# Arpaio announces he's running for sheriff again **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 21, 2019, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arpaio-announces-hes-running-for-sheriff-again/840608 "2019-09-21T12:15:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arpaio-announces-hes-running-for-sheriff-again/840608/1 "2019-09-21T12:15:05Z")
Current sheriff says his phone blew up… with support for [_him_](https://ktar.com/story/2749150/penzone-phone-blew-up-with-support-after-arpaio-announced-mcso-run/). ---
**Author:** ![AK84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85e7bf/32.png) [@AK84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AK84)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arpaio-announces-hes-running-for-sheriff-again/840608/2 "2019-09-21T12:52:16Z")
1. Guys 87. What’s his secret to such healthy longevity? Does he drink the blood of the illegals and petty criminals he detained? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arpaio-announces-hes-running-for-sheriff-again/840608/3 "2019-09-21T13:55:52Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > 1. Guys 87. What’s his secret to such healthy longevity? Does he drink the blood of the illegals and petty criminals he detained? Quetzalcoatl is patient, but when the Aztec calendar says the time is right, it’s gonna be a very bad day for ol’ Joe. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arpaio-announces-hes-running-for-sheriff-again/840608/4 "2019-09-21T15:51:46Z")
This is an intelligence test for the eligible voters. I wonder if they’ll pass. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arpaio-announces-hes-running-for-sheriff-again/840608/5 "2019-09-21T16:00:40Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > 1. Guys 87. What’s his secret to such healthy longevity? Does he drink the blood of the illegals and petty criminals he detained? I think he bathes in the blood of the innocent. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arpaio-announces-hes-running-for-sheriff-again/840608/6 "2019-09-22T12:25:50Z")
Only the good die young. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arpaio-announces-hes-running-for-sheriff-again/840608/7 "2019-09-22T13:18:10Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > This is an intelligence test for the eligible voters. I wonder if they’ll pass. Arizonan here, while there are plenty of voters that still fail tests, there are just a bit more that are passing. Arpaio failed miserably when he ran for the Senate recently and even Jeff Flake is supporting the Democratic Penzone to continue to be sheriff now. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arpaio-announces-hes-running-for-sheriff-again/840608/8 "2019-09-22T13:36:43Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > Arizonan here, while there are plenty of voters that still fail tests, there are just a bit more that are passing. > > Arpaio failed miserably when he ran for the Senate recently and even Jeff Flake is supporting the Democratic Penzone to continue to be sheriff now. He’s in an awfully conservative area, though. I bet - unless he has health issues - he’ll be re-elected. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arpaio-announces-hes-running-for-sheriff-again/840608/9 "2019-09-22T14:51:37Z")
If people will vote for a, what do we even call him, a pardoned felon, they deserve what they get. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arpaio-announces-hes-running-for-sheriff-again/840608/10 "2019-09-22T15:14:59Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > If people will vote for a, what do we even call him, a pardoned felon, they deserve what they get. He’s not a felon, since (according to the link in the OP) the offense he was convicted of is a misdemeanor. Maybe “misdemeanorer”? ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arpaio-announces-hes-running-for-sheriff-again/840608/11 "2019-09-22T16:49:19Z")
I stand corrected. (Well, technically I’m sitting.) ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arpaio-announces-hes-running-for-sheriff-again/840608/12 "2019-09-22T20:52:53Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > He’s in an awfully conservative area, though. I bet - unless he has health issues - he’ll be re-elected. Arpaio isn’t currently in office. He lost his sheriffdom in 2016 in what turned out to be not all that close a race. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2019, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arpaio-announces-hes-running-for-sheriff-again/840608/13 "2019-09-22T21:16:47Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > He’s in an awfully conservative area, though. I bet - unless he has health issues - he’ll be re-elected. Uh, I think you are ignoring that it was when Trump was elected and carried the state of Arizona that Arpaio did lose for his reelection as Sheriff. By then many Republicans already were not amused by the clear crimes and incompetence shown by Arpaio and the gross unnecessary costs that Arpaio was causing the county with his abuses of power and racism. To that we have to add **even more** sandbagging moves made by Arpaio himself since losing the last sheriff’s race. > **[Here's What Joe Arpaio's Been Up to Since Losing the Last Sheriff's Race](https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/heres-what-joe-arpaios-been-up-to-since-losing-to-paul-penzone-11350045)** > > As Arpaio makes his unwelcome return, here's the rundown on what he's been up to since losing the last sheriff's race. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2019, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/arpaio-announces-hes-running-for-sheriff-again/840608/14 "2019-09-23T13:02:34Z")
> [@kitap](#): > > He’s in an awfully conservative area, though. I bet - unless he has health issues - he’ll be re-elected. Yes, I know. But he was elected before so if he wins the election, to me he’d be re-elected. I admit I don’t keep up with news in the Phoenix area; Tucson ignores it, perhaps because it gets ignored by the state legislature. But we get Arpaio fans here at the hotel. Rich white males. They love him.