Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), the Democratic Nominee for the US Senate in Arizona, has been caught in a weird lie about his marriage, apparently asserting his engagement and marriage ceremony lengthy after secretly getting married in 2019.
Gallego divorced his ex-wife, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, in 2016, simply earlier than she gave beginning to his son.
The Gateway Pundit has reported on Gallego’s abandonment of his household for a Washington, DC lobbyist. Kari Lake, the Trump Endorsed Republican dealing with Gallego within the November Normal Election, took a shot at Gallego in an advert earlier this yr, calling him a “deadbeat dad” who “shacked up with a DC lobbyist and left his son fatherless.”
Based on a report by the Washington Free Beacon, Gallego’s Washington, DC, marriage license reveals that he remarried in December 2019 to Nationwide Affiliation of Realtors lobbyist Sydney Barron. Gallego has additionally sponsored or cosponsored at the very least 17 payments and voted for 38 payments that Barron lobbied for.
Nevertheless, months later, Gallego publicly introduced that he popped the query in a February 15, 2020 Instagram submit, captioned, “She mentioned sure!!”
Shortly after, on February 18, 2020, Politico reported the next:
ENGAGED — Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) and Sydney Barron, a legislative consultant on the Nationwide Affiliation of Realtors, bought engaged this weekend on a visit to Eire, the place Gallego popped the query at a small restaurant within the historic metropolis of Limerick. The couple met by means of mutual associates on the 2018 Congressional Baseball Sport.
Oddly sufficient, they have been already married for a number of months when he “proposed” to his spouse. Over one yr later, in June 2021, the pair reportedly had a marriage ceremony.
Politico once more reported on June 7, 2021,
GALLEGO GETS HITCHED — Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) and Sydney Barron, director of presidency affairs on the Nationwide Affiliation of Realtors, bought married this weekend in Puerto Rico. The ceremony was officiated by Leigh Parker Pross, who launched the couple again in 2018, they usually have been joined by family and friends for a beachfront ceremony. Pic… Another pic… SPOTTED: Puerto Rico Gov. Pedro Pierluisi, Reps. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.), Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.) and Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas), and Puerto Rico Sen. Carmelo Rios Santiago.
Gallego reportedly additionally listed his spouse in a disclosure as a “member of the family” in April 2021, earlier than the 2 introduced their marriage when he went on a trip to Qatar that was paid for by the US-Qatar Enterprise Council, a particular curiosity group that spent greater than $84,000 on at the very least 5 lawmakers’ journey.
His motive for deceiving the general public and maintaining his marriage a secret for nearly two years is unclear.
Gallego beforehand had his information of the divorce proceedings along with his ex-wife sealed by the courtroom. Washington Free Beacon is at present suing Gallego to unseal his divorce information, which they are saying “has fought tooth and nail.”
“Ruben Gallego is a con man,” Kari Lake advised The Gateway Pundit. Whether or not or not it’s working at an organization investigated for committing medicare fraud, defrauding immigrants at a financial institution, egregiously violating the Inventory Act, to now, very publicly, mendacity concerning the timeline AND circumstances between his controversial divorce to his nine-month pregnant spouse and second marriage to a lobbyist.”
Lake continued, “Like I mentioned, Gallego is a con man, and his run for Senate is one other swindle.”
