re: I think Paul Babeu is close to Christine Jones.
If I were a Republican, that would be good enough for me. Sheriff Paul has, in my opinion has done and is doing a better job interdicting human and drug smugglers in Pinal County than Arpaio has in Maricopa.
Back then when the state lege enacted the human smuggling law, County Attorney Thomas interpreted that law to include conspiracy. If a illegal pays a coyote to smuggle him in, then the illegal has entered into a conspiracy with the coyote to smuggle humans(himself), so the illegal could be arrested and prosecuted for human smuggling.
Arpaio busted many illegals as human smugglers but didn't catch very many actual coyotes.
OTOH, no other AZ county interpreted the law that way so in those other counties more actual coyotes were apprehended.
You see a similar situation on the Legal Arizona Workers Act. County Attorney Thomas passed on large amounts of the state money to Arpaio who used it to bust illegals, but never was very successful in apprehending employers who were hiring the illegals.
Babeu was closer to his illegal alien gay lover named Jose. How soon people forget. They also forget Babeu's disgraceful ad for McCain in 2010. He is a disgrace.