Fox News Chicago ran a piece on 8th Congressional District Republican candidate Joe Walsh who topped a field of five candidates in the primary. They found that Walsh's campaign never filed his financial disclosure forms as required by federal election law.
The Fox correspondent pointedly asked Walsh, "how come you didn't file your personal financial disclosure forms as obligated by federal election laws?"
Fox News also found a couple of local pols that said they would ask Walsh to resign his primary win if these things were not figured out. Of course, neither of the guys they found supported Walsh during the primary, so it shouldn't be surprising that they'd immediately jump to calling for Walsh to quit the race.
But my biggest problem with these stories about Walsh's financial troubles is that they never came before the primary. They've all come after the primary. Even I wrote about Walsh's financial troubles before the primary and I don't have the investigative tools that TV and newspapers do! Yet all these high falutin' Old Media outlets in Chicago ignored the issue until Walsh won the primary.
It is hard not to imagine that the Chicago media waited to "report" these matters until after the primary specifically so that they could hurt the Republican pickup of this seat.
Walsh’s campaign did file the disclosure forms and paid a $200 fine after Fox News brought it to their attention. Walsh says it was but an oversight. Here I'll make no judgment, you decide.
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