Today’s vote: 311–114, a super-duper majority of his colleagues have unseated the man whose entire resume was fabricated. Republican Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, was among those who voted to keep Santos.
His 23-count indictment, issued in October, includes inflating his fundraising totals to draw more support from the Republican Party, laundering funds to pay for personal expenses, and charging donors’ credits cards without permission. Read that last one again; he used the credit cards of donors for Botox.
They have also accused him of fraudulently collecting unemployment benefits.
In yesterday’s hearing, the arguments to vote no, to keep him on, were:
The articles to expel him included allegations of sexual harassment that have, according to Santos, proven to be unfounded. He said inclusion of that inaccurate information should nullify the entire proceeding.
The argument that he has not been found guilty on any of the charges as yet, but only indicted, “is unprecedented.”
The requirement to remove a member of the House of Representatives is a 2/3 “super majority” vote. The magic number is 290 votes needed to expel.
“Within the ranks of the United States Congress, there’s felons galore, there’s people with all sorts of sheisty backgrounds … I have colleagues who are more worried about getting drunk every night with the next lobbyists that they’re going to screw and pretend like none of us know what’s going on and sell off the American people. … Not show up to vote because they’re too hungover or whatever the reason is, or not show up to vote at all and just give their card out like fucking candy for someone else to vote for them. This shit happens every single week. Where are the ethics investigations?”
Former Representative, George Santos
Santos has threat to spill the beans on GOP members who voted to oust him. He said they cheat on spouses with lobbyists, use illegal drugs, and don’t show up for votes because they’re hungover.
That information was through word of mouth because apparently he wasn’t invited to the cocaine orgies like former Rep Cawthorn.
More accountability today:
From the expulsion of George Santos with a 23 count indictment, let’s move on to Donald Trump with 91 counts, who is leading the GOP presidential primary,
THE U.S. APPEALS COURT SAYS TRUMP CAN BE SUED OVER JAN. 6, 2021 U.S. CAPITOL RIOT — Reuters
Let the civil lawsuits begin.
Seems like good-ish news for a change. What I wouldn’t give for a week off from the DJT show.
I thought things would calm down after Biden took office, but no. We’ve suffered enough.
Santos was really grasping at straws towards the end. Looking at the listing of who DID vote to expel him, all the usual GOP suspects voted not to expel him. No matter. **poof** He’s gone.