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Joe Arpaio running for Senate in Arizona
Washington Examiner ^ | January 9, 2018 | David M. Drucker

Posted on 01/09/2018 10:07:52 AM PST by Seizethecarp

Republican Joe Arpaio, a close ally of President Trump and former sheriff known for his provocative approach to combatting illegal immigration, is running for Senate in Arizona.

The 85-year-old Arpaio could shake up the late August Republican primary in a critical open-seat race to replace retiring Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. Trump pardoned Arpaio last summer, sparing the former sheriff jail time after he was convicted of ignoring a federal court order in a racial-profiling case.

The polarizing yet iconic former Maricopa County sheriff, beloved by many conservatives for his hawkish immigration policies, presents an alternative to the unimpressive Kelli Ward and a potential obstacle to Rep. Martha McSally. She is expected to launch within days and is widely viewed as the Republicans’ strongest general election candidate.

In a telephone interview with the Washington Examiner, Arpaio shrugged off concerns about his age, dismissed Republican insiders’ anxiety that his poor reputation with nonwhite voters would put the seat in play for the Democrats in the midterm, and discussed plans to work with Trump on behalf of Arizona.

“My mother and father came here from Italy, legally of course. I have a soft spot for the Mexican community having lived there,” he said. “I’m not going to get into my personal life, but I will say we have four grandkids and some have a different ethnic and racial background. I don’t say that. I don’t use my grandkids. So, I have a soft spot, but still, I’m going to do my job. You have to do it.”

Even if Arpaio loses the primary to McSally, he would have had seven months to push her to the right and define GOP messaging on a host of issues — and not just in Arizona.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arpaio2018; az2018; naturalborncitizen; obama; seasonedcitizens; sheriffarpaio; trump
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To: Seizethecarp

I don’t know, he’s not really Left of center enough.

At 85 he’s too old also.

I mean we might only get one terms of great voting out of him.

Who would buy off on that with Trump in office?

We do know the RNC, GOPe, McConnell, Ryan, and other Leftists and Lefitst organizations would go after him tooth and nail, and then afterwards tell us, “See!”

Sadly, a whole lot of FReepers would chime in to echo their reasons for blaming the candidate for the loss.


41 posted on 01/09/2018 11:10:01 AM PST by DoughtyOne (McConnell, Ryan, and the whole GOPe are dead to me. Are Alabamans tired of winning?)
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To: Seizethecarp

Go Sheriff Joe!!!!

Day one as a Senator, table the Cold Case posse files.
Day two, send out the indictments.
Then spend the next six years watching your political enemies get thrown into Jail!


42 posted on 01/09/2018 11:13:46 AM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: GregNH

I agree! Publish the forensic studies proving forgery, Sheriff!


43 posted on 01/09/2018 11:15:14 AM PST by Seizethecarp
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To: JonPreston

Joe already has baggage.


44 posted on 01/09/2018 11:17:59 AM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: KavMan
That's exactly what this is.

Jerry Sandusky will be a guest host on "Sesame Street" before Joe Arpaio ever wins an election to a U.S. Senate seat in any state.

45 posted on 01/09/2018 11:19:39 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
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To: editor-surveyor

Remind me not to get on your bad side :)


46 posted on 01/09/2018 11:26:30 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know that if T..rump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: JonPreston

Hm?....Ageism, I see.


47 posted on 01/09/2018 11:27:50 AM PST by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: circlecity
More like 60 or 70 year old**FAKE** assaults. It's the DemoncRATs favorite ploy.
48 posted on 01/09/2018 11:31:26 AM PST by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: Hildy

What, is she as conservative as I am?


49 posted on 01/09/2018 11:32:31 AM PST by donna ( Liberals redefine words: gay is no longer happy; Dream is no longer American)
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To: jospehm20

So he dies in office. He can be replaced at that time.


50 posted on 01/09/2018 11:33:24 AM PST by donna ( Liberals redefine words: gay is no longer happy; Dream is no longer American)
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To: faithhopecharity
No matter who the Republican candidate is the Demon-c-RATS will lie, smear, and stuff the ballot boxes. And....The garden slug Repubs will continue to do nothing about it.

It's axiomatic.

51 posted on 01/09/2018 11:33:59 AM PST by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: donna

Wouldn’t it be wiser to elect somebody likely to live through their term of office int he first place?


52 posted on 01/09/2018 11:40:59 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: wintertime
Hm?....Ageism, I see.

You bet, that and I really don't want to hear about Obama's Kenyan birth certificate again. If the Rs can't put forward someone who has to date, bless him, thumbed his nose at the actuarial life table, they will lose the seat.

53 posted on 01/09/2018 11:53:02 AM PST by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

Came here to say that. He is too damned old.


54 posted on 01/09/2018 11:57:51 AM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: wintertime

that sounds accurate (regrettably)


55 posted on 01/09/2018 12:05:48 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Seizethecarp

I already got am email from him asking for money.


56 posted on 01/09/2018 12:08:27 PM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Seizethecarp

85+6=91.

5.56mm


57 posted on 01/09/2018 12:10:56 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: jospehm20
Sheriff Arpaio speaking for Arizona in the Senate for 1-year; 1-month.

Worth it.

58 posted on 01/09/2018 12:22:38 PM PST by donna ( Liberals redefine words: gay is no longer happy; Dream is no longer American)
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To: Seizethecarp

No. This was tried in Alabama and the dims now have that seat.


59 posted on 01/09/2018 12:35:02 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: jospehm20

He’ll be 86 when he begins his term. The life expectancy of an 86-year-old male is 5.4 years. Better than even chance he wouldn’t live out his term.


60 posted on 01/09/2018 12:35:12 PM PST by AZLiberty ("If we believe in absurdities, we commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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