Voters should have the ability to recall it's representatives.
this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2023
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while 31 Democrats voted to keep him in place
tf
Democrats voted to keep him in place. Nineteen lawmakers voted present, 15 of them Democrats.
I know why they are doing this, because they want to run against him in the next election.
But, that is some seriously fucked up shit. This guys is a con artist and should not be in a position of power.
They are waiting for a committee to release their investigation first. That is supposed to happen by 11/17.
They dovthis because as obvious as it is that Santos is a crook its just as "obvious" to republicans that Biden is guilty of who knows what.
Had 100% of Democrats voted to expel him. The vote still would have failed. Getting upset at what some Democrats did in this instance is the exact opposite thing we should be getting worked up about. Missing the point. 90% of Republicans voted against it. And that's the problem.
The Democrats that broke with the party to vote for Santos are the ones who caused these muddled stories. That he would have been kept alive by Republicans anyways makes those votes even worse. We could have had stories about "only 24 Republicans vote to expel Santos", but instead we get all this reporting about Democrats. None of the Democrats who voted for Santos should be surprised that they're becoming the focus of the vote and it's their fault for playing into that.
No. We never could have. People like yourself are much too easy to stir up disingenuously. And the media will always criticize Democrats for not going above and beyond to stop Republicans. But never focus enough on just how bad Republicans are
People like yourself are much too easy to stir up disingenuously.
Oh fuck off.
Exactly.
They know it's an easy w in 2024 against Santos. Less of a w if it's a Republican without the baggage
To be fair, republicans accumulate baggage faster than a budget airline's lost luggage desk.
From the article:
It also comes a day after the House Ethics Committee announced it would reveal its “next course of action” in the months-long investigation by Nov. 17. Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.), who led the expulsion effort against Santos, said he believed the looming update from the Ethics panel drove some lawmakers to vote against the legislation.
“There’s no question that the memo that they put out definitely gave some of our colleagues the ability to say let’s hold off for the two weeks and see where the report leads up, which is fine,” D’Esposito told reporters following the vote.
The vote was an attempt to expel without waiting for due process to run its course. There is an ethics investigation that will wrap up in under 2 weeks.
Many of the democrats who voted not to expel did so because they didn't want to see a new precedent set in congress where the body can expel a member without some form of due process. If all it takes is a vote to eject someone, then the party in power would be able to expell at will, and that would be bad for everyone.
Also, republicans were trying to get rid of him as a publicity stunt to look better for the Nov 2023 elections running across the country and wanted to be able to pull this stunt off to make themselves look better to help their regional elections.
The democrat holdouts are eager to expel just as soon as the ethics investigation is complete. Those holdout democrats are playing 4d chess and winning. They made the right call.
Rep. Jeff Jackson explains it nicely here: