From the link.
“Trump ally and pardoned sheriff Joe Arpaio is running for Jeff Flake’s Senate seat in Arizona”
I can’t say I’m surprised. What are his chances?
We all knew he was going to. And I can’t remember who the likely Democrat was for that seat, but IIRC, it was someone pretty popular. It looks to me like Old Joe is doing his part to help flip the Senate.
What I’m more interested in is who’s each party’s understudy for this race? It’s only a matter of time before McCain dies or retires, and we have a special election.
No one better than Arpaio to motivate young and Latino Democrats in Arizona to register and vote. Hateful and horrible man who should be in jail, and would be, were it not for the idiot in chief.
I started a thread about this a few months ago. At the time I said:
Makes you wonder if Jeff Flake jumped the gun a bit on the retirement. He was clearly going to lose to one lunatic in a primary, but with two lunatics to split the lunatic vote he might well have come out on top. (In Arizona do the top two finishers have a runoff, or does the most votes just win outright? This would obviously be important for Flake to consider as well.)
Sheriff Arpaio managed to keep getting elected in that one county, but how popular is he in the rest of the state?
Besides the fact that this fucker is already 85 years old.
Not being satisfied with running accused criminals for Senate, the Republicans are moving up to convicted, admitted criminals.
The Good- If he wins the nomination it puts the Arizona seat in play for Democrats
The Bad- The fucker might actually win
The Ugly- Arpaio’s racism
Factually incorrect.
I don’t follow- he was convicted and pardoned. Why would he not have been sentenced had not the pardon been issued?
When I saw the breaking news banner “Ex-Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio” I really, really hoped it would end with “…dead at 85.”
If that makes me a terrible person, so be it. If not, there’s plenty of other things that do.
Just a guess: I think the expected punishment (had it not been for the pardon) was probation, not jail time. I don’t know though.
Maybe Bricker has iron-clad proof that Arpaio is a lovely, wonderful man.
I predict a minimum of three posters that will say “Don’t worry-it can’t happen” then, if he is elected, support him.
So there is the “establishment” Republican candidate (Martha McSally), the one backed by the “Bannon/Mercer” team (Kelli Ward), and Arpaio (will he get Trump’s backing?).
Could get rather interesting.
Oh, and Chimera asked:
Well, Maricopa county has (including Phoenix) right about 60% of the entire population of the state of Arizona, so if he has a strong base there, well…
Could Alabama history repeat? Stay tuned for further developments.
Which part? If he wouldn’t have faced jail-time, then I made a boo-boo. In the future, perhaps you could be specific instead of just making blanket and citeless refutations?
I’d be willing to be that he’s more popular outside of Maricopa County than inside of it. But, since all the other counties combined have only half the population of Maricopa, that may help him very much.
What is the typical voter turn-out for sheriff election compared to Senate elections?
So the pardon saved him from {gasp} probation? Why bother? As far as I know, punishment was not yet set.
Yep. Sentencing had been set for later this month, so he “would” not be in jail (yet) even without the pardon. As for what his sentence would have been… we’ll never know. AFAIK, his offense was not subject to any mandatory sentencing rules.