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Friday, January 20, 2023
Vol. 72, No. 3
N E W H Y D E PA R K
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK
SEWANHAKA STUDENT A STEM WINNER
BLAKEMAN UNVEILS CASINO PLAN FOR HUB
PAGES 23-26
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Santos just one of the House guys
HERRICKS HEADLOCK
Serial liar 3rd District rep named to 2 committees amid calls to resign BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Newly-elected U.S. Rep. George Santos told fellow U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) that he will continue to serve in Congress until the same number of 3rd District residents that voted for him call for him to resign, despite no longer having support from the Nassau County Republican Committee and local GOP officials. Santos defeated Democrat Robert Zimmerman 142,017-120,060 in the district’s November election. After multiple publications, including the New York Times, unearthed falsehoods in his personal and professional background, the newly-elected congressman said he will continue to serve the 3rd District constituents until the same number of people who voted for him call for him to step down. “I was elected by 142,000 people,” Santos told Gaetz, who hosted Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast on Thursday. “Until those same 142,000 people tell me they don’t want me, we’ll find out in two years.” Santos also tweeted on Wednesday that he would not resign from Congress, touting his desire to serve the constituents of the 3rd District rather than other politicians or political par-
ties. 3rd District residents against Santos have already begun to band together in the form of online petitions. Great Neck’s Jody Kass Finkel launched a change.org petition calling on Santos to step down which has received more than 1,900 signatures as of Thursday. The petition calls for the U.S. Department of Justice to prosecute Santos for fraud, local Republican leaders to apologize for backing Santos’ congressional run and for national Republican leaders to refuse Santos a seat in Congress. “In my 30+ years in the nonprofit world lobbying for environmental, health and affordable housing issues in Washington and Albany, I’ve never seen anyone with such an arrogant contempt for the truth or his constituents,” Finkel, a volunteer of the Great Neck Democratic Party and organizer of a petition urging Santos to resign, said in a statement. “While the whole country is aghast at Santos’s lies and utter disregard for decency, the residents of NY-03 have the most to lose. The Nassau County Republican Committee and local GOP officials called on Santos to resign from his position on Wednesday morning. Continued on Page 38
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The Herricks wrestling previously had a duel against East Meadow, resulting in a 41-24 loss.
Pip the pup pinched from pen at The Left Paw BY B R A N D ON D U FF Y
The terrier, named Pip, is valued at approximately $5,400. He is apA 4-month-old Boston terrier proximately 15 lbs. with black and was stolen from its cage at The Left white fur and a white stripe down Paw in New Hyde Park Wednesday, the middle of his stomach. “Our dogs are our world to us police said.
and for a dog to be taken out of its environment without their supplies or food, it is very concerning for the pet and their health,” manager Alison Steullet told News12.The store Continued on Page 39
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