Joe Arpaio running for Senate in Arizona

Washington Examiner ^ | January 9, 2018 | David M. Drucker

[jospehm20]

I suspect that number you cited probably does not figure in the strain of an 85 heard old running for the US Senate in the first place. I would be surprised to see him make it to January 2019 if he really tries.

[Jane Long]

How old was Strom when he had to be wheeled in, for his last Senate appearance?

At least we know he won’t become a long-term, career politicians. :-)

[Brown Deer]

Senate Years of Service: 1927-1969
Party: Democrat

Courtesy U.S. Senate Historical Office

HAYDEN, Carl Trumbull, a Representative and a Senator from Arizona; born in Hayden’s Ferry (now Tempe), Maricopa County, Ariz., October 2, 1877; attended the public schools; graduated from the Normal School of Arizona at Tempe in 1896; attended Leland Stanford Junior University, California 1896-1900; engaged in mercantile pursuits and in the flour-milling business at Tempe 1900-1904; member, Tempe Town Council 1902-1904; treasurer of Maricopa County 1904-1906; sheriff of Maricopa County 1907-1912; upon the admission of Arizona as a State into the Union was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second Congress; reelected to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from February 19, 1912, to March 3, 1927; did not seek renomination, having become a candidate for United States Senator; during the First World War was commissioned a major of Infantry in the United States Army; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1926 for the term commencing March 4, 1927; reelected in 1932, 1938, 1944, 1950, 1956, and again in 1962 for the term ending January 3, 1969; was not a candidate in 1968 for reelection to the United States Senate; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Eighty-fifth through the Ninetieth Congresses; chairman, Committee on Printing (Seventy-third through Seventy-ninth Congresses), Committee on Rules and Administration (Eighty-first and Eighty-second Congresses), co-chairman, Joint Committee on Printing (Eighty-first and Eighty-second, and Eighty-fourth through Ninetieth Congresses), co-chairman, Joint Committee on Inaugural Arrangements (Eightieth and Eighty-second Congresses), chairman, Committee on Appropriations (Eighty-fourth through Ninetieth Congresses); his record for fifty-six consecutive years of service in the Congress, including an unprecedented forty-two in the Senate, was unsurpassed at the time of his retirement; retired and resided in Tempe, Ariz.; died in Mesa, Ariz., January 25, 1972; cremated; ashes interred in family plot at Tempe Butte Cemetery, Tempe, Ariz.

BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; August, Jack L., Jr. Vision in the Desert: Carl Hayden and Hydropolitics in the American Southwest. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1998; Rice, Ross R. Carl Hayden: Builder of the American West. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1994;

[Brown Deer]

[editor-surveyor]

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You need not worry!
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[editor-surveyor]

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

Yep!

We swim with the enemy here daily!
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[editor-surveyor]

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

Sadly we don’t have anyone that is so rock solid on the issues.
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[bitt]

UMMM... 84? aaahhh.....

[jospehm20]

I find it hard to believe that out of 6 million plus people there isn’t anybody under 80 who would make a good Senator there.

[ptsal]

Fracturing the vote....
....now what, Joe?

[editor-surveyor]

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There are moderately good candidates, but none that are as morally strong as Joe.
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[DoughtyOne]

Fraid so...

[af_vet_1981]

Not one penny ...

[Republican Wildcat]

An 85 year old running to be a freshman Senator for a 6 year term? That does not make practical sense strategically, nor personally for him. His age would be an automatic -5% in his vote ceiling and in what could be a very close race and that is not something we need.

[Republican Wildcat]

His age probably lowers his vote ceiling to make it impossible for him to win in a close election. Moreover, your flippant comment that he could just be “replaced” doesn’t make sense as you can’t guarantee a Republican governor would be in place when and if that event were to occur. Things like the Supreme Court are too important to play games with.

[donna]

Out of state money will pick Arizona's senator just like it did with McCain and whats-his-name.

[Hildy]

I don’t know you, but if you are solid, true, card carrying conservative then yes, she is.