{"id":109350,"date":"2023-12-15T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=109350"},"modified":"2023-12-15T09:04:55","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T07:04:55","slug":"21-00-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=109350","title":{"rendered":"To replace Santos, NY GOP taps Ethiopian-born, Orthodox IDF veteran"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>To replace Santos, NY GOP taps Ethiopian-born, Orthodox IDF veteran<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

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Mazi Melesa Pilip is a \u201cremarkable candidate,\u201d said Matt Brooks, CEO of the Republican Jewish Coalition, in an endorsement.<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Mazi Melesa Pilip. Source: YouTube\/CBS News New York.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
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New York Republicans selected Mazi Melesa Pilip, an Ethiopian-born, Orthodox Jew and Israel Defense Forces veteran, on Thursday to run for New York\u2019s 3rd Congressional District.<\/span><\/p>\n

A current Nassau County legislator, Pilip is running for the seat that Republican Rep. George Santos held before being\u00a0expelled<\/a>\u00a0from the U.S. House of Representatives, on Dec. 1, following federal criminal indictments for fraud. It was also revealed that Santos had fabricated his backstory, including his supposed Jewish heritage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Santos\u2019s inventions stand in dramatic contrast with Pilip\u2019s real-life biography. Born in Ethiopia, she emigrated to Israel as a refugee in 1991 as part of an Israeli operation to airlift Ethiopian Jews. She served in the IDF as a paratrooper before moving to the United States with her husband and becoming a U.S. citizen. A mother of seven, Pilip was first elected to the Nassau County legislature in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n

The New York 3rd district special election holds national significance, given how narrowly Republicans control the House. Following the expulsion of Santos, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) wields an eight-seat, fractious majority.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWinning this battleground seat is critical to maintaining the GOP majority in the House of Representatives,\u201d Matt Brooks, CEO of the Republican Jewish Coalition, said in a statement. He endorsed Pilip, whom he called \u201ca remarkable candidate whose strength of character and firm principles are clear to anyone who looks at her life story and her work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

NY-03 was one of several Republican pickups in New York in the 2022 midterms, though Pilip will face a difficult challenger in the Democratic nominee, Tom Souzzi, who previously held the seat and has been a figure in Long Island politics for decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

The special election will be held on Feb. 13.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To replace Santos, NY GOP taps Ethiopian-born, Orthodox IDF veteran ANDREW BERNARD Mazi Melesa Pilip is a \u201cremarkable candidate,\u201d said Matt Brooks, CEO of the Republican Jewish Coalition, in an endorsement. . Mazi Melesa Pilip. Source: YouTube\/CBS News New York. . New York Republicans selected Mazi Melesa Pilip, an Ethiopian-born, Orthodox Jew and Israel Defense […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109350"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109382,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109350\/revisions\/109382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}