skippy the bush kangaroo: more repubbblican family values

Friday, June 02, 2006

more repubbblican family values

the san diego union tribune did an actual journalistic investigation (remember those?), found that repubbb congressional candidate jim galley is another one of those "do as i say, not as i marry or refuse to support my children":

republican jim galley, who is running for congress as a “pro-traditional family” candidate, was married to two women at the same time, defaulted on his child support payments and has been accused of abuse by one of his ex-wives…

galley married his second wife, beth, in 1982 when, unbeknownst to her, he was still married to his first wife, terry. beth and galley divorced in 1990 after she sought a restraining order alleging abuse.

the child support was owed to his first wife.

of course, the repubbb has some excuses...he didn't know he was still married to his first wife when he married his second wife, the child support was only in arrears for a few months (!) and the abuse accusations were only made to get him out of the house.

but wait, there's more! more lies, that is...

during interviews, galley has touted his military service as an advantage over other candidates in the congressional race, saying he was drafted by the navy during the vietnam war. his web site states, “i was drafted it (sic) to the navy, serviced my time,” and then later joined the army.

galley's military records, obtained by the union-tribune through a freedom of information act request, show he started his navy service april 29, 1974, and was discharged less than six weeks later, while in “recruit training.”

navy spokesman lt. william marks said the navy stopped the draft July 1, 1973, nine months before galley started his navy service…

after serving in the navy, galley's web site states, he went to work for general motors, and then “because of massive layoffs in the '70s i enlisted into the army.” his records show he did not enter the army until rebruary 1981. he left the army in december 1984.

his explanation for this discrepancy: “i got the dates wrong.”

yeah, that's the ticket! and he's married to morgan fairchild, too.
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