'Deadbeat Dad' Runs for Office in Chicago

Fox News ^ | February 03, 2008

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An alleged Illinois deadbeat dad whose ex-wife says he owes more than $82,000 in unpaid child support is running as a candidate for Ward 47 Republican Committeeman in Chicago, MyFOXChicago reports.

Marie Karlin said she has been trying to locate her ex-husband, Gary Karlin, after he disappeared 14 years ago. He paid her child support for a few months, but after he took off, Marie's parents had to help support her and her now 16-year-old daughter.

Every few months, she would Google Gary's name to see if she could find him, and, last month, she was stunned to discover he was running for office under "conservative" values.

"I was in shock," Marie told MyFOXChicago.

If there's one vote Gary can't count on, it's one from his ex-wife.

[notbelievingmyeyes]

Obviously this woman is doing her part, but she shouldn’t be doing that alone. Often, women fighting for child support didn’t have a one night stand with the man, they had a committed relationship, which certainly equals responsibility on both sides. How incredibly ignorant you all sound. I hope you share these views with any women unfortunate enough to be in your company.

[Knitebane]

Obviously this woman is doing her part, but she shouldn’t be doing that alone.

It's not that obvious to me.

Often, women fighting for child support didn’t have a one night stand with the man, they had a committed relationship, which certainly equals responsibility on both sides.

If they were in a committed relationship she wouldn't need child support. Daddy would still be living at home.

How incredibly ignorant you all sound. I hope you share these views with any women unfortunate enough to be in your company.

How incredibly shrewish and nasty you sound. No wonder men have left you.

[gkarlin]

What the story doesn’t reveal about Marie is that

1. She took $10,000 from our joint checking account to give to her mother.

2. She took out a $250,000 insurance policy upon Gary’s death, when they first married at age 22.

3. She charged 4 credit cards to the limit, causing Gary to file for bankruptsy. These were mostly lavish gifts for her mother, brother, friends and boyfriends.

4. She was caught in bed with a guy by the name of Tim Hughes and she was charged with domestic violence and found guilty by a DuPage County judge and had several stints in jail for violating an order of protection.

5. She often called Gary’s employers, once calling 20 times a day, until his employer got sick of his ex-wife being a distraction to his co-workers. He was fired and fell behind on child support.

6. She called new employers, as soon as the Illinois Department of Labor got wind that he was going to be paid later in the week and caused him to loose more jobs.

7. It isn’t that he doesn’t care about his daughter, Marie often passed Kathryn off to some other relative while she was out at Benjamin’s, a bar across the street from where she lived nearby (Lawrence Ave, Harwood Heights), and she was seen in there having tequilla shots and beers and buying rounds for friends on credit cards and living a rather lavish lifestyle. Only when Gary was there to pick up his daughter, she never remembered where Kathryn was.

At that time there were no laws enforcing fathers’ rights to see their children.

After all this destructive behavior, Gary decided it was time to get on with his life.

It is true that Gary is a conservative; however, he is also a populist-conservative.

He spent years in Caprini Green, being a friend to fatherless black children and teaching them bible and being a boys basketball church. It was the best way he could spend many heartbroken years, being away from his daughter.

Kathryn, it was never that I didn’t care about you, but your mother kept us apart.

Gary also spent time in church on the fundraising committee, helping to raise over $100,000 annually for the community soup kitchen to feed the needy.

It is true that I ran for Republican Committeeman, mostly to bring light to how bad fathers’ rights are neglected.

During my divorce proceedings it was written in Illinois Revised Statues chapter 40 that you are to pay 20% for one child for child support, yet a corrupt court in DuPage county (and Marie) took 50% of my paycheck. As I fell behind, that amount increased to 80%. How exaclty is that fair to fathers? How can someone expect to live on nothing?

How can you make-up payments on thin air?

[gkarlin]

I now have a new organization.

http://illinoisdadsrights.blogspot.com is our blog.

It is to protect fathers in Illinois from the games that an ex wife can play in court such as excessive wage garnishment, visitation interference and job interference, which are all crimes in Illinois.