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  Santos belongs behind bars, but the rightwing wants to keep him in Congress for votes. Tough on crime.
context: He found the only job in the US that he can't be fired from for falsifying his resume. >
  
  Yeah, and if he had a D in front of his name, he'd already be on his way out the door >
  
  Let's assume all those like him asking to have a D in front of their name were not allowed to run after vetting >
  
  
  “I say let him keep his seat for the next two years and let the people decide, because if this goes to a special election, we will have [Democrat] Robert Zimmerman, who is as far left as you want to take it,” she said. “And we will lose a valuable seat even though he will be stripped of all his committees — as he should be." 
  
  There you go ladies and gentlemen, another Republican loudly and proudly declaring that they're a traitor that would rather have a compromised lying sack of shit threat to the country in congress than a Democrat as long as it means they have a +1 puppet to (possibly) vote the way they want. >
  
  
  As a matter of short-term strategy, Paladino delivered a very different view from that of Nassau chairman Joe Cairo. She warned that if Santos quits, and a special election is called, “I’m going to tell you right now the chances of a Republican taking this seat are zero. It’s nuclear. It is zero. He fried the seat.”
  “I say let him keep his seat for the next two years and let the people decide, because if this goes to a special election, we will have [Democrat] Robert Zimmerman, who is as far left as you want to take it,” she said. “And we will lose a valuable seat even though he will be stripped of all his committees — as he should be."
  Paladino added: “He will be useless. But at least he will be a vote — a vote that I believe we will be able to count on.” 
  
  And if I lived in the District, maybe even the state, I'd be more pissed at the GOP for leaving him in office for 2 years, so seems like better to take the hit now than a potentially worse one in two years.   You know if he stays in office, Santos will be prominent in every NY Congressional Democratic campaign ad.    
  Hilarious that she describes Zimmerman as far left, too.