Christine O`Donnell on Drugs Republican Challenger

Father and grandfather both suffered from alcoholism

I can't imagine what my grandmother suffered, for the choices she made as a young woman, but in the years to come her courage and great conviction came back into play, because it turned out my grandfather was an alcoholic, the same disease that would later haunt my father--only in Grandpop O`Donnell's case, sad to say, the battle didn't exactly go his way. He drank . . . a lot. The marriage didn't last, and my grandmother eventually found someone special-- a wonderful stable man named John. We called him Grandpop John, because in time he became more of a grandfather to us than Francis.