Posted on 09/18/2011 9:45:14 PM PDT by RobinMasters
Arizona's Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio told WND he has assigned a five-member "Cold Case Posse" to investigate the authenticity of Barack Obama's birth certificate.
The decision, he says, is simply a matter of doing his duty.
"This investigation does not involve politics," Arpaio told WND. "I listen to all the residents of Maricopa County who come to my office with complaints, regardless what their politics are.
"My door is open to everyone, and I don't kick them out. If a complaint is legitimate, I don't dump it into the wastebasket," he continued. "When I get allegations brought to me by the citizens of Maricopa County, I look into the allegations, just like I am doing here."
Arpaio explained to WND that there are over 3,000 people who participate in his office's volunteer posse program.
The "Cold Case Posse," however, has been described as a "posse within the posse," consisting of volunteers with professional experience in conducting investigations, including individuals chosen because of their professional backgrounds in law enforcement, as well as lawyers who have participated in criminal or civil cases and individuals with specialized skills in fields ranging from accounting to conducting criminal forensic examinations.
In the past few months, the Cold Case Posse has been inactive, largely because of budgetary limitations within the Maricopa County Sheriff's office.
But in the past few days, Arpaio has assigned a 5-person group serving under the auspices of the Cold Case Posse to undertake the Obama birth certificate investigation.
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Go Sheriff Joe!
The bad thing about working for the government is that the president can always get you fired.
I’m sure no Judge will block their access in Hawaii.
so did orly finally think to knock on his door? would be about the only effective thing orly has done in this pursuit.
he really needs to get a “posse” of sheriffs across as many states as possible. dunno if anyone in Hawaii is conservative enough to get on that team, though.
“The bad thing about working for the government is that the president can always get you fired.”
Unless you work for a state or local government, or the judiciary, or the legislature, or the civil service.
Hawaii has half the people on the dole and I am sure many of the Judges are very left wing.
IMO they will have less than zero chance to get in to investigate the bathroom much less public records.
Paradise on the dole huh.
Very hard to get people to work there.
I had a friend do another friend a favor in Kona to repair a condo.
After the previous time there where he found workers usless and unwilling, he flew out with his own help because nobody there wanted to work more than a couple of hours (beer money).
Well shoot. Why aren’t willing workers flooding paradise?
A bunch don’t work because it must be pretty good on the dole in Hawaii I guess!
A Sheriff is an elected position so you can not get fired by anyone but the voters
Sheriff Joe might be the last Real American working in some form of government (besides the military of course). I for one can’t wait to see what he’ll come up with.
ping to read comments
BladeBryan - The red light went off in his...AttackWatch cubicle.
I wonder how long this will take
If I had a family home rehab business in Chicago, reading a story like this it would be awful tempting to try to transplant it to Hawaii. I’d eat their lunches. I wonder if the bureaucracy, however, is a true nightmare.
Everything is more expensive because they are 3000 miles out in the ocean.
I was told if not for Costco and Walmart, most could not both buy their food and pay their rent.
I believe that Sheriff Joe works for NO government, but reports directly to the electorate of Maricopa County, AZ, USA.
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