Dems Mull Action After Exposé On Homocon Rep-Elect

December 20, 2022 Homocons, Republicans

Playbook reports:

Democrats are scouring the record of Rep.-elect George Santos to determine their next steps following an extraordinary New York Times investigation of the incoming Republican from Long Island that revealed a history of seemingly fraudulent claims. Democrats are pondering how far to go in their condemnation.

Should he be referred to the House Ethics Committee? (Almost certainly.) Should they call for his resignation before he is sworn in? (Some say yes.) Should they call for his expulsion after he’s sworn in? (Probably, but with the GOP in charge it won’t work.) Or should they try to prevent him from being sworn in at all?

Rather than a Jan. 3 floor showdown, Democrats are likely to pursue more promising avenues of accountability. Party aides and lawyers are scrubbing Santos’s record to understand whether the 34-year-old is simply a fabulist or whether he has engaged in potential criminal conduct or ethical violations.

The New York Times reports:



Experts in ethics noted that Mr. Santos’s campaign disclosures revealed little about the source of his fortune, in particular failing to name any client who paid more than $5,000 to his company, the Devolder Organization. Such an omission could be problematic if it were to become clear that he had intentionally avoided disclosing his clientele. Mr. Santos’s candidate disclosures show that he paid himself $750,000 annually, and earned dividends of more than $1 million while running for Congress.

Jay Jacobs, the state Democratic Party chair, said that Mr. McCarthy should delay seating Mr. Santos pending an investigation. The state party has been under siege since Democrats underperformed in November, particularly on Long Island, and faced new criticism over its failure to identify or effectively publicize the inconsistencies in Mr. Santos’s résumé before Election Day.

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