I only want to say this about the #Santos saga. I know everyone’s saying the money is the issue - and finding out the source of his sudden wealth is important. But even w/o disqualifying facts of financial corruption, his particular, serial, immoral lying is itself disqualifying.
There are a few matters of deception that bespeak deep moral rot & manifest unfitness for public svc. Lying abt the death of your mother, abt losing family in the WTC on 9/11, abt family members perishing in or fleeing from the Holocaust strike me as falling into that category.
We have witnessed & experienced the danger of having mendacious, out-of-control,morally compromised officials in public life over the past few years. At some point it becomes a threat to the integrity of democracy. By hanging it all on the money, we allow the Reps to do the same.
It will take considerable time to fully investigate the improprieties that likely led to his spontaneous financial enrichment. In the meantime, there are his sick, serial and macabre lies. They matter. They are disqualifying. And drawing that line is important. Especially now.
Just because the Republicans may lack the integrity to negotiate his resignation, or to censure and sideline him immediately once sworn in, doesn’t mean we must all relinquish our moral compass. His constituents in particular should demand more.
So he should spurned by other politicians, esp. House Members and New York politicos. “His” constituents should recognize that they are victims of a fraud and treat him as someone who purloined their vote by fraud, and disrespected them as citizens.
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