Title: Josh Smith for President Source:
Break the Bell URL Source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIf8ZSHRH2I Published:Sep 1, 2023 Author:Craig Smoldt and Bill Filter Post Date:2023-09-01 04:53:38 by Charles_Byrd Keywords:None Views:2412 Comments:24
This week, we are graced with an appearance from your future President, Joshua Smith, Libertarian Candidate and host of the Break the Cycle podcast. Join us as we grill him on all the political issues and ponder about why he would ever wish this upon himself.
But on June 14th, the Oregon Department of Justice’s Division of Child Support (DCS) filed a Notice of Intent to Suspend License against the aspiring chairman. Citing an unpaid child support arrears of $27,037.90, Oregon DCS will suspend his driver’s license within 30 days of the filing unless he enters into a written compliance agreement with the court. This is contrary to his insistence on that same day that “I pay now, and that’s all anyone really needs to know.” This is not a one-off statement by Joshua Smith. Despite DCS records showing he waited on payment until early 2017 and ceased payment this April, he asserted in the same Facebook thread, “I won’t have any financial issues that will keep me from the work I plan to do for the party.”
That assertion may not be the case for incumbent Chairman Nicholas Sarwark’s main challenger. In the same thread, Mr. Smith explains that his campaign has fundraised “a little under 10k” and that he has “spent over 5k of my own money.” However, his campaign is not an incorporated entity. This means every dollar donated to him is legally considered a gift to his person, a reality he acknowledges in that thread. That puts the money in the legal possession of someone who, as the Notice of Intent above lays out, is legally obligated to pay $458 in child support every month.
By having collected the donations as personal gifts, he now risks the court deciding that the $15,000 he spent on his chairmanship race was legally obligated to go, in part, to his outstanding child support arrears. Mr. Smith insists he has checked “more than once” that his campaign fundraising, which he classifies as “gifts,” is not considered personal income. But according to Oregon Administrative Rule 137-050- 0715(4)(e), when calculating child support owed, “Actual income includes but is not limited to: Inheritances, gifts and prizes.” This could pose a significant legal threat to Mr. Smith, as he has been taking in thousands in “actual income” despite owing over $27,000 in unpaid child support. independentpoliticalrepor.../06/joshua-smiths-normal- blue-collar-american-problems/
Are all libertarians dead beats or just the ones you support?
Six years later, Joshua Smith gained custody of all but one of his children and adopted their half-siblings as well as his stepchildren. They live a very happy life in Iowa. You're going to need to do better than some hit piece circulated by the sort of people who used to run the LP and give it the bad reputation it used to have.
