Joe Walsh DoX... Enjoy your cak3! Hometown: McHenry, IL Religion: Roman Catholic Born: December 27, 1961 Phone Number: (847)-328-3729 Home Address: 1415 Sherman Ave Evanston, IL 60201 Family Wife: Helene Walsh Children: Joseph Walsh, 24 Megan Walsh, 21 Patrick Walsh, 17 Alexandra Weiner, 22 (stepchild) Jacob Weiner, 20 (stepchild) Offices: 432 Cannon HOB Washington, DC 20515 Phone: (202) 225-3711 Fax: (202) 225-7830 Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00AM-5:00PM Eastern time 50 East Grand Ave. Fox Lake, IL 60020 Phone: (847) 973-9341 Fax: (847) 973-9451 Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00AM-5:00PM Central time 124 Cass Street, Unit 2 Woodstock, IL 60098 Phone: (815) 337-0328 Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00AM-5:00PM Central time State/District Office (Campaign): Grayslake, IL 60030 Phone: (847) 752-8155 Chief of Staff:Justin Roth Scheduler:Kate Schramm Legislative Director: Jeff Freeland Press Secretary: Ashley Helms Office: House of Representatives State: Illinois District: 8 Party: Republican Joe Walsh has dedicated his professional life to service and advocacy. He has advocated on behalf of a wide range of public policy issues and causes, most notably advancing market-based solutions to education reform and urban poverty. But Joe has another side to him now doesn't he? Education: University Of Iowa -- BA English University of Chicago -- Masters in Public Policy Work Info: Employer: House of Representatives Position: Congressman Time Period: January 2011 to present Location: Washington, DC Description: Congressman in the United States House of Representatives, representing IL-08. Schramm, Kathleen J. (Kate) 2011: New Hire Phone : Websites: http://walsh.house.gov/ http://www.twitter.com/RepJoeWalsh http://twitter.com/RepJoeWalsh http://walsh.house.gov http://www.youtube.com/RepJoeWalsh http://www.facebook.com/RepJoeWalsh http://www.flickr.com/photos/joewalshcongress/ http://walsh.house.gov/common/rss//index.cfm?rss=49 http://walshforcongress.com http://walshforcongress.com http://www.legistorm.com/member/2821/Rep_Joe_Walsh_IL.html Contributor Total Indivs PACs Performance Trust Capital Partners $19,000 $19,000 $0 Honeywell International $16,633 $0 $16,633 Sage Products $11,000 $11,000 $0 Cancer Treatment Centers of America $10,335 $10,335 $0 Abercrombie & Fitch $10,000 $10,000 $0 Clark & Wamberg $10,000 $10,000 $0 Freedom Project $10,000 $0 $10,000 Hills Capital Management $10,000 $10,000 $0 Otto Engineering $10,000 $10,000 $0 Pepper Companies $10,000 $10,000 $0 Sharmac Capital Management $10,000 $10,000 $0 Holden International $9,800 $9,800 $0 Family-PAC $9,750$0 $9,750 Kennedy Homes $8,500 $8,500 $0 Legg Mason $7,500 $7,500 $0 National Electrical Contractors Assn $7,000 $0 $7,000 AIS Network $6,750 $6,750 $0 Northrop Grumman $6,000 $0 $6,000 Adeli & Tollen Llp $5,000 $5,000 $0 American Defense International $5,000 $5,000 $0 Arbor Research & Trading $5,000 $5,000 $0 Axiom Strategies $5,000 $5,000 $0 Cardinal Health $5,000 $0 $5,000 Corregated Box Co $5,000 $5,000 $0 Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers $5,000 $0 $5,000 Every Republican is Crucial PAC $5,000 $0 $5,000 Exelon Corp $5,000 $0 $5,000 Exxon Mobil $5,000 $0 $5,000 Incredible Technologies $5,000 $5,000 $0 Indeck Energy Services $5,000 $5,000 $0 Intersport Inc $5,000 $5,000 $0 John Thodoa Dds $5,000 $5,000 $0 Laborers Union $5,000 $0 $5,000 Madison Dearborn Partners $5,000 $5,000 $0 MJ Miller & Co $5,000 $5,000 $0 National Beer Wholesalers Assn $5,000 $0 $5,000 New Vernon Capital $5,000 $5,000 $0 Rita Group $5,000 $5,000 $0 Spo Partners & Co $5,000 $5,000 $0 Trilin C Global $5,000 $5,000 $0 United Automobile Insurance Co $5,000 $5,000 $0 Wells Fargo $5,000 $5,000 $0 Performance Trust Capital Partners Mr Walsh's highest listed donor hired Capital Hill Consulting Group to Lobby congress on S.61 in 2009 http://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=49D1F550-E8EC-4EF7-A408-804E77B79298 This bill would have assisted homeowners in preventing the loss of their homes due to mortgage foreclosure. After the Fed handed out trillions in low mortgage rate loans to high risk taking financial institutions - S.61 was shot down in congress before it ever made it to the floor. Big finance YES - middle class homeowner - NO. Overall Mr Walsh received over $125,000 from Securities & Investment Firms and Insurance companies - his largest donors. For a Tea Party populist, he sure likes the banks and the insurance companies. Here's more on S.61 http://annlawyer.com/component/content/article/45.html The story about his child support issues are well known. Mr Walsh claims that he had low income and had temporary housing stewardship of one the children during the disputed time. These are facts which can be easily verified. Did Mr Walsh have a court order to pay - if so did he make the payments? Apparently he was ordered and did not pay. Mr Walsh can (and is likely) making the argument that the payments shouldn't have been as high as they were because of the issues above detailed - he might be right in that regard. Mr Walsh states that over $2K a month is being automatically garnished from his account (sad that a sitting US congressman has to be made to pay support via garnishment). It appears that there was a time that he was either ordered to pay or did not sufficiently have enough overnights to be considered shared custodial and was assessed the known $117K in arrears. Also, there seems to be at least once where he failed to appear at a hearing. It appears that he is in process of trying to lower that assessed figure (if he hasn't already) while paying off the figure he owes. Usually, when a non-custodial parent is in arrears a judge will increase the monthly in attempt to accelerate repayment. In any event, $117K is a rather large figure to be in arrears for. One has to surmise that for some period of time Mr Walsh did not make support payments to his ex-wife. Even giving him the benefit of the doubt the period of time in which he failed to pay support could probably be measured in years. If he got a verbal agreement with his ex-wife over support - then it's his own fault for not getting the agreement signed and filed with the court. Also if he did make payments outside a state disbursement unit and failed to save the cancelled checks - that's also a measure of irresponsibility. Any responsible father knows that child support must be paid if you are not the custodial parent. Whether or not you get along with the mother is not a consideration. I think constituents can reasonably come to the conclusion that at least for some extended period of time Joe Walsh did not make child support payments and was a deadbeat dad - verbal agreement or no.