Joe For President
JOE ARPAIO IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF
AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER.
THESE ARE A FEW REASONS WHY:
Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona ) who created the "tent city jail":
He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.
He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails. Took away their weights. Cut off all but "G" movies.
He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects.
Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.
He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again only let in the Disney channel and the weather channel. When asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.
He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value. (OUCH!)
When the inmates complained, he told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."
He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails. (DOUBLE OUCH)
With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.
On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before.
Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks. "It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 year. "It's inhumane."
Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates: "It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"
Sheriff Joe was just reelected Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona.
I did in fact verify this on Snopes.
posted by FantasticAlice @ 12:48 PM
9 Comments:
I heard about this guy a few years ago. Gotta give him props for the pink undies thing...
This guy is the SHIT!
If Joe were elected President he'd be ruined before he even got to DC. Pink undies on the prisoners would be
1. declared inhumane treatment
2. then called a statement of solidarity with the GLBT community.
3. Next NOW would call them an affront to women
4. but Ann Coulter would say they were a symbol of solidarity with women's issues.
5. Joe would then explain to Ann that he was a male and so he didn't have monthly issues....
6. at which point the concerned scientists group would issue a press release showing how Joe's concept of basic biology would lead to the collapse of western civilization.
7. Joe would turn around and get off the plane before it even left the ground in Phoenix and say to hell with it....
http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/index.php
I'm an idiot- I posted this over on MY blog...but here you go, until I can make it link on mine.
That's awesome. Prison isn't suppose to be a vacation.
nice thoughts, wake. i bet you're right on most of them....
HEY ALICE, nice job using Dead lyrics on our site....
someone's got to turn the page...
All the people on the chain gang are actually on it voluntarily. It is considered a privaledge because it knocks time off their sentences. He presently is petitioning to start a juevile chain gang (also volunteer) which would be the first known one ever in the world.
GIRLFRIEND..I LIVED IN MARICOPA COUNTY!!!
sorry for the caps but I know alot about this man that the book obviously forgets to mention..
The county has had to lay out hundreds of thousands of dollars for the lawsuits against them..joe likes to toot his own horn but fails to mention that many of his tactics are illegal and immoral. He fails to mention that the rape and death rates in his prisons are some of the highest in the nation.
Just a couple of facts from the other side of the table.
This guy is a hard ass, and that's good to some extent, but the way he treats people that are not in prison should also be heard. He is one of the advocates in Arizona that wants to literally kick all of the immigrants out of his precious state. So is pulling someone over because of their skin color is it right or even constitutional? Probably not, but this guy needs to cool it on the racist actions against the immigrants or soon he will be guarding his state from an incoming swamp of federal attention from the people in congress. (They are mostly democrats)
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