Picking a Republican to run for the Santos NY 3rd CD seat….

They ARE having issues….

One person in the mix turns out to be a Democrat , NOT a Republican….

Another was convicted for their Oct.7th actions…

A third choice turned out to have had connection’s to Santos….

A fourth choice gave campaign contributions ($40,000!) to the Democratic choice Tom Suozzi…..

 

I’ve already said here Democrat Tom Suozzi WILL get his seat back come Feb. 13….

The above seems to confirm THAT BEFORE things even get started in a Democratic US House District….

The torrent of revelations washed away the message of order and unity that top Republicans sought to project in the wake of Mr. Santos’s hurricane. And suspicions that many of the unsavory disclosures about the candidates had been seeded in the press by rival Republican camps left some fretting that the party was playing straight into Democrats’ hands.

“It definitely looks messy,” said Chapin Fay, a Republican political consultant advising some of the candidates. “Just let the Republicans kill themselves even before a candidate is chosen.”

In many ways, the Republicans’ predicament is the result of their determination to avoid a repeat of Mr. Santos. The federally indicted serial fabulist slipped past Republican and Democratic vetters in 2020 and 2022, winning the seat connecting Queens and Nassau County last fall before his entire life story began to unravel as a series of fictions and outright frauds.

Joseph Cairo, the Nassau County Republican chairman leading the selection process, views Mr. Santos as a stain on his personal record. He brought in Peter King, a popular former congressman, to help lead the screening of about 20 contenders, and said he would likely only select a candidate already well known to the party. He has also retained outside help from research firms to identify major vulnerabilities before making the nomination…..

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Joe Cairo, the Nassau County GOP head, was disbarred himself back in 1994….