NEW YORK (AP) — Local Republican leaders in New York on Wednesday called for the immediate resignation of new GOP congressman George Santos, who is facing multiple investigations by prosecutors over his personal and campaign finances and lies about his resume and family heritage.
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“His lies were not mere fibs. He disgraced the House of Representatives,” Joseph Cairo Jr., chair of the Nassau County Republican Committee, said at a news conference. “He’s not welcome here at Republican headquarters.”
The local party has no mechanism to remove Santos from office. He was sworn in to the U.S. House last week.
The move comes a day after two Democrats from New York asked the House Ethics Committee to investigate Santos. Reps. Ritchie Torres and Dan Goldman, in a letter to the committee, said Santos also failed to file “timely, accurate and complete” financial disclosure reports and the reports he did file are “sparse and perplexing.”
Earlier this week, the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center lodged a complaint with the Federal Election Commission and urged regulators to investigate Santos. The “mountain of lies” Santos propagated during the campaign about his life story and qualifications, the center said, should prompt the commission to “thoroughly investigate what appear to be equally brazen lies about how his campaign raised and spent money.”
Initially, the victory by Santos, an openly gay Republican who flipped a Long Island House seat held by Democrats for a decade, was seen as one of his party’s bright spots in an otherwise underwhelming midterm election. But as reports began to emerge that he had lied about having Jewish ancestry, a career at top Wall Street firms and a college degree, Santos turned into a distraction and embarrassment to the party as it took control of the House.
Santos first ran for Congress in 2020, losing to Tom Suozzi, a Democrat. He ran again in 2022, facing Democrat Robert Zimmerman in a district that includes some Long Island suburbs and a small slice of Queens.
When will the GOP just get it?
The Deocrats always stick together, no matter what.
Only if Lizzy Warren resigns for being an Indian.
And if Brandon resigns for all the tall tales he regularly tells.
He should definitely NOT resign. Since when do politicians care about lying? They do this for a living. When democrat liars start resigning, then the Republicans can fire their liars too.
The duly elected Congressman should stay. If the voters didn’t do their homework, that’s their problem. I never resigned.
Morons kow towing to the democrats.
GOP leadership always wants to play nice while the Democrats never do. That’s why they’ll mostly lose . Let his voters decide.
When the scandal ridden democrats in congress are forced to resign in shame then he should to. So he said he’s a Jew big deal if people can declared their own sexuality as anything they want He’s saying he’s Jewish ain’t so bad
I think we can’t afford to lose a republican and it’s a shame he’s a liar just like the rest of them… only difference is he was dumb enough to get caught
I SO want this shred of human debris to be removed from Congress. Even more, I want the Republican party to learn the lesson and never run any pervert for any office.
Well, isn’t that something?
DEM Rep. Anthony Weiner was forced to resign by Nanci Pelosi for his insane behavior. He is Jewish, never lied about his ancestors, graduated college, had an actual job, pro-Israel, no camaign finance issues, etc. But resigned from Congress.
Will Santos?
So he ran twice? Wow I did not even know that. So you all had 2+ years to find dirt and now you wake up? Now its too late. You snooze you loose. this is just not fair to our process. Please respect the process and proper transfer of power