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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“Your in-laws are poopyheads”
is not a credible smear.
It makes all who read it think
“wow, if this is all they can find on her then she must be awfully clean”
I'm thinking this is gonna backfire, big time, especially since these stories are not about Sarah, they're about her in-laws, or members of her own family. I don't remember anyone refusing to support Jimmah, because his brother was a beer-swillin redneck. Folks will support Sarah, or not, and what her family does won't have any bearing on it. But there just may be some women, who might not have voted for a while, who may vote for the Republican ticket because they're angry at how Sarah is being treated in the press.
Gee Jimmy Carter wasn’t held accountable for that “delightful idiot” brother Billy. Oh never mind Carter is a Democrat. Enquirer does always does such good stories like the man who cut his own head off with chain saw and lived to tell about it.
New slogan-— I would rather be hit by Palin’s brother-in-law than ride with Ted Kennedy
Funny, I don’t see a single reference to Todd Palin nor his wife Sarah being involved in any way with any of these stories. Oh, other than they are relatives of these people.
Guilt by family tree?
Guess they’ll be trotting out the story about Dubya’s DUI of long ago and the First Lady’s fatal car accident as a teenage now, too?
I mean, Obama IS running against President Bush! (Shhhh...let him keep thinking that!)
The publishers of this garbage wrapper, couldn’t stand up to an investigation of the background of their immediate family much less in-laws.
Guilt by family tree?
Plenty of folks have in-laws or cousin's husbands who screwed up and maybe spent some time in jail. But those people are not running for election.
Plenty of White folks have a relative who married or had a kid with a Black person, which makes the racial hate thing even more amusing...
Yep, only some stupid broads would read the Enquirer. LOL
>We should do checks on them all and release the data online for all to see their past indiscretions, arrests, etc.<
All it takes is money. How much cash can you get your hands on?
Laura Bush killed a classmate in a car collision. Whoopity-do. Accidents happen.
If the Enquirer wants to run stories on candidate's relatives, how about something like, "Obama's brother lives in abject poverty in hut"?
If they want to talk about this man’s substance abuse, how about Obamas cocaine and marijuana abuse?
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