Joe Walsh (Illinois politician) - Wikipedia. William Joseph Walsh (born December 2. Americanconservative talk radio host and former congressman. He served one term in the United States House of Representatives for Illinois' 8th congressional district.[1][2][3] He served from January 2. January 2. 01. 3, after defeating three- term incumbent.

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Democratic Representative Melissa Bean by a margin of 2. He is a member of the Republican Party. While he received little Republican Party support in his bid against Bean, he was popular with the Tea Party movement.[5][6] Walsh ran unsuccessfully for the U. S. House of Representatives in 1. Illinois General Assembly in 1. In the 1. 99. 0s, he called himself a moderate Republican, but he is now a conservative and a Tea Partyactivist.[9][1.

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During his first months in Congress, Walsh emerged as a sharp critic of the Obama Administration, accusing the president of abandoning the U. S.–Israel alliance[1. He also challenged President Barack Obama to secure the borders with "moats and alligators" if necessary.[6] Walsh maintained a no- compromise approach to legislating that included rejecting any tax increases.[1. He consistently voted against raising the federal debt ceiling and authored a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution.[1. Walsh's district was redrawn for 2.

Democratic- controlled Illinois General Assembly.[1. While he initially planned to run in his newly drawn 1. Republican Representative Randy Hultgren, he eventually decided to run in the remapped 8th district against Democratic candidate Tammy Duckworth.

Walsh was defeated by Duckworth in the general election on November 6, 2. Walsh is now a conservative radio show host.[1. Early life[edit]Walsh was born and raised in the Chicago suburb of North Barrington, the fifth of nine children.[1. He graduated from Barrington High School in 1. He attended Grinnell College then earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Iowa in 1. In the mid- 1. 98.

The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York and Los Angeles.[6][1. He completed a Master of Public Policy at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy Studies in 1.

Early career[edit]As a social worker,[9][2. Walsh worked with the Jobs for Youth program in the inner- city Chicago area, teaching high school dropouts basic academic and job skills. He later taught American government and American history at Oakton Community College and the Hebrew Theological College.[2. Fundraising and advocacy career[edit]Walsh's congressional website indicates he has advocated for "market- based solutions to education reform and urban poverty".

He ran the Daniel Murphy Scholarship Fund, a Chicago- based, privately funded program which grants scholarships to low- income students to attend private high schools. He raised funds for two organizations advocating school choice: the American Education Reform Council, and the Milton and Rose Friedman Foundation.[2. In addition, Walsh raised nearly $1 million over a five- year period for the Fabretto Children's Foundation, an international charity which uses education and micro- enterprise to alleviate poverty among Nicaraguan children.[2. Walsh also worked on state and local government policy issues for The Heartland Institute, a libertarian free- market think tank based in Chicago. He helped launch conservative organizations that seek to limit government and elect fiscal conservatives to state legislatures such as the Legislative Education Action Drive and the Americans for Limited Government. He also did consulting work with the United Republican Fund, an Illinois political action committee helping to elect Republican state legislators.[2.

He has also raised venture capital for a living, according to the Chicago Tribune,[2. Ravenswood Advisors, a Chicago boutiqueinvestment banking group which raised early- stage investment capital for new and small businesses.[2. However, he never made much money[6] and has pointed to salaries of $3. In 2. 01. 0, he had a negative net worth of $3.

Center for Responsive Politics.[2. Early political campaigns[edit]Walsh won the Republican nomination for Illinois' 9th congressional district and faced longtime Democraticliberal incumbent Sidney R. Yates, who was 8. Walsh campaigned by riding his bicycle through the district. He engaged in self- admitted "outrageous" stunts during the campaign which included paying the doorman at Yates' Chicago apartment building $1,0.

Yates in his district, and throwing a birthday party for Yates that included a cake decorated with 8. Walsh denied he was trying to play the "age card".

Yates responded that his own age was not a factor, and that Walsh was too young and inexperienced for the job. Yates also commented that the district was too liberal for Walsh, and tried to tie Walsh to the conservative Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich. In response, Walsh distanced himself from Gingrich and said he considered himself a "moderate Republican"; [9] he also ran as a pro- choice candidate in the liberal- leaning district.[2. Yates defeated Walsh 6.

In 1. 99. 8, Walsh challenged incumbent Democratic Jeffrey Schoenberg for the 5. Illinois House of Representatives, which represents the Chicago North Shore suburbs of Wilmette and Evanston, Illinois. Walsh again ran as pro- choice on abortion.[2. He drove a yellow school bus throughout the district during his campaign to focus attention on the issue of public school funding.[3. He criticized Schoenberg for voting in favor of Republican Governor Jim Edgar's school- funding reform bill that would have increased state income taxes but given property tax relief to North Shore homeowners.[3. Walsh lost to Schoenberg, 6. U. S. House of Representatives (2.

Elections[edit]On September 2. Watch The Good Catholic Online Hoyts. Walsh launched an exploratory committee to run for the United States House of Representatives in the Illinois's 8th congressional district. The district included parts of the northwest Chicago suburbs, such as Arlington Heights, Schaumburg, Gurnee, Palatine, Mundelein, Zion, Barrington, Woodstock and Walsh's home in Mc. Henry. It had long been reckoned as the most Republican district in the Chicago area, and by some measures in all of Illinois.

However, in 2. 00. Democrat Melissa Bean had ousted 2. Republican incumbent Phil Crane in a substantial upset, ending seventy years of Republican control. In February 2. 01. Walsh won the Republican primary election, taking about 3. Winnetka in April.[2.

The Republican establishment refused to put much stock into the district with National Republican Congressional Committee member Tom Erickson, saying, "In the primary, we had really liked Dirk Beveridge or Maria Rodriguez. Those are the two candidates who we thought really had the potential to make this a very competitive race." Walsh's campaign responded that that GOP establishment was "a bit tone deaf when it comes to independent, conservative reform candidates".[3. Walsh then advanced to face Bean in the general election. In 2. 00. 6, Bean had been re- elected with 5. Bean was endorsed by the Chicago Tribune,[2. Chicago Sun- Times,[3. The Daily Herald,[3.

Lake County News- Sun.[3. Walsh criticized Bean for her 2. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act[2. Stupak–Pitts Amendment that would have prohibited the use of federal funds to cover any part of the cost of any health plan that included coverage of abortion.[3. He described himself as a Tea Party conservative activist.[3. Tea Party organizations, conservative radio talk show host Tom Roeser, and many others.[3. The national Democratic and Republican parties did not compete or spend any money in the district, and the state GOP did not help Walsh.[5] As a result, during the 2.

Walsh's campaign raised only one- quarter as much as Bean's.[6] He spent about $6. As late as October, The New York Times forecast that Bean had an 8.

Even CQ Politics had the election as "Safe Democratic". Despite the lack of funding and his long- shot status, Walsh narrowly defeated Bean by a margin of 0.