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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Oh yes, people are totally concerned about Sarah's husband's brother's doings from 1989.
Well, she's sunk for sure! /s
This is a different brother in law. The one in troopergate was her sisters husband.
It’s not as if he was an agent for Libya, or anything like that.
I’ve also heard that Governor Palin hates cats!
So is John Kerry, and he shot an old man and a baby during a cowardly panic in a safe zone. Plus he met with the enemy at least 2 times while still an active Navy officer. Then he organized a bunch of stoners to tell horror stories about their service in Vietnam, lying to a senate committee when they never even served in Nam.
“My brother-in-law was involved in a similar situation, does that disqualifying me for public office.”
As a FReeper, yes. As a DUmmie, no.
Taking my “journalism” hat off now.
“I do feel that if my [opponent] continues to scrape the bottom of the barrel for objections, he is in danger of getting splinters under his fingernails...” -William Wilberforce, “Amazing Grace”
We were speculating at work this morning, in perfect tin-foil hat fashion, that this campaign against her has become such that someone or something is expecting big trouble from her and has decided she must be stopped. Something beyond this election cycle.
Do you need named sources for COURT DOCUMENTS? They’re the public record, after all.
On the check-out line flip The Enquirer to it’s back page. Then put it back. I notice many of these rags screaming against Sarah are not bought.
Oh Ok. Shows how much attention I pay to these stories.
But, the more they attack her with these ridiculous stories, the more popular she gets. Normal people in this country can see these attacks for what they are, desperation by the lunatics that make up the Democrat party.
I read the Enquirer..I’m not a welfare queen..but I know a hatchet job when I see one..no matter who is being attacked.
Nah---this is such an obviously ridiculous stretch to find "some" dirt, no matter how much, or on what subject, on Sarah, that the media itself will just lose even more credibility. Won't hurt Sarah at all.
Sometimes my misreads are better than the truth.
I thought it said “National Geographic new hit piece.” After reading a few lines, I looked again, and... oh.
but I’d note that the Enquirer has a broad readership....
These losers never vote anyway...not to be concerned. I doubt they (Dems) will want to quantify this story but they barely gave notice to the Edwards sleeping around story that hit a month or so back...
And just what offices are Todd’s family running for? This is really reaching; I hardly think Sara is responsible for her in-laws behavior.
Is anyone checking into what transgressions Obama’s family in Kenya might have done?
...and the tale of Larry, Barry, Joe, and Beau is as cold as the Alaska tundra, and the media reports are as rare as flamingos in Anchorage. Three executed members of Barry’s church, missing phone records, false arrest of a Barry detractor, and the media is as deafening as a herd of crickets.
Because the Chitown mafia would burn down the offices of the National Enquirer (ALL OF THEM)..
And beat the snot out ALL the reporters.. thats why...
OH! and vandalize all their cars too..
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