Santos to run for Congress again
Former U.S. Rep. George Santos of New York, who was the first out LGBTQ Republican elected to Congress and one of only three members who was expelled by their colleagues for reasons other than supporting the Confederacy’s rebellion, has announced a bid to return to Congress.
As a former member, he retains lifetime access to the U.S. House chamber, and therefore was able to declare his run for the seat currently held by U.S.
Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.) during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Thursday night. Santos’s announcement came in a post on X, which began by criticizing the president’s speech. “I just witnessed a weak, frail president deliver spin and lies to the American people,” he wrote, and decided to run again “after a lot of prayer and conversation with my friends and family.” The former congressman then traded barbs in posts on X with LaLota, who had called for Santos’s expulsion from the time it was first revealed that he had fabricated much of his personal and professional history.
After Santos was handed a 23-count federal indictment for fraud in October, LaLota joined the renewed effort to oust him, which on Dec.
