Scandal in the Wind 2023. George Santos gets Sashayed

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/CleverTitleTK/status/1608847295520600066

[Atlas Force]

If Santos is sworn in on January 3, stays just long enough to vote for McCarthy, and resigns before midnight, he’ll tie with Effingham Lawrence as the shortest-serving congressman ever.

[Torie]

In other news, it appears that his campaign page about himself has not been updated. I guess he has been too busy.

https://georgeforny.com/about/

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1609203272883048455

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1609203272883048455

"18. Numerical weakness comes from having to prepare against possible attacks; numerical strength, from compelling our adversary to make these preparations against us."
"30. So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak."
Sun Tzu

[Tintrlvr]

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1608814260456652800?cxt=HHwWgIDQgfmC1NMsAA...

I agree. How is it that the Nassau GOP decided that this guy was their best option and let him go unopposed in the primary?

The Nassau GOP should fire their chairman and name bronz as successor.

I don't really agree - in the end they picked it up and by a big margin, but that's with the benefit of hindsight; I don't think it was reasonable to see it as a "golden pickup opportunity" a year ago today given how strongly for Biden the district was. This looked more like a reach district that *maybe* someone could get swept into narrowly in a huge wave. Still surprising I suppose that no one serious ran, but not negligent.

[Roll Roons]

Assuming he's not lying about being gay, this could explain why he was apparently married to a woman:
https://twitter.com/NaveedAJamali/status/1609967779230191618?t=xxX76psDprw1PRo0s...

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/gr_ashford/status/1610048500074414089

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

As I said on another thread no one is paying attention to FL, Biden is at 248 DeSantis is at 188, which doesn't include OH, FL, VA, CO, VA, NV. Matt Sancrainte is openly gay and so was Larry Craig this is the 3 Rd scandal that broke since 2005 involving an R gay scandal, Santos, Foley and Craig after RS are against SSM, they codified it but not all RS endorsed it.

Biden is 2% ahead of Trump in FL that is bad news for Scott whom won all his races by 1% he is vulnerable and Santos controversy helps Sancrainte

It hurts RS with suburb women, not men that voted for Johnson, Vance, DeWine, Rubio and Desantis even with their underperforming

[Yoda]

Assuming he's not lying about being gay, this could explain why he was apparently married to a woman:
https://twitter.com/NaveedAJamali/status/1609967779230191618?t=xxX76psDprw1PRo0s...

The party of immigration "reform", ladies and gentleman! This was my original guess, that he married a woman to get her citizenship. In other words, fraud. Apparently she bought a house in Jersey for $750k. Curious to know now if it was cash, and if so where did the money come from? This story is going to have legs until House republicans stop coddling this criminal and join democrats to kick him out of the House.

[Catholics vs. Convicts]

Absolutely preposterous he is going to be allowed to take his seat. There are worse things you can do and worse people you can be, but this is a complete affront to the basic requirements for getting a job.  You just can’t have a false identity.

[Torie]

Absolutely preposterous he is going to be allowed to take his seat. There are worse things you can do and worse people you can be, but this is a complete affront to the basic requirements for getting a job.  You just can’t have a false identity.

Nope. You will need to wait for a felony conviction of the man, and then a two thirds vote to expel if he does not resign, which he won't, unless it is part of a plea bargain. That is my expectation.


"The Supreme Court ruled in 1969 that a person who met the constitutional requirements for office in the House of Representatives could not be refused a seat once elected. In that case, Powell v. McCormack, the court suggested that a permissible remedy for the House, should it try to exclude one of its duly elected members, would be a vote to expel the lawmaker once he or she was seated.

…

"Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution states that “Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member.”

'While the Constitution grants the House broad authority to cast out one of its own, there has long been internal debate over whether lawmakers can be expelled for behavior from before they took office.

'Some Republicans, for example, argued that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, should not have been stripped of her committees for her social media posts from before she was elected. In the posts, she endorsed executing top Democrats, suggested that a number of school shootings were secretly perpetrated by government actors, and repeatedly trafficked in antisemitic and Islamophobic conspiracy theories."

[GeorgiaModerate]

It's been argued that McCarthy needs Santos's vote for Speaker, but he really doesn't because of the current VA-04 vacancy.  Right now a Speaker needs 218 of 434 votes (assuming everyone is present and votes), but if Santos were not seated it would be 217 of 433 -- so his vote would make no difference.

[Smash255]

It's been argued that McCarthy needs Santos's vote for Speaker, but he really doesn't because of the current VA-04 vacancy.  Right now a Speaker needs 218 of 434 votes (assuming everyone is present and votes), but if Santos were not seated it would be 217 of 433 -- so his vote would make no difference.

True to a point, however if some do not vote or vote present the vote could matter,

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1610292929263816704

[Sir Mohamed]

You can only imagine the GOP outrage if Santos was a Dem and Pelosi was refraining from any criticism to get his speaker vote in a closely divided House. The GOP is pathetic.

[wbrocks67]

You can only imagine the GOP outrage if Santos was a Dem and Pelosi was refraining from any criticism to get his speaker vote in a closely divided House. The GOP is pathetic.

GOP is definitely being held to a different standard. Sure, the press has covered the allegations against Santos and his lies, but there really hasn't been much "Why aren't the GOP telling him to resign?!" type of disarray type comments, while if this was the Dems, every single member - and Pelosi nonstop - would be being asked why he was still in the caucus. As far as I can tell, has McCarthy even been asked about this?

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/bensiegel/status/1610325957834903556

[wbrocks67]

At this point, for Santos this can't even be enjoyable. Even as long as you're in the body, you're a pariah.

[Gracile]

https://twitter.com/bensiegel/status/1610325957834903556

https://twitter.com/raywert/status/1610327108735082496

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

https://twitter.com/bensiegel/status/1610325957834903556

https://twitter.com/raywert/status/1610327108735082496

I almost feel bad for him

[Torrain]

https://mobile.twitter.com/metzgov/status/1610472546759233537
Sure - this is probably just an automated web-page going live at the time it was planned to. But for it to happen to Santos is just amusing…

[Roll Roons]

Sign of a very serious representative: https://twitter.com/nicholaswu12/status/1612550511852396544?cxt=HHwWgICxlbOJ9-As...

[Sestak]

Sign of a very serious representative: https://twitter.com/nicholaswu12/status/1612550511852396544?cxt=HHwWgICxlbOJ9-As...

looks like he was lying yet again:

https://twitter.com/JCColtin/status/1612564233408991233

[Roll Roons]

Legistorm said it was an error on their part. I think the confusion stems from the fact that Santos hired a staffer who had previously worked on Paladino's campaign.