Joe McLeanNewly re-elected #Florida #Republican Rep. John Rutherford (a former sheriff of #Jacksonville ) sits on the House Ethics Committee, a position he's poised to retain in the 118th Congress.
Last week, he declined to say a word about the #GeorgeSantos scandal.
Florida’s Rep. Rutherford, poised to sit on Ethics Committee, stays silent on Rep.-elect Santos controversy
Following the startling revelations about Republican Congressman-elect George Santos, who flipped New York’s third district in the 2022 midterm elections, Rep. John Rutherford, R-Florida, a member of the House Ethics Committee declined to comment on whether the chamber should launch an ethics probe into the 34-year-old aspiring legislator.