Arizona lawmaker accused of racism after racially-charged roast of Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Daily Mail ^ | 27 February 2014 | RYAN GORMAN

[moonshinner_09]

‘Sheriff Joe is the kind of guy that you gotta love, as long as you have papers,’ Kavanaugh can be heard saying on the recording made public by the Southern Poverty Law Center. ‘Going out with Joe is always an adventure,’ he adds as the audience laughs, ‘because usually when we walk into a restaurant, most of the waitstaff and cooks dive out the back window, and when they don't, I never know what the hell's in my food.’ Those jokes and several similar quips have put Arpaio in the uneasy position of defending a man he calls a friend. ‘How many Hispanics did you pull over on the way over here, Arpaio, huh?’ Kavanuagh jokes. Kavanaugh also joked about the federal monitor appointed to oversee the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office by a judge to limit racial profiling. ‘Just to show you how unreasonable the federal monitor is.. when Sheriff Joe sends his new deputies to the academy, he will no longer just train them to do the Miranda warning in Spanish, he will have to teach it in English too’ Kavanaugh wisecracks. ‘The sign over the booking intake door in the jail will have to have ‘welcome’ and just not ‘bienvenido,’ he continues. Arpaio can be heard around this point saying ‘that’s enough,’ but the state senator continued a bit longer before bidding the roaring crowd ‘adios.’

[moonshinner_09]

Why don't the illegals go home.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Amen.

[Impala64ssa]

Nothing beats the old Dean Martin Roasts

[VerySadAmerican]

How much do I despise the SPLC.

[peeps36]

I didn't see anything racist in the jokes. They are trying to smear Arpaio with false claims of racism put out by the bias slpc. The scumbag media doesn't mind being the stooge.

[montag813]

Kavanagh did not mention ANY race in his hilarious comments. I was there. SPLC cut a LOT from their clip. They are truly vile.

[Intolerant in NJ]

... ‘because usually when we walk into a restaurant, most of the waitstaff and cooks dive out the back window...so this is now considered racist and offensive? - yet it's very close to a bit in an old "Frasier" show when Frasier and his brother open a new restaurant and, standing in the kitchen, are talking about all the bigwig guests who've shown up including the governor and the local INS official - in the background about half the staff can be seen dropping their aprons and running out the back door - I'll bt the TV stations won't stop making money off of Frasier reruns......

[ponygirl]

Kavanagh was one of the main authors of SB 1062. This is no coincidence. They will now go after him until he is destroyed. He’s a tough guy...former NYPD...so hopefully he can stand up to the Pink Mafia.

[rktman]

Not to mention that Joe is a white guy so no claims of racism can be brought forward. One way street remember? And apparently I’m drivin’ against traffic. Again.