Gay GOPer George Santos's Gay Dem Opponent: We Suspected a Scam
In the wake of accusations that gay Republican Congressman-elect George Santos falsified his résumé, the gay Democrat he defeated in a New York congressional district in November, says it was clear to him that Santos was not what he claimed to be.“My campaign has been calling out [Santos's] scams and lies about himself for several months.
We've worked to raise many of these issues,” Robert Zimmerman said in a statement posted on Twitter. Santos beat Zimmerman by eight percentage points to win an open seat in New York’s Third Congressional District, which covers most of the north shore of Long Island.
The race was notable for having two out candidates, a first in a a general election, and the result was surprising because the district is majority Democratic.Now questions have been raised about Santos’s background.He said he had worked for financial firms Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, but a New York Times investigation found no record of him having been employed at either.
It also found no record that he graduated from Baruch College, as he claimed, and it reported that he had never registered his nonprofit pet rescue organization with the Internal Revenue Service.
