Posted on 11/01/2023 8:58:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Congressman George Santos (R-NY) avoided being expelled from the House of Representatives Wednesday night after a Republican-led resolution to expel him from Congress failed to pass.
Rep. Anthony D'Esposito on Thursday formally filed the expulsion resolution as privileged -- which forced the House to move quickly on Santos' possible removal. D'Esposito was joined by Reps. Mike Lawler, Nick LaLota, Marc Molinaro and Brandon Williams.
The resolution needed a two-thirds majority to succeed, but fell well short. The final vote was 179 to 213 with 19 members voting present.
Santos issued the following statement to House members before the vote:
"The loss of the presumption of innocence establishes a dangerous precedent that threatens the very foundation of our legal system, and we risk losing the trust that the American people placed in us by passing judgement without due process," Santos said. "If we work together, we can protect the integrity of our system and the rights of all citizens."
Tonight was a victory for due process not me.
This was never about me, and I’ll never let it become about me.
We all have rights under this great Constitutional Republic and I’ll fight for our right to uphold them till my last dying breath. pic.twitter.com/dLyNDEsmuQ— George Santos (@MrSantosNY) November 2, 2023
The resolution came not long after Santos was indicted on more Federal charges related to fraud and lying to the Federal Election Commission.
Rep. George Santos (R-NY) received ten additional indictments from a Federal Court in Central Islip, New York, Tuesday for several violations, including wire fraud, making false statements to the Federal Election Commission, and charging donors' credit cards without permission.
The charges add new criminal exposure for the embattled lawmaker, who began his first term in January after admitting to embellishing parts of his background while campaigning. Santos is due to appear in court Oct. 27.
The additional indictment comes days after Santos’s former campaign treasurer, Nancy Marks, reached a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to conspiring with the then-candidate to carry out a scheme prosecutors are dubbing the “Party Program,” in which the duo committed fraud on Santos’s campaign finance reports.
The scheme was meant to ensure that Santos and his campaign qualified for a “national party committee” program that would provide financial and logistical support to Santos’s bid for Congress, prosecutors said. To qualify, the New York Republican had to show his campaign raised at least $250,000 from third-party contributors in a single quarter.
Ironically, it was several House Democrats who voted to keep Santos there. It was the Democrats, after all, who introduced their own resolution to expel him from Congress back in May after his first set of indictments were handed down. Though Santos remains in the House, he is still under investigation by the House Ethics Committee and has said that he intends to cooperate fully with their investigation.
He’s clearly a retard and warrants NO support, but ALL of the House ‘Rats need to be expunged too.
https://heritageaction.com/scorecard/members/S001222/118
He’s voted 100% Republican. He scammed his way into office but is voting like an actual Republican.
Let his own district constituents do it next year. They elected him, after all.
WWND? (What would Nancy do?) He may be a crooked bastard, but he’s our crooked bastard. No way he’s going to be re-elected in that marginal district, so we might as well use his vote while we have it.
As Rush used to say: “The Aggressors Set the Rules.”
If you don’t play by their rules, you lose - which is why the Democrats keep defeating us, because too many of us refuse to ‘stoop to their level’.
But the bottom line is that the DEMOCRATS, to the last one, defended Talib from a censure vote, nothing close to expulsion. Why - because she advances their (horrific) agenda. Santos is 100% Conservative - I don’t care if he’s accused of killing his wife - as long as he’s not a threat to my wife (I think), he gets my support. Those are the RULES that the Democrats, the AGGRESSORS, have set, and so they are the rules that I must play by, or I WILL LOSE to them.
You said it, glad this guy is still in. And the Tlaib example proves the point.
What does “100% Republican” mean? Doesn’t always mean 100 percent conservative.
Stop making things up.
That’s not the way to look at things at all.
Vast majority of the GOP is RINO who supported the election steal of 2020. Vast majority. Santos supports federal regulation of so-called “greenhouse gas emissions”, opposes the repeal of Obamacare, is for unregulated contributions from unions and corporations, and is for the “slippery slope” when it comes to abortion (alleging mother’s life to be at risk, rape, incest et al)—and that’s what he was candid about; one can surmise that he has lied about other positions, just from the above.
Dems have their poster boy. He is practically one of them.
Congress is a circus. The only reason Santos isn’t liked is because he’s an uppity clown.
pubbies have yet to do a damn thing about biden admin corruption but waste their time on this....
The only reason this is an issue is bc he unexpectedly flipped the district.
They they started digging.
“Stop making things up.”
Blame Rush.
According to the linked website, he has voted with the Republican party 100% of the time since getting into office.
That’s fine. But like I said, that does not mean voting conservative 100 percent of the time.
In post 11, I noted some very liberal positions of Santos, which are recorded on the website of Project Vote Smart.
Let his own district constituents do it next year. They elected him, after all.
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If Santos were a Democrat, none of these maneuvers would be happening.
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