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New York Democrats<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Congressman-Elect George Santos of New York has an \u201cintegrity\u201d problem.  Don\u2019t take my word for it.  Even \u201coff the hook\u201d former Democratic Congressman (and Presidential candidate) Tulsi Gabbard said it, in her Fox News<\/em> interview of him.  Santos is a Republican, one elected in the surprising New York state results of 2022.  New York is a bastion of \u201cDemocratness\u201d.  The struggles in the state legislature are usually between two different factions of Democrats, with the Republicans having little say.  The battles between Democrats Mayor DeBlasio and Governor Cuomo were legendary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it was a real shock that four normally Democratic Congressional seats went to Republicans, including one held by the Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Sean Patrick Maloney.  Santos flipped New York\u2019s Third District on the North Shore of Long Island.  Understanding New York Democrats, it\u2019s no surprise that the losers are blaming newly elected Governor Kathy Hochul for not campaigning hard enough in the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

False Resume<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Santos campaigned as an openly gay, former Wall Street investor, who would bring a \u201cmoderate\u201d Republican stand to Washington.  His parents were from Brazil, and Santos himself graduated from Baruch University in New York, and worked for fabled investing firm Goldman-Sachs.  And, he was Jewish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It now seems that none of those things are true.  He never worked on Wall Street, Goldman-Sachs doesn\u2019t even have record of him.  He never graduated from Baruch University.  Now he claims his parents weren\u2019t from Brazil.  And, he acknowledges that he was raised in the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His latest line:  \u201cI\u2019m not Jewish, but I\u2019m Jew—ish\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIsh-ness\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

So I get that a little bit.  My father was a non-practicing Jew, my mother, estranged from the Roman Catholic Church,  turned to American Episcopal.  I was raised an Episcopalian, schooled in the traditional (near Catholic) mysteries of the \u201chigh church\u201d.  At the holidays we celebrated Christmas and Easter, not Hanukah and Passover.  But there was always some interaction with the Jewish side of the family.  I learned to intone the Hebrew blessing of the wine and bread before Seder supper, just as I learned the Lord\u2019s Prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess you could say that while I was a Christian (now fallen), I was still connected to \u201cethnic Judaism\u201d.  And in Cincinnati, a small town in many ways, I was connected to the \u201cJewish\u201d part of the Democratic Party, because Dad\u2019s distant cousin was one of the Party County Co-Chairman.  In one of my first \u201creal\u201d political jobs, as scheduler for a Catholic United States Congressman,  I was surprised to find I was considered one of the \u201cJews\u201d in the office.  At the time, I didn\u2019t \u201cfeel\u201d Jewish, if anything I related more to the Congressman\u2019s Irish connections.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout my career as a public school teacher and coach, I realized that many would automatically assume I was Jewish.  It was just the way it was, and though I never claimed to be Jewish, it was still in the background for people who really didn\u2019t know me.  So, in a sense, I guess I was \u201cJew—ish\u201d too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malpractice<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

But it\u2019s hard to imagine you could lie about your work career, your education, your parents\u2019 ethnicity, and your religion; and still get elected to Congress.  There is an old campaign axiom:  know your own candidate, and know your opponent.  It\u2019s called opposition research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In any campaign any professional campaign operative is going to check every claim by the opponent.  Not only do they examine the views and positions on issues, but, like any prospective employer, they CHECK REFERENCES and claims. If they fail to do that, they are committing campaign malpractice.  So why didn\u2019t Democratic candidate Robert Zimmerman do his \u201cdue diligence\u201d?  Why did it take the New York Times <\/em>to expose Santos as a fraud, and only after the election results were already counted?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cringe-worthy<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Because, even in this era \u201cbeyond truth\u201d, we still don\u2019t expect people to out-right lie about the basic facts of their lives. We might take a couple of exaggerations, but not complete fabrications.  But if truth no longer matters, then why shouldn\u2019t candidates just make-up whatever works. Santos wasn\u2019t the only one.  Look at Herschel Walker, who assumed they\u2019d never find the children he  denied even fathering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tulsi Gabbard wasn\u2019t the only former politician decrying Santos\u2019 lack of integrity.  Former Congressman and convicted pervert Anthony Weiner also was shocked.  He interviewed Santos twice on radio (yep, Weiner\u2019s got a radio show) and \u201cexposed\u201d some of the lies.  But Weiner really found that the \u201cJew\u2014ish\u201d comment was \u201ccringe-worthy<\/a>\u201d.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I guess he should know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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