Michael Sapraicone
Photo courtesy of Michael Sapraicone’s campaign
Following a damning ethics report put together by the House Ethics Committee, there is a growing demand, both inside and outside of Congress, for controversial Republican Congressman George Santos to be expelled.
Michael Sapraicone, who is running for the Republican nomination for Santos’ congressional seat, is among those to support Santos being expelled from Congress.
The ethics report revealed that Santos took campaign donations and used them for his own personal use, including stays in Atlantic City and the Hamptons and Botox treatment at a local spa. Following the findings in the report, Santos is likely to face a third expulsion vote. While he easily survived the first two, there now appears to be more members of Congress on both sides of the aisle willing to vote in favor of his expulsion. A two-thirds voting majority is required in order for Santos to be expelled.
According to Sapraicone, the findings in the report are not that surprising, considering the long list of controversies and lies that Santos has accumulated since being elected in 2022. One criticism that Sapraicone, a former NYPD detective, did have about the report is how long it took to come out. The fact that the Ethics panel appointed to investigate Santos met nine times, interviewed more than 40 witnesses and authorized 37 subpoenas played a role in the report taking as long as it did to come out.
“I am pleased to see that now there might be some action [taken on Santos],” Sapraicone said. “I think now it seems like everyone is kind of on the same page and I think we’ll see some action. If I was sitting in Congress, I would be voting to expel him.”
If Santos does end up getting expelled, then a special election would take place to replace his seat to represent New York’s third congressional district. It would likely be held as early as February 2024. Sapraicone emphasized the importance of such a…
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