Enable the Lying George Santos Retain His Seat

One working day, throughout a previous position, our PR group been given a new employee with minor warning. I immediately went to LinkedIn to uncover this secret person, to no avail — I believe this is the only individual I have crossed paths with professionally who does not have a LinkedIn site.

Through a Google look for, I uncovered some self-created content material that hyped a perfectly-related political operative. (We had been a publicly traded electronic business.)

All through our initially meeting, I questioned if this particular person knew a large-profile mate of mine from a person of his “political” positions.

“Of course, I do, he’s a fantastic dude,” was the reply. My reaction was, “You do?” “Certainly,” they stated. “He died two weeks ago.”

The issue is this person lied on his resume, or no matter what he submitted to HR, and when I went to HR frequently with proof that he lied practically nothing was performed.

He remained, and I was pushed out.

I have been contemplating a lot about this incident of dereliction by my previous employer with all the information about GOP congressman-elect George Santos who was elected the Republican consultant of New York’s third district that involves much of Lengthy Island.

My hope is that the Republicans choose a cue from my old employer, and overlook his lies.

Just a 7 days in advance of Christmas, when Santa checked those people lists, The New York Times discovered that Santos’s listing was a prolonged one of lies. Santa didn’t have time to check out the listing twice given that it was a mile extensive. Santos is the definition of naughty.

Yesterday, The New York Publish published an job interview with Santos the place he admitted that he “embellished” his resume. Embellishing might be introducing much more tasks below just one of your work descriptions or fudging the year you graduated from higher education in buy to show up young. Embellishing may also incorporate listing charity do the job that you could have completed after or twice, or not at all.

What Santos did was flat-out lie on his resume — if that is what you want to get in touch with it. Santos’s CV reads far more like a perform of fiction, a graduate of Baruch College or university? He hardly ever went to college or university. Performing at Goldman Sachs and Citi Group? He was in no way employed by them.

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His Jewish qualifications? He admitted to the Publish that he’s Catholic. He’s a “proud gay male?” He was married to a lady, and they divorced — one thing he failed to disclose on the campaign path. But he’s “very much” homosexual now.

Santos also said he owned about a dozen properties. But guess what? He confessed to not proudly owning any. He is really residing with his sister. He’s in personal debt. His previous task compensated $55,000 a year. He was remiss in paying hire at his last area of home.

Then there’s the probable for a genuine whopper. His money disclosure variety says he has $11 million in property. How?

If I were being Santos’s sister, I’d tell him to get his ass off the sofa, and at the pretty the very least hire a area in a group property with some of that meant $11 million.

Here’s a person of the ironies. He explained to the Article, “I intend to deliver on the claims I created through the marketing campaign — preventing criminal offense, preventing to reduce inflation, enhancing instruction. The folks elected me to combat for them.”

The folks thought they elected a shrewd financier, non-divorced millionaire who went to a New York college. So, he’s lying to them by now.

Do you genuinely think he’s going to “fight for them?” He’ll be focused on battling to save his status. He’s been uncovered as a liar, as a phony, as a joke.

Case in issue, Republican congressional leadership reportedly understood all along that Santos was a joke. And they did very little, which is outrageous on its very own and a vicious slight to the voters of New York’s 3^rd congressional district.

In accordance to the Submit, “Senior Dwelling Republicans ended up seemingly mindful of the inaccuracies and gildings in the member-elect’s resume, and the subject matter grew to become a ‘running joke.'”

What a bunch of baleful bastards.

Digressing a bit, I retain seeing former congressman Steve Gunderson in tales about Santos since Gunderson was the initial publicly out Republican in Congress who won an election. Santos is only the 3rd (and the to start with non-incumbent) and that says all you will need to know about the Republican Social gathering nonetheless, conflating Gunderson with Santos does a great injustice to the previous Wisconsin representative. I spoke to Gunderson on the 25^th anniversary of his coming out on the House floor. He’s a respectable guy. And he’s far absent from the genuinely frightening Republican Bash we see nowadays.

The Republican leadership, in particular Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California (Santos stated he would vote for McCarthy as Residence speaker), are desperate to keep their trim the vast majority in the Property, so they’re going to choose a cue from my aged organization, and just brush off all the fabrications and deceptions. And why would not they? In today’s Republican Party, a single of the prerequisites is lying, so Santos fits suitable in.

This may be terrific in the limited term, but wow, what a bonus for Democrats who now have the Republican poster child for lying. Democrats will hammer home the imposter that is Santos. I can see clever advertisements, intelligent memes, and conversing points all-around the point that this is one of the fibbing faces of the Republican Party.

Santos will come throughout as a “normal” liar, which is why he’ll be a political target if he is capable to stay in Congress.  What I indicate by that is this: Every person is familiar with that the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert,  and Matt Gaetz — just for starters — are warped, cartoonish morons that just can’t be taken severely as a result, showcasing them in marketing campaign adverts is redundant.

It can be a given that 80 % of the American electorate understands that Democrats are not pedophiles and really don’t run an underage cabal of sexual intercourse workers. That’s all fantastical and not relatable.

Now enter Santos. Some of his sins are out-and-out lies that most of us can relate to, sadly. What I necessarily mean by this is that quite a few of us may perhaps have embellished our resumes a tad or two, but we haven’t flat-out lied. We know that if we did lie on our resumes, we’d be fired. And if Santos isn’t fired by the Republican Social gathering, like we would be, what form of message does that mail?

I experienced a reporter call me about the individual who lied on their resume that I crossed paths with at my former company. The reporter listened to the rumors much too that this man or woman was shady. I declined to aid him with an exposé about this human being. I did not want to get anyplace in the vicinity of it.

If Santos stays in Congress, and blithely operates for reelection, will everyone get close to him?

I’m shaking my head with all the phone calls for Santos to resign. Let him continue to be! Let the Republican leadership wallow in the mud of denigrating deceptors. Trump and his lies may be withering away, but there’s a great deal, like Santos, ready to stage in and select up the slack. For the Republicans, that signifies the lies just hold on coming.

Abraham Lincoln, who is rolling more than in his grave at all these liars in his bash, at the time explained about liars, “If a gentleman will stand up and assert, and repeat and reassert, that two and two do not make 4. I know almost nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.”

John Casey is editor at massive for The Advocate.

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