Homocons

“I actually went to school on a volleyball scholarship. When I was in Baruch, we were the number one in volleyball. We went to play against Harvard and Yale and we slayed them. “We were champions across the Northeast corridor. Every school that came up against us, they were shaking at the time. And it’s funny, I was the smallest …

Axios reports: Reps. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) and Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) issued a letter Sunday to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Chair of the House Republican Caucus Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), and Congressional Leadership Fund President Dan Conston calling on them to cooperate with the investigations into Santos. “In light of recent public reporting indicating that each of you had at least some …

The Washington Post reports: J.P. Maroney, Harbor City’s founder and the man who hired Santos, claimed in podcasts and YouTube videos that he had devised reliably profitable ways to generate sales leads online for other companies. He said he needed funding for this enterprise and was seeking risk-averse investors, people who might be elderly and who “can’t afford to start …

Reuters reports: George Santos, who lied about much of his resume and life story, will be removed from Congress if found to have broken campaign finance laws, fellow Republican and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said on Sunday. “He’s a bad guy,” Comer said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program. “It’s not up to me or any other …

Patch New York reports: Former friends of the embattled Long Island congressman George Santos said they believe he wore a stolen Burberry scarf as he delivered a speech Jan. 5, 2021 at a Freedom Plaza rally declaring that the 2020 congressional election was stolen from him. Two former Santos roommates, Gregory Morey-Parker and Yasser Rabello, told Patch they suspect Santos, …

“George Santos will have to go through the congressional ethics process. I don’t want to prejudge that process, but I think he deserves the chance to at least make his case. There are requirements members of Congress have to meet when it comes to the money that they donate to their own campaigns. “But until then, I don’t think that …

People Magazine reports: Days after a Republican official told reporters that embattled Rep. George Santos once lied about being a college volleyball “star,” a new report suggests that some of the “key elements” of Santos’ story bear a striking resemblance to the resume of his former boss, Pablo Oliveira. Oliveira, who was Santos’ boss at LinkBridge Investors, graduated from Baruch …

The New York Times reports: In late 2021, as he prepared to make a second run for a suburban New York City House seat, George Santos gave permission for his campaign to commission a routine background study on him. Campaigns frequently rely on this kind of research, known as vulnerability studies, to identify anything problematic that an opponent might seize …

Mediaite reports: It’s just another day in the ongoing saga of Rep. George Santos (R-NY), the freshman congressman who is currently living a real-life Catch Me If You Can reboot no one asked for. On Friday, the Twitter account PatriotTakes tweeted a clip of Santos from 2019 at a “Walk Away LGBT” event in New York. “So, my name’s Anthony …

CNN reports: Republican Rep. George Santos, said a company later accused of running a “Ponzi scheme” was “100% legitimate” when it was accused by a potential customer of fraud in 2020, more than a year before it was sued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Once the company, where he worked, came under federal scrutiny, Santos claimed publicly that …

CNN reports: Santos has so far been defiant, pushing back on calls for his resignation – and House GOP leadership has not called on him to do so. Instead, McCarthy, a Republican from California, has indicated he will not join demands from New York GOP leaders, and others, for Santos’ resignation – and has indicated that Santos is on track …

The Hill reports: Former Speaker Paul Ryan (R) called on Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) to step down on Thursday, as the embattled first-term lawmaker faces increasing pressure to resign over revelations that he misrepresented parts of his background. “This isn’t an embellished candidacy,” Ryan told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “It’s a fraudulent candidacy. He hoaxed his voters, so of course he …

“Hey everyone, George Santos here, congressional candidate in New York’s 3rd Congressional District. Let’s talk real quick about the Florida bill, Don’t Say Gay. “Although the bill doesn’t mention those words, that’s what the left-leaning Democrats and progressives are labeling it. “I’ll leave you with this – as a gay man I stand proudly behind not teaching our children sex …

From Log Cabin Republicans president Charles Moran: If the Senate plans to investigate what went wrong with the FAA system meltdown, it should start by looking into how much taxpayer-money, time, and resources the FAA, Secretary Buttigieg, and the entire Department of Transportation have spent pushing their woke agenda down the aviation industry’s throat. Crumbling infrastructure in our national air …

The New York Times reports: The request came from a Republican loyalist calling on behalf of RedStone Strategies, which was described in an email to the donor as an “independent expenditure” group that was supporting Mr. Santos’s bid to flip a Democratic House seat in New York. The group had already raised $800,000 and was seeking to raise another $700,000. …

NBC News reports: Rep. George Santos, the newly sworn-in New York Republican under fire for fabricating large parts of his résumé, told NBC News on Thursday that “if 142 people ask for me to resign, I will resign.” He later clarified in an interview on Steve Bannon’s War Room with Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., that he was referring to the …

The New York Patch reports: Four people told Patch that when they asked Santos if he had stolen items or money from them, he blamed another friend or relative. Adriana Correia moved to New York with her family in 2011. Santos traveled with them and moved in with them in Jackson Heights, Queens. Then, Correia noticed cash she had in …

The New York Times reports: When Representative George Santos of New York first expressed interest in running for a suburban New York City House seat in 2020, the Nassau County Republican Committee sent him a standard vetting questionnaire and asked to see his qualifications. The résumé Mr. Santos handed over was impressive, particularly for a political neophyte. Mr. Santos claimed …

The Hill reports: Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) on Wednesday said he would not resign from Congress despite pressure from New York Republicans urging him to do so over “lies and fabrication” he told about his background on the campaign trail. “I will not,” Santos said to reporters in response to a direct question as he got on a Capitol elevator. …

Reuters reports: New York Republicans on Wednesday called for the resignation of “disgraced” newly elected U.S. Representative George Santos, following revelations he fabricated much of his resume and life story during his campaign. They made the call in a news conference two days after a nonpartisan watchdog accused Santos of breaking campaign finance laws in a filing with the Federal …