Update on Sarah Palin’s Wasilla Drug Dealing Pal
Sarah Palin’s pal and the mother of her future son-in-law, self-professed “redneck” Levi Johnston, has been trafficking OxyContin, a/k/a “Hillbilly Heroin,” up in Wasilla. According to the Anchorage Daily News, Sherry Johnston “repeatedly” sold the drug via text messages:
“…to direct customers to department store parking lots where they paid and she delivered. But in one message, according to the affidavit, Johnston complained that unusual media and other public attention was cramping her business:
“Hey, my phones are tapped and reporters and god knows who else is always following me and the family so no privacy,” Johnston wrote in a text message to a customer.”
That did not deter her from selling drugs though. Apparently the state troopers busted a few of the people to whom she sold the drug so they then ratted her out and then the troopers used them to nail Johnston.
For a woman who seeks out the media at every available opportunity, Palin has been unusually quiet about her known association with a drug dealer. Ms. Johnston is the grandmother of Palin’s first grandchild and, well, it must have been an interesting Christmas holiday at the Palin household with their drug dealer pal exposed, jailed and sitting across the table from her. I wonder if she helped her pal with bail?
Loved it. One would wonder how that Christmas meal went down.
Palin’s silence has been duly noted. She is using that weapon that she never used before — No Comment.
chamay0
December 26, 2008 at 10:51 am
You crack me up. True, she is only silent when it is convenient, like when people have questions about her drug dealing pals or questions regarding her dubious ethics.
Catherine
December 26, 2008 at 10:54 am
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December 26, 2008 at 1:56 pm
The story of Sherry Johnston’s self-medication with the pharmaceutical drug OxyContin “to deal with the pain” after her hysterectomy seems to be incidental to her arrest. It was immediately characterized by some as an attempt on her part to garner sympathy. The fact that she was disabled by hysterectomy would hardly be noteworthy, if it were not for the fact that she is the “other” grandmother to Sarah Palin’s grandson Levi.
The consequences of hysterectomy are rarely acknowledged. But the pain experienced by Sherry Johnston is the reality shared by tens of millions of women just like her in all corners of this country who have not been heard—1/3 of all women undergo a hysterectomy by the age of 60, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Their pain is usually dismissed as “all in your head.”
The Hysterectomy Educational Resources and Services (HERS) Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the public about hysterectomy. Many women who call HERS have turned to drugs and alcohol to relieve the back and hip pain, loss of energy, loss of sexual feeling, and change in personality that are common, well-documented consequences of the surgery. Their symptoms are often dismissed or misdiagnosed, which leaves them with little alternative but to self-medicate.
In an ongoing HERS study begun in 1991, 65.8% of women reported debilitating “bone and joint pain.” Furthermore, 79.6% of respondents report “loss of sexual desire,” while 79.1% report “personality change,” 72.8% “loss of stamina,” 72.1% “loss of short term memory,” 70.0% “loss of ability to socialize,” 61.5% “insomnia,” 53.7% “suicidal thoughts,” and 49.5% “unable to maintain previous employment.” In Sherry Johnston’s case, the aftermath of hysterectomy left her no choice but to forego her career as a hairstylist when the pain became disabling.
It is with great sadness that I read these articles about a woman who, if she had been given information about the common sequelae of hysterectomy, would not be facing criminal charges related to a drug she needs to dull her pain.
Nora W. Coffey
HERS Foundation
422 Bryn Mawr Avenue
Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
610-667-7757
http://hersfoundation.org
norawcoffey
January 9, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Nora, I hear what you are saying, but I don’t buy her as a victim. I know quite a few women who have had the procedure and not one of them has sold drugs.
I am all for women getting the help that they need, but I don’t believe in making excuses for people.
Catherine
January 9, 2009 at 8:47 pm