Sherry Johnston pleaded not guilty to the drug charges against her today.
A Palmer grand jury on Friday indicted her on six felony counts of misconduct involving a controlled substance relating to possession and sale of the prescription painkiller OxyContin.
She admitted selling OxyContin pills to someone working with investigators, according to a state trooper affidavit. Troopers arrested her Dec. 18 at her Wasilla home, then she was released on bail.
Johnston showed up alone for her first appearance in Palmer court this morning -- no lawyer, no friends or family to support her.
Nobody showed up to support her? Nobody?
What the hell kind of family do they have in Wasilla? Where is Levi for God's sake?
I don't care how angry you are at your mother, when she needs your support you show the hell up! Levi could have just stood there quietly letting his mom know that he cared. He is a big boy, he could have ignored the reporters questions. But dammit his mother needed him!
I have taken my fair share of shots at our Governor and her extended family, when it seemed appropriate, and that has definitely included Sherry Johnston who did her part to help define the Palin family as terribly dysfunctional and the exact opposite of what the GOP is trying to shove down our throats.
But now I find myself feeling pity toward Wasilla's local Oxycontin distributor. She may be a deeply flawed individual but she is just a woman who found herself thrust into the limelight solely because of who her son chose to play hide the pickle with.
If her son had simply found a local girl with a less publicity hungry mother, his mom's drug problems and legal situation would be known to only a handful of people.
And she does indeed have quite a lot on her plate right now.
She told Palmer Superior Court Judge Beverly Cutler that she is in the midst of a divorce and living on medical disability payments and child support.
But I have a little advice that may solve all of Sherry Johnston's financial woes.
Ms. Johnston you have in your possession a story that top publishers from all over the world would pay many millions of dollars to buy from you. If you call up a literary agent today and simply whisper a few of the dirty little secrets that we all know you have in your possession you will never have to sell Oxycontin in a Target parking lot again! You know the secrets I am talkng about don't you?
Just consider it for a moment Sherry. You did not ask for all of this attention. You did not want your dirty laundry spread out over the blogosphere for the world to see. And who is to blame for that? That's right Sarah Palin.
And she gets to fly all over the country attending lavish events and hobnobbing with famous people, while you face the very real possibility of serving jail time and losing everything.
Your future is up to you Ms Johnston, don't let misplaced loyalty make you just the most recent person to be thrown under the bus by Sarah Palin and her out of control ambitions.
Your grandchildren will grow up calling her "Grandma", what will they call you?
Gryphen,
ReplyDeleteThat's a brilliant solution to Ms. Johnston's financial woes... and may, indeed, shed some light on a number of questions inquiring minds have.
PackyJ
Good points Gryphen.
ReplyDeleteMercedes could sell all of her Triggy Bear pictures and the story to get her mother the best attorney. I'm sure they are worth 6 figures.
EXCELLENT! have to say, i'm going to give Levi the benefit of the doubt and put my money on Palin advising him to stay away from his mother today. it's terrible. because for as PRO FAMILY as Palin tries to sell herself as, you'd have to expect his appearance alongside his mother to sort of bolster that. no matter what, it's his mother. so i say, gloves are off. ms johnston needs a new pair of shoes. sarah, you know what that's like, right? and while the publisher's out there, he should ring up Wooten. granted, what's he got to offer but background. not the greatest guy/father, but you know what? for as low down as the Palin team tried to make him out to be, he's not said a damn word about her - pro or con - since her nomination. gotta give him credit for that.
ReplyDeleteWHOA now… maybe she asked that no one go with her… that’s what I would have done. So that no one would be painted with the same brush that I was. I would have told them to either wait in the car or wait across the street at the coffee shop… no the real coffee shop…
ReplyDeleteBut I also think we are missing something else in this story. I am on prescription pain killers. I take them everyday… my doctor and I are very careful, we work together. I have taken them for 6 years now, I regulate myself so that I don’t take to much. If she has so many pills that she can sell them, either the doctor is over prescribing her or she doesn’t really need them. That makes me wonder what her disability really is and maybe someone should be checking on it. I had to fight 4 years to get my SS disability and I finally only got it because of my age basically.
If she is really in severe pain and needs the meds that’s fine but then why is she selling them?? If she is just selling the meds to supplement her income and not really in pain then she needs to give up the disability income and get off the gravy train because that makes it harder for the ones of us who really need it.
Oooooo. Diabolical!
ReplyDeleteI hope she sings, and sings loudly!
ReplyDeleteI'm disturbed by the folks feeling sorry for Sherry Johnston. She is a DRUG dealer. Kids by drugs from drug dealers. I do not feel sorry for her at all.
ReplyDeleteExactly what I am hoping for...Sherry do it...because of Sarah's big mouth your son no longer has a job, and your bust could have been kept out of the national headlines.
ReplyDeleteYou could easily get seven figures if you spill ALL the beans.
I wish people could be more specific or give a hint!
ReplyDeleteWhat beans are we talking about?
What does she know that the rest of us should know since some of you know already.
please tell. This women SP should not be near any ind of public office!
HMMM... This would be sooooo great! KARMA, I guess!
ReplyDeleteWell, I just hope she has her stories all recorded somewhere safely - I would not put it above SP to try to outmaneuver SJ and get rid of her BEFORE she can sell her stories!
Everybody: Keep a close eye on SJ, so no harm comes to her before her time! (Especially no untoward 'unfortunate (single)car accident' or 'accidental overdose'...)