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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?