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Growing number of lawmakers say they’ll vote to expel Santos after Ethics report

A growing number of lawmakers are publicly saying they will vote to expel Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), following the release of a scathing House Ethics Committee report.

Santos has survived two expulsion attempts, with some lawmakers who voted against ousting him earlier this month saying they were awaiting the panel’s determination.

Now, several of them say the New York Republican has had due process and they’ll vote differently next time around.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told The Hill in a text message that he would vote to expel Santos.

“The report’s findings are extremely damning and I would vote to expel,” he wrote in a text message.

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I'll believe it when I see it.
- Exactly. The fact that it's not a no-brainer should be front page news and they should be rooting out every Republican who won't expel the corrupt son of a bitch and pressing them to explain why
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/03/george-santos-expel-vote-democrats
  I mean either it's not a no brainer or we have to root out 31 democrats too. Personally I think we should be rooting everyone out.
- This timeline is the worst.
  It’s hard to believe that raising a voice the wrong way or using curse words could put a politician in hot water on the less fucked up timeline.
  
  That's probably still true if you're a Democrat. Remember the fit they threw because Fetterman wore a hoodie?
They'd be voting to expel him not because he's corrupt, but because he's embarrassing. Weirdly, they don't seem to be embarrassed by Trump.
- Trump might wear a lot of make up, but he’s no Drag Queen
  
  Nah, he just motor boats Giuliani as Giuliani is in drag.
He accurately represents conservatives. They truly do not see a problem with him.
Conservatives will not turn on him unless they are somehow forced to. And even then, they would find a way to frame themselves as victims.
- I believe he was"saved" by a few people from both sides, the Dems wanted to keep him around until he was fully outed as the crook he is, as egg on the conservatives face. It's not like expelling him would reshape Congress at it is, but having him fully accountable, rather than letting him slink into the shadows, might change the outlook of some voters.
One more Democrat wants to expel him, he's done for!
Republicans are in the majority, so unless a few people with R next to their name actually want to expel him, it means nothing.
- Thirty democrats voted to not expel him last vote, he could have been gone already. Raskin said he was waiting for a conviction, if republicans want him gone sooner they need to do it themselves.
  
  He's as powerless as a House member can be, so maybe they want to keep him around to make the GOP look foolish?
We all know that what a Republican says they’ll do, and what they actually do are usually two different things
While I'm glad to see the system healing itself, it's still painful to watch. It would be nicer to see protections in place to prevent fraud as a means to gain and slightly remain in office.
Plus the process of voting out for this instance feels unnecessary. There needsnto be updates to these procedures
Hopefully he gets expelled. So many ethics issues with him.
- He is a career criminal.
How shitty do have to be if even the republicans want you expelled?
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A growing number of lawmakers are publicly saying they will vote to expel Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), following the release of a scathing House Ethics Committee report.
Santos has survived two expulsion attempts, with some lawmakers who voted against ousting him earlier this month saying they were awaiting the panel’s determination.
Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) on Thursday told MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell that he will now vote to expel Santos, after previously opposing the measure.
Rep. Deborah Ross (D-N.C.), a member of the Ethics Committee who voted present earlier this month, released a statement Thursday saying she would support an effort to expel Santos.
Despite the weight of the charges Santos faced, a significant number of members of Congress opted not to expel him when the matter came to the House floor for a vote — first in May, one week after the indictment, and the second at the start of November, after the Ethics Committee issued a memo saying it planned to release its “next course of action” by Nov. 17.
The most recent effort to oust Santos from office came short of the two-thirds threshold required to expel a member from Congress, but the vote was not divided on clean party lines.
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Why would they expel him? He just did things the Republican way. His only "crime" is being found out.

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