Thread: Sheriff Joe to announce today if he will run for govenor

May 03, 2010

Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio to announce today if he will run for governor

11:08 AM
By Ross D. Franklin, AP

Controversial Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has been a driving force behind efforts to crack down on undocumented workers, plans to announce today whether he'll run for governor, KGUN -TV reports.

"People want me to run for governor," Arpaio, the sheriff of Maricopa County, said in a news conference late last week, the Phoenix TV station reports. "Every day, around the nation. Everybody, here, they want me to run."

"I'm not bragging, but everyone feels that if I run, I'll win," he added.

The 77-year-old sheriff toyed with running for governor in 1998, 2002 and 2006 and has raised $1.2 million in campaign funds, according to the last campaign finance report, the Associated Press reports.

If Arpaio, a Republican, decides to run, Arizona law would require him to resign immediately.

His sheriff's office is currently the subject of a probe by the U.S. Attorney for Arizona into a "pattern and practice of racial profiling," KTAR reports.

http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... governor/1

I want Sheriff Joe to be head of Homeland Security.

Dotto indeed...I have unflinching confidence in Sheriff Joe's loyalty to HIS state, THIS country, and to the Constitution (and NOT a single special Interest)

I would like to see him replace Nappy. We need someone in the DHS who is serious about their job and serious about U.S. sovereignty who isn't letting special interest groups and Mexico pull their strings.

ARPAIO for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security!!

Basically that department wasn't really formed to guard the USA against attacks from outside of our borders or within it for that matter. It was formed to keep a watch on all of us, U.S. citizens, who may have a beef with the idiots at the helm. That's what the Patriot Act and the DHS was formed for, but I think Arpaio would point that org in the right direction if he was put in charge of it!