GOP Family Values Candidate Turns Out to Be a Deadbeat Dad

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from AlterNet's PEEK:




GOP Family Values Candidate Turns Out to Be a Deadbeat Dad

Posted by Steven Reynolds, The All Spin Zone at 5:36 AM on February 6, 2008.

But he claims family values, and supports Mike Huckabee, so he can't be all bad, right?




Yet another Republican hypocrite in the radical Christian right wing of that party. This one skipped out on well over ten years of child support. But he claims family values, and supports Mike Huckabee, so he can't be all bad, right?

Gee, this isn't a surprise. From FoxNews Chicago:

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.

"I don't trust him as far as I can throw him," Marie told MyFOXChicago.

Karlin is running for the 47th Ward as a Republican Committeeman, not such a big office, after all. It seems that they're working fast to cover this one up, though. Except for this cached mention and this one in the google cache, the Republican 47th Ward web site has scrubbed itself. Seems the Republican Party in Illinois isn't so proud of Mr. Karlin. Hey, and this cached page shows that Karlin, pictured over there on the right, set up 9 Meetups in support of the candidacy of Mike Huckabee.

Comment from Huckabee forthcoming, maybe?

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1. Right wing men

Find that child support orders intrude on their province. It is up to the man to decide how much the child should get, not a court.

And so disobeying a court order is justified. Of course, all of those illegal aliens are in violation of the law and should be punished, but in this case, it is the family court judge who should be punished. See how respectful of the law right wingers are? Their contradictions never stop.

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2. Heeheeheee.

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3. Funny how that works

One night back in the 90s, two friends and I went out to hear a band play. One of my friends was hit on by a guy who noted that on a lark he had decided to run for the state legislature. By the end of the evening, he had asked her to go home with him. She gave a resounding no, and we basically lied about needing to pick up a friend getting off work.

A couple weeks later, I'm driving to band practice when a commercial for him comes on the radio. It was all about what a family values kind of guy he was, blah, blah, blah. The commercial ended with his about-4-year-old daughter saying "This is Ashley Lastname. Please vote for my daddy." I nearly drove off the road, and recounted the story to my friends as soon as I got to practice. Turns out Mr. Lastname had said that he and his wife were separated.

It gets even better. We tell our story to a male friend who grew up in the area where we went to college, and he notes that Mr. Family Values did some exploration of his sexuality in high school. Which would otherwise be irrelevant except that most of the bills Mr. FV had put forth had to do with punishing gays.: preventing them from getting healthcare benefits through their partners, trying to rid the university's GLBT group of its office space in the student organization wing (he was going to give the office to the crazy feminists *sarcasm* who thought a university of 26K should have a daycare; by law, a daycare center that size could only have 0.5 children).

Well, the story ends with him getting voted out of office. A few years later, he made the news for trying to break into his estranged wife's house for a second time, while totally drunk.