Jane Sanders Meets with Joe Arpaio, Trump Supporter and Racist Sheriff

[ericson00]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/273248-hispanic-lawmaker-rips-jane-sanders-for-joe-arpaio

Bernie Sanders's wife, Jane Sanders, is facing heat for an impromptu meeting she had with Joe Arpaio, the controversial sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz.

Jane Sanders was touring the outside of Arpaio's "tent city" jail in Phoenix with immigration activists when the sheriff came and spoke with her briefly.

Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.), an outspoken advocate of immigrant rights and a supporter of Hillary Clinton, slammed Sanders for the meeting, saying she was not forceful enough with Arpaio.

"When Jane Sanders visited Joe Arpaio's inhumane detention center, the Sanders campaign had a chance to tell Arpaio to his face that he was wrong and that he needed to resign — as many of us have said for years. Instead, they heard him out, thanked him for his 'hospitality' and, contrary to their claims, made their criticisms through a press release and a series of tweets," Gutiérrez told Bloomberg.

"Joe Arpaio doesn't deserve a fair hearing. He is wrong on nearly everything: his immigration policies, his indefinite detention and practices that violate human rights, his tearing families apart, his support of the demagogue Donald Trump. All Joe Arpaio wants is the spotlight — and it's a shame the Sanders campaign helped give it to him."

[Jackie Wilson Said]

1. Would love to have been there to see her say that to that

monster.

[beam me up scottie]

2. You bolded the wrong part.

Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.), an outspoken advocate of immigrant rights and a supporter of Hillary Clinton,

Tfify.

Bernie Sanders' Wife, Jane, Tours Tent City, Challenges Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Racial Profiling

"In particular, she grilled the sheriff on his enforcement of Senate Bill 1070, the 2010 law, nicknamed the “papers please” statute, that made it a crime to violate federal immigration laws and empowered local police to check immigration status at traffic stops. At one point, Arpaio was housing immigrants snatched up under the law at Tent City.

When Sanders accused Arpaio of being “supportive of racial profiling,” the sheriff brushed her off.

After the tour, Sanders met with relatives of undocumented immigrants arrested by Arpaio’s office at the headquarters of the immigrant-rights group Puente.

As the immigrants shared stories of arrests at traffic stops and struggling to navigate their way through the legal system without knowing English or having money to hire a proper lawyer, Sanders wiped away tears. Several times, she reached across the table to clasp hands with people after they shared their stories."

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/bernie-sanders-wife-jane-tours-tent-city-challenges-sheriff-joe-arpaio-on-racial-profiling-8138487

Jane Sanders, Bernie's wife, debates Arpaio about Tent City

A day before her husband, Sen. Bernie Sanders, was set to hold a presidential campaign rally in Phoenix, Jane Sanders held an impromptu event of her own, verbally sparring with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio before touring his outdoor jail known as Tent City.

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/03/14/jane-sanders-bernies-wife-debates-arpaio-tent-city/81795076/

"What I saw and heard firsthand today by visiting with the families and seeing tent city was very disturbing. Sheriff Arpaio did not even attempt to explain or excuse his inhumane treatment of people of color -- not that he could. That kind of attitude toward our fellow human beings is completely unacceptable, especially in elected officials and those who would seek public office. We all need to stand up and put an end to these egregious human rights abuses."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/15/politics/jane-sanders-joe-arpaio-tent-city-tour/index.html

[KittyWampus]

12. Nice wall of BLUE LINKS. It'd be nice to see an actual response and not cut/paste...

I remember ProSense being mocked day after day for doing the same wall of blue links...

[beam me up scottie]

23. Gutiérrez is a shill for Hillary, I posted articles that refute his lies.

It doesn't deserve any more of my time.

Intimately familiar with Pro Sense are you?

[KittyWampus]

13. WHERE ARE THE RECORDING/TRANSCRIPTS> I don't believe Jane for a second. It was a photo op

And she lied by claiming it was "impromptu" and not planned ahead of time.

[beam me up scottie]

17. WHARGLE BARGLE !!!

[George II]

56. So, who was correct, Jane or Bernie?

Jane said it was impromptu, Bernie said he "crashed" it. One wonders how someone "crashes" a meeting that wasn't really set up.

[floriduck]

52. Funny how that happens with Clinton wannabe surrogates. nm

[revbones]

3. That's kind of ignorant.

I mean, she obviously wanted to see how bad things were. Would behaving childishly have allowed that? Even if she did it afterwards, Hillary supporters would just rail against her for yelling childishly.

The hypocrisy of Hillary supporters seems to know no bounds.

[BlueCaliDem]

4. I still don't understand why she went there. I really don't. You don't visit a racist Republican

sheriff's hellhole if not to go there to confront him. What did Jane Sanders seek to accomplish by that visit other than give him a platform to lie in defense of it?

I just don't understand the purpose of that visit. It just astounds me.

[virtualobserver]

6. You know why......but your desire to attack Bernie overcomes that knowledge.

[BlueCaliDem]

22. That's one mighty crystal ball you've got there, virtual. And although you'd LOVE to paint Hillary

supporters as untrustworthy (and we really don't give a squat since we're WINNING and we believe you are) I was asking a serious question.

Why would Jane Sanders give racist sheriff Arpaio a public platform to lie without holding him accountable for the desperate situation at that hellhole that he calls a prison?? I know Bernie said that Arpaio "crashed" the event but, um, it's HIS PRISON. He can come and go as he pleases. Is Jane then so naive to believe he wouldn't come out and "greet" her at his own prison and take over at the sight of cameras and mics? Really?

If Hillary did anything like that and didn't confront him, I'd be really pissed off.

But I guess you're a-ok with it since, well, it's Bernie's wife.

As a side note, Bernie didn't do himself any favors, either, when Arizona's Channel 12 News challenged him on his wife's visit to that hellhole in an interview, and he lost his cool and just walked out of the interview. Again, had Hillary done such a thing you'd be all up in arms, calling her unprofessional and making accusations that she doesn't have the temperament to be president, using the nastiest language you can get away with.

It's time to face the fact that Bernie Sanders is a good Senator but not presidential material.

[virtualobserver]

35. What a joke.....when has Hillary ever confronted anyone?

Kissinger over his war crimes?



Bush over getting us into Iraq?



bet she was tough on Blankfein? while he was writing her a check?

[BlueCaliDem]

43. Guilt by association - in a photograph?? Is that all you've got? Hahahahaha!

[center]NOTE to Alerters - nothing in this post should be taken seriously.
It was meant to be sarcasm in response to a pic-heavy post I'm responding to.
THANK YOU.[/center]

Photos don't tell the story, so they mean squat.

For example:

Was Jane happily agreeing to something Arpaio said?



Does President Obama have a close and friendly relationship with Putin the dictator? What could they be concocting?



Is Obama best buds with the Bush family?



Does Bernie pal around with warmongering Dems, war criminal buddies, and Goldman Sachs close friends?



Here's where you tell me that I shouldn't take photos out of context. I hope you see the irony in that.

[virtualobserver]

44. you said that Hillary would have confronted......you must have meant hugfronted.

you can't take affectionate hugs out of context.

[angrychair]

38. Where is your indignation now????

There are some among us that feel comfortable voting in their respective states for a candidate that has no problem spending her personal time, away from the public eye and openly calls them "friends":

Bushs (pics of her hugging and laughing with GW on this site now - a person that she 'knows' mislead her and who she capitulated to and voted in favor of the IWR)

Trumps (family friends for years, Donald is a golf buddy of WJC and he also had at least a little to do with Donald running for president)

Kissingers (both HRC and WJC have invoked Henry Kissinger's name as both a friend and mentor to HRC on several occasions. For reference to those that don't know, this is no one to admire.

These are not people any candidate that expects my vote should be calling "friends" nor should any Democrat.

[Kelvin Mace]

11. If HRC visited him

you would be crowing about her taking the fight to the racists, shining a national spotlight on bigotry. But, since it's Bernie's wife, it must be a bad thing.

[BlueCaliDem]

24. Maybe because she'd actually confront him instead of meekly standing by while he LIED into their

mics and cameras. Hillary is a lot of things, but she's tough as nails and NO ONE would accuse her of being a wilting flower.

There was NO sane reason for Jane Sanders to go there. NONE. But convince me that there was. Go ahead. Tell me what exactly she thought she could accomplish by visiting the nastiest, most racist "sheriff" of that tent prison this side of the First World.

[Fawke Em]

34. LOLOLOLO!

Tough as nails?

Is that why she kisses Wall Street's butt instead of telling them to get bent?

[BlueCaliDem]

36. LOLOLOLOL

She's beating Bernie - badly. Yeah. Tough as nails, but you know that.

Hillary sat through 8 hours of a Republican inquisition and came out fresh and energetic. She didn't ask to leave early. She didn't get up and walk out angrily even though NO ONE (outside Bernie supporters and Republicans) would've blamed her had she done so. She sat there and was attacked, attacked, attacked, and attacked again, and she kept her cool.

Bernie, on the other hand, can't take a couple of minutes questioning by a local reporter on Channel 12 in Arizona before he abruptly gets up and walks out because that reporter had the temerity to ask him about Jane's visit to Sheriff Racist's tent hellhole. VERY unprofessional. He doesn't have the temperament to be president. And the majority of Americans voting in the Democratic Party agree with that assessment.

Clinton —— 4.8 million
Trump —— 4.2 mill
Cruz —— 3.4 mill
Bernie - 3.0 mill

[angrychair]

47. So what

70% of Sanders donations are $200 or less.
For Clinton, less than 17% are $200 or less.

51% of Clinton donors have given as much as they can give for the rest of the primary (some already eating into their GE maximum but I could not determine a specific number) and almost 5% have given all they can give for the entire election.

Sanders isn't the one running out of money and potentially facing a billionaire in the GE.

[Kelvin Mace]

60. "There was NO sane reason for Jane Sanders to go there. NONE."

Hyperbole much?

"but she's tough as nails and NO ONE would accuse her of being a wilting flower."

Yeah, she's a regular Maggie Thatcher.

[KittyWampus]

14. A photo op for a certain portion of Sanders' supporters.

[BlueCaliDem]

27. I think you're right. That, and hoping to offset the Latino vote that will favor Hillary

next week - and Arizona has a large Latino population - with, shall we say, unusual voters who may crossover.

[Ghost Dog]

55. Well, as an international observer this has certainly served

to draw my attention to the presence of that hellhole and the issues surrounding it, as well as to the nastiness of some supporting the Clinton campaign.

[BlueCaliDem]

65. I'm happy for you.

But the nastiness you allege in your post should be placed at the feet of Bernie supporters, not Hillary supporters who have been very cordial and open.

But I'm happy you were able to get something out of this impromptu visit by one of the Democratic frontrunners for the president of the United States - as an international observer.

[Ghost Dog]

66. I have not encountered such gratuitous, in-your-face

and often childishly gleeful nastiness from Sanders's as I have from some of Clinton's supporters, so I beg to differ on that point.

Thank you for appreciating my interest, as an international observer.

[Lizzie Poppet]

5. So her public criticism wasn't enough?

She is instead expected to gracelessly upbraid Arpaio to his face? Abso-fucking-lutley absurd...

"Joe Arpaio doesn't deserve a fair hearing" - Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-Ill.)

Go fuck yourself, Luis. Everyone deserves a fair hearing. Everyone.

[NurseJackie]

7. Bizarre.

[uponit7771]

8. Yeap, as I've said before Sanders can throw no stones... Kissinger is somehow worse than Arpio

[virtualobserver]

9. Jane put the spotlight on the evils perpetuated by the Sheriff....as she should have.

[KittyWampus]

15. No, she didn't. She arranged to meet with him for a photo op. Got any TRANSCRIPTS

of an actual RECORDING to prove otherwise?

Cause her lame excuses aren't believable after she lied and claimed the meeting wasn't scheduled.

[virtualobserver]

20. She went there to see the conditions of the people....why else would she go there?

This is just another Brockish attack.

[Bluenorthwest]

26. That's total bullshit. But here is some filth your candidate volunteered unasked on national TV :

"It may be hard for your viewers to remember how difficult it was for people to talk about HIV/AIDS back in the 1980s and because of both president and Mrs. Reagan — in particular Mrs. Reagan — we started a national conversation, when before nobody would talk about it, nobody wanted to do anything about it, and that too is something I really appreciate with her very effective low-key advocacy. It penetrated the public conscience and people began to say, hey, we have to do something about this too."

She's rushing to praise the Reagans for doing the exact thing they are considered arch villains for not doing. It's horrific, incomprehensible and it's on film:

[azurnoir]

10. did you forget this part? or should we take the word of a Hillary backer who wasn't present?

The Sanders campaign had a different take on the meeting, saying in a statement that she "used the opportunity to question Arpaio about racial profiling and his use of civilians to detain people who are undocumented.
"She questioned the inhumane treatment of prisoners who have to live outside under temperatures that can reach over 130 degrees, a charge he did not deny, saying they were prisoners. He bragged about removing meat from all their meals and having chain gangs."

In the statement, Jane Sanders had some harsh criticism for Arpaio.
“What I saw and heard firsthand today by visiting with the families and seeing tent city was very disturbing,” Sanders said. “Sheriff Arpaio did not even attempt to explain or excuse his inhumane treatment of people of color — not that he could. That kind of attitude toward our fellow human beings is completely unacceptable, especially in elected officials and those who would seek public office.”

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/273248-hispanic-lawmaker-rips-jane-sanders-for-joe-arpaio

[KittyWampus]

16. The Sanders campaign lost all credibility by claiming this wasn't a scheduled meeting

with America's most racist sheriff.

Where are THE RECORDINGS/TRANSCRIPTS?

[Bluenorthwest]

21. I know someone who was incarcerated in Tent City and your posts are crappy because you are

exploiting an issue that needs to be discussed, which is why Jane was there, to attack Jane Sanders. Tent City is a shame on America.
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/03/18/bernie-sanders-in-arizona-takes-on-sheriff-joe-arpaio/

[azurnoir]

30. well somebody has lost something

[Autumn]

33. Jane Sanders was touring the outside of Arpaio's "tent city" jail in Phoenix

with immigration activists when the sheriff came and spoke with her briefly. Words make a whole fucking world of difference don't they?

Jane Sanders Meets with Joe Arpaio, Trump Supporter and Racist Sheriff

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/273248-hispanic-lawmaker-rips-jane-sanders-for-joe-arpaio

Bernie Sanders's wife, Jane Sanders, is facing heat for an impromptu meeting she had with Joe Arpaio, the controversial sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz.

Jane Sanders was touring the outside of Arpaio's "tent city" jail in Phoenix with immigration activists when the sheriff came and spoke with her briefly.

reading, it's a beautiful thing.

https://www.google.com/search?q=impromptu&oq=impromptu&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2207j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
im·promp·tu
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adjective & adverb
1.
done without being planned, organized, or rehearsed.
"an impromptu press conference"
synonyms: unrehearsed, unprepared, unscripted, extempore, extemporized, extemporaneous, improvised, spontaneous, unplanned; informaloff-the-cuff, offhand, spur-of-the-moment, ad-lib
"an impromptu lecture"
extempore, spontaneously, extemporaneously, without preparation, without rehearsal;
informaloff the cuff, off the top of one's head, on the spur of the moment, ad lib
"they played the song impromptu"

[Live and Learn]

48. Why are you making chit up? nt

[Lizzie Poppet]

53. If you're going to call people liars, try and have at least a shred of evidence.

Otherwise, it says a whole hell of a lot about your character and credibility. ProTip: none of it good.

[whatchamacallit]

18. That omission speaks volumes

about the subterfuge employed regularly by team clinton.

[azurnoir]

32. remember always read the article

[Bluenorthwest]

19. NY Times: Bernie Sanders, in Arizona, Takes On Sheriff Joe Arpaio

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont took on one of Arizona’s most contentious political figures at a rally on Thursday, calling Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County a bully and accusing him of “un-American” behavior.

Mr. Sanders was introduced at the rally on Thursday by Katherine Figueroa Bueno, a teenage immigration activist who, at the age of 9, saw her parents being detained on television in a workplace raid led by Sheriff Arpaio.

“Arpaio took away my childhood, because I had to grow up from one week to another,” she said. “I am one of millions of other kids that are left behind. I want all deportations to stop, that’s why we need Bernie Sanders to be our president,” she said.
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/03/18/bernie-sanders-in-arizona-takes-on-sheriff-joe-arpaio/


So what's your standing on this issue relative to Katherine Bueno's?

[Autumn]

25. Imma say you didn't read the article did ya?

Jane Sanders was touring the outside of Arpaio's "tent city" jail in Phoenix with immigration activists when the sheriff came and spoke with her briefly.

https://gfycat.com/ImprobableDeficientItalianbrownbear

[arcane1]

29. Honesty is irrelevant if one can find a way to attack Sanders n/t

[workinclasszero]

28. That's a shame

[Walk away]

39. Tut Tut!

This woman can't get out of her own way!!!

[workinclasszero]

42. IKR?

Great asset to the campaign?

[HerbChestnut]

41. Please read my post below.

This criticism is outrageous.

[hellofromreddit]

54. Perhaps she was telling him to cut it out?

Sanders: "You feel that this is humane, the way that you ..."

Arpaio: "Yeah, it’s about 130 degrees during the summer."

Sanders: "Well let me ask you this ..."

Arpaio: "And 135 degrees in Iraq."

Sanders: "Yeah, well ..."

Arpaio: "So, what’s wrong with that?"

Sanders: "Well, the jails are supposed to treat our people humanely."

Arpaio: "I haven’t had any problem!"

The whole conversation reads like the opposite of the Sanders endorsing Arpaio's behavior.

[GreatGazoo]

31. So bad it's funny -- Weak Tea

[AzDar]

37. Has Gutierrez visited Tent City and confronted Arpaio?

[HerbChestnut]

40. Seriously? SERIOUSLY? People are criticizing Jane for this?

This is partisan political hackery at its worst. She was there to look at the conditions of the compound and get more information. She wasn't even scheduled to visit with the Sheriff, the guy came over on his own. I can't believe we even have to defend her on this.

[JI7]

45. it's says he showed up . this wasn't some planned meeting with him

[book_worm]

46. I think Joe crashed it--he wasn't invited.

[George II]

49. Hah! Sanders said in an abruptly ended television interview that Arpaio "crashed" her visit....

.....to the tent city.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/273570-sanders-walks-off-interview-after-arpaio-question

“My wife went to look at the so-called tent city, which is something that should not exist,” he added, referencing a jail operated by the Maricopa County sheriff that is fashioned from military tents.

"The fact that he crashed her meeting is, to me, very, very wrong, not something he should have done. Thank you very much.”

Sanders then stood up, removed his microphone and walked away, ending his discussion with Resnick at the Twin Arrows Casino on the Navajo Nation.

How does a guy "crash" a meeting at a place that he set up himself?????

[TCJ70]

51. She wasn't supposed to meet with Arpaio...

...she was there with a civil rights group if I'm reading correctly. The sheriff just showed up. That's how you crash it.

[immoderate]

59. How do people get oblivious?

--imm

[Skwmom]

50. She didn't plan to meet him. He showed up. n/t

[murielm99]

61. He just showed up at his own jail,

his own workplace? Imagine that.

Many of us here "crash" our workplaces every day, then.



That is all you deserve. Lots of laughter.

[stevenleser]

57. I actually don't think this criticism is fair. But I do know that if it had been Hillary or anyone

supporting her, Sanders supporters would now be saying this is a terrible thing done by Hillary or "her surrogates".

I've seen enough guilt by association and spurious accusations by Sanders supporters this election season to know that with 100% certainty.

[NurseJackie]

58. You're probably correct ... but it never hurts for people to get at least ONE good taste of ...

... what it's like. It may make them think twice in the future. (It's hard to tell if I'm just rationalizing, or being cynical, or naively hopeful.)

[Cheese Sandwich]

62. Well it's clear you don't want or need my vote

[KingFlorez]

63. I think concern over this is valid

There is no one who can legitimately say that this would not be a major issue if you swap the name Jane Sanders for Bill Clinton. That aside, I will repeat that this is concerning. Everyone knows who Joe Arpaio is and what he stands for.

[PowerToThePeople]

64. Sick attack against Jane Sanders.

trash this pile of shit.