Local Republicans said Santos deceived voters and the Nassau County GOP, and they were particularly incensed by his lies about having Jewish ancestry.
NEW YORK — Local Republican leaders in New York on Wednesday called for the immediate resignation of their new GOP congressman George Santos, who isover his personal and campaign finances and lies about his resume and family heritage.
Santos, swarmed by reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday, flatly rejected the call for him to resign, saying, “I will not.” Rep. Anthony D’Esposito, another Republican newly elected to represent Long Island, spoke at the news conference via video from Washington and joined Cairo’s call for his colleague’s resignation.
Earlier this week, the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center lodged a complaint with the Federal Election Commission and urged regulators to investigate Santos. The “mountain of lies” Santos propagated during the campaign about his life story and qualifications, the center said, should prompt the commission to “thoroughly investigate what appear to be equally brazen lies about how his campaign raised and spent money.
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