Did George Santos lie about everything?

[Person of Interest]

Will this fiasco result in a special election in this New York district? If so the Dems will pick up a seat!!!!


https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23520848/george-santos-fake-resume

[dutch777]

1. How did the Dems not find and make hay with this during the campaign?

Most of the lies would not have been hard to tease out in the op intelligence check.

[Bev54]

7. Some of the lies were found out during the election and the dem tried

to get the media interested but they were not - too interested in the gov race. They certainly did not find out everything but they did realize things were not adding up with this guy. This truly is where the dems need a team of people to do some digging. I would bet if they set up a team of voters who are interested in this type of thing, they would have quite a few people, in the same way they have teams of citizens that work to solve cold cases. Something to think about in the future.

[hlthe2b]

2. There is no constitutional provision for recall so only if he resigns his seat OR

the state AG finds some way to prosecute him on fraud-related grounds and somehow convinces him to plea-bargain including resigning the seat. Theoretically, a sitting Congressman could (and have) served while under indictment and even potentially in prison.

And all that is assuming that there are some grounds to prosecute him (at all) as well as on sufficient charges to leverage the seat. He's certainly not likely to be shamed into resigning.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. "He's certainly not likely to be shamed into resigning." yep, he achieved a win for his grift

I suspect he will enter office and grift from every direction.

[Darwins_Retriever]

4. Each chamber has the authority to deny a seat to somebody who won the election

House Democrats tried to get rid of Adam Clayton Powell in 1967. Democrats were successful, but he won the special election (with 86% of the vote) to fill his vacancy and was seated.

[hlthe2b]

5. You really think that with R's coming in as majority & dependant on that seat, that

that is even remotely likely? That is why I omitted it.

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. Better question

Did he tell the truth about anything?

[marybourg]

8. Apparently.

https://www.jta.org/2022/12/22/united-states/congressman-elect-with-fabricated-resume-also-lied-about-having-nazi-refugee-grandparents?utm_source=JTA_Maropost&utm_campaign=JTA_DB&utm_medium=email&mpweb=1161-52149-20856