George Santos - typical Republican


"[One] list of expenses caught your eye," said Burnett. "These are payments over three days to a parking lot in Miami Beach. And the amounts here, interestingly, varied quite widely. Some $3-4. A couple for more than $100. There are two others listed as $99.99. What's the significance of these numbers, and do these add up?"

"Those caught my eye as soon as I saw them," said Leibowitz. "The address listed on the campaign reports is for a parking lot in Miami Beach right near the Fontainebleau hotel. It's a public parking lot. In order to park there, you have to pay $20. That's for any amount of time. It's a flat $20 rate. There's a 35-cent transaction fee if you use a mobile app. Residents can get a $6 rate. So the amount should be multiples of that.
 
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For context, that's enough money to buy 1,131 orders of the restaurant's $23 rigatoni bolognese.

It's also enough money to buy 2,002 $13 Caesar salads, 1,735 $15 Margherita pizzas, or 3,718 $7 cannolis.

Santos' financial disclosures also revealed he owes the restaurant another $18,773.54 for a campaign election night event.

The campaign's updated disclosures show they paid down $8,000 on that debt.

That brings Santos' total Italian food expenditure up to $44,805.60.
 
This is a good article that talks about what most people aren't talking about: Citizens United and what it allows people to do.


The lies keep coming on a relentless conveyor of revelations. He disingenuously said he “embellished” his resume. And, in an interview with the far-right television news channel OAN, he vowed that he has learned his lesson and from now on “everything is going to be above board,” adding, “It’s largely always been above board.” That’s a lie.​
The most important of his lies is who gave him the money to run for office. (The OAN interviewer did not ask.)​
Federal law requires candidates to disclose contributors. Not surprisingly, Santos’ “disclosures” read like fiction.​
Mother Jones magazine tried to contact donors going back to his failed 2020 congressional bid. It was an exercise in hunting for ghosts. They found that more than a dozen major donations came from people who apparently do not exist, often with addresses that don’t exist.​
This is exactly why the GOP now supports Russia over anybody else, including the United States. They are bought and paid for. All it's going to take is a few more years of them buying congress and they'll start enacting laws that slowly get rid of the United States altogether.

Citizens United was simply phase one.
 
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