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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Wow, the Enquirer has really run out of any firepower. What a joke. YAWN...
Don’t they have something more interesting to cover like Space Aliens have mind-control over Nancy Polosi?
Gasp! Oh, the horror! Some gossip rag found some gossip! What is the world coming to?
LOL. Bill Clinton survived Roger and Jimmy Carter survived Billy.
Hillary’s monkeys are having a big problem-How to let McCain
win, but take out Palin for their Queen in 2012!
two words: Billy Carter
You need a bridge for that. Oh wait. We know where to get one.
Not even close enough to the likes of Roger Clinton and Billy Carter.
I’d sure hate to be judged on the behaviour of some of my relatives, all drinkers. Much ado about nothing. Think of Bubba’s relatives...Hillary’s...Jimmy Carter’s...John Kennedy’s...Didn’t hurt them in the long run.
NEWS FLASH!!!!
James Palin drunkenly drives car off bridge into water and callously leaves female passenger behind to drown.
Oops, excuse me. I was thinking of Chappaquidick.
Or the brother of a president who killed a young woman when he drove off a bridge...
Good Idea time to turn the tables
Where is the update on the Obama’s lover’s law suit? Why isn’t that on the front page? Bias? What Bias? Surely not in the MSM and Scandal Rags. LOL!
Whew!
I was afraid the guy had got drunk, took a young girl with him in his car, run off a bridge into icy water, escaped alone, leaving the girl to die trapped, alone as the car filled with cold water, then failed to report the accident for hours while trying to get someone else to take the blame.
With that kind of history, what kind relative, even an in-law, could aspire to elective office?
Heck, ted kennedy KILLED a woman and he is a US senator......the rodham brothers had that drunken brawl in PA just a few years ago......and billy beer? what about the rodham bros and clintoon’s bro selling pardons? gees, nice try hill.
death by a thousand NAGs.
The solution is to simply not buy the rag, AND TELL THE ADVERTISERS.
Fortunately, most of the inquiring minds forget they have to vote on November 8th, or are too lazy to get to the polls.
“Re: has a broad readership.
If by this, you mean welfare queens who are ignorant parasites of the system, then yes, you are correct.”
And pile of Freepers when the subject was John Edwards.
BTW, I’m definitely one who contends that the Enquirer is complete trash, but, man, folks loved it a few weeks ago.
Katie “comrad” Couric is the next palin interviewer.
Couric is going to be unable to help herself.
I knew someone who worked for the Enquirer. He said if they wanted a story on someone, on let’s say child neglect, they would anonymously call the state. The state is obligated to investigate all claims of child neglect. They would then have two separate people from the Enquirer ask the state is the person they were targeting was being investigated for child neglect. If they had two separate confirmations they could then run the story and headline that this person was being investigated for child neglect. Disgusting..
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