former Congressman George Santos
By Dan Murphy
One day before he was expelled from the House of Representatives, former Congressman George Santos introduced a resolution to have Westchester Congressman Jamaal Bowman expelled for pulling a fire alarm in a Capitol office building.
In September, Bowman was caught on video pulling the fire alarm in the Cannon Office building at the Capitol before the House was set to take a vote on funding the government. Bowman pled guilty to a misdemeanor and paid a $1,000 fine.
Santos’ resolution said that Bowman” knowing and willingly gave a false fire alarm in the House Cannon Office Building.” Santos also compared the actions of Bowman to the actions of the Jan. 6 protestors. “Now, had that been any other person, one of the members of the media, a Republican member of Congress, we all know that that person would have been charged with obstructing a Congressional hearing…Just like the somewhat 140 people sitting in prison right now because of Jan. 6, but Jamaal Bowman gets a pass.”
“No one in Congress, or anywhere in America, takes soon-to-be former Congressman George Santos seriously. This is just another meaningless stunt in his long history of cons, antics, and outright fraud,” Bowman said in a statement after Santos’ attempt to have him expelled failed.
After his expulsion, by a vote of 311-114, Santos said that he would file ethics complaints against two republican congress members from New York; Rep. Nicole Maliotakis and Westchester Congressman Mike Lawler.
“On Monday I will be filling an Ethics complaint against @RepMikeLawler for questionable campaign finance violations. Congressman Lawler owns portion of Checkmate Strategies, and he uses the same firm that he is a beneficiary of to pay for services related to his campaign. The concerning questions are, is Mr. Lawler engaging in laundering money from his campaign to his firm then into his own pocket? I will let the Office of Congressional Ethics be the judge of that,” said Santos.
Santos has still not answered publicly where he received the $700,000 that he “loaned” his campaign in 2022. That money was then donated by the Santos campaign to the Nassau GOP and other republican groups in the district.
Hopefully we will find out how Santos, who was basically broke as he began his second run for Congress, (he lost first in 2020), had more than a half million to invest in his campaign when he is charged with a crime.
And that is an important fact that many we believe Santos should not have been expelled underscore; Santos has not been charged or convicted with a crime….yet.
