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.
For the full story and ENQUIRER World Exclusive Bristol Palin drug video shocker pick up the new ENQUIRER - on sale now.
Thread from last week on the Enquirer - with names of their top execs - gotta be some skeletons in their family closets
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079687/posts
One thing I give Couric credit for is when she asked Hillary what she would do if she didn't win the primary race and wasn't the candidate. That's when Hillary said, “It will be me.” Couric then insisted that things can happen in a race..
I still think Palin is wonderful, refreshing and great. Articulate, direct, honest and capable.
Let's have the Enquirer examine and publish the background on every candidate, voter, news commentator, political worker, janitor, maid, friend, dog, cat, relative, for every hour of everybody's life and times and see who's left or who still makes the most sense.
Don't we all have a little dust or dirt or mistakes in our backgrounds? Have any of us never gotten angry and said something stupid or foolish in our lives?
So what. It's what we do and think now that's important.
It's important to break the leftist/socialist political and cultural hegemony over our lives and politics that's important.
OK everyone, please list your top issues necessary for our survival and happiness.
1. Survival and stopping the Islamofascists from getting nukes and detonating them in American cities. For me that seems essential and #1. If the fruitcake barbarians get nukes, almost everything else seems like a polite discussion. Stopping Islam from gaining a foothold in this country. Preserving Western civilization
2. Stopping leftism/socialism etc. and all it's variants from destroying liberty and the country from within by stealth and insidious means.
3. Rational, practical, pragmatic economic and energy policies, etc. Keeping the lights and phones and infrastructures healthy and functioning seems like a basic need.
Much of the rest can be discussed and worked out later.
Friends who have been stationed in Alaska have said heavy drinking is a common winter-time occurrence up there.
You can pick your friends, but you cannot pick your relatives.
We all have someone in the family who is a drunk driver or worse.
In my case, it was my mother. Never found something with alcohol in it that she wouldn’t try. Could get drunk enough to drink a urine sample if it was cold enough.
So we’re now responsible for our in-laws?
Oh, but that whole 'Palin gang' were tromping on the justice system, don't you know. /s
Even space aliens can not control something that doesn’t exist
They’ll be down to misdeeds by 2nd cousins by next week.
After that, relatives from the old country who somehow, someway, worked with...
Hitler and the Nazis!
Amazing. And not one named source.
God help us if so.
Really getting old with these stories...
“We should do checks on them all and release the data online for all to see their past indiscretions, arrests, etc.”
Wasn’t Joe Biden’s daughter recently arrested for assaulting an officer?
Where’s the press on that?
Sounds like he might get on well with Roger Clinton and, were brother Billy Carter still with us, him too.
This is pathetic folks. No there there. The dumb things our in-laws do can embarrass us, but ultimately do not reflect on us.
Where is the Enquirer on the many car crashes of Bambi’s daddy?
August 5, 2003, 3:37 PM EDT
Like most journalists, CNN morning anchor Jack Cafferty would prefer to cover news than make it. Especially when it’s bad news.
But Tuesday, a stunned Cafferty was greeted by photographers as he went into a midtown Manhattan court to plead guilty in connection with a hit and run accident.
According to the criminal complaint, Cafferty was driving a Cadillac with a New Jersey Press license plate on Ninth Avenue near 42nd Street May 14th when he allegedly made an abrupt turn and hit bicyclist Billy Maldonado.
About five people tried to stop Cafferty by running after the car, waving their arms and yelling, “Hey Stop,” according to the complaint, but the newsman allegedly continued through at least two red lights, while dragging the bicycle underneath the vehicle.
And let not forget Rick Sanchez at CNN killed someone in a drunken hit and run.
If the Enquirer is trying to imply that Sarah Palin’s political influence got the kid off the hook, this is a solid miss. She wasn’t even yet on the Wasilla City Council in 1989. She was elected to that post three years later- in 1992.
Is not voluntarily calling attention to it somehow now ‘hushing it up’?
I’m just tired of the whole thing. It never ends.
And wasn’t Shep Smith involved in an altercation of some sort that got him arrested in Florida durring the 2000 recounts?
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