Traveling to D.C. by bus to protest Rep. George Santos

By ROKSANA AMID ramid@liherald.com

About 50 furious constituents of U.S. Rep. George Santos from the 3rd Congressional District chanting, “Hey hey, ho ho, Santos has got to go,” boarded a bus in Roslyn early on a frigid Tuesday morning bound for Washington.

Many clutched home-made signs with phrases against the embattled congressman like “Scamtos” and “Keep NY3 Ponzi-Free.”

Their goal? Bring their voices directly to the Capitol Hill offices of not only Santos, but his boss, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy through copies of petitions demanding Santos’s removal signed by more than 100,000 people. The backdrop? President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.

The four-hour, 250-mile trip comes after seven weeks of petitions, calls to the offices of various congressional members, and sent emails demanding Santos resign after just about everything in

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