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Hanukkah Sundown, December 7
Thursday, December 7, 2023 ~ Volume 69 ~ Issue Number 7 ~ $1.00
Cleaned House: Santos Expelled in Historic Vote By far the most confounding and surprising episode in recent American politics has come to a close: Congressman - now former - George Santos (R-Queens) was expelled from the House of Representatives in a historic vote last Friday. Santos now joins only five other members of Congress to be expelled in history. Three were expelled in 1861 for supporting the Confederacy, one in 1980 for a bribery scandal, and one in 2002 for bribery, racketeering, and corruption charges. Santos is the first and only Republican to have ever been expelled from the House and the first to be expelled without a formal criminal conviction. The series of findings that led to his excommunication plagued him for his entire half-term in the House, with the initial New York Times report last December finding that Santos embellished his education history.
By Matt Meduri Santos is determined to have lied about attending Baruch College in New York and obtaining an MBA from New York University - he appears to have no college education whatsoever. He also lied about his employment with CitiGroup and Goldman Sachs - neither company could corroborate his time with them. Santos also prided himself on his apparent Jewish heritage, which he later recanted by stating that he is Catholic with Jewish descent, making him, in a term that he coined, “Jew-ish.” He also claims that his mother was a collateral casualty of the September 11 attacks in New York, although her 2003 visa application shows she had not been in the United States since 1999. Santos also claimed that his company “lost” four employees in the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, a claim that could also not be verified by several outlets. Continued on page 3
Hauppauge School District Approves Renovation Bond By Kaitlyn Foley The Hauppauge community came together this week to vote on a bond referendum intended to revitalize and improve instructional areas, athletic facilities, and the infrastructure of different buildings in the district. The $58.2 million initiative was passed in an 807-278 vote - nearly a 75%-25% split. The proposition will raise school property taxes by $15 per year for every $100,000 in home value. The result of the vote has come with many celebrations as most of the advancements proposed are extremely necessary and vital to the education of students. These advancements include renovation of the science research room, fitness center, television studio, and pre-production classrooms in the high school, as well as the expansion and renovation of the outdoor courtyard and learning centers of both the middle and high school. The high school, which is over seventy years old, will receive majority of the spending in athletic updates including resurface of track and field event spaces, construction of two multi-purpose turf fields, reconstruction, and expansion of the tennis courts to include pickleball lines, construction of a dek hockey rink, additional parking, upgrade in pool filtration systems. Continued on page 15
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