George Santos, Republican Congressman-elect, Admitted Liar

George Santos, Republican Congressman-elect, Admitted Liar

George Santos, Republican Congressman-elect, Admitted Liar

We were promised a Red Wave in the 2022 Midterm Elections. We knew that it would be an uphill climb. No Red Wave. We barely got a small red ripple. Even worse, the Republican Party did not bother vetting the candidates. Long Island Congressman-elect, George Santos, is an admitted liar. We, the Republican Party, cannot afford this type of stupidity.

The one bright spot in the 2022 Midterm Elections was Lee Zeldin. Although Zeldin, sadly, did not win the Gubernatorial race, but he did drag three Republican Congressional candidates across their finish lines. Now, George Santos has admitted to fluffing his resume. Fluff such a he never graduated from college and never worked for the two big Wall Street firms he claimed to have worked for.

From the New York Times:

Representative-elect George Santos admitted on Monday to misleading voters about his professional experience and educational history, confirming some of the key findings of a New York Times investigation that found he likely misrepresented his background to voters.

Mr. Santos, a Republican who was elected in November to represent parts of northern Long Island and northeast Queens, ended a week of near silence, giving interviews to two conservative-owned media outlets, The New York Post and WABC-AM radio.

Mr. Santos told The Post that even though he now admits to embellishing his résumé, it would not stop him from taking office.

“I am not a criminal,” Mr. Santos told The Post, adding he would still be an effective legislator. He told WABC radio that he still intended to be sworn in at the start of the next Congress

He is not a criminal. He IS a liar. Just what the Republican Party doesn’t need. What did he lie about? Um, EVERYTHING:

Over the course of his campaigns, Mr. Santos claimed to have graduated from Baruch College in 2010 before working at Citigroup and, eventually, Goldman Sachs. But representatives from the college and both companies said they could not locate records to confirm his graduation or employment.

In Monday’s interview, Mr. Santos admitted to The Post that he had not graduated from Baruch, nor had he graduated “from any institution of higher learning.”

Mr. Santos also said that he never worked directly for Goldman Sachs or Citigroup, even though he said in campaign biographies that he had worked directly for both companies, as he made his case to voters that he was a seasoned investor and financial professional.

But wait, there’s more. David Pakman, who has a podcast dedicated to his hatred of Republicans, claims that the Gay, Jewish Santos isn’t really Jewish. Oy:

This one I can see. George Santos may be ethnically Jewish through the matrilineal line. Some of the Holocaust survivors I met in Connecticut assumed Christian names to help them “pass”. I am not going to pass judgement on this one. The lying about college and work experience is beyond the pale. And, leads to Twitter posts like this one from Eric Fartwell Swalwell:

I am not gonna worry about anything from the guy who slept with Fang Fang. Plus, he probably held the ball while Creepy Joe played football at an HBCU.

Here is my big question:

WHO IS VETTING THESE CANDIDATES?

At the State and County levels, it should be the community leaders. Republicans NEED to do better. This article is from 2014:

“Who is responsible for the proper vetting of political candidates?”

In recent years, Republicans have done a disastrous job of responsibly vetting candidates running for state and national office. In 2010, Joe Miller from Fairbanks walked right through the primary process before any vetting was done regarding his history and campaign rhetoric. A majority of Republicans voted for him, and it wasn’t until after the primary election, when countless discrepancies in his record were exposed by the media, did his campaign go into meltdown mode and the Republican nominee lost a historic defeat to a write-in candidate.

Responsible vetting by the party would have prevented all of the turmoil the Republican Party went through that year.

Another case in point was John Lindauer’s gubernatorial campaign in 1998. This may have been the saddest example of lack of “quality control” by the Republican Party ever. Mr. Lindauer was a good-looking candidate with a good-looking resume and a fist full of cash. Unfortunately, the powers that be within the party structure didn’t vet his candidacy, didn’t verify where his money was coming from, and had no means of preventing him from running using the Republican label.

There is no excuse in this time of Social Media and no privacy. And why lie. You are going to get caught. I am sick, tired and disgusted by all of this.

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  • Kevin says:

    Thank you. There is hope that we (liberals, conservatives, independents and all other political persuasions) can agree on some things. Here’s my issue with Mr. Santos (in addition to his lying) … his lies are so blatant and bold-faced that there must be some psychological issue going on here. I can understand getting some dates wrong, employment history gets mixed up especially if you’ve had a lot of jobs, but to be so intentional with your lies is a sign of something much worse. Everything is just made up, pulled out of thin air. There’s a simple solution … he steps down and the Governor selects a replacement (of the same party … republican … I would even go so far as to say the NY GOP should recommend a replacement to the Governor who should basically rubber stamp it) until a special election can take place. Congress does not need this cretin in their ranks.

    • Cameron says:

      Agreed, The funny (OK, I have a dark sense of humor) is that people simply don’t realize that they can and will be fact checked with their claims.

    • 370H55V I/me/mine says:

      Can’t “rubber stamp” a replacement. If Santos declines to serve, there HAS to be a special election to replace.

    • Turtler says:

      “Thank you. There is hope that we (liberals, conservatives, independents and all other political persuasions) can agree on some things. ”

      The fact that we can occasionally agree about basic facts of reality like that water is wet is no grounds for co-existence or cooperation.

      Especially when you have proven to be a fundamentally nasty, hostile, dishonest SOB who is happy to lie and spread delusions about other basic facts of reality.

      And while I can only speak for myself, I have no interest in “agreeing” with someone who peddles the old smear that the Republican Party is a party of Fascists when the likes of Bernie Sanders are far closer to Fascists than Trump ever has been, and this can be proven by the arcane art of “actually citing the foundational tenents of Fascists.”

      “Here’s my issue with Mr. Santos (in addition to his lying) … his lies are so blatant and bold-faced that there must be some psychological issue going on here. ”

      Simply put, I don’t believe you.

      Your issue with Mr. Santos is not that he lies blatantly, it is that he is on the “wrong side” and thus is a “legitimate target” according to your logic. Which are you are trying to conceal under a thin, utterly insincere veneer of bipartisan concern about Muh Standards.

      What is more galling is that while I find Santos’s lies to be repulsive, I can at least point out that they were designed to feather his own record rather than smear that of others, which makes them far less objectionable than the likes of Joe Biden smearing the surviving driver in the accident that killed his (drunk) wife as a drunk driver, or that Republicans intend to put Black People “back in chains.” To cite just a few.

      And ironically your very dishonest self coming up and saying this drivel makes me less inclined to obsess about Santos’s misdeeds and more about sussing what your angle is out and dealing with it.

      “I can understand getting some dates wrong, employment history gets mixed up especially if you’ve had a lot of jobs, but to be so intentional with your lies is a sign of something much worse. Everything is just made up, pulled out of thin air. ”

      Nice. Now do Joe Biden, Harry Reid, Dick Blumenthal, Nancy Pelosi and Dick Durban. Who have all lied in far more egregious, dishonest ways than Santos.

      Which brings us to the issue of reciprocity and the prisoners’ dilemma, and how you are trying to weaponize our own standards against us with no (or if I am generous, scanty) interest in reciprocating, as shown by your relentless demonization of we conservatives and republicans while lionizing people who by any track record are far worse than Santos.

      ” There’s a simple solution … he steps down and the Governor selects a replacement (of the same party … republican … I would even go so far as to say the NY GOP should recommend a replacement to the Governor who should basically rubber stamp it) until a special election can take place. ”

      That would be nice but as 370H55V pointed out, that isn’t how elections work in NY. Fair enough, and I can’t say the NY GOP doesn’t deserve to lose that election for this screwup. But still.

      “Congress does not need this cretin in their ranks.”

      Certainly, but unfortunately in the wonderful state of Current Year Congress and the Federal Government could do without many cretins in their ranks who have done far worse than Santos, but here we are. Starting with a lying, smearing, racist plagarist and segregationist as “President.”

      • 370H55V I/me/mine says:

        Not just NY. Any House vacancy requires a special election anywhere. See US Constitution, Article 1, Section 2:

        “When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.”

    • By all means! Apply it across the board, though; elected, appointed, or civil service, all of them, Federal, State, County, City. That would shrink government at all levels to about 1% (or less) of its current size.

  • Joe R. says:

    Pretty sure we’ve seen ZERO stories about (D) personnel like this. But sure, let’s jump Santos.

    • Cameron says:

      And that’s why I support equal treatment for both sides.

    • Kevin says:

      I support equal treatment on both sides as well. List a “D” that compares to Santos?

      • Turtler says:

        I’ll one up you. Joe Biden and Dick Durban.

      • Andrea Rotondo says:

        My Senator Dick Blumenthal of Connecticut. He lied about serving in Viet Nam – Mr. Stolen Valor himself. If Santos goes, Blumenthal needs to go before him.

        • Scott says:

          Don’t forget Fauxcahontis… And what was the Rachael Dolezal deal? White girl pretending to be black?? Yeah, leftists never lie.. except when their lips are moving..

    • Memyself says:

      “Pretty sure we’ve seen ZERO stories about (D) personnel like this.” Because no democrat would ever do this. You seem to want to ignore that this level of lying is inherent to 90% of republican house reps.

      • Turtler says:

        “ Because no democrat would ever do this. ”

        Yes, they would. Indeed, they have done worse. In a kinder, mister world Joe Biden and Dick Blumenthal would have been sued or even locked up for things like Blumenthal’s Stolen Valor and Biden’s libelous smears and plagiarism.

        The idea that this is somehow unique to republicans is laughably untrue.

  • 370H55V I/me/mine says:

    Sorry but I don’t buy the line about “quality control”. Party voters will pick their candidates in primaries, and have to live with the choices. I don’t appreciate the likes of Mitch McConnell ragging on Republican candidates. The Dems don’t do that, which is why we get John Fettermans and worse. They close ranks, and we should too.

    Doesn’t matter what George Santos did or lied about. He did nothing to bar him from being sworn in to the 118th Congress. Let him be judged by his record in serving his constituents over the next two years.

    • Cameron says:

      Gotta admit that I’m surprised with how blatant he was.

    • Turtler says:

      “ Because no democrat would ever do this. ”

      Yes, they would. Indeee, they have done worse. In a kinder, mister world Joe Biden and Dick Blumenthal would have been sued or even locked up for things like Blumenthal’s Stolen Valor and Biden’s libelous smears and plagiarism.

      The idea that this is somehow unique to republicans is laughably untrue.

  • memyself says:

    “I am not gonna worry about anything from the guy who slept with Fang Fang.” contrry to the lies from the right (and I know that is redundant) Swawell has never legitimately been accused of sleeping with Fang Fang. She was accused of sleeping with two midwestern mayors. Swallwell has never been from the midwest nor has he ever bee3n a mayor. What he did do is give talks at the asian/pacific islander club at the university in his district for which Fang Fang was the presdient

    • Turtler says:

      “ contrry to the lies from the right (and I know that is redundant)”

      So you’re handily identifying that you are a dishonest liar whom nobody needs to take seriously.

      “ Swawell has never legitimately been accused of sleeping with Fang Fang. ”

      What BS, incoherent word parsing is this?

      Firstly: it is simply not true. At all. Swalwell has been asked about this repeatedly, both by the rare journalist and by his peers in the legislature. And to be “fair” as far as I remember he has not outright admitted to it, but he HAS worked hard to dance out of it.

      Secondly: refusing to answer “I did not have sex with that woman” in the face of point blank questions indicates mens rea, and is substantial reason to believe he feels he cannot answer that he did not sleep with FF for some “mysterious” reason.

      https://www.businessinsider.com/eric-swalwell-christine-fang-suspected-chinese-spy-2020-12?amp

      “ She was accused of sleeping with two midwestern mayors. Swallwell has never been from the midwest nor has he ever bee3n a mayor.”

      I realize you are a dishonest moron, so let me summarize: this indicates a pattern of behavior from FF, and unless her handlers told her she could only sleep with Midwestern Mayors rather than a more vulnerable target (laughable “logic” in its own right), it puts her relations with Swalwell under suspicion.

      A suspicion that is all the more justified given Swalwell’s intentional obfuscations and evasions on the issue.

      “What he did do is give talks at the asian/pacific islander club at the university in his district for which Fang Fang was the presdient”

      And you think that a woman with a proven track record for sexpionage would never, ever employ it against a valuable target who is being intentionally evasive about whether he did the naughty with her.

      You people are dishonest shmucks.

  • RK says:

    You seem to find this shocking. Santos was pretty brazen, but he’s a politician — and a successful one, at that, when it comes to getting elected. Politicians lie. Oh well…

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