{"id":599620,"date":"2023-12-02T01:07:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T22:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/santoss-name-removed-from-former-office\/"},"modified":"2023-12-02T01:07:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T22:07:41","slug":"santoss-name-removed-from-former-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/santoss-name-removed-from-former-office\/","title":{"rendered":"#Santos\u2019s name removed from former office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/santosgeorge_120123gn10_w.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former Rep. George Santos\u2019s (R-N.Y.) name plaque was removed from his former office on Friday, hours after he was expelled from Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Surrounded by reporters, a House employee <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cspan\/status\/1730687645603229758\">unscrewed the plaque<\/a> from the wall and removed Santos\u2019s name at about 3:30 p.m. It was replaced by a temporary sign stating \u201cOffice of the Third Congressional District of New York.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Santos was expelled early Friday in a 311-114-2 vote, making him the sixth House member to be removed from office.<\/p>\n<p>He is accused of fraud and breaking campaign finance law, as well as other violations listed in a bombastic House Ethics Committee report. He also faces 23 criminal counts for his alleged actions, though he has not yet faced trial.<\/p>\n<p>As he left Congress for the last time as a member on Friday, Santos criticized Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo hell with this place,\u201d he said. \u201cThe House voted \u2014 that\u2019s their vote. They just set a new dangerous precedent for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In political terms, the expulsion leaves Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) with one less vote for an already slim GOP majority. The vacancy is expected to be filled via a special election in Spring 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The 3rd District is expected to be tightly contested in 2024 and likely will be have a special election for the seat. It is considered a \u201cToss Up,\u201d according to the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/ratings\/house-race-ratings\">Cook Political Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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George Santos\u2019s (R-N.Y.) name plaque was removed from his former office on Friday, hours after he was expelled from Congress. Surrounded by reporters, a House employee unscrewed the plaque from the wall and removed Santos\u2019s name at about 3:30 p.m. It was replaced by a temporary sign stating \u201cOffice of the Third Congressional&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":599621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/12\/santosgeorge_120123gn10_w.jpg?w=1280","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[117,134343,134418,73798,134661,137726,90482,138493,147037,147389,147390,134345],"class_list":["post-599620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-business","tag-campaign","tag-congress-blog","tag-defense","tag-energy-environment","tag-george-santos","tag-house","tag-santos","tag-santos-expulsion","tag-santos-name-plaque","tag-santos-office","tag-state-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}