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BY STEPHEN LEMONS
Let's talk about old white people, specifically the majority of old white people who live in Maricopa County.
They are patriotic. They revere the flag. They vote. And they love I mean love Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Arpaio, who just turned 83, is like them, supposedly. He has grandkids. He served in the U.S. Army (in France during the Korean War). He tells the same stories over and over again.
He can be charming, avuncular, crack jokes, clown around. He acts tough on crime, even if reality undermines that act.
I can hear it now:
"People die in his jails? Good! That's what lawbreakers deserve, isn't it?"
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Initech
(100,118 posts)It's not the people of Maricopa County - my aunt lives there and she says that the people that live there hate his guts. Seriously, he has something like a 17% approval rating among the residents of that county. Yet he keeps getting elected time after time. So I want to know who is buying his office?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)And,throw in one major Religious Cult, and there you are. Yup,might is right,bullshit.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,224 posts)For having the gall to be racially profiled and thus burden the citizens with the suit against Arpaio.
I'm totally serious here.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)One of the RW's favorite targets, until a rw'er needs to sue someone.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)which is obviously a solid victory, but just sayin: 45% of us would be happy to see him out on his ass.