Rep. George Santos Slammed By Rosa Parks Niece After Making Comparability

Rep. George Santos ain’t Rosa Parks, regardless of evaluating himself to the civil rights pioneer — so says the icon’s niece … telling GS to maintain her identify out of his mouth.
Rhea McCauley tells TMZ … she felt it was completely inappropriate for Santos to check himself to her aunt, saying it is apples to oranges relating to the scenario. She additionally says different relations associated to Parks are fairly pissed about his remarks too.
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The NY congressman name-dropped RP in a current interview he did, the place he referenced Sen. Mitt Romney telling him to sit towards the again throughout Biden‘s SOTU earlier this yr … this after he’d been uncovered as having advised a number of totally different lies earlier than getting elected.
Santos stated he did not admire a white man (Romney) telling a Latino homosexual man that he did not belong someplace — then saying Rosa Parks did not surrender her seat approach again when.
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) stated after the State of the Union deal with on Tuesday that Rep George Santos (R-N.Y.) “shouldn’t be in Congress.” https://t.co/zfDvNI7oJi pic.twitter.com/pMZPQiZXUN
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In different phrases, he appeared to be suggesting … he would not both, likening himself to her.
McCauley says she and the remainder of the fam are ticked off that Santos even introduced her up, declaring that his juxtaposition right here is not even traditionally correct — specifically, on account of the truth that Parks was preventing towards segregation … and that George appears to be airing out a petty feud between himself and one other politician. Probably not the identical factor.
She says he owes the Parks household an apology for misusing her identify. Additionally, she notes her aunt very doubtless would not have been cool with him … seeing how she did not like fabricators.