Caravan drives efforts to oust George Santos

3rd District residents travel across N. Shore to highlight rep’s falsehoods

BY BRANDON DUFFY

Dozens of NY-03 constituents staged a “Drive Out Santos” caravan Saturday morning throughout different North Shore locations to highlight the parts of Congressman George Santos’ resume that have come under scrutiny in recent months.

Chants of “New York 3, Santosfree” and “Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Santos has got to go” were two of the many heard by residents, who lined their cars with streamers, posters and writin 3gs to voice their ongoing displeasure.

“George Santos told real and significant lies that impacted all of us,” said resident Casey Sabella. “It’s unacceptable that he is still in Congress actively legislating against us, and he needs to be expelled.”

The groups responsible for organizing Saturday’s event include Concerned Citizens of NY-03, Courage For America and MoveOn. The organization previously held another rally weeks ago in Roslyn before constituents loaded up buses headed to Washington, D.C., to speak to Santos at his office in the Capitol.

Garden City Animal Hospital was the first stop for the caravan, highlighting the charity Santos said he founded, Friends of Pets United. Santos’ time with the charity has come un-

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der intense criticism in recent weeks.

Santos has been accused of scamming a disabled veteran out of thousands of dollars that would have been used to care for the man’s service dog.

Richard Osthoff said that he met Santos, who introduced himself as Anthony Devolder, in 2016 while living in a tent on the side of a New Jersey highway.

Osthoff ’s service dog, Sapphire, was suffering from a life-threatening stomach tumor, treatment for which would cost $3,000, the veteran told Patch.

A veterinary technician told Osthoff to use Friends of Pets United. Osthoff said he never saw any of the funds after a GoFundMe was set up and subsequently deleted once it got close to hitting the $3,000 goal.

Sapphire died in January 2017, he said.

Next on the tour was the Lake Success Jewish Center. Prior to being elected, Santos’ campaign website said the Republican’s grandparents “fled Jewish persecution in Ukraine, settled in Belgium and again fled persecution during WWII.”

A review of genealogy reports done by The Forward, an independent Jewish publication, showed that his grandparents, Paulo Horta Devolder

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