I had an email from an 8th District Constituent who attended the Schaumburg Town Hall this Week for Congressman Walsh. As a matter of fact, this was his fourth Walsh Town Hall. The below is a reprint of the email and goes to show that Joe is realizing his district is more than his band of merrimen.
"I'm XXXXX and I attended the Joe Walsh Town Hall meeting in Schaumburg last night. This was my fourth one. I attended his very first one in Lake Zurich in December even before he was sworn in. The second was at Harper College. the 3rd was in Deer Park. Last night's meeting was very different from the first two, in more ways than one. The first two were very similar to what I imagine would be a Walsh campaign rally. A real love fest, if you will. Last night was no love fest. He was challenged frequently, sharply, and rapidly when he would put something up on his "power point " presentation that just didn't ring true and was meant to mislead. Also, the crowd wasn't quite so one-sided. In fact, it was about half and half of those in attendance, but about 70 to 80% of the questions and remarks were not Walsh/Tea Party friendly at all. Mr. Walsh showed that he could adjust to the crowd and some of his views were different than the ones he espoused in the first two Town Halls I attended.
Example #1 In December, he said the "defense budget is untouchable, wouldn't cut a thing as long as there was even one uniformed U.S. service person stationed abroad." Last night, after a few challenges, he said the defense budget was on the table.
Example #2 I guess he's heard enough about G.E. not paying taxes and the oil companies getting huge tax breaks, so he sounded like he was going after those also. However, he is of the 'drill baby drill' ilk and on this he has not changed.
As far as money in politics, he has backed off his December motto of "there should even be more money in politics' and now it's " my direct contributions are limited by law" (outlining many of the restrictions placed on direct contributions to candidates) but he unsuccessfully tried to downplay how corporation contributions to outside groups ARE unrestricted thanks to the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. The crowd would not let him get away with this sly deception and let him know it. Those who pointed this out were applauded.
One last thing about the issues - his whole theme was the debt, the deficit, the debt, the deficit but the crowd had other issues in mind, especially the Ryan plan - which by the way, he said he didn't agree with everything in it but failed to say what.
Now for my analysis of Joe Walsh himself. I give him much credit for having all these Town Halls and listening to the voices of his constituents. Of course he pats himself on the back vigorously for this but he still deserves credit. Also, he makes the point that those elected to Congress should not necessarily be blamed for "trying out what they believe in." He's a terrific salesman and most of us would have a difficult time doing what he does, as far as the town halls. That being said, his policies are way out there and his Tea Party crowd's "solutions" are even further "out there" as you can imagine. The ones I spoke with have terrible ideas about taxes and regulations and you'll never convince them otherwise. Fortunately, I think these people are a minority but they are his people, lock, stock, and barrel.
4 comments:
I went to two town halls. At Harper College, he said he respected teachers. At the Living Waters Church, no. He is "flexible". This is someone who was Pro Choice before being Pro Life.
He will say whatever but will be careful to keep his crowd happy because who else is going to put up 10,000 signs next election cycle?
There's more coming about this guy.
I just found out that there are several years of his driving record that are now sealed. I never knew that was even possible.
And another thing, his ex-wife sent him a demand letter - (legal talk for "you owe me money and I'm going to sue you if you don't pay"). Those divorce records have also been sealed. Is this unreal?
And regarding David Carlin being hired as Walsh's 8th District Director, the word in the party is that the Illinois Republican Party (IRP) gets regular reports on what Walsh is up to (from Carlin). In other words, he's a babysitter and a spy. He's not a Tea Party guy or a supporter, and judging at how bad the communication is within the District office, he's not much of an administrator either. In return, Walsh accepted the promise of money to help paydown the $400,000.00 in debts and legal bills that piled up at the end of his campaign. Now you know the rest of the sage over Walsh's District office.
By the way, has anybody learned anything about how Walsh lent his campaign $28,500? For the disbelieving Tea Party faithful, you can verify this by looking at the FEC (Federal Election Commission) filings. So how did Walsh do that? Where did all that cash come from?
Walsh is still broke. Walsh lost his expensive Evanston Condominium to Foreclosure just a year earlier. He once made over $35,000 in a single year and his kids attend some very expensive Universities. So who's paying for that? Where is all this money coming from?
I think Walsh will land in jail before all this is over.
Here's how to find the FEC filings:
http://images.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/fecimg/?C00473579
Sinceley,
Insider Lake GOP
Divorce records can be sealed, but all it takes is someone ask to unseal them because they are public, at least in Illinois. Remember Jack Ryan? It took the Trib to unseal the records to reveal that Ryan was another "family values" guy who was rather kinky. Now, I don't care what someone does in their spare time, but I really don't like when they run on a phony baloney "family values" platform.
I use to design and build concrete skate parks and in that position, I have seen the evil in every level of government. Amazed me on how twisted people got even in small local positions. In the mean time, kids who had parents as responsible as joe, needed a place and a skate park to them is the same as a golf course to those who did not try to understand the kids. Joe does not try to understand, he is so delusional that he thinks he knows everything. He does not see the broke butt divorced hack, like most desperate straight commission salesmen, in the mirror. He somehow thinks that he is on par with Harvard Law school graduates.
Hoodwinked the big brains in McHenry who voted for his lack of fiscal understanding and skill does not qualify someone to shape a nations budget. And trying to hold the debt ceiling proves how little joe gets it.
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