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George Santos Faces Calls to Resign From 4 G.O.P. Congressmen [1]
['Michael Gold', 'Grace Ashford']
Date: 2023-01-11
But at a news conference, Representative Anthony D’Esposito, whose district neighbors Mr. Santos’s, said that Mr. Santos had so deeply lost the faith of voters on Long Island that he did “not have the ability” to adequately serve in the House of Representatives.
Mr. D’Esposito, who joined the event via video from his office in Washington, added in a statement that he would not associate with Mr. Santos and would encourage “other representatives in the House of Representatives to join me in rejecting him.”
In the hours that followed, three other first-term Republican congressmen joined the push: Nick LaLota, who also represents parts of Long Island; Nick Langworthy, the state Republican chair whose district is in New York’s rural Southern Tier; and Brandon Williams, whose district covers an area near Syracuse.
The calls for Mr. Santos to step down were the sharpest denunciation yet of the congressman’s behavior from Republicans after reporting in The New York Times uncovered that Mr. Santos had made false claims about his educational and professional background and raised questions about his business, his financial disclosures and his campaign expenses.
The Nassau County party chairman, Joseph G. Cairo Jr., said that Mr. Santos, a first-term Republican, had lost the support of Republicans in his district, saying that Mr. Santos’s campaign was one of “deceit, lies, fabrication.”
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