U.S. Representative Joe Walsh must wish that he had never shown up at UNO Bar and Grill in Gurnee on November 6. Or that someone hadn't been there with a video camera. Or that he'd kept his cool.
A letter to the editor in the Northwest Herald today called my attention to that "Cup of Joe with Joe". The letter from Barbara Marian and Jerry Powers said that they were "shocked, embarrassed and, yes, saddened" by the videotape making the rounds on YouTube. You can watch it right here. Starting at about the eight-minute mark, it's not pretty.
Joe became almost violently argumentative, getting right in the face of a woman who had a point-of-view and was asking questions.
Joe said "the government demanded for years that everybody be in a home." Gee, I must have slept through those years. I don't remember the government demanding that I purchase a home.
Joe, come on. Get real.
He really went on a roll, and you can watch it from about the 8:00-minute mark in the video on YouTube.
At 10:00 he demanded repeatedly that somebody off-camera "be quiet for a minute." He absolutely played the role of the bully, the teacher in the classroom who could only restore order by out-yelling the kids. The kicker was when he said he was going to "ask you (the person off-camera) to leave."
Joe forgot he was in a public place and didn't have the right to ask anyone to leave. What was he going to do, call the police to the public business and tell the police to eject someone? If anyone should have been ejected, it was Joe. I wonder if UNO's will ever want him to schedule another "Cup of Joe with Joe" there.
I gave up at 11 minutes into the 50-minute clip on YouTube. Whew!!!
Joe loves to hear himself talk. I'll offer him some advice. Start listening. Watch him when someone else is talking. He's not listening. He's just waiting for them to take a breath, so he can jump back in.
And it wasn't the caffeine... It's his core operating style.
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If he paid his child-support, he might not have enough to pay a mortgage. DOH.
I called Joe's office to stop all the robo-calls he makes. So far so good. I don't know enough about him and his stands, but I just don't get the warm & fuzzies from him... like I do with a nice bottle Boone's Farm. Doh.
Face it- he's a drama queen.
But Joe did make a valid point.
MORE regulation?
Really?
When there was more than enough regulation available should anyone have decided to exercise the authority given them?
It's all about passing more laws and more regulation, which increasingly targets the "average Joe's", while nobody cares to acknowledge that the tools provided previously remain rusting in the tool box.
In Joe's defense, in his last foray in the press on the child support issue, it was noted by his ex, who is a lawyer herself, BTW;, that he's paid nothing.
Yet he presented an entire laundry list of receipts for expenses he paid as regards their kids.
His ex's lawyer (again another layer of lawyerhood) admitted surprise at his paid receipts!
So his ex - a lawyer herself - never gave HER lawyer a heads-up on reality?
Really? LOL!
I don't know those details, and don't care. Child support is what you pay, when ordered by the Court. Deciding to pay "expenses", instead of paying the Court-ordered child support to the custodial spouse is merely paying "extra". You can't pick and choose to pay "expenses" and say you have paid the child support.
I dunno, but it looks to me like "Hey! I'm the U.S. Rep" has gone to Joe's head. I started out liking Joe, but now he looks like mostly bluster. People will stop showing up at his gatherings, if he pulls many more stunts like the Gurnee show.
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