{"id":54925,"date":"2023-05-17T02:25:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T02:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54925"},"modified":"2023-05-17T02:25:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T02:25:27","slug":"george-santos-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54925","title":{"rendered":"Santos could survive expulsion effort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia put in on the table with these words: &#8220;I rise to give notice of my intent to raise a question of the privileges of the House. &#8230; Rep. George Santos be, and hereby is, expelled from the House of Representatives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Simple, yes? Santos is the liar who lied his way to winning public office. He also is under indictment for mail fraud and wire fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Santos lied about virtually every aspect of his personal, educational and professional life while campaigning in 2022.\u00a0 He duped the voters his New York district to elect the Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, he deserves to be booted out. It&#8217;s complicated. Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because the Republicans hold a slim majority in the House; Santos represents a district that is traditionally Democratic. Speaker Kevin McCarthy needs Santos&#8217;s vote to advance MAGA Republicans&#8217; agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Compare that with what happened earlier this month in Texas, where state House members voted unanimously to kick GOP state Rep.\u00a0 Bryan Slaton of Royse City out of the House.<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans in Texas have a significant majority in the House. There is no political price for the GOP to pay for booting someone out of a safe Republican seat.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP is walking a fine line in Washington. Thus, a vote to kick a serial liar out of the House &#8212; I am sad to report &#8212; appears doomed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia put in on the table with these words: &#8220;I rise to give notice of my intent to raise a question of the privileges of the House. &#8230; Rep. George Santos be, and hereby is, expelled from the House of Representatives.&#8221; Simple, yes? Santos is the liar who lied his way to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=54925\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Santos could survive expulsion effort<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9668,10100,1941],"class_list":["post-54925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bryan-slaton","tag-george-santos","tag-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54926,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54925\/revisions\/54926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}