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I am disgusted, but not surprised by this news...(NBC News) Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, announced that he's running for his old job on Sunday, exactly two years after President Donald Trump pardoned him for a federal contempt-of-court conviction.
"Watch out world! We are back!" Arpaio, 87, said in a statement in which he promised to reinstate the extreme measures that made him famous, like housing immigrants in outdoor tents in the 100-degrees-plus temperatures of the Phoenix area.
Arpaio was defeated for re-election to what would have been a record seventh term as sheriff in November 2016, shortly after he was charged with contempt of court for having ignored a federal judge's order to stop arresting immigrants solely on suspicion that they were in the country illegally.
Arpaio, who was one of the first elected officials to endorse Trump's presidential campaign, was convicted in July 2017. The next month, Trump pardoned him, saying he admired Arpaio's work "protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ex-sheriff-joe-arpaio-pardoned-trump-wants-his-old-job-n1046226
MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)Isnt accepting a pardon an admission of guilt and therefore make him ineligible to run for the office of sheriff? What am I missing? Other than we live in tRumpfukistan now.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)brooklynite
(94,602 posts)(see "Buddy Cianci", Mayor of Providence, RI)
SCantiGOP
(13,871 posts)You have to admit the sin, but then it goes away.
Of course, Catholics also have to sincerely promise not to commit the offense again, instead of promising to do it again like Arpaio.
MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)Promising to do the crime again is a crystal clear message that Arpaio is probably looking for a WH cabinet appointment.
world wide wally
(21,744 posts)ronharold
(33 posts)NO GO JOE!
no_hypocrisy
(46,130 posts)tanyev
(42,572 posts)that I just can't fit into my schedule right now. Why does 87 year old Joe keep doing this? I guess he has a hell of lot of fun torturing people that are completely under his control.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,184 posts)....hes 87 years old. I mean, come on.
Go play with your grandkids or fish or whatever leisurely activity you want to do when youre 87.
Or in Arpaios case , torture live animals or something of the like.