‘She Said Yes!’ Ruben Gallego Announced His Engagement in 2020. But Senate Hopeful Had Already Secretly Remarried, Two Years After Strange Split From Pregnant First Wife.
The Democratic Senate nominee announced his engagement to the public in 2020 and then his marriage in 2021. But he got married in 2019. What gives?
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D., Ariz.) declared himself “the happiest man in the world” in February 2020 after his then-girlfriend, real estate lobbyist Sydney Barron, accepted his marriage proposal. “She said yes!! Thank you Sydney for being my forever!” Gallego wrote on social media on Feb. 15, 2020.
Days later, Politico Playbook printed the news, announcing in its Feb. 18, 2020, edition that Gallego had popped the question in Ireland “at a small restaurant in the historic city of Limerick.”
- Rep. Gallego announces his “engagement” on social media
In reality, though, records show that the two were already married. A Washington, D.C., marriage license indicates that Gallego and Barron tied the knot in December 2019 at the swanky National Gallery of Art, with a Democratic Senatorial Communications Committee official, Leigh Parker Pross, serving as the officiant.
- Rep. Gallego’s marriage certificate.
It is unclear why Gallego would mislead the public about the timing of his engagement, but the congressman, now the Democratic nominee for Arizona’s open Senate seat, has not had a squeaky-clean personal life. He filed for divorce from his ex-wife, Phoenix mayor Kate Gallego (D.), weeks before she gave birth to their son. Contrary to Arizona law, Gallego filed in a county in which neither he nor Kate Gallego resided and moved to place the entire divorce proceeding, including its existence from the docket, under seal. The Washington Free Beacon is suing Gallego in a bid to challenge that seal, a move that Gallego has fought tooth and nail…..
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