Tammi wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:08:


Thanks for that link, Tammi.  This was interesting: "As an example, Arpaio spent over $10,000 in tax payer money to have Arizona State University study recidivism in his jail system. ASU found that there was no change in the rate at which inmates returned to the jail."  I was wondering about that.  

He sounds like a Bernie Kerik/Rudy Giuliani type.  These guys seem okay, as long as the only information you get about them is from them.

I don't like people who waste time talking tough. It's like they think we're too stupid to figure out if they're any good at their jobs unless they spend every waking moment singing their own praises and shouting "Fear me!" Yeah, yeah, whatever. Now STFU and do some actual work.

I live in Phx and still don't know what to say about the man. You can here people put him on a piedestal and in the same moment You can hear somebody wants him in the jail. The local trash newspaper New Times has a very strong campaign against him.
Without knowing this person I have friends of mine that know him personally and according everybody He is absolutely arogant. I hear he is pretty corrupt too. All of this is about his personality and honestly I don't think to merry him , so I don't care how friendly of a guy is he. What I care is that he is doing what he is hired to do. And in this area and in any drug and crime infested area of the country there is no other way. Either You act tough either You bend over.
This is only my oppinion of course.

"Sounds like a lot of Political Bull $hit to me. I don’t believe people would keep reelecting a sheriff that is that much of a screw-up. " Oh Yeah..Look how many people reelected the king of screw-ups in '04....life is so much better now..right

First, I'll admit I know nothing about that neck o' the woods.  However I also know that, like judges, sheriffs are appointed instead of elected in some places.  I've always considered myself lucky to be a Texan and we elect 'em here... good, bad or otherwise.  It's just that some folks do it differently.

Frost wrote on 12/31/69 at 16:00:08:


And more on that idot when Newt Gingrich was questioned about the efforts in the wake of Katrina

Even fellow Republicans were criticizing Bush and his administration for the sluggish relief effort. "I think it puts into question all of the Homeland Security and Northern Command planning for the last four years, because if we can't respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the Gulf for days, then why do we think we're prepared to respond to a nuclear or biological attack?" said former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

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