Merged NY Rep Santos (merged from GOP elected that guy in WW84 and GOP are liars)

[T.G.G. Moogly]

This shows once and for all that the GOP will not tolerate a liar. If you're a liar, go somewhere else. You have no future with the GOP.

If just Republicans had voted, Santos would still be in Congress. Republicans could only dislodge him with almost all the Democrats voting to expel him. Republicans actually cancelled their own House Speaker for passing a bill that could only pass with the help of Democrats. They are not about to do the same to the current whackadoodle Christian fanatic they chose to replace him. The new Speaker, of course, was among the Republicans who voted to keep Santos in Congress.

Score one for William Golding.

 

[Elixir]

So… another month to go for the 116th Congress, and it looks like its signature accomplishment will have been to get rid of a gender dysphoric, serial criminal liar and thief that they have known to be such from the day he was elected.
Congratulations to our Republican “leadership”.


Just one question: is that scumbag going to collect a lifetime pension as a reward for STEALING a seat in the HoR?

 

[Politesse]

Has Fox given him a show, yet?

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Has Fox given him a show, yet?

Have you ever seen Santos and Maria Bartiromo in the same room?

 

[Shadowy Man]

So… another month to go for the 116th Congress, and it looks like its signature accomplishment will have been to get rid of a gender dysphoric, serial criminal liar and thief that they have known to be such from the day he was elected.
Congratulations to our Republican “leadership”.

That was the Democrats doing. The Republican leadership voted to keep him.

 

[Rhea]

Just one question: is that scumbag going to collect a lifetime pension as a reward for STEALING a seat in the HoR?

No, you have to hold office for 5 years to get the pension.

 

[Elixir]

So… another month to go for the 116th Congress, and it looks like its signature accomplishment will have been to get rid of a gender dysphoric, serial criminal liar and thief that they have known to be such from the day he was elected.
Congratulations to our Republican “leadership”.

That was the Democrats doing. The Republican leadership voted to keep him.

Hence the middle finger - for lack of a sarcasm emoji.

Just one question: is that scumbag going to collect a lifetime pension as a reward for STEALING a seat in the HoR?

No, you have to hold office for 5 years to get the pension.

So … there IS a god?

 

[Copernicus]

I would assume that expulsion from Congress would entail a loss of all benefits no matter how long the tenure, but I don't know. Lawmakers have a tendency to give themselves loopholes and special exceptions. Not as bad as Supreme Court justices, but Congress does sometimes worry about how their actions might affect reelection campaigns. No worries for Supreme Court justices, since it always takes a supermajority in Congress to dislodge them.

 

[repoman]

This is the Dolton, Illinois mayor who has a criminal record and is an absolute terror and tyrant. Hopefully, some charges from a higher level of government can be brought.

 

[scombrid]

Oh boy. Bum fuck nowhere is exactly like Congress or the national insurrectionist party. Yeah. Lie spin distract is all these assholes have got anymore. Any Hunter news for the Santos thread? Or butterymales?

 

[Loren Pechtel]

This is the Dolton, Illinois mayor who has a criminal record and is an absolute terror and tyrant. Hopefully, some charges from a higher level of government can be brought.

Population, 21k. If that's the best whatabout you have about Santos you're basically conceding.

 

[repoman]

This is not a whatabout, I am not a Santos supporter.

 

[ZiprHead]

This is not a whatabout, I am not a Santos supporter.

If it's not a whatabout, then it's completely off topic.

 

[lpetrich]

Mazi Pilip vs. Tom Suozzi: Voting opens in NY election for 3rd Congressional District – NBC New York - "The special election early voting window is open through Feb. 11"

"New Yorkers can cast their ballots for Republican Mazi Pilip or Democrat Tom Suozzi ahead of the Feb. 13 election. Early voting runs for nine days."

 Mazi Melesa Pilip - An Ethiopian Jew born in Ethiopia, she was airlifted to Israel as a refugee back in 1991 when she was 12 years old. "Upon turning 18 years of age, she served in the Israel Defense Force's Paratroopers Brigade (Tzanchanim) as a gunsmith." She went to the University of Haifa, meeting Ukraine-born Adalbert Pilip, and the two got married there. They moved to the US in 2005, settling down in Great Neck, NY, near the northeastern corner of Queens, NYC.

An ex-congressman or a publicity-shy Republican: who will replace George Santos? | George Santos | The Guardian

In Long Island, New York, the former congressman Tom Suozzi emerged as the Democratic candidate hoping to replace Santos. Quickly, Suozzi set about distancing himself from the left of his party. He has promised to “battle” the “Squad”, a group of progressive Democratic members of Congress and has discussed the “border crisis”.

...
“Joe Biden and Tom Suozzi created the migrant crisis by opening our borders and funding sanctuary cities,” Pilip said recently on X, in a post that seemed to overestimate the achievements and influence of Suozzi, who spent six fairly uneventful years in Congress before stepping down last year.

Pilip has run a strange campaign that has seen her duck interviews and largely avoid the press. She has repeatedly sought to tie Suozzi, who represented the district before Santos’s disastrous tenure, to the unpopular Biden. In her telling, Suozzi is also responsible for “runaway inflation”, while Pilip has also attempted to link Suozzi to antisemitism.

 

[blastula]

Dem Tom Suozzi just won the election to replace Santos.

 

[lpetrich]

Yup. New York special election live updates: Tom Suozzi wins to fill vacant George Santos' seat | AP News

• Tom Suozzi 53.9%
• Mazi Pilip 46.1%

A margin of 8%.

 Tom Suozzi

Thomas Richard Suozzi[1] (/ˈswɒzi/ SWOZ-zee; born August 31, 1962) is an American politician, attorney, and accountant who is the representative-elect for New York’s 3rd congressional district. He previously served as the U.S. representative for the same seat from 2017 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the county executive of Nassau County on Long Island from 2002 to 2009, when he was unseated by Ed Mangano, a Republican. He had previously served eight years as the mayor of Glen Cove in Nassau County.

In 2006, Suozzi ran unsuccessfully against Eliot Spitzer for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York.[2] He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2016 and reelected in 2018 and 2020.[3] He retired from Congress to run again for the Democratic nomination for governor of New York in 2022, losing to incumbent governor Kathy Hochul.[4]

In October 2023, Suozzi announced that he would run for his old congressional seat in 2024.[5] After Congress expelled George Santos in December 2023, a special election was scheduled for February 13, 2024. Suozzi was selected as the Democratic nominee on December 7, 2023.[6] Suozzi won the election and will serve the remainder of Santos's term.[7]

New York's 3rd Congressional District - Ballotpedia - TS is running for re-election in NY-03 this year.

 Mazi Melesa Pilip

Mazi Melesa Pilip (born 1978 or 1979)[2] is an American politician serving in New York's Nassau County Legislature. She represents Nassau County, Long Island's 10th district as a Republican. She is an Ethiopian Jew who immigrated to Israel when she was 12 years old, and later served in the Israel Defense Force's Paratroopers Brigade as a gunsmith. Pilip studied at the University of Haifa, where she earned a bachelor's degree in occupational therapy, and also at Tel Aviv University, where she earned a masters degree in diplomacy and security.

In 2021 and again in 2023, Pilip was elected to the Nassau County Legislature. She has been a registered Democrat since 2012, but ran for the legislature on the Republican ballot line.[3] She was the Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives New York 3rd congressional district special election in February 2024 for the seat vacated by George Santos, losing to Democrat Tom Suozzi.[4][5]

 

[Derec]

By the way, this is Pilip.

I guess it was an uphill climb, since Santos would have been the albatross around the neck of any GOP candidate for the seat.

 

[jonatha]

By the way, this is Pilip.

I guess it was an uphill climb, since Santos would have been the albatross around the neck of any GOP candidate for the seat.

Unlike most such GOP pix, this one is probably not her Christmas card...

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Yup. New York special election live updates: Tom Suozzi wins to fill vacant George Santos' seat | AP News

• Tom Suozzi 53.9%
• Mazi Pilip 46.1%

A margin of 8%.

 Tom Suozzi

Thomas Richard Suozzi[1] (/ˈswɒzi/ SWOZ-zee; born August 31, 1962) is an American politician, attorney, and accountant who is the representative-elect for New York’s 3rd congressional district. He previously served as the U.S. representative for the same seat from 2017 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the county executive of Nassau County on Long Island from 2002 to 2009, when he was unseated by Ed Mangano, a Republican. He had previously served eight years as the mayor of Glen Cove in Nassau County.

In 2006, Suozzi ran unsuccessfully against Eliot Spitzer for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York.[2] He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2016 and reelected in 2018 and 2020.[3] He retired from Congress to run again for the Democratic nomination for governor of New York in 2022, losing to incumbent governor Kathy Hochul.[4]

In October 2023, Suozzi announced that he would run for his old congressional seat in 2024.[5] After Congress expelled George Santos in December 2023, a special election was scheduled for February 13, 2024. Suozzi was selected as the Democratic nominee on December 7, 2023.[6] Suozzi won the election and will serve the remainder of Santos's term.[7]

New York's 3rd Congressional District - Ballotpedia - TS is running for re-election in NY-03 this year.

 Mazi Melesa Pilip

Mazi Melesa Pilip (born 1978 or 1979)[2] is an American politician serving in New York's Nassau County Legislature. She represents Nassau County, Long Island's 10th district as a Republican. She is an Ethiopian Jew who immigrated to Israel when she was 12 years old, and later served in the Israel Defense Force's Paratroopers Brigade as a gunsmith. Pilip studied at the University of Haifa, where she earned a bachelor's degree in occupational therapy, and also at Tel Aviv University, where she earned a masters degree in diplomacy and security.

In 2021 and again in 2023, Pilip was elected to the Nassau County Legislature. She has been a registered Democrat since 2012, but ran for the legislature on the Republican ballot line.[3] She was the Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives New York 3rd congressional district special election in February 2024 for the seat vacated by George Santos, losing to Democrat Tom Suozzi.[4][5]

Good result. Biden won it by 8 pts. So this trends well for Dems. Of course the GOP voted impeachment before that seat was filled. Johnson's job just got even tougher.

 

[TomC]

By the way, this is Pilip.

I guess it was an uphill climb, since Santos would have been the albatross around the neck of any GOP candidate for the seat.

The pic has no context, but the background suggests costume party to me.
Tom