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Then-Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaking at the Phoenix Convention Center before a speech by then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
There's a time for heightened discourse and there's a time to eliminate the threat. Arpaio's rivals need to be ready to hit him hard and hit him fast so the worst person in Arizona political history doesn't infect the U.S. Senate.... Read more»
Paul Ingram/TucsonSentinel.com
Then-Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaking at the Phoenix Convention Center before a speech by then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
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4 comments on this story
Sorry, I stopped reading when I read that. Raul Grijalva is most deserving of that particular distinction…he’s earned it.
What you missed:
I’m willing to wager the bulk of voters think Arpaio is just a hard-line law-and-order publicity hound who got into trouble for being too zealous. They don’t know about the rest of his record, from illegally arresting journalists for reporting on him to squandering $60 to $80 million or more, not to mention actually staging an “assassination attempt” on himself to win an election.
He was the top law enforcement guy in Maricopa County and, according to the Goldwater Institute, the Associated Press and the East Valley Tribune, didn’t see sex crimes as real crimes. He employed a bigger PR staff than he did detectives whose job it was to investigate the sexual assault of little girls, letting hundreds of cases languish without a glance.
That’s not a left-wing smear. That’s from the Goldwater Institute’s Clint Bolick, who now sits on the Arizona Supreme Court and authored a deep dive into Arpaio’s office.
http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/121111_apaio_sex_crimes/new-sex-crime-arises-after-arpaio-fails-investigate-alleged-rape/
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