While New York Republicans can’t force Rep. George Santos (R-NY) to resign on his own – or get the rest of the House GOP’s thin majority to push him out – they are trying to ensure that Santos at least can’t profit off his lies.
It would be nice, and surprising, if this were, at bottom, about Santos’s character and qualifications. Rather, it’s about their own chances in the next election, and they make that abundantly clear. In essence, they’re motivated by the same thing that motivates Kevin McCarthy.
repugs are warming up to start investigating Hunter Biden and his laptop. They’ve been chomping at the bit for a long time to do this, hearings, headlines, fund raising pitches, the whole ball of wax, and with Moron McCarthy trying to make a name for himself it’s going to get ugly and be payback for going after Santos.
I dunno Marc, but so long as your useless leader puts the Santos vote before removing him from the House, you earn the bludgeoning.
“Every time that we’re having a conversation we seem to be talking about George Santos,” D’Esposito echoed, according to Politico.
Good.
Republicans should have to answer for George Santos every day he remains a member of Congress.
Too late.
He’s already profited to the tune of $29,000 off his lies, in two months of his Representaive’s salary.
And he’ll be profiting $319,000 more, by the time he’s voted out of office.
That’s quite a haul, for doing absolutely nothing…
I doubt their bill will hold up in court, but good for them.
Now show the same outrage towards your colleagues who support the violent J6 terrorists.
Santos went after Santos.
He is a 100% pure self-own.
aimed at ensuring current or former members of Congress convicted of fraud can not make money from book or TV deals.
Isn’t this redundant and/or performative? don’t we already have laws on the books that prohibit profiting off a crime (once you’ve been convicted)?
the pressure from the New York Republicans, who have also called for him to resign
Uh, if the goal is to get him to resign, ensuring that he can’t make money telling his story isn’t the way to go about that.
So what happens if he pleads to something other than fraud, like misuse of campaign funds? The book is A-OK? What about insider trading? They’re going to have a hard time tailoring this law so that it only hits Santos and not other GOP criminal politicians.
They would have gone after Hunter Biden regardless of Santos.
This gives us the chance to give them a taste of their own medicine and we have the truth. I am impressed with our House Dems.
Likely unconstitutional under Simon & Schuster v. Crime Victims Board, 502 U.S. 105 (1991).
Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-NY) — alongside Reps. Brandon Williams (R-NY) and Nick LaLota (R-NY) — introduced the
NY-04, NY-21, NY-01. Two of the three from districts immediately adjacent Santos’. Yep, they’re trying to distance themselves from the tar baby.
“He is a bludgeoning tool the Democrats are using without regard for truth. They’re lying about us in relationship to him,” Rep. Marc Molinaro (R-NY) — who’s a co-sponsor for the bill — told Politico.
“And he’s caused us every day to have to respond to his very existence in the House of Representatives, instead of giving 100 percent of our time to the important issues that Americans and the people who sent us to Washington care about.”
I’ve never understood the “logic” at play in these kinds of statements: the results somehow don’t exist if you don’t agree with the reasoning behind them. Or the timing (“This should have happened long ago”). Or you don’t like the people who procured said result (“Bob doesn’t mean it, he’s just looking for reelection”).
Purity politics is just so exhausting.
Maybe they should try a Wall?
Why do the intersexed always get pushed into the back corner?
“This legislation is about ensuring that elected officials who break the public’s trust are held accountable for their wrongdoings,” D’Esposito said during the press conference.
I don’t think these guys have thought this through. Their formerly elected leader’s middle name is fraud.
Cheaper to build it around Santos. I know of some Amish who could throw it up overnight.
Ya know, Marc, you’ll still have a majority if you kick Santos, so you can take away our bludgeon if you want. Otherwise, quit with the chickenshit complaints and with trying to convince us that the party of Trump is fraud-averse.