reported on thus far is constitutionally ok, but lying about state residency is an enormous no-no.

Cracking down on a state residency requirement violation would open up a can of worms. A huge amount of congressmembers are really residents of DC and not their home states. Santos may live in Florida but if he's registered to vote in NY that's about as much half of congress.

The difference here is they usually at least own a primary residence, where they are legally registered to vote. They can legally claim residency. If santos neither owns property nor lives in NYS, he has no claim to residency there. It is different. It’s unconstitutional. I dk if our current Supreme Court will do the Republican Party like that but it’s pretty clear that members of congress must live in the state they represent.

[Mr. Matt]

Anyone check the videotapes of the insurrection? He previously said that he did not go to the Capitol, but at this point that was probably a lie too.

[Yoda]

I’ll be very interested in seeing if his wife’s story comes out. There’s a nonzero chance they’re still together and only divorced to keep up the appearance of being gay...

It wouldn't surprise me if he married a woman so she could gain legal immigration status. Also would be literally the one thing he could have done that would make House R's turn on him. Even republicans, who have no shame and their own hermetically sealed media echo chamber, could possibly get away with all of their anti-immigration rhetoric while a fraud who abused the immigration system was in their own caucus.

[coloradocowboi]

What sort of horrible opposition research did the dems do with this guy?

NY Dems really botched this whole election, not just with this seat

Well the good news is that if he’s a Florida resident as alleged then they will almost certainly have an opportunity to win this seat back in a special election. Everything else reported on thus far is constitutionally ok, but lying about state residency is an enormous no-no.

Cracking down on a state residency requirement violation would open up a can of worms. A huge amount of congressmembers are really residents of DC and not their home states. Santos may live in Florida but if he's registered to vote in NY that's about as much half of congress.

The difference here is they usually at least own a primary residence, where they are legally registered to vote. They can legally claim residency. If santos neither owns property nor lives in NYS, he has no claim to residency there. It is different. It’s unconstitutional. I dk if our current Supreme Court will do the Republican Party like that but it’s pretty clear that members of congress must live in the state they represent.

The times reported this morning he maintains a residence in “Huntington”, presumably a queens neighborhood or Nassau county city. At any rate, that seals the deal that George Santos will be a member of the 118th Congress. He can continue to serve after indictment correct?

[Atlas Force]

Dave just DRAGGING George

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1606022268378681344

[Yoda]

Dave just DRAGGING George

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1606022268378681344

Who's currently the longest serving House member? I know among women it's Kaptur('82), is there a man who's been around longer?

[Roll Roons]

Dave just DRAGGING George

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1606022268378681344

Who's currently the longest serving House member? I know among women it's Kaptur('82), is there a man who's been around longer?

Hal Rogers and Chris Smith are tied for longest serving (both elected in 1980), although Rogers is more senior because his name is first alphabetically.

Steny Hoyer is more junior than Rogers and Smith because he got elected in a 1981 special, but he's more senior than Kaptur.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

What sort of horrible opposition research did the dems do with this guy?

Apparently they uncovered this at the time, but focused more on the MAGA/Jan 6 stuff.

[Progressive Pessimist]

So, apparently Zimmerman did uncover a lot of this and tried to hit Santos with it, but the media refused to pick it up because they were more interested in puffing up a fictionalized crime wave *shrugs*.

Democratic turnout was so bad in New York this year that I don't even know if it would have mattered. This seems like the sort of thing that's a bigger deal now that he is actually elected and during a slower time for the news cycle.

[Yoda]

What sort of horrible opposition research did the dems do with this guy?

Apparently they uncovered this at the time, but focused more on the MAGA/Jan 6 stuff.

I'm getting the sense that it wasn't so much that democrats didn't blow the whistle on all of this fraud, but that the NY media was 100% locked in to their "crime! crime! crime!" narrative and they were not going to change that no matter what was brought to their attention. Enormous media fail once again.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

I don’t know if it’s been mentioned yet, but the alleged stock broker George Santos has been through atleast 2 evictions. And he advocated for landowners to be able to evict during the pandemic.

This guy is genuinely the worst scum elected in recent memory

[You don't see any blue avatars now]

Aaaaaaannnnnnd, he was previously married to a woman.
 
https://www.thedailybeast.com/openly-gay-rep-elect-george-santos-didnt-disclose-divorce-with-woman

I'm late, but I must point out this quote from Grace and Frankie:

You inned me. [...] As in reverse outed. You told all my gay friends I used to be straight.

Of course, in this case, "all my gay friends" are "the people who elected me", but whatever.