{"id":2101061,"date":"2023-11-16T16:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T21:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-santos-will-not-seek-re-election-n-y-lawmakers-want-him-to-resign-immediately\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T16:26:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T21:26:16","slug":"george-santos-will-not-seek-re-election-n-y-lawmakers-want-him-to-resign-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-santos-will-not-seek-re-election-n-y-lawmakers-want-him-to-resign-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"George Santos will not run for re-election and lawmakers in New York are urging him to resign promptly."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorge-santos-will-not-seek-re-election-n-y-lawmakers-want-him-to-resign-immediately%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2101061&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo by Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/abril-elfi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Abril\u200d Elfi<\/a> <br \/>12:56 PM \u200d\u2013 Thursday, November 16, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Representative George\u2062 Santos has announced he will not\u200b seek re-election in \u20622024. New\u200d York lawmakers are demanding he resign immediately. <\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday,\u2063 Santos (R-N.Y.)\u2064 announced he will not be seeking\u2064 re-election \u2062after\u2063 the House Ethics Committee published a report concluding that there is \u201csubstantial evidence\u201d that the New York Republican \u201cviolated federal \u200dcriminal laws,\u201d \u200bincluding \u200cusing\u200d campaign money for personal use and submitting false campaign \u2062reports.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI will continue on my mission to\u2063 serve my constituents until \u200bI am allowed. I will however NOT be seeking re-election for \u200da second\u2064 term in 2024 as my family\u200c deserves better than to be under the gun from the\u200b press all\u2064 the time,\u201d Santos said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If there was\u2062 a single ounce of ETHICS\u2062 in the \u201cEthics \u2063committee\u201d, they would \u200chave \u200cnot\u2062 released this \u200dbiased report.\u200b The Committee went to extraordinary lengths \u200cto smear \u2062myself and my legal\u2063 team\u200d about me not being forthcoming (My \u200blegal\u2062 bills suggest otherwise).<\/p>\n<p>It is a disgusting\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 George Santos (@MrSantosNY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrSantosNY\/status\/1725182414769512783?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The subcommittee released a 56-page-report that claimed that\u2063 Santos \u200c\u201cused his connections\u2064 to \u200dhigh-value donors and \u2063other political campaigns\u2019 \u2018 to enrich \u2064himself, the \u200breport contends. \u201cAnd he\u2063 sustained\u200b all of this through a constant series of lies to \u2064his constituents, donors, and staff\u200b about his background \u200cand experience,\u201d it says.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cHe blatantly stole from his\u2062 campaign. He deceived \u2062donors into providing what they thought were contributions to his campaign but were in\u2063 fact payments for his personal benefit. He \u200breported fictitious loans to his political committees \u2062to\u2063 induce\u200d donors and party committees \u200bto make further contributions to \u2064his \u200dcampaign\u2014and then\u200d diverted more campaign \u200cmoney to himself as purported \u2018repayments\u2019 of those fictitious loans,\u201d\u200c the report continues.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Furthermore, according to the study, Santos was\u2062 \u201cfrequently in debt, had\u2062 an abysmal credit score, and relied on an\u200b ever-growing wallet of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dragging-your-feet-on-marriage-heres-a-robust-case-for-tying-the-knot-amid-a-recession\/\" title=\"Dragging Your Feet On Marriage? Here\u2019s A Robust Case For Tying The Knot Amid A Recession\">high-interest credit cards<\/a> to fund\u200b his luxury spending habits.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>According\u200c to the\u2064 article, he also made big cash deposits that\u200d he\u2064 has not accounted for, \u200bas well as over a quarter million dollars in cash withdrawals for unclear reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Ethics panel also identified a slew of dubious campaign expenditures that \u2062did not appear to have a \u201ccampaign nexus.\u201d They included purchases at Hermes\u200c and Ferragamo boutiques, an Airbnb\u200b when\u2062 Santos was\u200b on a \u200dweekend break\u200d in the Hamptons, Botox treatments, and OnlyFans, a \u2063subscription-based service frequently\u2064 used to\u200c host \u2062pornography.<\/p>\n<p>The Ethics \u200dCommittee\u200d stated that it will transmit its findings, including \u201cuncharged\u201d conduct, to the\u2062 Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>Amid\u200d the report\u2019s circulation \u2064on social media, \u200blawmakers began to demand that \u200dSantos resign immediately. <\/p>\n<p>Representative Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.) said the house should \u200cuse\u2064 its expulsion \u200cpowers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThe bipartisan \u200bEthics Committee confirmed what most \u2063New Yorkers knew months \u200bago: George Santos is\u200d a total\u2062 fraud who stole an election to \u2062get\u2063 to \u2064Congress. The House must \u2064use our Constitutional expulsion powers. \u2063This will let the Third District participate in a valid election,\u201d\u200c LaLota Said. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" data-placeholder-image=\"https:\/\/c3.oann.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/complianz-gdpr\/assets\/images\/placeholders\/twitter-minimal.jpg\" class=\"cmplz-placeholder-element twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The bipartisan Ethics\u2062 Committee confirmed what most New Yorkers knew months ago: George \u200cSantos\u2063 is a total fraud \u200dwho stole\u200c an election to get to \u200dCongress.<\/p>\n<p>The House must use\u2062 our Constitutional expulsion\u200b powers.<\/p>\n<p>This will let the Third District participate\u200d in a valid election.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u200d Congressman Nick LaLota \u2064(@RepLaLota) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepLaLota\/status\/1725183651376214259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, \u200b2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-service=\"twitter\" data-category=\"marketing\" async data-cmplz-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Stay informed! Receive breaking news blasts\u200b directly to your\u200c inbox for free.\u2062 Subscribe here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"rc-widget-10bad2\" data-rc-widget data-widget-host=\"habitat\" data-endpoint=\"\/\/trends.revcontent.com\" data-widget-id=\"278641\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> \t\t \t\tShare this post!\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>  \u2064 In an exclusive interview, Texas Senator Ted \u200cCruz tells One America News that a \u201cwoke\u201d mainstream media is allowing Democrats\u200c to get \u200daway with voting \u200balong party\u2064 lines\u2062 to \u2064oppose the House \u200bapproved Israel aid package. \u2063 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Mayor Adams wants\u2062 parents to protect NYC schools as the \u2064city\u2062 has made several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayor-adams-is-looking-for-new-ways-to-combat-the-migrant-crisis-in-his-city\/\" title=\"NYC Mayor Adams Is Looking For New Ways To Combat The Migrant Crisis In His City\">personnel cuts amid rising costs<\/a> of \u2062the migrant crisis.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>GOP lawmakers say the \u201copen Southern Border\u201d is the \u200cbiggest threat \u2063to the country during a committee hearing. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>with Rep. Andy Biggs<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Spotify expanded its partnership with \u2064Google Cloud to use\u200b large language\u2064 models \u2064to help identify\u200c a user\u2019s listening patterns across podcasts \u2062and audiobooks.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Starlink has\u200d secured a contract to offer free internet in Mexico until the end of \u20632026.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>U.S. lawmakers \u2063asked Apple Inc to explain the abrupt end of political \u200bcomedian Jon Stewart\u2019s television show on\u200c its streaming \u2063service.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Elon Musk denied a report that his rocket\u2063 company SpaceX \u2064was discussing an\u2064 IPO for \u2064its satellite internet business, Starlink.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2>Focus will \u200cbe on clearing \u200cmy name and addressing these \u2063false allegations.<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Representative George Santos, a Republican\u2062 from New York, has announced that he \u200cwill not seek re-election in 2024 following\u2063 allegations of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-santos-says-he-wont-seek-re-election-after-release-of-ethics-report\/\" title=\"George Santos will not run for re-election following the publication of the ethics report.\">violating federal criminal laws<\/a>. The House Ethics\u2062 Committee recently released a report stating that there is &#8220;substantial evidence&#8221; \u2064indicating Santos used campaign funds for personal purposes \u2064and submitted false campaign reports.<\/p>\n<p>In response\u200c to the report, Santos stated,\u2063 &#8220;I will continue on my mission \u200bto serve my constituents until\u2063 I am allowed. I will however NOT\u200d be seeking re-election for a second term in 2024 as my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>that he had violated multiple ethics rules. In response, New York lawmakers are calling for his immediate resignation. 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