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  A white guy isn't gonna help in that district.  Jesus Himself could run against her, and her voters would still reelect her.
context: Is hiring an impersonator of McCarthy’s Chief of Staff to call people and bilk them out of donations, not “breaking campaign, finance laws?” >
  
  We don’t even know if his name really is George santos >
  
  I think it's fair and legit to ask for his birth certificate. >
  
  House of Representatives actually have a Constitutional requirement to be a US citizen for at least seven years. This should literally have to be verified for all US Reps, not just Santos. As much as the Republicans scream about respecting the Constitution, you would think enforcement of this would have been enacted by now. >
  
  I mean Trump's currently the most likely Republican candidate for 2024 and he outright called for the Constitution to be got rid of. >
  
  If they take the 2nd amendment with it, I could maybe get behind it. /s >
  
  Yeah, it’s not a particularly good constitution by modern standards. I’d move a lot of “state” power (and Senate stuff) to something more natural. Like watershed legislatures might be a good one. Some sort of fundamental shared interest that isn’t “We drew these lines in the 1800’s and now we’re stuck with them.” And move most “state level” power to local governments. 
  States can still exist for college football purposes but there’s really no modern reason states west of like Connecticut have the lines they do. (And Delaware doesn’t get to be a state. They wanted to register every corporation and use toll bridges to mooch off other states so that’s what they’re gonna get. It’s an offshore banking island now even if we have to dredge a new canal to make it fully offshore. They’ll be happy because they’ll have a whole new waterway to make toll bridges over to make people driving between DC to NYC fund their government.)
  EDIT: I originally said east of Connecticut but I meant west. My point was just that states make increasingly less sense in a modern context the more west you get from New England, basically. >
  
  
  east of like Connecticut
  
  So… Rhode Island and Maine? >
  
  I meant west. >
  
  I was teasing. <3 >
  
  Comer is referring to a criminal conviction.  Like we've seen from Jeff Fortenberry, Bob Menendez, Chris Collins, Chaka Fattah, etc. recently, when you get indicted, you get kicked off committees. And if you get convicted, you're expected to resign.  And if you don't, which we haven't seen since Jim Traficant, you're expelled. >
  
  Ahh, Traficant. My local rep from back in the day. Paid by all the mobs. Fuckin Legend in Youngstown >
  
  I expected like the 1950's or something but damn that was recent. >
  
  Investigated by the house ethics committee you say?
  "We have looked into the matter involving ourselves and found nothing illegal was committed." >
  
  What House Ethics Committee? The GOP is gutting it. >
  
  So what would happen to his seat if he was removed? >
  
  New election in his district >
  
  Probably followed by Santos changing his name yet again and trying to run under a different name to scam the voters in that district yet again >
  
  I live in Majorie Taylor Greene’s district and have thought of changing my name to Margery Tailor Green and running against her >
  
  Please do. I would love to see someone knock her off her seat even if it is using a fake name close to hers to confuse her idiot voter base that keeps putting her in power. >
  
  To be fair, she ran unopposed the first time because she intimidated her opponent and his family until he quit and moved out of GA. The man who ran against her this time, Marcus Flowers, did a good job but that district will never elect a black man. They need a white male opponent to beat her. Or she can go to prison and not be able to run.