Tea Party Rep. Joe Walsh Being Sued by Ex-Wife Laura Walsh for Over $100K for Back Child Support Payments

Illinois Tea Party lawmaker Joe Walsh being sued by ex-wife Laura Walsh for back child support payments of over $100,000, yet he was able to take vacations & loan his campaign money while crying poverty.

SHAME: Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL), a Tea Party freshman, who has been very critical of President Barack Obama, even going as far as calling him a liar, is being sued by his ex-wife Laura Walsh for over $100,000 in back-payments for child support. According to the Chicago Sun Times, she has been after him for nine years to take care of the children he fathered with her. He now claims his ex-wife's actions amount to a "hit piece," really? He had the nerve to say in a video,“President Obama, quit lying. Have you no shame, sir? In three short years, you’ve bankrupted this country.” Wow, has Joe Walsh no shame? Why won't you take care of your children? That's far worse than what he is accusing President Obama of doing.

Before getting elected, he had told Laura Walsh that because he was out of work or between jobs, he could not make child support payments. So she was surprised to read in his congressional campaign disclosures that he was earning enough money to loan his campaign $35,000.

“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 seeking $117,437 in back child support and interest. “Joe has paid himself back at least $14,200 for the loans he gave himself.” Source: Sun Times

The hypocrisy emanating from some in the Republican Party is so nauseating. Here is a man, who gets on his pedestal and assumes the role of the moral compass of the party, but yet he has failed miserably in his fundamental duty as a parent. He also managed to take vacations overseas while crying poverty. Shameful. Joe Walsh, stop blaming the media for this hot mess and pay your child support payments. Here's someone who would so critical of a black or Latino who doesn't take care of his kids, all the while he's just as guilty.