Posted on 04/09/2017 11:35:40 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
The outdoor jail that was Mr. Arpaio’s marquee undertaking was a travesty. Ostensibly established to save money and deter criminals, who presumably would want to avoid sweltering in desert heat, it failed on both counts. In fact, closing the encampment will save taxpayers some $4.5 million annually. And in a recent study, the inmates there said they preferred the facility, the heat notwithstanding, to the cramped cells in conventional jails.
In announcing that the encampment would be closed, after 24 years, Mr. Arpaio’s successor, Paul Penzone, a Democrat, said, “Starting today, the circus ends, and the tents come down.”
Mr. Arpaio’s MO was humiliation and intimidation. Furious at the federal lawsuit targeting him, he struck back at President Barack Obama, becoming one of the leading voices of the “birther” movement and deploying a team of “investigators” to Hawaii with the intent of proving that the president’s birth certificate was somehow concocted. That failed.
Sensing the political advantage in harassing immigrants, he launched sweeps in Hispanic neighborhoods, making his office and the deputies who worked for him agents for racial profiling. The sweeps continued for more than a year after a federal judge ordered them halted, as Mr. Arpaio expressed his contempt for the judge’s authority.
In the end, Mr. Arpaio was passed over for various prominent jobs for which he was said to have been a candidate in the Trump administration. Finally, it is the sheriff who has been humiliated, and rightly so.
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The Washington Compost needs to be knocked down to size.
Who would want to read that piece of toilet paper?
As for Paul Penzone, he’s proof that even a moron can get elected sheriff.
Are you sure you want that? Pee is a great fertilizer, and it’s mostly water. If your scenario came to ‘pass’; McCain’s grave would bloom like a desert oasis. (Just messing with you.)
Arpaio’s tents to be soon be replaced with air conditioned luxury 10 x 24 foot cells, nutritious and plentiful grub, individual 55 inch flat screen TVs, custom-tailored jail clothes with stylish accents, and a personal “trauma counselor” for each inmate to help them get over what Sheriff Joe inflicted on them.
Next we’ll see the law-abiding citizens of Arizona “knocked down to size” by the Sheriff Joe’s former “oppressed victims.”
But the Washington Post will be too busy with other matters to notice.
Spot on.
Get over it, WAPO.
I jumped just as soon as I heard about the queue but my number is still 144295 LOL!
Only a stupid ass liberal would claim the tent city didn’t save the taxpayers tons of money!!!
Those tent will go right back up as soon as that moron figures out what jailing all those people will cost
What’s it to Washington?
[Starting today, the circus ends, and the tents come down...]
AND THE WALL GOES UP.
This is the type of petty and stupid baloney WaPo is doing these days?
No wonder no one care about what they say any more
President Trump needs to launch a missile attack on the Washington Post. That rag is twice as toxic as sarin gas!
Arpaio was controversial in many ways but also was very popular for most of his career as sheriff. It was only after the open borders activists started going after him and Obama's DOJ decided to stop him from enforcing federal immigration law, did his popularity start to fall off some.
The people that don't like Arpaio are democRATS, illegals, activists for open borders, drunks and other criminals that have had to serve time in Tent City in jail. Law abiding citizens otherwise liked the guy because he was a tough jailer, albeit out of the ordinary and quirky sometimes.
He opened Tent City because the country would not build a bigger jail to hold the overflow of inmates. He used old Army surplus tents and with a chain link fence enclosing it, they served fine as a substitute for a conventionally built jail and saved the country money. The article claims it will save the taxpayers money but they don't mention that inmates now will have to be put up in a conventionally-built jail house that will cost 10 times that amount.
As for Joe being passed over for Trump administration jobs, this is also a cheap shot. The man has served in many capacities during his career, most notably with the DEA for 25 years and then served as sheriff of Maricopa County Arizona (Phoenix) from 1993 until 2016. The man is now 84 years old and doesn't need another job.
You can count on the Washington Compost to attack a patriotic American like Arpaio but they will defend a sleeze like Eric Holder all day long.
The libs AKA the Washington post have been LOSING so much lately with all of the Trump winning, that they just need to revel in this one. Bless their hearts. Arpaio was 84, and needed to retire anyway. Would have been more sporting to have had a replacement groomed and ready though.
The compost is full of crap.
Penzone refers to illegal aliens as ‘guests’. Soros certainly did buy this office to facilitate the Democrat-ization of Arizona. Keep our state in your prayers......Democrats are taking more power each day. And just an FYI-Ann Kirkpatrick would have beaten a weaker ‘Republicsn’ and she would have been even much worse than McCain. And that is a fact.
It would be best for me.
Attention Maricopa County:
“Hug A Thug” is now the order of the day.
That is all.
CC
It is really disgusting to see this revolting non-journalism coming from to top of the WaPo. It does show clear desperation and raw fear of Arpaio and his forensic evidence, IMO, should Trump chose to use it. Arpaio has to get past this stupid trial kicked off by DNC Chair Perez (IIRC) first.
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