Unpaid child support tells us who Walsh is

I just read Mrs. (U.S. Congressman) Joe Walsh’s December 2010 verified petition for $115,000 of unpaid child support. It is 55 pages, with exhibits.

It says that Joe stiffed his family on court-ordered $2,135.75-per-month child support for more than five years. It says that from November 2005 to March 2008 Joe shorted payments by $1,000 per month, and after March 2008 Joe stopped paying anything at all and refused to produce his tax returns to corroborate his claim of poverty.

If any of this is not so, I am sure Joe Walsh will submit proof of his version of the facts real soon. He hasn’t so far.

I am betting that Joe won’t submit anything to contest the facts set out in the petition. I am betting that the allegations of the petition are true and reflect the persona we have seen on display in past weeks: self-absorbed, angrily defiant, unreasoning.

Joe says the publication of this information is a “smear job.” To me, if the allegations of the petition are true and the exhibits real, Joe Walsh may not be fit for the office he holds, and his supporters and his detractors should know these facts, and deal with them in deciding whether to return him to office.

Al Kirkland Jr.

Elgin