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  Who is in charge of the NY Democratic Party?
context: In other news, McCarthy awarded George Santos for his loyalty to the GOP by giving him seats on the Science and Small Business committees. 
  
  Santos will not, however, be assigned to the Ethics Committee, member Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) told CNN with a chuckle Tuesday.
  
  Glad they can laugh about a guy that stole money from a US veteran's dying dog.
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  Edit:
  The hits just keep on coming. This guy is a real piece of work.
  Santos used fake Jewish name on GoFundMe because he thought 'Jews would give more' to him, says his former roommate. >
  
  They elected a guy to be president who stole from a children's cancer charity, so why should this matter to them? >
  
  This whole scenario reads like a goddamn Parks and Rec script. On one hand, fuck Trump. On the other, I kinda love it for how downright bizarre it is, and for the fact that nobody got hurt for once (which is usually a common theme in Trump stories). >
  
  i'm guessing Trump saw the developer as a competitor and pulled a fast one. Honestly it's hilarious. I mean Trump sucks 100% but this >
  
  I kinda think he just saw an opportunity to sit his ass in front of a camera and went for it. No plan, no thinking through it. Just stimulus -> response. The sheer brazenness of it might be admirable if it were literally anyone else. >
  
  Full Text:
  
  A U.S. Navy veteran in New Jersey seeking to save his beloved service dog from a life-threatening stomach tumor was connected with a man who called himself “Anthony Devolder,” who promised to raise the $3,000 required to pay for the animal’s surgery. In fact, Devolder was future New York Rep. 
  George Santos, and he quickly disappeared from the veteran’s life—with all the money he’d raised for the dog, according to a Tuesday report from Patch. The 47-year-old veteran, Richard Osthoff, told the New York outlet that Santos had closed the GoFundMe in 2016 after they fulfilled their fundraising goal “and then some.” 
  Michael Boll, the president of the New Jersey Veterans Network, confirmed the account, saying he attempted to mediate the situation, but that Santos had been “totally uncooperative on the phone.” 
  Though the GoFundMe page was deleted and The Daily Beast could find no archival record of it, contemporaneous Facebook posts written by Osthoff mention “Anthony Devolder,” a name by which many people, including Santos’ former roommates, knew him before he entered politics. 
  The dog, Sapphire, died in 2017. Osthoff, who had been out of work for over a year, later turned to panhandling to afford the animal’s euthanasia and cremation—“one of the most degrading things I ever had to do,” he said. >
  
  Ok there is a huge problem here:
  Why didn’t ANY of this come out during the campaign?  WTF is going on in New York?  Are democrats really THIS incompetent?  Like we know the Republicans don’t have a bottom to their depravity, but the Democrats offer America apparently a -5 defense? >
  
  If heads weren't going to roll after losing all those seats, they have to after this. I saw some of the big NY Republicans refused to even endorse Santos, how that didn't raise flags I don't know.
  Opposition research is especially powerful in states like New York, because voters will actually vote for the other guy with enough scandal, not like in say Georgia where Hershel Walker's scandals barely moved the needle at all.