Thread: Think tank condemns Arpaio's priorities { Update 2 }

Although the Goldwater Institute may or does not "receive any funding from government sources" per their website they are a "tax-exempt educational foundation under Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code."

Per their publicly available online Form 990 for 2006 (most recent available), they had Net assets or fund balances at end of year' of $2,651,819. Also they have 'public support' (26e) of $2,208,650.

And it looks like Jeff Flake was or used to be the Executive Director.

Mine was kind of long I had a lot to say to them Will post any reply i get back.


Goldwater Institute,

I have seen the Goldwater Institute at work on c-span in the past and have been quite Leary of your agenda, but after seeing the article in which you condemn Sheriff Joe Arpaio for actually doing his job I am no longer in doubt as to your agenda.

Law enforcement should not pick and choose what laws they should enforce, you sir are barking up the wrong tree, how about going after Homeland Security for not closing our border (7 years after 9/11) kind of makes it hard to believe we are under any kind of terror threat when they have left our borders wide open. The only threat Americans are under is from organizations such as yours.

This is America I am sure we are capable of enforcing all of our laws and in doing so at the same time protecting American jobs, wages and tax dollars from illegal aliens, while bringing a halt to the chaos and anarchy, illegal aliens, organizations like yours, our government, and politicians that have created in our towns, cities and states across this great nation.

What you very seldom ever see is Open border lobbyist like yours giving the other side of the story, maybe you should do some real research on what this illegal immigration is doing to American families, how many Americans have been killed, molested, raped or run down by an illegal aliens while drunk and driving on roads he should not even be on?....those statistic's way out numbered the men that have died in Iraq.

How about the cost of these people on the American Taxpayer? schools, jails, hospitals etc., must be nice to walk into any hospital and get free health care at Americans taxpayers expense.

In your little suggestion package to congress did you suggest they expand e-verifiy, stop birthright citizenship etc., I doubt it because then it would encourage people to leave on their own or not come here illegally in the first place, there for not needing people like Joe Arpaio to enforce those particular laws.

You remind me of our congress, insulting our intelligence by telling us we need guest worker programs, more work visa's, in sourcing and out sourcing jobs, when millions of Americans are out of work, losing their homes and living in tent cities across this country.

Please you are also insulting our intelligence by thinking you can make us believe you are worried about our safety when in fact you are worried the cheap labor that will have to leave our country. Our biggest enemies in this country is Organizations such as yours.

Regretful of your disrespect for Americans

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Dang it...my first reply! and they are out of the office....but they will be back!

Hi there!

I am out of the office until Wednesday, December 10. If you are a reporter on deadline, please contact Dan Guerin at (602) 462-5000 x 235 or dguerin@goldwaterinstitute.org. Otherwise, I'll return your message when I am back in the office.

Thank you,
Starlee Rhoades

Come everyone let them here from you....we always have a chance of getting them to see our side if they get enough flack.

BTTT

Report critical of ‘misplaced priorities’ of sheriff’s office
December 3, 2008 - 10:37 AM
PAUL GIBLIN
Daily News-Sun
A conservative public policy research organization has concluded the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is falling short in three areas: law-enforcement services, support services and detention.

The 22-page Goldwater Institute report is unexpected largely because of its source. The Goldwater Institute is an independent, nonpartisan organization that studies and broadens public policy discussion. The organization promotes limited government, economic freedom and individual responsibility, principles that were advocated by former Sen. Barry Goldwater.

"Although MCSO is adept at self-promotion and is unquestionably a ‘tough' law-enforcement agency, under its watch violent crime rates recently have soared, both in absolute terms and relative to other jurisdictions," Goldwater Institute researcher Clint Bolick wrote.

"It has diverted resources away from basic law-enforcement functions to highly publicized immigration sweeps, which are ineffective in policing illegal immigration and in reducing crime granularly," the report said.

Arpaio said Tuesday that he had not read the report, nor did he intend to read it.

Arpaio said Bolick failed to ask his opinion about the findings before publishing the report.

"So he's getting his stuff from the open-border people," Arpaio said. "He can't even come up with a new idea. He has to copy everybody else, including your newspaper. That's my response to him."

The Goldwater report faults the sheriff's office for several "misplaced priorities" that have diverted Arpaio's agency from its intended law-enforcement functions, including a huge backlog of outstanding arrest warrants, the closure of satellite booking facilities, poor record keeping and statistics reporting and resistance to public disclosure.

The report sidesteps the policy question of whether the sheriff's office should be in the business of enforcing immigration or whether deputies engage in racial profiling, Bolick said.

"That's perhaps what makes this report different than other critiques that have come out," he said. "We are not differing with the sheriff's office in how it sees its mission. We are taking its mission as a given and finding that the office is not measuring up to its own standards."

http://www.yourwestvalley.com/news/gold ... itute.html

Arpaio responds to critical Goldwater report
December 2nd, 2008 @ 7:00pm
by Jim Cross/KTAR

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is firing back at the Goldwater Institute over a study critical of how he runs the department.

The Goldwater report said the sheriff's highly publicized and controversial immigration sweeps divert resources from basic law enforcement functions.

Sheriff Arpaio disagrees.

"I take orders from four million people that I serve," Sheriff Arpaio said. "It's just another irritation, going after this sheriff, because they don't like the way that I enforce the illegal immigration laws."

The report says the sheriff's poor management has allowed a backlog of 40,000 un-served warrants to pile up. The sheriff, however, said he's only responsible for 1,500 of them.

Other criticisms include the closing of satellite booking agencies, which has seriously disadvantaged local police departments, and an increase in response times.

http://news.ktar.com/?nid=6&sid=1001619

--- that an organization with Goldwater's name on it criticizes a sheriff who upholds his oath of office???, that advocates open borders?
The b %%^%s (use your own word) obviously favor allowing our laws to be violated with impunity.