It’s not yet clear what Rep. George Santos (R-NY) will announce during his planned press conference on the Capitol steps on Nov. 30 — the spectrum of possibilities is vast and could range from denying he’s ever gotten Botox to announcing his resignation.
The calculated media moment is rare for the congressman who often makes headlines by simply walking the halls of the Capitol, sometimes toting an unidentified infant. But it’ll come at a precarious time for Santos, just a few days after the House returns from the Thanksgiving break when his colleagues are expected to vote on whether to expel him from Congress.
While the House Ethics Committee did not include an expulsion recommendation in its bombshell report accusing Santos of trying to “fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit,” the panel’s Republican chairman Rep. Michael Guest (R-MS) introduced an expulsion resolution last week.
“The evidence uncovered in the Ethics Committee’s Investigative Subcommittee investigation is more than sufficient to warrant punishment and the most appropriate punishment, is expulsion,” Guest said in a statement. “So, separate from the Committee process and my role as Chairman, I have filed an expulsion resolution.”
My colleague Hunter Walker dug in on whether members who have previously voted against expelling Santos — including Democrats — will pivot this time around. Republicans may be loathe to oust one of their own when they already hold such a slim majority and are barely able to function as the party in power already. But there has been some speculation that Santos will resign before his colleagues have a chance to weigh in, aware of just how disliked he is among constituents.
While his favorability in his home district is already bad enough, a new poll from Marist College this week shows that contempt of Santos runs statewide.
The study, which focuses on quality of life in New York state, found that 75 percent of New Yorkers want Santos to resign from Congress, including 68 percent of Republican respondents. Only 22 percent of those surveyed think he should finish out the rest of his term.
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George will be announcing that he has chosen Donald Trump as his running mate in his upcoming bid for the Presidency.
(They did say the spectrum of possibilities is vast)
Apparently, the infant is 36-year-old Lauren Boebert’s newly arrived grandson. Santos would be well advised to keep the little bugger close by so he won’t start jumping any little girls brought to the Capitol. After all, sexual precocity seems to run in the Boebert clan, notwithstanding any pretensions to Christian morality.
George and Donnie agree not only on policy (that the government should serve them,) but also on methodology.
It’s given that neither will win in NY; so, with that impediment out of the way, I see no reason why they shouldn’t share a ticket.
And, if they win, George’s deportation will settle any lingering arguments over who should lead.
I suspect the new headline, come Nov 30, will be:
Santos Misinterprets The Writing On The Wall
# Santos Says He Is The Writing On The Wall