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Title: Tea Party Congressman Joe Walsh Being Sued For $100K In Child Support
Source: TPM
URL Source: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsme ... oe_walsh_was_sued_for_100k.php
Published: Jul 28, 2011
Author: Ryan J. Reilly
Post Date: 2011-07-28 11:54:11 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 13361
Comments: 30

Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), who has made the media rounds bashing President Obama on the national debt, is being sued for $117,437 in back child support he allegedly owes his ex-wife and their three children, the Chicago Sun-Times reported, according to divorce documents filed in court in December.

Walsh's ex-wife Laura Walsh asked a judge to suspend Walsh's driver's license until he paid his child support, the newspaper reports. In response, Walsh asks his ex-wife's lawyer: "Have you no decency?"

A lawyer for Walsh said the Illinois Republican doesn't actually owe that much the amount his ex-wife claims, telling the Sun-Times the $117,437 debt was "unfounded."

"I dispute that he owes the child support that she's claiming or anywhere near that amount," R. Steven 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."

Walsh reportedly told his ex-wife that he was out of work or between jobs before he was elected to Congress in November and therefore couldn't make child support payments. So his ex-wife said it was news to her when she learned that he made a sizable personal loan to his campaign.

"Joe personally loaned his campaign $35,000, which, given that he failed to make any child support payments to Laura because he 'had no money' is surprising," Laura Walsh's attorneys wrote in a motion filed in December. "Joe has paid himself back at least $14,200 for the loans he gave himself."

Walsh and his ex-wife divorced in 2002. After Walsh allegedly missed child support payments, Cook County Judge Grace Dickler ordered in 2005 that he had to pay his ex-wife within 7 days or the court would enter an automatic withdrawal from his employer.

In response to the most recent dispute, Walsh submitted an email from his ex-wife that he said showed he was willing to settle with him for around $10,000.

Walsh's run for Congress was dogged by the disclosure of liens on his property from unpaid bills and staffers leaving his campaign because they claimed he wasn't paying them. One woman who claims she was hired to be Walsh's campaign manager sued for $20,000 in salary she said Walsh owes her.

The Sun-Times discovered the court documents during research for a profile on Walsh. Subscribe to *Tea Party On Parade*

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#1. To: Brian S, *Tea Party On Parade* (#0)

Just another deadbeat Teabagger who refuses to pay what he owes.

Skip Intro  posted on  2011-07-28   11:55:21 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Skip Intro (#1) (Edited)

Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.), who has made the media rounds bashing President Obama on the national debt, is being sued for $117,437 in back child support he allegedly owes his ex-wife and their three children, the Chicago Sun-Times reported...

Gee Skip - NO agenda or Fix is in here, eh??

HEY! Remember when 0bama's backdoor henchmen (with the help of the Chicago Sun-Times) delved into the sealed divorced records of that Ryan fella (R) who would have kicked the Community Organizer's azz in the Illinois Senate race back in 2004?

Hmmm....

Liberator  posted on  2011-07-28   12:30:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Liberator (#3)

HEY! Remember when 0bama's backdoor henchmen (with the help of the Chicago Sun-Times) delved into the sealed divorced records of that Ryan fella (R) who would have kicked the Community Organizer's azz in the Illinois Senate race back in 2004?

Nope.

Skip Intro  posted on  2011-07-28   12:46:23 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: Skip Intro (#8)

It's quite a story. You should investigate the sleazy way of just how 0bama became a Senator over the favored Jack Ryan.

Liberator  posted on  2011-07-28   12:58:20 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#13. To: Liberator (#10)

It's quite a story. You should investigate the sleazy way of just how 0bama became a Senator over the favored Jack Ryan.

We have a winner here!!!!It's official!!!!!WooooHooooo

Politics are now sleazy according to liberator.

mininggold  posted on  2011-07-28 13:01:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#22. To: Liberator (#10)

You should investigate the sleazy way of just how 0bama became a Senator over the favored Jack Ryan.

The only sleazy thing I see is Ryan's behavior. Perfectly normal for a Republican, though, so I can understand your angst.

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