Thread: Arizona County Sheriff Keeps Getting Elected Over And Over

Originally Posted by ilovecats

I totally agree with you except for the bolded,I know someone in prison and have visited many times. It is impossible to smuggle drugs or even simple barrettes to inmates. If they are getting anything it is coming from the guards or someone else inside the prison. BTDT,anyone wanting to disagree hasn't been in a prison in my state.

That may be the case with the prison that you are familar with ... and it may be the case with every single one in your state ... but that doesn't mean it is true EVERYWHERE.

Originally Posted by boopster

I think we could eliminate a lot of this profiling of illegals if our government showed them the exit sign and also appealed the 14th amendment.

The reason for the 14th amendment was to shield the newly freed slaves from retaliation and discrimination at the end of the Civil War; that is no longer the case. The Amendment is now used to shield and protect illegal activities and protect those who have a financial interest in the status quo.

AZ sherriff: DOJ attack on Arpaio an attempt to distract from Fast and Furious
The Daily CallerBy Matthew Boyle – 3 hrs ago

Sheriff Paul Babeu of Pinal County, Ariz., said that Attorney General Eric Holder’s recent attacks on his colleague, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Ariz., were an attempt to take public attention off of Operation Fast and Furious. “The fact [that the Department of Justice] chose today to release their findings was only done to take the attention away from themselves,” Babeu said in a press release, according to Sonoran News. “Today marks the one year anniversary since the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.”

Holder’s DOJ announced on December 15 that it “had reasonable cause to believe” Arpaio’s office was discriminating against Latinos.

Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s “systematic disregard for basic constitutional protections has created a wall of distrust between the sheriff’s office and large segments of the community, which dramatically compromises the ability to protect and serve the people,” Thomas Perez, assistant atorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, said in a statement.

On Dec. 15, 2010, Terry was murdered with Operation Fast and Furious weapons. Babeu said that he is suspicious because the DOJ released the details of its three-year investigation “within 12 hours of the Terry family having announced they want justice against all of those responsible for Operation Fast and Furious.”

Mere hours before the DOJ took the findings of its Arpaio investigation public, Terry’s family called for criminal charges to be filed against all responsible for Operation Fast and Furious and for Terry’s murder, including Obama administration officials. Fast and Furious was a program of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, overseen by the DOJ. It sent thousands of weapons to Mexican drug cartels via straw purchasers — people who legally purchase guns in the United States with the known intention of illegally trafficking them somewhere else.

At least 300 people in Mexico were killed with Fast and Furious weapons, as was Terry. The identities of the Mexican victims are unknown.

http://news.yahoo.com/az-sherriff-do...130305496.html

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Hmmmmm........

Originally Posted by pepperpot

Hmmmmm........

No surprise there...

Transparency at its best.

Me

Obama Fanatic’ Threatens to Fill AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio With a ‘Thousand Bullet Holes,’ Deputy Chief Interviewed
Posted on January 27, 2012 at 7:24pm by Tiffany Gabbay

A “fanatical supporter” of President Barack Obama has been taken into custody and is now the prime suspect in the Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio death threat investigation. The diligent team at 550KFYI alerted The Blaze that 33-year-old Adam Eugene Cox was arrested in Tennessee Friday on an unrelated warrant for assault. Cox said he planned to brutally slay Arpaio and his family, vowing the Sheriff ”will be filled with a thousand bullet holes before the year is out.”

“I promise you this. He won’t f**k with Obama,” Cox declared.

The following is a statement released by the Sheriff’s Office:

Deputies in Knoxville, Tennessee working with Maricopa County Sheriff’s deputies today served a search warrant and seized computer and other evidence from the home of Adam Eugene Cox, 33, after an investigation into an internet death threat against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio came to light in
October, 2011.

Cox was arrested today and taken into custody on an unrelated warrant for assault and is being investigated as the prime suspect in the Arpaio death threat investigation.

In that threat, Cox stated Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his family would be killed.

The suspect’s threats read in part:

“I plan to kill Arpaio first. He will be filled with a thousand bullet holes before the year is out. I promise you this. He won’t f**k with Obama. He will be buried 10 feet under and his whole family will be murdered along with him.”

The Maricopa County Sheriff‘s Office said the suspect’s postings indicate he is a fervent Obama supporter and that Arpaio‘s ongoing investigation into the legitimacy of the president’s birth certificate may have been the catalyst behind the death threat.

According to MCSO officials in the written statement, Cox’s mother confirmed her son is a fanatical supporter of Obama.

Knoxville deputies said Cox has a history of assault. “I will not be intimated against pursuing this investigation into Obama’s eligibility to serve as the president of the United States,” Arpaio said.

Listen to Deputy Chief Dave Trombi from The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office talk about the investigation with Mike Broomhead. The interview took place late Friday afternoon. http://www.kfyi.com/player/?mid=21769792

An entire copy of the Sheriff’s Office statement can be found at KFYI. http://www.kfyi.com/pages/broomhead....rticle=9678286

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obam...f-interviewed/


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Is this guy responding to the Obamanations orders to get in their face! or if they bring a knife we will bring a gun ?

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I wonder how much coverage the msm will give this story? I would bet not much, if any, and the spin will somehow end up being that it‘s Arpaio’s fault.

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“His mother confirmed” …

Was there ever a doubt that he didn‘t live at home in mommy’s basement?

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Hey, dems.... How’s that new civility working out for you? If this guy even read Sara Palin’s book, you can bet this would be front page news every night.
Hello? NBC, CBS, ABC? CNN, MSNBC? Anybody there?

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As long as he doesn’t shoot a t-shirt with obama on it, he is fine…

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The State of Georgia is already F*ing with Obama:

http://www.conservativeamericaonline...slam-dunk.html

Let’s see if he can get on the ballot there. Call your local state election office and inform them that Barry is not qualified to be on the ballot.

Not that he wants to be, this is all a ruse anyway to get us to vote for a RINO.

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I’m sure the DOJ will say there is not enough evidence and let him go free! You know the drill, just like when the Black Panthers stood in front of the voting doorway with billy clubs! Not like the DOJ will ever prosecute anything having to do with the other side! Absolute Corruption Corrupts Absolutely! With them it is only social justice!

[bArizona sheriff probes Obama's birth certificate[/b]
By JACQUES BILLEAUD | Associated Press – 4 hrs ago

PHOENIX (AP) — America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff finds himself entangled these days in his own thorny legal troubles: a federal grand jury probe over alleged abuse of power, Justice Department accusations of racial profiling and revelations that his department didn't adequately investigate hundreds of Arizona sex-crime cases. Rather than seek cover, though, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is seeking to grab the spotlight in the same unorthodox fashion that has helped boost his career as a nationally known lawman.

Arpaio scheduled a news conference Thursday to unveil preliminary results of an investigation, conducted by members of his volunteer cold-case posse, into the authenticity of President Barack Obama's birth certificate, a controversy that has been widely debunked but which remains alive in the eyes of some conservatives. Last year, Donald Trump most prominently revived the issue while entertaining a possible bid for the presidency.

The 79-year-old Republican sheriff has declined to offer clues to what the probe may have found — but defends his need to spearhead such an investigation after nearly 250 people connected to an Arizona tea party group requested one last summer. "I'm not going after Obama," said Arpaio, who has criticized the president's administration for cutting off his federal immigration powers and conducting a civil rights investigation of his office. "I'm just doing my job."

Some critics suggest Arpaio's aim is to divert attention from his own legal troubles while raising his political profile as he seeks a sixth term this year. The sheriff vehemently denies such strategies are in play. "You say I need this to get elected? Are you kidding me? I've been elected five times. I don't need this," he said in a recent interview.

Democratic state Sen. Steve Gallardo said Arpaio is pandering to relentless critics of the president. "It doesn't matter what President Obama does, they'll never support him," Gallardo said. "It's those folks who will continue to write checks to Sheriff Joe because of this stuff."

Arpaio's probe comes amid a federal grand jury investigation into the sheriff's office on criminal abuse-of-power allegations since at least December 2009, focusing on the sheriff's anti-public corruption squad. Separately, the U.S. Justice Department has accused Arpaio's office of racially profiling Latinos, basing immigration enforcement on racially charged citizen complaints and punishing Hispanic jail inmates for speaking Spanish. Arpaio denies the allegations and said the investigation is politically motivated.

Critics also have sought Arpaio's resignation for more than 400 sex-crimes cases over a three-year period ending in 2007 that were either inadequately investigated or weren't investigated at all by the sheriff's office after the crimes were reported. The sheriff's office said the backlog was cleared up after the problem was brought to Arpaio's attention.

Speculation about Obama's birthplace has swirled among conservatives for years. "Birthers" maintain that Obama is ineligible to hold the country's highest elected office because, they contend, he was born in Kenya, his father's homeland. Some contend Obama's birth certificate must be a fake. Hawaii officials have repeatedly confirmed Obama's citizenship, and Obama released a copy of his long-form birth certificate in April in an attempt to quell citizenship questions. Courts also have rebuffed lawsuits over the issue. Of late, the president's re-election campaign has poked fun at it, selling coffee cups with a picture of the president's birth record.

Arpaio has said he took deliberate steps to avoid the appearance that his investigation is politically motivated. Instead of using taxpayer money, the sheriff armed it out to lawyers and retired police officers who are volunteers in a posse that examines cold cases. Other posses assist deputies in duties that include providing free police protection at malls during the holiday season or transporting people to jail.

Even as he is under fire by the federal government, the sheriff remains popular among Republicans.

GOP presidential candidates have courted him for his endorsement throughout the primary season. At last week's GOP presidential debate in Arizona, Arpaio won loud cheers. During a question about Arizona's border woes, Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum said the government ought to give local police agencies the chance to enforce immigration law as Arpaio has.

Bruce Merrill, a longtime pollster and senior research fellow at Arizona State University's Morrison Institute for Public Policy, said the subject of the investigation plays to the sheriff's base of supporters. And, he said, it highlights Arpaio's gift for publicity. "It's something that the press will cover," Merrill said. "He'll get a lot of exposure from it."

http://news.yahoo.com/arizona-sherif...090616118.html

Hundreds rally to back hard-line Arizona sheriff
By Tim Gaynor | Reuters – 20 hrs ago

FOUNTAIN HILLS, Arizona (Reuters) - As many as 200 activists, some chanting "go Joe, go Joe," rallied in Arizona on Saturday to support Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who is facing a federal racial-profiling probe for his police sweeps against illegal immigrants.

"Sheriff Joe is one of the very few guys who will enforce the immigration laws across this nation," said Randy Hatch, who used a megaphone to rally supporters of Arpaio at a park in this northeast Phoenix valley city. "Every constitution and country that has ever existed has had to have sovereign borders," he said to cheers from the crowd, some clutching placards reading "Sheriff Joe keeps us safe" and "illegal is illegal."

Arpaio, who styles himself "America's toughest sheriff," is a resident of Fountain Hills.

Earlier this month the Obama administration said it was preparing to sue Arpaio and his department "for violating civil rights laws by improperly targeting Latinos."

The sheriff has denied any wrongdoing and lashed out at the federal government for targeting his department while failing to confront the more than 11 million illegal immigrants who live and work throughout the nation. Arpaio supporter Buffalo Rick Galeener slammed the probe, which began under former President George W. Bush in 2008, as "politically motivated."

"For me it's just a big waste of money and all political," Galeener, who had a .38 revolver in a holster on his hip, said at the rally. "It's been going on for three and a half years ... they've been digging and digging and digging, and they still can't find anything to charge him with," he added.

The rally came amid heightened tension over immigration in Arizona after the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last week over a partially blocked state law that targeted illegal immigrants. Signed by Republican Governor Jan Brewer in 2010, the law requires police to check the immigration status of people they stop and suspect of being in the country illegally. It was among measures blocked by a federal judge before it took effect.

Arpaio has also been under fire for his treatment of prisoners in his jails. Last month, a federal appeals court noted that a requirement that inmates wear pink underwear may be unconstitutional when applied to those not convicted of a crime. The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals took up the policy in reinstating a lawsuit against Arpaio and Maricopa County by the estate of a mentally ill man who died of heart problems in 2001, weeks after being forcibly dressed in the underwear. Supporters, though, said Arpaio's tough treatment of detainees worked. "He doesn't want you to return so it's not going to be a pleasant experience " said Mark Renner, 50, who said he had served time in the Maricopa County jail system.

http://news.yahoo.com/hundreds-rally...064138970.html

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Hiring an illegal should be as illegal as selling crack,no jobs, no money,no more illegals.

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To avoid being racist America should enact the same immigration rules that Mexico has...

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I wonder if we don't enforce auto theft laws, if our auto insurance rates will go down?

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I'd bet that if you made the penalty for hiring an illegal a 2 year jail sentence and $50,000 fine,...per offense,... you'd only have a fraction of the problem.

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My darling, handsome son, by his own admission, was a (little) drunk when he was stopped by police in Scottsdale. 2 weeks later, another DUI. The arresting officer said, "son, you ain't gonna like Tent City. Sure enough, a wise judge gave him 30 days and off to Tent City and pink shorts, he went. In July yet! That was 33 years ago. My son credits Sheriff Joe Arpaio for straightening his know it all attitude. Rules are rules-if you don' t want to wear pink panties, you best follow the rules

Thank you Sheriff Joe, from a grateful parent!

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it's puzzling to my why the fed gov won't enforce our immigration laws and want to punish those that have took an oath to enforce the law. I think sheriff is doing the job he was elected to do. It would be a good thing if congress would do the job they were elect to do.

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Having even just 11 million illegal aliens living and working in America, is pure fraud against the taxpayer, and the man who's job they take.

Sheriff Joe: ‘I’ll Put Up More Tents’ If Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Immigration Law
By John Hill on May 2, 2012

If the Supreme Court decides in favor of Arizona’s tough immigration bill, the Obama attorney arguing against S.B. 1070 predicted “mass incarceration” of “Latinos” – illegal aliens, in Arizona.

But Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said that would be “no problem” – he’s got room for them in “Tent City”. “We lock up people all the time,” Arpaio said in a phone interview. “Since I started enforcement, we’ve arrested on the streets, investigated – in our jails over 51,000. I didn’t see any problem, other than the fact that some activists and politicians in Washington (don’t) like me enforcing the illegal immigration law,” Arpaio said. “And by the way, if they think that it will overcrowd the jails, I’m not concerned. I got room in the tents. I got plenty of room…I’ll put more tents up,” Arpaio said. “So that should never be an excuse (that) you can’t house these people.”

Arpaio’s department apprehends a staggering 25% of ALL illegal aliens captured in the entire United States each year. And since over 70% of those illegals were headed for states other than Arizona when caught, the Sheriff and his deputies protect all Americans with their operations – a good reason why cynical politicians who want those votes want Arpaio stopped. That is why George Soros-funded groups have pledged to spend $10 million to defeat Arpaio for re-election this year.

The Obama Administration is desperate to stop the landmark Arizona immigration law – and the states which have copied it. During oral arguments before the high court on the law – which allows state police to check the immigration status of individuals stopped, detained or arrested for other reasons – Solicitor General Donald Verrilli responded to Justice Antonin Scalia’s remarks that Arizona seems to be merely enacting laws that are already federal statutes. “Well, what I think they are going to do in Arizona is something quite extraordinary, that has significant, real and practical foreign relations effects,” Verrilli said. Scalia then mocked Verilli, asking if “we have to enforce our laws in a manner that will please Mexico?”

Scalia gets it. So does Sheriff Joe. We have borders, and laws, for a reason. And no amount of political manipulation is going to sway men and women of character. They will enforce the law. Sheriff Joe Arpaio is one such man. After S.B. 1070 was passed in April 2010, over 100,000 illegal aliens fled Arizona, in large part because of the efforts of Arpaio and his many deputies.

And if the Supreme Court upholds 1070 in June, we may well see another 100,000 flee in short order.

For those who choose to stay, don’t worry: there will always be plenty of room – and pink underwear – for you in Tent City.

http://standwitharizona.com/blog/201...migration-law/

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What is the issue with enforcing the law? Nothing. If I get stopped by DPS etc..., I am asked for my license, proof of Insurance, and registration; what is wrong with asking anybody for that if they are stopped for what ever reason? Nothing at all! The DPS officer will run a check on anybody pulled over their ID) to see if there are any warrents etc... and if it is a fake ID. What is wrong with that, nothing! If the person is here illegally, that is one charge, if the person is using a fake, false, or someone elses ID, that is another charge. I f Iwas 19 years old, got a fake, false, or someone elses ID, tried to by beer, and got caught by the police; I would be charged criminally. Can somebody tell me what the difference is if I break the law or an illegal alien does?

On the same idea, that young child comming accross the border with their parents did not have a choice. If that child goes to school, graduates, and stays out of trouble; they should be given teh oppertunity to enlist in the military and earn their citizenship. Upon being honorably discharged or re-enlisted you will have earned your citizenship. Just a thought

Justice Dept. plans to sue Ariz. sheriff Arpaio
Controversial lawman denies allegations of racial profiling
By WALTER BERRY updated 5/9/2012 9:10:21 PM ET
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PHOENIX — Federal authorities said Wednesday that they plan to sue Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office over allegations of civil rights violations, including the racial profiling of Latinos.

The U.S. Justice Department has been seeking an agreement requiring Arpaio's office to train officers in how to make constitutional traffic stops, collect data on people arrested in traffic stops and reach out to Latinos to assure them that the department is there to also protect them.

Arpaio has denied the racial profiling allegations and has claimed that allowing a court monitor would mean that every policy decision would have to be cleared through an observer and would nullify his authority.

DOJ officials told a lawyer for Arpaio on April 3 that the lawman's refusal of a court-appointed monitor was a deal-breaker that would end settlement negotiations and result in a federal lawsuit.

The "notice of intent to file civil action" came Wednesday from Assistant U.S. Attorney General Thomas Perez in a letter to an Arpaio lawyer.

Perez, who heads the DOJ's civil rights division, noted that it's been more than 100 days since the sheriff's office received the DOJ's findings report and federal authorities haven't met with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office counsel since Feb. 6 to discuss the terms of a consent agreement.

Civil rights allegations
Neither Arpaio nor Joseph Popolizio, one of the lawyers representing the sheriff's office, immediately returned calls seeking comment. Last December, the DOJ released a scathing report accusing Arpaio's office of racially profiling Latinos, basing immigration enforcement on racially charged citizen complaints and punishing Hispanic jail inmates for speaking Spanish in Arizona's most populous county.

The DOJ also accused Arpaio of having a culture of disregard for basic constitutional rights.

The civil rights allegations have led some Arpaio critics to call for his resignation, including the National Council of La Raza, a prominent advocacy group for Latinos.

The sheriff's office also is facing criticism over more than 400 sex-crimes investigations — including dozens of alleged child molestations — that hadn't been investigated adequately or weren't examined at all over a three-year period ending in 2007.

Arpaio has apologized for the botched cases, reopened 432 sex-crimes investigations and made 19 arrests.

Separate from the civil rights probe, a federal grand jury has been investigating Arpaio's office on criminal abuse-of-power allegations since at least December 2009. That grand jury is examining the investigative work of the sheriff's anti-public corruption squad.

The self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America has been a national political fixture who has built his reputation on jailing inmates in tents and dressing them in pink underwear, selling himself to voters as unceasingly tough on crime and pushing the bounds of how far local police can go to confront illegal immigration.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47363994...me_and_courts/

Justice Department Sues Sheriff Joe; Defiant Arpaio Says ‘Clean Your Own House’
By John Hill on May 10, 2012

Here we go.

Ever since Obama took office, opponents of illegal immigration knew it would come to this.

This Administration has already dismantled the enforcement regime against illegal aliens. They engineered a unilateral amnesty for nearly 2 million illegal aliens by a stroke of Obama’s pen last August. They sued to stop states like Arizona, Alabama and Georgia from enforcing existing immigration laws after the Feds failed to do so. The Attorney General has bullied states like Texas and South Carolina, by blocking voter ID laws designed to stop voter fraud by illegal aliens and others.

But no matter what they did, or who they bullied, there was always one individual who refused to back down: Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

The Obama cabal’s intent to target Sheriff Joe was made clear early on, when on March 11, 2009 – at a time when most cabinet departments were barely even staffed – the DOJ announced a full investigation of Arpaio’s department for “discriminatory police practices and unconstitutional searches and seizures”. What evidence had they amassed after only 49 days in office? They revealed none.

But just six months before that, in September 2008, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) did its own exhaustive investigation of Arpaio’s office — and gave it a clean bill of health.

ICE said Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) Sheriff and deputies were “professional”, had “met the requirements” of Federal guidelines, which included a ban on racial profiling.

They went on:

ICE investigators also interviewed top federal officials involved in illegal immigrant cases in Arizona. They found an “excellent” working relationship between the sheriff’s office and the feds. ICE talked as well to federal prosecutors in Phoenix, who described the cases brought by Maricopa County as “high quality.“

Yet just six months later, a barely-staffed DOJ accused Arpaio and his department of “discriminatory police practices”? What had changed? Nothing. It was pure politics. That’s all it is, all it ever was.

And so, this afternoon, after months of unsuccessfully trying to compel Sheriff Joe to cave in to their ridiculous demand to take over his department; and only 2 weeks after their humiliating beat-down in front of the U.S. Supreme Court over S.B. 1070, the Department of Justice sued Arpaio, his office, and Maricopa County, in U.S. District Court in Phoenix.

Thomas Perez, the head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division – yes, the same one which dropped a case of clear voter intimidation by the New Black Panther Party in 2009, said

“The police are supposed to protect and serve our communities, not divide them. If you look Latino (in Maricopa County), you are fair game.”.

Perez is one of many former La Raza radicals who have been given faux legitimacy via their elevation to powerful positions in the Obama Administration – including Cecilia Munoz and Hilda Solis – and they play the dirtiest racial politics America has ever seen.

Sheriff Joe, who has become the nation’s most prominent symbol in the war against illegal immigration, wasted no time in striking back. In an interview, he defiantly blasted the Administration for their hypocrisy and corruption:

“Clean your own house, Eric Holder, before you come trying to clean mine,” Arpaio said. “This is a coordinated effort directed from the White House to deflect attention from Eric Holder’s failure to cooperate in the congressional investigation into Fast and Furious.”

“I won’t surrender,” Arpaio insisted, referring to the Justice Department’s demand to put federal monitors within the MCSO. “I intend to fight back.”

http://standwitharizona.com/blog/201...our-own-house/

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This is insane that the government lead by 'OBAMA' has tried to take down our sheriff for doing his job better than any other state has done. It's BULLYING at it's finest. Chicago thuggery!

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They are terrified of him- there are a lot of people who stand by Joe and they KNOW that if he does his job then Obama will get fewer illegal votes!!! It's disgusting the way they persecute this man for defending his state.

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I'm with Joe , Holder should be arrested!

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Joe should arrest Holder for illegal gun purchasing, and gun running in AZ.