Joe Arpaio for U.S. Senate; The GOP’s Next/New “Roy Moore”

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Joe Arpaio for U.S. Senate; The Next/New “Roy Moore”


With Joe Arpaio’s announcement that he is running for Senate, Arizona is poised to have its Alabama Moment.

The national media will descend, and the spotlight will focus on the state. The rest of the country will line up to pass judgment on every word, cough, and bit of froth to escape Sheriff Joe’s lips. Countless chat-show segments will be devoted to Arizonans’ thoughts on race, immigration, and the appropriateness of a recently pardoned felon running for high office.

Win or lose, Arpaio stands to suck a crazy amount of the oxygen out of his contest—just as Roy Moore and Donald Trump did in their respective elections. That’s because, in today’s politics, outrageousness is the name of the game.

Which is a shame, because the most out-there political players typically aren’t the ones considered to be the future of their parties. This is especially true in today’s GOP, where the charismatic demagogues courting aggrieved base voters are often peddling negative, backward-looking visions.


https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/republican-rising-stars/551657/


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BACKGROUND ON ARPAIO:

Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio to face criminal charges over immigration patrols

http://www.bgol.us/forum/threads/ar...inal-charges-over-immigration-patrols.917758/

With his pardon of Arpaio, Trump has chosen lawlessness over justice, division over unity, hurt over healing. Once again, the president has acted in support of illegal, failed immigration enforcement practices that target people of color and have been struck down by the courts. His pardon of Arpaio is a presidential endorsement of racism.
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Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio to face criminal charges over immigration patrols

Arpaio speaks to the media in front of his county jail, July 29, 2010, in Phoenix.


PHOENIX - Prosecutors said Tuesday they will charge Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio with criminal contempt of court over immigration patrols.

Arpaio, the self-described "nation's toughest sheriff" of Maricopa County, Ariz., emerged as one of the most prominent peddlers of birther theories in 2011, continuing to seek the limelight from that conspiracy thinking long after the White House had released Obama's long-form birth certificate, which showed that he was born in Hawaii. After an expensive investigation by his "Cold Case Posse," Arpaio announced that they had "probable cause" to believe that the president's birth certificate and other documents were computer-generated forgeries. The Hawaii attorney general's office rejected Arpaio's claim.

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Sheriff Joe Arpaio details his plan for the Dreamers:
Deport them all

• By MEGHAN KENEALLY

Jan 26, 2018, 7:33 PM ET

Sheriff Joe Arpaio may agree with "95 percent" of President Donald Trump's policies, but he has his own plan for the Dreamers.

"I would deport these Dreamers and let them see the country they came from, be ambassadors to our country, and later on give them kind of a fast track to come back into the United States legally and that would take care of a lot of issues," he told ABC News, talking about recipients of the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals.

"A lot of these Dreamers have a good education and all that and they can go into [their home] country and be ambassadors and talk how great America is and also see their country. And maybe some of them don’t want to come back -- who knows, if they get a big job -- but if they want to come back, let them come back like everybody else, and let them come into our country and do what everybody else does that comes into our country, with a green card," he said.

Arpaio, who is running for the Senate seat that will be vacated by Sen. Jeff Flake in Arizona, said that he's "always been against amnesty" but he isn't going to write off the White House's immigration plan immediately, even though it leaves open the possibility of giving DACA recipients a path to citizenship.

"I don't know all the facts about what the president said but, you know, he does change his mind so until I see everything in writing I'm not going to get into it," Arpaio said.

Arpaio said that he hasn't written the plan up, saying he "came up with this on a couple broadcasts" based on his experience serving internationally in Argentina, Mexico and Turkey during his time at the Drug Enforcement Agencybefore returning to Arizona.

Mary Altaffer/AP, File
In this Jan. 26, 2016, file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Joe Arpaio at a campaign event in Marshalltown, Iowa. more +



One of Arpaio's opponents in the Senate race, Dr. Kelli Ward, told ABC News' Martha Raddatz todayin an interview for "This Week" airing Sunday that giving permanent legal status to Dreamers before building a southern border wall would amount to “amnesty.”

Arpaio, a controversial, longtime sheriff who was subject to multiple federal investigations relating to discriminatory conduct, and Ward are two of at least seven Republicans who will be battling it out in the primary, vying for the Senate spot that will be vacated by Flake's decision not to run for re-election.

The inter-party fighting has already started, too, as The Arizona Republic reported Thursday that they obtained a draft of a resolution that may come up at this weekend's state party convention which praises Arpaio and then calls for him to drop out of the race.

"I don't know why they're trying to get me out with all my background," Arpaio told ABC News.

"It's all politics. It doesn’t bother me at all," he said.


http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sheriff-joe-arpaio-details-plan-dreamers-deport/story?id=52640992

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