Posted on 07/27/2011 9:26:25 PM PDT by ejdrapes
Tea Party Rep. Joe Walsh sued for $100,000 in child support Freshman U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, a tax-bashing Tea Party champion who sharply lectures President Barack Obama and other Democrats on fiscal responsibility, owes more than $100,000 in child support to his ex-wife and three children, according to documents his ex-wife filed in their divorce case in December. “I won’t place one more dollar of debt upon the backs of my kids and grandkids unless we structurally reform the way this town spends money!” Walsh says directly into the camera in his viral video lecturing Obama on the need to get the nation’s finances in order. Walsh starts the video by saying, “President Obama, quit lying. Have you no shame, sir? In three short years, you’ve bankrupted this country.” In court documents, after his ex-wife, Laura Walsh, asked a judge to suspend his driver’s license until he paid his child support, Joe Walsh asks his ex-wife: “Have you no decency?” Joe Walsh’s attorney, R. Steven Polachek, called the claim of a $117,437 debt “unfounded.” “I dispute that he owes the child support that she’s claiming or anywhere near that amount,” Polachek said. “Joe Walsh hasn’t been a big-time wage-earner politician until recently — he’s had no more problems with child support than any other average guy.” While Laura Walsh’s attorneys say they have been awaiting a meeting with Joe Walsh’s attorney to work out a settlement, Polachek said it’s her attorneys who have been stalling.
BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Political Reporter/apallasch@suntimes.com July 27, 2011 9:59PM
“Tea Party Rep. Joe Walsh sued for $100,000 in child support” and?
THIS is supposed to mean he can’t get in the ring and take on the fraud in the straw hat? I DON’T THINK SO!
Hang in Joe, keep fighting.
Don't pull that trigger yet. I read this *thing* too...
How is this news surprising? We knew that Walsh was a deadbeat since the campaign (he had his condo foreclosed, tax liens on other properties for non-payment, and didn’t pay his campaign staffers their salary), and he almost lost in a heavily GOP district despite the huge GOP wave. And, as you said, he got shafted in redistricting and was going to be a one-termer anyways. Maybe he can get a cable TV show after his one term in Congress, but aside from that possibility he’ll never again make enough money to pay off his 9-year child-support debt, so his ex-wife is smart to sue now instead of waiting until he loses reelection and has already pissed away all the money he made.
This should be a cautionary tale for us: just because someone is eloquent and says all the right things does not mean that he or she is a good candidate. (I was going to say that Walsh is a male version of Christine O’Donnell, but I just remembered that in the DE GOP Senate primary threads I had described O’Donnell as a female version of Walsh.)
Does anyone find the timing of this a little suspect? How about the fact this originated in Chicago?
I was trying to think of this one. I have never liked that Jeri Ryan since then. She sold out.
I think that Rep. Walsh will win the primary. Republican primaries are usually won by the most conservative candidate, and Walsh is more conservative than Hultgren.
“It doesn’t actually say that they were divorced in 2010. She just filed this particular petition asking for back child support in 2010.”
Consequences to her for filing a false document with the court, lying about it under oath, and other similar things? Nothing. Nada. Zip. Women lie about this kind of thing all the time. Don't believe a word about this until it's been adjudicated.
None of this mattered to the dumb-assed court. She got custody and child support. The court told him he was lucky because he didn't get hit with alimony as well. He ruined himself financially trying to save his daughter. I've hated these kangaroo courts ever since.
He lives in Hotels, tears out the walls, then has his lawyers pay for it all.........Life’s been good to him so far.....
He is and he may have the CFG's money but I don't see it happening. Add up these 'scandals' (democrat voters may not care if one of theirs has these issues but Republicans do) with that fact that Hultgren is an experienced, well known politician and the district is more Hultgren's territory and I'd be surprised if Walsh could win.
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