Joe Walsh Strikes Back at Ex-Wife

8th District Rep. Joe Walsh (center) at a "Cup 'O Joe With Joe" meeting in Lake Zurich in January. (Photo from the congressman's website.)

8th Congressional District Representative and Tea Party darling Joe Walsh said he would handle accusations levied by ex-wife Laura he owes over $100,000 in child support privately. Probably because he would be a vindictive dick about it.

Walsh also forgot about the power of the press. The Sun-Times discovered Walsh's attorneys filed a motion seeking sanctions against Laura Walsh a mere six days after the story broke. They sought the sanctions after claiming Laura Walsh failed to provide her employment and salary records at pharmaceuticals manufacturer Eli Lilly as well as bank statements, tax returns and expense reports in order to prepare for the child support negotiations. What Laura Walsh's salary has to do with her ex-husband's alleged failure to pay child support, we have no idea.

Laura Walsh's attorney Jack Coladarci call the motion "harassment" and a deflection maneuver. Coladarci said his client had no corresponding obligation to pay her ex any support and, since the issue here is the $117,000 Joe Walsh supposedly owes in back child support, the request for his client's financial records is inappropriate.

Walsh is also taking heat for flying home and not attending tonight's joint session of Congress by President Obama from an unexpected politician. Sen. Mark Kirk said of Walsh's snub, "The joint session of Congress is in the Constitution. Even if you campaigned against [President Obama] you respect the office.” Walsh's chief of staff Justin Roth said of his boss's snub, "He would rather hear from job creators as opposed to being used as a pawn by the president for a political speech. He will meet with small business owners ... He would love to come back to D.C. with four or five [job creation] ideas and present that to the president."

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By Chuck Sudo in News on September 8, 2011 11:30 AM

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Linda Moore

I'm tired of reading hit pieces about Rep Joe Walsh. Amazing how the media can avoid reporting on SERIOUS ISSUES and instead spin derogatory articles about a typical and common divorce/child support case.

Let's hear more about Solyndra executive's 20 visits to Washington DC & Obama to get their $535MILLION DOE federal funding, only to go bankrupt and hand off the assets to Obama buddy/fundraiser George Kaiser of Argonaut in a last hour (Feb 2011) potentially fraudulent paperwork scam to secure the new assets and not repay the $535MILLION.

What stinks is not Rep Joe Walsh.......what stinks is the media, Obama and old line Republican & Democrat Congressmen who all line their pockets at the expense of the tax payers.

Give me 535 Joe Walsh's in Congress and a new Administration that follows the Constitution and reduces Federal Government offensive acts in every aspect of our lives. Cut the size of government and government spending & create real jobs that produce something besides red tape and more federal agencies.

shorty5704

My question to the people who voted this jerk in: What were you thinking? Do you still think he is the best and the right person to represent you in congress? If you do, then you're bigger jerks than he is. Shame on you. Aside from being generally obnoxious, he spends way too much time and energy dis-respecting the President and trying not to support his children.