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chocolatpi

(7,888 posts)
Thu Oct 7, 2021, 12:06 PM Oct 2021

Sheriff Joe of AZ back in the saddle?


https://news.yahoo.com/beaten-last-3-races-arpaio-221759028.html

Associated Press

Beaten in last 3 races, Arpaio running for mayor of suburb

Tue, October 5, 2021, 3:17 PM
In this article:

PHOENIX (AP) — Beaten in his last three elections, former six-term Sheriff Joe Arpaio is attempting another comeback, this time running for mayor of the affluent Phoenix suburb where he has lived for the last two decades.

The former lawman on Tuesday announced his entry in the 2022 mayor’s race in Fountain Hills, a town of about 25,000 people on the northeastern edge of metro Phoenix.

After getting crushed by a Democratic challenger in 2016 after 24 years as sheriff, Arpaio finished third in a Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat in 2018 and second in the GOP primary in his 2020 bid to win back the sheriff’s post. In both comeback attempts, Arpaio lost the vote in Fountain Hills.
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Arpaio was voted out as sheriff in 2016 amid voter frustration over his headline-grabbing tactics and legal troubles, including his disobedience of a judge’s 2011 order to stop his traffic patrols that led to his 2017 criminal contempt of court conviction, which was pardoned by then-President Donald Trump.

Before the federal government and the courts stripped away his immigration powers, Arpaio led 20 large-scale traffic patrols that targeted immigrants and more than 80 business raids to bust people working in the United States without permission.
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Arpaio and businessman Kelly Smith are the only candidates to file paperwork so far with the town expressing interest in the mayor’s race. Though she hasn’t yet filed such paperwork, incumbent Mayor Ginny Dickey said she will be seeking re-election next year.
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Sheriff Joe of AZ back in the saddle? (Original Post) chocolatpi Oct 2021 OP
He's almost 90 fcs! 2naSalit Oct 2021 #1
He doesn't look healthy enough to have survived this long. Shrike47 Oct 2021 #2
That can only mean one thing then... 2naSalit Oct 2021 #3
thanks for the toons, sorry I've not responded sooner (; chocolatpi Nov 2021 #5
He won't get elected but... lees1975 Oct 2021 #4

2naSalit

(86,502 posts)
3. That can only mean one thing then...
Thu Oct 7, 2021, 12:23 PM
Oct 2021

He's some kind of inhuman demon from the dregs of the universe. Yikes!


lees1975

(3,845 posts)
4. He won't get elected but...
Sat Oct 9, 2021, 11:23 AM
Oct 2021

the fact that he is still around is a reminder that Republicans are NOT the party of law and order. He's free on a Trump pardon.

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