Sheriff Joe’s world crumbles

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http://www.salon.com/2012/04/18/sheriff_joes_world_crumbles/



PHOENIX–With fresh calls for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to face a federal criminal trial, many are predicting the end of his controversial career. What few people realize outside metropolitan Phoenix is how much Arpaio’s world has already fallen apart around him.

One-by-one, Arpaio’s closest allies have been forced from power or severed support, leaving the combative 79-year-old sheriff seeking his sixth term increasingly isolated and vulnerable as emboldened foes sharpen their attacks.

The latest Arpaio political supporter to fall is former Maricopa County attorney Andrew Thomas, who was disbarred April 10 for engaging in unethical conduct to intimidate and smear his and Arpaio’s political adversaries.

A stinging 247-page opinion written by a three-member Arizona state Supreme Court disciplinary panel supporting the disbarment ruling also concluded there was “beyond reasonable doubt” that Thomas had violated federal civil rights laws.

[spanone]

1. k&r...

[Kali]

2. good

hope his replacement isn't as bad or worse. this IS Maricopa county, we're talking about.

[Zadoc]

23. Hey now...

We're not THAT bad.

[rhett o rick]

3. Sad that this has to take so long. Think of all the lives he has ruined. nm

[Ecumenist]

4. HALLELUYAH!!!! Good!! He deserves everything that has happened to him, is happening and MUCH,

MUCH MORE!!! I am throwing a "PARTAE" when he goes down. Wonder if he's going to be spending time amongst some of the very people he's treated so abominably, hmm? I bet all that smack he talks will disappear like alcohol in the sun. The horror he's inflicted on people who were in his jail and WEREN'T CHARGED with anything be the source of KARMIC BASHES she so richly deserves. I CAN'T wait!!!

[Jello Biafra]

5. The Cold Case Posse is becoming his real undoing....

when you get close to the truth, it's amazing what the Feds will drum up on you.....

BTW, who came up with this Cold Case Posse name? It's something out of Batman from the 60s.

[COLGATE4]

6. Are you really suggesting that the Feds' complaint

about Arpaio is motivated by his 'investigation' of President Obama's birth? Probably would be better off posting over at FR.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Close to what truth?

Please explain....

[1StrongBlackMan]

14. Yeah ...

A federal investigation that started 2 years before President Obama began his quest for the presidency and a state investigation that began 2 years before the formation of the CCP is absolutely related to the work of the CCP.

S/O

[LiberalFighter]

16. It does help to understand the timeline better.

And events do take a longer than two years to start crumbling.

[sharp_stick]

18. What truth?

are you seriously a birther or is this just badly worded?

[maddezmom]

22. what is this truth that you speak of here?

[kenfrequed]

26. Change your name at once.

Jello Biafra is not a friggin birther. He tends to be more concerned with actual policy than with stupid BS propaganda-theories masquerading as conspiracy theories.

[AsahinaKimi]

8. good.

K&R

[KamaAina]

9. Any chance he takes Brewer, Pearce, et al. down with him?

Maybe we could bring AZ back into the Union soon!

[AlbertCat]

27. Maybe we could bring AZ back into the Union soon!

You mean "back into this solar system" don't you?

[hifiguy]

10. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out. They don't want ass prints on it.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. I'd like to see him in a tent jail wearing pink skivvies

Nothing any different than what he imposed on thousands of prisoners over the years.

This fascist motherfucker needs to go down hard.

[gateley]

17. Perfect. In the same tent with people he put there. nt

[Robeysays]

19. i wish too. but Tent City is county. federal crimes = federal prison

Besides, Tent is really nothing but the giant DUI offenders holding facility. Automatic 72 hr sentence for over .05 here. The real county criminals go to Jefferson. You don't want to go to Jefferson, you hope you go to Tent.

[JonLP24]

12. I won't relax until he is officially out of office (he has dodged so many bullets)

but good news nonetheless, K&R.

[cynatnite]

15. Agreed. n/t

[UTUSN]

13. R#28 & K for, what?, NAPOLITANO has sort of been his Harriet MIERS mommy?!1 n/t

[lpbk2713]

20. I don't understand why he's not golfing or fishing at age 79.

Instead he wants to make life miserable for everyone around him. What a pain in the ass.

[just1voice]

24. The proven criminal will get more (R) votes now, (R)s love criminals

He'll have a great reputation among repukes for being an anti-American criminal.

[bvar22]

25. Isolated, marginalized, standing there with his ass hanging out....

Cherry on the Cake?
...having to serve time in the same jail with his victims.
Oh, PLEASE.



You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.
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