As you say, only a perp walk of Sheriff Joke is gonna get him out of there, he’s not going to retire because a new Sheriff coming in would look at the accounts and immediately throw him in jail for embezzlement. Or him falling over from a heart attack — he’s 79 years old, after all, and he’s a fat pig. So it could be any day now. But you can’t say the people of Maricopa County didn’t get what they wanted — or deserved — given the overwhelming majority who have voted for him in every election since he first ran for Sheriff.
]]>It will probably require his arrest for something to get rid of him, and then they will discover all of the ‘problems’ that have been hidden for years. One good audit would probably take him down immediately, but that won’t happen without a court order, if then. [We went through that down here with our last sheriff.]
‘Tribalism’ is the biggest problem with politics today. It has led us to the point that people like George Will are saying forget about the Presidency and concentrate on Congress, because no one from the Republican primaries can win an election. Probably hurt Ricky and the Mittster’s feeling, being mean like that.
I believe those groups are covered under ‘some of the people all of the time’ when talking about being fooled.
]]>Just goes to show that you can fool enough of the people enough of the time, if the people you’re fooling are Midwestern racists or Mormons.
– Badtux the Former Arizonan Penguin
]]>We were posting at the same time, Steve.
The GOP power brokers are ready to do everything they can to get him the nomination, so I think that will be the result, no matter what primary voters may decide.
We can’t have voters messing with the decisions of the VSPs.
]]>All the media care about is that Arpaio is ‘good copy’ that attracts eyeballs so the advertisers can sell them stuff. ‘Truth, Justice, and the American Way’ is a slogan, not a mission statement for the media.
No, DEA is not law enforcement. If he was in DEA, he learned bribery and corruption, not law enforcement. No one in law enforcement who was ‘clean’ wanted anything to do with them, because they spread rot wherever they went. They are worse than the FBI for screwing up local prosecutions and losing cases because of the way they work. They are constantly trying to horn in where they don’t belong, and trying to get the scum who work with them out of prosecutions. They will never figure out that major distributors use the DEA to take out rivals, while being protected.
It is amazing that people in Phoenix still don’t get that Arpaio makes them a national joke, but then, maybe the people who vote for him are a joke … a very cruel joke.
]]>The notion of journalists wasting their time asking Arpaio questions about his “birth certificate probe” was silliness. They should have been asking him about his many ethics violations, about the time he arrested Joe Arizona for caricaturing him in public, about the handicapped prisoners that he has killed by depriving of medical care in complete violation of the Constitution, and so forth. Oh wait, I’m assuming that the press is supposed to actually confront power, rather than be stenographers to power. My bad!
– Badtux the Cynical Penguin
]]>The turn out has sucked in all of the primaries, going to single digit percentages in some of them. Gallup keeps talking about the Republicans being more motivated than the Dems, but you don’t see it in the primaries, even when all of the ‘dwarves’ were running.
Arpaio is upset about all of the Federal scrutiny of what he has been up to around Phoenix. He may be in a lot of legal trouble soon, which isn’t unusual for public officials in Arizona. Has anyone checked Arpaio’s papers? What does he know about Hawaiian birth certificates, and why? Isn’t it suspicious that his last name ends in a vowel?
]]>BTW, Sheriff Joke Arpaio held a press conference today where he said that the President’s birth certificate was “suspicious”. Unknown is the Sheriff’s opinion on The Romney’s VIN number and bar-coded certificate of factory origin. Fake or real? 😈
– Badtux the Snarky Penguin
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