Heath said the family has concluded that there’s nothing they can legally do to force McGinniss out of the house. “You can’t charge him with a stalking crime because there’s no intent to harm,” he said. “There’s some civil action, I guess, you could take if there’s harassment. But the time frame of getting us through the courts is more than five months, which is his timeframe right now.”
To shield the house from the new neighbor, Heath said Palin’s husband, Todd, and some buddies “worked through the night” to put up a 14-foot fence. “If you’ve ever been to Sarah’s house and seen — literally, she’s not exaggerating, when she says that that house is 12 feet away from the kitchen window she looks out of. And the deck looks right down into her kitchen, and into the bedrooms and the upstairs too. It’s crazy.”
Asked if his sister might decide to leave Alaska entirely – say, by running for president in 2012 – Heath is noncommittal. “Nobody knows her plans except for Sarah,” he said. “That’s the $64,000 question that everybody, everywhere we’ve gone has asked us. And like we say, in total honesty, we have no idea.”
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