Posted on 07/28/2011 12:06:07 PM PDT by Hunton Peck
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh, the tea party-backed Republican who squeaked into office last year by vowing to bring fiscal responsibility to Washington and who has been one of President Barack Obama's most outspoken critics during the standoff over the debt ceiling, is being sued for more than $100,000 in unpaid child support, a newspaper reported.
The freshman congressman's ex-wife, Laura Walsh, filed the claim against him in December as part of their divorce case, saying he owed $117,437 to her and their three children, the Chicago Sun-Times reported in a story published Wednesday.
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Walsh, in a prepared statement, characterized that the story as a political "hit piece," and suggested it was no accident that the paper would run the story about a marriage that ended eight years ago and a court case filed nearly eight months ago, just as lawmakers are in the middle of contentious debate over the debt ceiling.
"I am the tip of the spear in this current debate, and I will be attacked," he wrote in a statement issued Thursday morning.
Walsh, whose campaign was marked by allegations of financial mismanagement, said he thought he and his ex-wife were coming to an agreement on the money owed, according to a February court filing. And in the statement, he said he has been "trying to resolve this issue since January in a court of law ..."
The statement does not include any mention of the report that he owed $117,437, saying only that he has "always given everything I have to meet my financial obligations to my children..."
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Walsh's attorney, R. Steven Polachek, denied that the congressman owed $117,437 in back child support and interest and said the amount was much less.
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$100,000 owed in a divorce case less than a year old?
And the claim was only filed in December.
The marriage ended 8 years ago. This would supposedly be for arrears over that period. The suit was filed 8 mos ago.
Did Boner really tell the GOP in congress to “get their ass in line”???
FIRE HIM NOW
Elect a new one - what is the process for replacing a Speaker?
The article says the divorce was 8 years ago, but they just filed the claim for unpaid support 8 months ago.
This sounds an awful lot like what US Senate Candidate Barak Hussein Obama pulled on this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Ryan_(Senate_candidate)
timing of the lawsuit seems suspicious...
This has got DNC/Omama/RINO/DC Insider stink ALL over it!
Obama
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2754855/posts
Boehner to GOP members: ‘Get your ass in line’
...don’t recall him talking to Obama like that.
(oh. too busy playing golf...)
and Beohner’s plan is a joke. it cuts less than a trillion over 10 YEARS, but will allow in INCREASE in the deficit of over 12 TRILLION DOLLARS over the same 10 years!!!
CBO scores REID’S plan as cutting MORE than Boehners!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2754886/posts
CBO scores Boehner’s new bill: $22 billion in savings this year, $917 billion over 10 years
There can’t be anyone easier for the Dems to recruit for their dirty work than a Republican politician’s ex.
Just by this statement...my bet is her owes her.
said he thought he and his ex-wife were coming to an agreement on the money owed, according to a February court filing.
I would say he becomes very quiet going forward...which is too bad.
That's the idea.
What makes this smell to me is that it is only a lawsuit. I’d be more inclined to believe it if it were a contempt of court action being brought by the Illinois Child Support Enforcement agency.
Interesting that this was filed after the November elections.
Yes, the fake journalist Joe Acosta from the Clymer News Network did a story about the debt debate and worked this crap into it.....
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