In his new bid for Congress, George Santos has left behind his old turf and targeted the one member of the New York delegation he’s said he personally dislikes: Nick LaLota
“They love picking up the phone and texting me,” he told the journalists assembled for a pen-and-pad briefing in an office at the Capitol.“With the exception of LaLota,” Santos said, referring to Rep. Nick LaLota . “I don’t like Nick LaLota.”
“My husband and I both enjoy that kind of life. We’re dying to have a chicken coop and stuff like that, and in Suffolk County it’s much easier to get that,” Santos said, contrasting the county where LaLota’s district sits with the Queens-bordering suburbs of his former seat. “In Nassau County, it’s full of restrictions on where and how much, and can you get chickens and can you get roosters because of neighbors and noise and that stuff.”, and bans on roosters are common in both counties.
But Santos also told The Daily Beast that the purported whispering about his sexuality wasn’t the real cause of his acrimony toward his former colleague . And the supposed story of how the enmity began is also, unsurprisingly, disputed by everybody else The Daily Beast spoke with for this story. But in this instance too, Santos hedged by claiming this was based on information funneled back to him by campaign staff and volunteers involved in the tally, since he was attending freshman orientation in Washington, D.C. at the time.
“You had a guy who could apparently raise a lot of money, apparently had a lot of professional connections, could add diversity to the Republican ticket, and on the surface, it seemed like that was an alright person to run in this district where it was understood a Republican could not win,” LaLota told The Daily Beast.
“Michelle Bond to me was, what I would say, an opportunity to tap into a whole new donor base. And she needed to tap into a local donor base, so it was very convenient for me,” Santos said in his interview with The Daily Beast. “So I said, ‘you know what? Fuck Nick LaLota.’” The move also represented, inadvertently or not, yet another Santos attack on the infrastructure Suffolk County Republican organization itself, noted Mark Chiusano, author of the recent Santos biography
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