‘An embarrassment’: Romney on his sharp words for Santos

Source: Politico | February 7, 2023 | Burgess Everett and Kelly Garrity

Asked if he was disappointed that Speaker Kevin McCarthy isn’t pressing the New Yorker to resign, the GOP senator said “yes.”

Sen. Mitt Romney told off embattled Rep. George Santos as members of both houses of Congress filed into their seats for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech Tuesday, later calling the New Yorker an “embarrassment” to reporters.

Santos — a New York Republican whose short tenure in the House has been underscored by revelations that he fabricated much of his resume, and may have lied or misled election officials in his campaign’s financial filings — secured a prime seat in the House chamber on Tuesday night, putting him in position to rub elbows with fellow legislators as they arrived.

Romney (R-Utah) made it clear that he believed Santos had overstepped by parking himself in that central location. Romney confronted Santos as the senator made his way to his own seat, and later paraphrased his remarks to the first-term congressman to reporters in the Capitol.

“Trying to shake hands with every senator in the United States — given the fact that he’s under ethics investigation, he should be sitting in the back row and saying quiet, instead of parading in front of the president and people coming into the room,” Romney said.

“I don’t think he ought to be in Congress and he certainly shouldn’t be in the aisle trying to shake the hand of the president of the states and dignitaries coming in. It’s an embarrassment,” the senator continued, adding: “If he had any shame at all, he wouldn’t be there.”

When asked if the senator was disappointed that Speaker Kevin McCarthy had not called on Santos to resign, Romney replied: “Yes.” The New York congressman bit back at Romney after the State of the Union ended, tweeting at the 2012 Republican presidential nominee: “Just a reminder that you will NEVER be PRESIDENT!”

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