Joe Arpaio running for Maricopa County sheriff in 2020
Source: Arizona Republic
Joe Arpaio announced on social media Sunday that he will seek another term as sheriff of Maricopa County in 2020. Arpaio previously served as the county's sheriff for 24 years.
Arpaio noted the date of his announcement, Aug. 25, is the anniversary of the presidential pardon granted by President Trump and his wife's birthday.
Arpaio, 87, lost the most recent election in 2016 by 13 percentage points, to Democrat Paul Penzone.
In a statement posted via Twitter, Arpaio said, "On this day, August 25, 2019, after consultation and approval from my wife of 61 years, Ava, I have decided to run to be re-elected Sheriff. Watch out world! We are back!
Read more: https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2019/08/25/joe-arpaio-announces-election-bid-maricopa-county-sheriff/2116916001/
The guy will be 88 by November 2020.
rpannier
(24,304 posts)Fox watch the chicken coop
BigmanPigman
(51,432 posts)HiloHatti
(79 posts)the people of Maricopa County deserve it
ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)with 'criminal' sprayed across it. A monster like him does not terrorize the majority of voters in this county - it required enough voters to stand for decency and empathy to vote him out. He's not in prison and now able to run for office because he needed Trump's pardon. This is on a nation that allowed Trump to get into office. Arpaio routinely and without remorse, bragged about breaking constitutional law. He's more unamerican than the brown people he stalked and harassed ever will be accused of acting.
LittleGirl
(8,261 posts)He has cost the county of Maricopa millions of dollars in lawsuits against his racist platform and the state and county is turning blue. Thankfully, I don't vote in Maricopa but if I did, he would not get my vote.
Grokenstein
(5,707 posts)Seriously, Republicans and mommy issues.
Demovictory9
(32,324 posts)Vinca
(50,172 posts)This is a law enforcement position and age does make a difference. Many departments require retirement at a much younger age than 87. 87 isn't the new 50.
maxsolomon
(32,992 posts)Everyone knows 87 is the new 70!
Next you'll be saying 77, 78 is too old to be President!
Roy Rolling
(6,856 posts)His 15 minutes was up 14 minutes ago.
Just go away, Joe.
cstanleytech
(26,088 posts)from kicking the bucket at that age stasticaly.
Roy Rolling
(6,856 posts)I stand corrected.
pecosbob
(7,511 posts)kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)Even the old people there said he had to go. Joe was starting to lose it and the older folks gossiped about it at her senior center.
PatSeg
(46,807 posts)Why is it that the evil ones just go on and on? Oh well, at least David Koch showed us they can't live forever.
catbyte
(34,175 posts)to give this asshole the boot but good. What a vile miserable excuse for a human being.
iluvtennis
(19,758 posts)jmowreader
(50,453 posts)Nitram
(22,671 posts)patphil
(6,035 posts)It seems to me that as far as Arizona is concerned, they have been there, done that...time to move on.
dobleremolque
(479 posts)"El Arpayaso"*, all he'll do is grift campaign "contributions" from the geezer ghettos aka Sun City and Sun City West unincorporated areas of Maricopa County. After he loses resoundingly ... because he's certainly not going to spend the money on campaign materials .... he'll pocket the grift and laugh.
*payaso is the Spanish word for "clown."
Mr.Bill
(24,104 posts)and probably can't even get a book deal.
Mosby
(16,168 posts)like a lot of politicians who can't seem to retire.
Their lives are so shallow and empty that they can't even enjoy traveling the world and being with their families.
The only thing they crave is attention.
It won't be long before one of them live blogs their death....
Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)always a pathetic narcissist who needs attention.
I really don 't think he has a chance. The demographics of the area have shifted enough and he has too much baggage.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Hell, he's got nothing to run on anymore. There are no positives in his column.
It's the attention he craves. Anything that puts him in the news again. He's just an attention whore who can't let go.
samplegirl
(11,415 posts)retire? This fool needs to go!
Danmel
(4,892 posts)And I figured he had died. Pretty disappointed to see he's running for office again.