Santos ends comeback bid after raising no money

[struggle4progress]

BY ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
Updated 6:14 PM EDT, April 23, 2024

... The announcement came after the disgraced former congressman’s campaign committee reported no fundraising or expenditures in March, raising speculation that his campaign had failed to get off the ground.

Santos last month launched a campaign to challenge Republican Rep. Nick LaLota in the GOP primary for the eastern Long Island congressional district, which is a different district than the one he previously represented. Weeks later, Santos said he was leaving the Republican Party and would instead run for the seat as an independent ...

https://apnews.com/article/george-santos-congress-campaign-a4c4cc2ea7cb52a13ec9f8dfc5ede86c

[Passages]

1. With Trump I had thought we had seen it all, but then along came Santos.

[struggle4progress]

2. Nobody Asked, but George Declared He's Done

BY UWA EDE-OSIFO
APRIL 25, 20245:38 PM

... Santos credited current events — and not the fact that his campaign had raised zero dollars and was dead on arrival — with his decision ...

In reality, his recent political jaunt in a new district of Long Island—following his expulsion from Congress last year after the House Ethics Committee found evidence of significant criminal wrongdoing—hadn’t attracted much support ...

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/04/george-santos-congress-long-island-campaign.html

[struggle4progress]

3. Get a personalized Cameo video featuring his drag queen persona for $350

... The personalized videos that he creates on Cameo — a digital platform that lets fans pay celebrities to record short, customized videos — will cost $350 each, according to the new account’s page. Santos started using Cameo just days after he was ousted from Congress; in December, he told Semafor that the money he made on the platform in just 48 hours exceeded the $170,000 he would have made serving in Congress for the entire year ...

https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/people/2024/04/30/george-santos-latest-ploy-kitara-ravache-comes-out-of-the-closet-for-money/

[Kid Berwyn]

4. He can still attend the State of the Union address.

Which is nice thing when one is about to become a sweater-wearing convicted felon.

[struggle4progress]

5. Kimmel Moves to Dismiss George Santos' Lawsuit

Published Apr 30, 2024 at 8:09 AM EDT
Updated Apr 30, 2024 at 9:36 AM EDT
By Shannon Power

... Santos filed a federal lawsuit against the late-night TV host in February, accusing him of deceptively obtaining Cameo videos, which he then aired on his eponymous ABC talk show ...

Kimmel made requests to Santos under fake names, according to Santos' lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court and Kimmel's motion to dismiss. He then shared clips of Santos recorded on his show in December during a segment titled "Will Santos Say It?" ...

Santos then sued Kimmel, ABC and its parent company Disney for copyright infringement, fraudulent inducement, breach of contract and unjust enrichment. He is seeking $150,000 per infringement for statutory damages.

However, Kimmel's lawyers have argued that Kimmel's airing of the Cameos on his show fell within the realm of "classic fair use" because they were segments "political commentary on, and criticism of" video clips created "by a major public figure" ...

https://www.newsweek.com/jimmy-kimmel-george-santos-lawsuit-dismissal-1895499

[mitch96]

6. Ok this grift did not work.. time for plan "B".. NT

[TlalocW]

7. What scam is he going to move to now?

After all the crap he did, I'm experiencing so much schadenfreude at his biggest score falling through. No congressional pension for him.

[NowsTheTime]

8. LOL

https://www.msn.com/en-nz/news/other/george-santos-revives-drag-persona-kitara-ravache-complete-with-red-lipstick-and-feather-boa-in-new-cameo-grift/ar-AA1nZUQY

[GenThePerservering]

9. Going on the drag circuit, apparently

I'm not sure any other queen is going to want anything to do with him. They're good people, he is not.