Posted on 09/18/2008 6:07:44 AM PDT by tlb
Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin has hushed up a series of scandals including her own brother-in-law's shocking criminal past!
After the Alaska governor was named John McCain's running mate, she disclosed her husband Todd had been arrested for drunk driving in 1986 - but not that his brother James Palin was involved in a devastating hit-and-run that inflicted multiple injuries on a female pedestrian.
Court papers obtained by The ENQUIRER show that James Palin, Sarah's brother-in-law, was busted as a 20-year-old on Feb. 15, 1989, in his Dillingham, Alaska, hometown - after a major drinking binge.
According to official records: James, in a drunken stupor, slammed into a woman with his vehicle, stopped, pulled her out from underneath it - and then callously sped away, leaving her injured on the side of the road like Alaskan road-kill!
Police Officer Lowell Crezee soon arrived at the crime scene and assisted victim Lydia John - who sustained numerous injuries, including a fractured pelvic bone.
James admitted to police that before the accident he had been drinking, first at the Canary Bar, where he "drank two beers and a shot of tequila and then went inside the Willow Tree bar and drank two beers," according to the criminal complaint.
Palin's sentence for getting drunk, running down a woman and driving away: a mere $50 fine.
According to court documents obtained by The ENQUIRER¸ James was also involved in other legal battles.
In 1995, James Palin filed a domestic violence petition against live-in girlfriend Christine Garner, mother of his then 2 1/2-year-old daughter Miranda. The court awarded James temporary custody of his daughter.
A year later, James again petitioned the court claiming Garner had put imperiled his daughter "by drinking and driving with her in the car to drug dealers' homes and doing drugs around her." But that case was dismissed.
In addition to James' legal woes, The ENQUIRER learned other members of Todd Palin's family have been tromping through the Alaska court system:
Blanche Kallstrom, Todd's mother, sued the U.S. government for negligence and took the suit all the way to the Alaska Supreme Court - which ultimately ruled against her.
The suit sprang from a series of claims and counterclaims originating from a tragic mistake in 1993 in which Blanche, Sarah's mother-in-law, accidentally served a child a lye-based detergent, thinking it was fruit juice.
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Re: has a broad readership.
If by this, you mean welfare queens who are ignorant parasites of the system, then yes, you are correct.
Is this the best they got? Its pathetic. Perhaps, however, they are saving the best for last. Wouldn’t surprise me.
I’ve had enough. Does anyone have background info on any of the anchors and anchorettes, writers, reporters (such as that Palin-bashing bitch up in Alaska on CNN)? We should do checks on them all and release the data online for all to see their past indiscretions, arrests, etc.
Wow. Brother in law involved in car accident. Pretty sinister sh** there. Much more interesting than say the son of a VP candidate involved as a lobbyist for the failed mortgage industry ...
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And Ted Kennedy drove a woman off a bridge. So what!
Sounds like the Kennedys. Maybe he could become a senator.
Stupid, just stupid.
I heard that her second cousin one removed used to pick his nose in public.
In public!
Yet, we cannot seem to locate Obama’s Birth Certificate...................
Think about it: If they’ve moved on to her brother-in-law this is absolutely fantastic news!
Their primary readership consists of grocery shoppers reading headlines while lining up at the tills. The crap sandwich on the inside goes unseen - 99% of those exposed will absorb only the words on the cover, and that is how the damage will be done.
Yes the paper is dying by a thousand cuts. People will not tolerate the personal attacks on Palin for something her brother in law did.
My brother-in-law was involved in a similar situation, does that disqualifying me for public office.
Nope.
Every last one of them. And their families—including in-laws past & present as well as hairdressers, paper boys, etc.
We know that the Enquirer publisher or owner has ties to Hillary.
So what does these stories about the Palin family mean?
Obviously, (at least to me) is that Hillary is worried about Governor Palin being a rival to her in 2012 race for POTUS.
Let's start with Charlie Gibson, and then do Katie Couric!!!! Fun times ahead!
If the fine was $50, then her brother-in-law obviously was not guilty of doing much...20 years ago!
This is the sort of ‘reporting’ that immunizes Palin from any real attack.
Next week’s issue - a friend of a sister to Todd Palin’s brother’s first girlfriend said in first grade, Todd Palin’s brother put gum under his desk. The source went on to say, the brother was not at all remorseful about th horrific act. :oD
Honestly, though, I share your concern about the death of a thousand cuts. Republicans needs op people to dig some more dirt on Obama, or at least get the NE sniffing around him for a bit.
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