George Santos Must Resign or Be Expelled

By MoveOn. Wednesday, February 1 2023

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday early morning, MoveOn, Make the Road Motion, the Functioning Family members Celebration, NY-3 constituents, and community activists collected at Representative George Santos’s district place of work to supply a MoveOn petition with over 100,000 signatures demanding he resign from workplace or be eliminated by Residence Speaker Kevin McCarthy. 

Today’s celebration comes on the heels of the latest community polling from Siena College or university that shows that just about 4 in 5 residents in Santos’s district support his removal from business office. 

In an job interview with Extensive Island Company News, MoveOn Executive Director Rahna Epting shared how the petition responding to Santos’s lies and deceitful actions is reflective of voters’ “palpable outrage.”

At the party, constituents and leaders voiced why Santos is not healthy to serve and does not stand for the very best pursuits of the men and women of New York’s 3rd Congressional District. 

We’ll be exterior George Santos’ business tomorrow morning with @NYWFP, @MaketheRoadAct, @LIProgress, @nychange and over 100,000 signatures demanding Santos’ resignation.

Include your identify: https://t.co/hkb2S6UfVd pic.twitter.com/sVlVtCqu77

— Rahna Epting (@rahnamepting) February 1, 2023

“George Santos is not healthy to signify the persons of NY-03, and he will have to go,” claimed Epting. “Allowing George Santos, who has fabricated his overall lifestyle tale, to provide in the Household is an additional outrageous illustration of just how considerably the GOP will do to hoard energy devoid of any regard for the health and fitness of our democratic institutions. MoveOn is happy to amplify the voices of worried group leaders who are demanding George Santos be taken off from place of work.”

Charlie Robbins, a Santos constituent and MoveOn member, extra, “Being elected to Congress is an honor which carries with it a responsibility. There is no issue in my head that Mr. Santos is not fit to signify the people of Congressional District 3.  We have no strategy what he stands for besides himself and his electricity and greed. That is why I joined over 100,000 individuals in signing this petition contacting on Mr. Santos to resign.”

“The genuine concern in this article is income in politics. Major income props up undesirable candidates, voters tune out mainly because they feel they have no a person to vote for and their vote does not make any difference. George Santos have to resign nowadays, and (we have to) start out the course of action to discover a serious representative for the citizens of the 3rd Congressional District,” added Lengthy Island Progressive Coalition Govt Director Lisa Tyson. 

MoveOn, event associates Doing work Family members Celebration and Make the Road Motion alongside with dozens of community activists exterior the Santos district business office.

“George Santos has lied about all the things less than the sunshine. Even though it’s effortless to publish him off as a comical sideshow, each working day that Santos continues to be in workplace is yet another working day that NY-3 citizens are deprived of truthful and trustworthy representation. Household Republicans are determined for just about every past vote—even if it comes from a con artist—just so they can go guidelines that additional enrich their wealthy buddies. Performing Families Occasion members in NY-3 have experienced enough of George Santos and simply call on him to resign immediately.” – Joe Sackman, Nassau Chapter of the Functioning Families Occasion

In addition to hosting the celebration, MoveOn has a cellular billboard circulating all through Santos’s district airing movies of constituents and involved citizens sharing their sights about why Santos should move down from office.

View more shots and films listed here.

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