Sarah Palin is like the gift that wont quit giving. Aside from the Turkey Slaughter-Gate (which, to me was not that big a deal, but, rather, showed how media un0savvy Palin is, as well as having no sense of irony, given that she’d just pardoned a turkey), there’s something new in Alaska, and even smellier.
Alaska state troopers delayed the investigation and the serving of a search warrant on Sherry L. Johnson, mother of Palin kid Bristol’s boyfriend, throughout the 2008 General Presidential election for what seem patently fake reasons.
From HuffPo:
WASILLA, Alaska — The mother of Bristol Palin’s boyfriend sent text messages discussing drug transactions less than a month after the young woman’s mother, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, was nominated as the Republican vice presidential candidate, according to court documents filed this week.
An affidavit from an Alaska state trooper, filed Monday, states that Sherry L. Johnston referred in her messages to two police informants to “coffee” as a code for the drug OxyContin.
Johnston, 42, was arrested on felony drug charges last week after state troopers served a search warrant at her Wasilla home. She allegedly sold OxyContin tablets to the informants on three occasions this fall, the affidavit states. Police said two of the meetings were recorded by a hidden camera and a microphone.
Oh, boy.
Authorities say the case against Sherry Johnston began in the second week of September, when drug investigators intercepted a package containing 179 OxyContin pills. That led to the arrest of the suspects, who agreed to be informants.
According to the affidavit, Johnston sent a text message to one informant Oct. 1, writing: “Hey, my phones are tapped and reporters and god knows who else is always following me and the family so no privacy. I will let u no when I can go for cof.”
The trooper’s affidavit indicates that Sarah Palin’s candidacy factored into the investigation, with state officials delaying execution of a search warrant until this month, when Johnston was “no longer under the protection or surveillance of the Secret Service.”
Except, of course, she wasn’t under Secret Service protection unless she was hanging out with Palin, which she wasn’t.
Given all the other scandals that surround Alaskan law enforcement and Palin’s behavior with them, you have to wonder just how far this will propel her to the front of the 2012 Presidential pack in the GOP primary. Republicans just love it when their politicians are under indictment, arrest or suspicion of a crime. They can’t seem to help themselves as they gaze upon their corrupt ranks and bask in the glow of “family values” and “morality.”
Gives you the warm fuzzies, doesn’t it?
