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| Contributor | COSDem |
| Last Edited | COSDem Aug 23, 2010 06:04pm |
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| News Date | Friday, August 20, 2010 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Brad Zaun apparently has his own health-care-reform plan: Don’t pay your medical bills.
According to Polk County District Court records, Republican Zaun ignored for years — until he decided to run for Congress — bills for $1,070.77 from Iowa Health Des Moines and $50.66 from Radiology PC. He was sued in March of 2005 and failed to appear in court or answer the complaint. Judgment was entered against him in May of that year.
He continued to ignore the bills and the judgment against him, and in February 2006 the court ordered the Polk County sheriff to garnish money in Zaun’s account at Liberty Bank in Des Moines. But it wasn’t until last Nov. 17 — four-and-a-half years after judgment was entered against him — that the court entered a “release and satisfaction of judgment” order indicating that the judgment, the interest and all costs had been paid.
Two weeks later, the Urbandale legislator announced he would run for Congress. He won a seven-way primary and now faces incumbent Democrat Leonard Boswell. “I’ll take the same principles of fiscal responsibility...that I’ve lived by...to Washington,” he told The Des Moines Register last December. He didn’t say whether those principles included being a deadbeat.
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