And here you thought that The Orange Julius had cornered the market on stupid in this election. Not so fast, here’s another Gold Medal entry. And it comes from Trump’s close friend and fellow racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Joe Arpaio is a beloved figure in the Tea Party, not only for his racial profiling and open persecution of Latino’s, but also for his loud and proud support of his shitheels buddy Donald Trump. According to a report on NPR.com he received a rock stars welcome when he showed up at a Tea Party meeting last month. But here’s where it really gets weird. According to the report;
There's a raffle prize of an autographed pair of the pink boxer shorts Arpaio makes his inmates wear. The winners, Sue and A.J. Stock, proudly promised to frame the underwear and display the pair in their living room.
Freakin’ really?!? The prime real estate spot on their living room wall is now occupied by a pair of pink boxer shorts with Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s name sharpied across their ass? What did it replace, a velvet painting of Elvis, or five dogs with cigars playing poker? I don’t even wanna know what the rest of the living room decor looks like!
Joe Arpaio is in trouble. A poll of Maricopa County voters taken from August 27-31 and reported in the Arizona Republic showed that a hefty 57% of voters had a negative view of Sheriff Joe. Maybe because of the millions of tax dollars he has cost them in legal fees and fines for his shenanigans. The announcement a couple of days ago that the Feds were going to move forward with a criminal prosecution of him was also a knock in the cajones for his campaign at the worst possible time.
But Arpaio is still a dangerous problem for us. He is running for his 7th term, and this is the first time he’s been seriously challenged. But his name and national name recognition has allowed him to amass a $12M warchest, he has been and will be blanketing the airwaves for the last week. He isn’t going to go down without one monster fight.
Paul Penzone spent 21 years as a Phoenix AZ police officer, but he turned out to be just too damn good for Phoenix to keep to itself. He was assigned to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, where he shone so brightly that at one point he won the Task Force Agent of the Year award for leading a wiretap operation that helped to dismantle a large meth lab operation. The man obviously knows how to manage an organization.
It’s up to us to help. We’re in the bottom of the ninth now, everything is on the line. A poll released by the Penzone campaign had him with a firm lead, but Arpaio is going to carpet bomb the airwaves for the next week to try to turn the tide. To donate to help Paul close the deal, click HERE. To help out in person, go HERE. Let’s close this one with a world class kick, so Sheriff Joe has plenty of time to get fitted up for his new orange jumpsuit!
Thanks as always for reading, and GO Blue!