AZ State Rep Debbie Lesko Left A Trail of Dirt In Her Not-So-Distant 'Past Life' Before She Cleaned-Up Her Act

Multiple aliases, debts, criminal charges, an arrest warrant and bankruptcies - she blames it all on an abusive relationship in her first marriage to a guy she's now calling a con-man. That at least is her own chosen-narrative foisted for public consumption in a tight battle to overcome her checkered past in a close re-election contest for Congress with her Democratic challenger Michael Muscato.  Details of the story, following a local debate, are emerging from this report just before the weekend: 

Rep. Debbie Lesko, R-Ariz., speaks to Trump supporters before Vice President Mike Pence speaks at a rally at TYR Tactical in Peoria, Ariz. on Oct. 8, 2020. (Photo: Thomas Hawthorne/The Republic

Rep. Debbie Lesko's past includes debt, criminal charge she links to 'con-man' ex-husband

Ronald J. Hansen, Arizona Republic Published 9:42 p.m. MT Oct. 23, 2020 | Updated 11:15 p.m. MT Oct. 23, 2020

". . . Today, the Peoria Republican finishing her first full term in Congress is one of President Donald Trump’s most loyal supporters in Washington and is known nationally as a staunch supporter of conservative ideals.

Earlier this year, Lesko helped lead Trump’s national public relations push back against impeachment charges during his trial in the Senate, appearing on national TV and at in-person events to defend his presidency.

Her past, however, is a dark chapter in the story of a woman who casts herself as a mother facing domestic abuse who climbed from school-board meetings to the state Legislature to the halls of Congress. . ."

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