New details have emerged about the marriage between Representative Ruben Gallego (D-AZ-03) and his second wife, Sydney Barron Gallego, as the date approaches for a court to decide whether records from his divorce from his first wife, Kate Gallego, should be unsealed.
Attorneys for Ruben Gallego, his ex-wife Kate Gallego, and The Washington Free Beacon are expected in court on October 10 to review proposed redactions to their divorce case after the conservative news publication sued and obtained a ruling demanding the Gallegos propose redactions ahead of a public release.
A spokesman for Ruben Gallego, who is represented jointly with Kate Gallego in the lawsuit, told the Daily Independent the legal effort is an attempt by his political opponent, Kari Lake, to “amplify her cruelty” and “refuse to respect two people who are just trying to raise a beautiful baby boy together.”
Lake and Ruben Gallego will face off in November as they seek to succeed Senator Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ). Kate Gallego is the Mayor of Phoenix and recently endorsed her ex-husband’s bid for the U.S. Senate.
The statement from Ruben Gallegos’ spokesman comes as The Free Beacon revealed the Democrat remarried to Barron Gallego in December 2019, when they were wed at the National Gallery of Art in a ceremony officiated by Democratic Senatorial Communications Committee official Leigh Parker Pross.
Ruben Gallego (pictured above, left) apparently obscured these details, instead publicly claiming on social media that he and Barron Gallego became engaged in February 2020 and later wed in June 2021.
A spokesman for Ruben Gallego told the outlet he married Barron Gallego “in a private ceremony before having a larger ceremony with family and friends,” but the outlet reported the spokesman did not explain why an engagement was announced after the private wedding.
Barron Gallego was working for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee when the couple married, and now works as the director of Government Advocacy for the National Association of Realtors. Her social media reveals an additional previous connection with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Salacious details about the split between Ruben Gallego and Kate Gallego have been publicized by the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) since it became clear he would run unopposed for the Democratic Party’s primary, with the NRSC first declaring the Democrat a “deadbeat dad” in an advertisement last November.
Lake, after the NRSC released another ad referencing the divorce between Ruben and Kate Gallego in April, commented, “If deadbeat dad Ruben Gallego would abandon his own family, he won’t be there for Arizonans when it matters most.”
The Free Beacon explained it is suing to unseal the divorce records between Kate and Ruben Gallego because the candidate “wants to have it both ways,” referencing his past comments about the difficulties that preceded the split, and because “it is in the public’s interest to know their lawmakers.”
It also noted that divorce records are generally available in the public, but suggested information about the Gallegos’ divorce case is “scant, likely because the Gallegos or their allies have buried them.”
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Tom Pappert is the lead reporter for The Tennessee Star, and also reports for The Pennsylvania Daily Star and The Arizona Sun Times. Follow Tom on X/Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
Image “Gallego Family” by Ruben Gallego.
