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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
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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 mayors 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 sheriffs 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 judges 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 mayors race. Though she hasnt 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
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2naSalit
(86,515 posts)1. He's almost 90 fcs!
Hopefully he won't survive the election.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)2. He doesn't look healthy enough to have survived this long.
2naSalit
(86,515 posts)3. That can only mean one thing then...
He's some kind of inhuman demon from the dregs of the universe. Yikes!
chocolatpi
(7,888 posts)5. thanks for the toons, sorry I've not responded sooner (;
lees1975
(3,845 posts)4. He won't get elected but...
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.