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发帖数: 29846 | 1 America’s Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, Stands Alone Against Unions And Outsiders in
Recall Effort
April 11, 2013
Posted by Warner Todd Huston
Only three weeks after re-election in 2012, Sheriff Joe Arpaio was hit with
a recall effort. Now, with anti-Arpaio petitions in circulation in Maricopa
County, Arizona, “America’s Sheriff” is organizing his forces to oppose a
recall backed by the deep pockets of the unions, millions in outside money,
and a flood of non-Arizonans arriving to act as the left-winger’s ground
troops. (See www.savesheriffjoe.org)
Arpaio’s team is being ramrodded by the Conservative Business League and
unlike the opposition’s recall efforts, the CBL is an Arizona-based
organization. The duo taking the helm of the save Joe campaign is the CBL’s
Ron Ludders and Bob Thomas.
Ludders and Thomas say that the left’s effort to destroy Sheriff Joe Arpaio
is no less than an effort to use the Colorado model (the campaign that
turned Colorado from red to blue) to give Arizona to the Democrats. It is
also a mirror of what the left tried to do to Republican Governor Scott
Walker in Wisconsin and, if successful, would be a model for Democrats to
regain power in Texas.
Strangely, Arizona’s recall law is incredibly loose. An elected official in
The Grand Canyon State can be recalled for any reason at all and, with one
exception, at any time. Unlike such laws in most states, the Arizona law
does not require a recall for cause such as criminal activity, fraud, or
other real reasons. The only rule seems to be that the elected official has
to be in office for six months into his first term before a recall can be
mounted. This rule did not apply to the six-term Sheriff. To start a recall,
petitioners must gather the signatures of 25 percent of the number of votes
cast in the last election.
Involved in the recall effort is one Randy Parraz, a long-time, left-wing
Arizona agitator, a failed candidate for office himself, a Huffington Post
contributor, a man that has several arrests under his belt and one who was
involved in instigating the Seattle World Trade Organization riots back in
1999 when he was a field operative for the AFL-CIO. Today Parraz is the head
of Citizens for a Better Arizona. Ludders and Thomas also say he is known
as an Obama associate and has visited the President in the White House.
Parraz has spent some effort to hide his association with the anti-Arpaio
effort, though. At one point he told the Phoenix New Times that he wasn’t
involved in any of it. What Parraz seemed to forget to mention to the
alternative newser is that his wife, Lilia Alvarez, is the head of Respect
Arizona, the group heading up the recall effort. To claim he isn’t also
involved is only a tad disingenuous.
Who ever is running it, this recall campaign is little else but a harassment
campaign. But it is one that is of a piece with that organized by Barack
Obama’s Administration in an attempt to remove Joe Arpaio from office.
It can’t be denied that the US Dept. of Justice has launched salvo after
salvo against the Sheriff, a barrage of nuisance lawsuits, none of which the
DOJ has won. This campaign of harassment is intended to keep the Maricopa
Sheriffs Dept. always on the defensive, unable to do their normal job of law
enforcement, and is aimed at setting up a situation where the Sheriff is
constantly on the brink of making the wrong move. The DOJ clearly hopes that
the Sheriff will make a mistake that will give them an avenue to finally
get him.
A similar campaign of lawfare (warfare using courts) was launched against
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin in 2008, an effort that eventually drove her
from office.
But it isn’t just Obama’s Justice Dept. trying to destroy Sheriff Arpaio.
Local left-wingers and their out-of-state allies have also been launching
campaigns of harassment against Arpaio and this recall is but one example of
that.
Take for instance the left’s claims that Arpaio’s offices have failed to
investigate sex crimes in El Mirage, a town in the Sheriff’s county. Some
years ago the town lost funding for its own police department and Arpaio
took over policing the area. When Arpaio’s office got there they found that
some 400 cases of sexual assaults had gone un-investigated. A few years
after Arpaio took over, the Maricopa Board of Supervisors announced that
only 7 cases had still been un-investigated. Regardless of this fact, the
left has continued to claim that 400 sex crimes have gone un-investigated in
El Mirage and they blame Arpaio.
As an example of the lies promulgated about this incident, Ron Ludders
related a little story to Breitbart in a phone interview.
“To give you an idea of how sinister the attacks on Sheriff Joe have
been, we have a community that had to close its police Dept., of course the
sheriff has to take over and police it. There were over 400 plus reports of
sex crimes in that town over a number of years that had not been
investigated. The left comes in and uses this statistic as if it is Sheriff
Joe’s fault.”
“Well, the sheriff did investigate them. During a meeting with the
Board of Supervisors a member of the county attorney’s office said that out
of the 400 plus incidents, there was only seven of them that didn’t have a
final disposition on them. Now, at the time there was a political reporter
from Channel Three named Frank Camacho who was in that meeting. He heard
very clearly that there were only seven of these cases that were still open.
That night on Channel Three Frank Camacho said there were over 400 cases
still open. It wasn’t long before Frank Camacho, whether at the insistence
of the station of on his own, became the communications director of the
Arizona Democrat Party.”
One of the biggest problems with the recall campaign is the millions it will
coast Maricopa taxpayers.
Once the petitions are turned in, half a million signatures will have to be
verified one-by-one by Maricopa County recorder Helen Purcell. Thomas and
Ludders estimate that it will cost taxpayers up to $1.5 million to verify
the signatures. Then the county will have to pay for the recall election
itself. This will cost another estimated $4 million dollars. Finally, after
the recall election is done, another possible $1.5 million will be spent on
lawyers for recall result lawsuits. The final tab could cost taxpayers up to
$8 million.
Speaking of money, it is coming in heavily for the recall effort. “They
have over 120 paid petitioners from outside of Arizona many of whom worked
for the effort against Russell Pearce, plus they have a plethora of
volunteers,” Breitbart was told.
When Breitbart asked Thomas and Ludders if they felt unions were heavily
invested in the recall effort, both said an emphatic yes.
“We believe the AFL CIO is deeply involved,” said Ron Ludders. “The fact
that they are having their meetings in union halls kind of tells the story.”
Ludders notes that the recall petitions are being funded by outside money
from the AFL-CIO as well as other unions and are being circulated by the
same people that the left paid to circulate the petitions in the successful
recall of State Senator Russell Pearce who was ousted in 2011.
Unfortunately, due to Arizona’s reporting laws, the total donations and
donor lists aren’t due to be filed until the middle of May, too late to be
of much use to Arpaio’s supporters as recall petitions are due the end of
May.
To buttress the claim that unions are a chief backer of the recall, a recent
story in the the Phoenix New Times shows that one anti-Arpaio rally was
held at the Painter’s Union Hall in Phoenix.
Ludders also pointed out that on the very night of our interview, a mass
meeting of recall operatives was going to be held at the Bakers and
Confectionary Union Hall in Maricopa County.
The recall isn’t the only goal that Respect Arizona is pursuing. “They are
obtaining voter registrations. They are just not going after Joe, here. But
the master plan is to turn Arizona blue,” Ludders said.
Ludders said that the recall campaign was just another part of the drive to
bring Democrats to power in Arizona.
“I want to reference the book The Blueprint; How The Democrats Won Colorado
,” Ludders said. “On page 184 it says ‘The strategy is not build up
Democrats as much as it is to tear down Republicans using opposition
research and other hardball tactics… in a way that draws emotion.’”
“In sheriff Joe’s case, that emotion is that he’s a racist, that he’
s a bigot. That is simply not the truth. As you all recall Eric Holder sent
a number of people out to get Sheriff Joe, actually dropped the case for a
lack of evidence. This essentially America’s Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, against
the entire organized left who is leveraging unions inside the state and
sending a flood of millions of dollars in outside, left-wing money to fund
the attack on Arpaio.”
As to this foolishly loose recall law, Arizona Republicans are trying to get
a revision of the wide-open rules (HB2282) passed but legislators are being
“held hostage” by their own Governor, Jan Brewer. The Governor is holding
many bills up, not just 2282, because she wants to force the legislature to
pass her healthcare laws and has maintained that she won’t sign or
consider anything until her healthcare measures are passed and signed.
Naturally, changes to the recall laws are at least a year off as even once
passed state Republicans expect the Department of Justice to attack the
changes and take the state to court to block them. So, even if these changes
do get made, it won’t be in time to help save Sheriff Joe’s job.
Finally, Ludders and Thomas had a warning for those of us that might want to
help Sheriff Joe beat this recall election. Beware of the fake groups out
there trying to separate you from your money, the pair said. The
Conservative Business League is one of the only groups that is putting boots
on the ground in Maricopa County itself to help Joe fight the recall.
Unfortunately, there are several other groups out there with “Help Sheriff
Joe” efforts but they are not giving Joe any of the money they are claiming
to raise in his name. Ludders says that one group last year claimed to have
raised over a million dollars for Arpaio but only actually gave him around
$30,000 when all was said and done. Further these other efforts are based in
Washington DC or Virginia and are not in Arizona like CBL is. Unlike these
other groups raising money in places far away from Arizona, the CBL is using
donations to hire petitioners and directly fund efforts to beat the left’s
recall game in Maricopa County.
Ludders has tried to track down these shadowy groups but can’t seem to find
them as they have fake address, fake webpages, and disconnected phone
numbers but all too real Internet-based donor pages.
So, for those interested in helping Joe Arpaio beat this recall effort, only
go to www.savesheriffjoe.org to donate. This is the site authorized by the
Conservative Business League, and all donations will go directly to their
efforts to fight the recall on the ground in Maricopa County. | M*****t
发帖数: 26706 | | l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 3 呵呵, 我试试看?
说这位是Maricopa county的sheriff一直在抓非法移民,所以让疤蟆不爽,找了好多理由
想把他赶走.最新的方法是在sheriff当选后用recall的方法想搞重新选举. 象在
Wisconsin州对共和党州长的recall一样的方法.
【在 M*****t 的大作中提到】
: 拷，太长了！用二十个痣总结一下行不？
| r*****3
发帖数: 570 | 4 别费心机了,有sun city 和 mesa那帮白人伯伯在,我们的sheriff就会一直做下去.那帮
老莫游行渣东西就积极,叫他们投票,影子就没有一个. | l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 5 其实如果是合法移民的老墨也不太会支持非法老墨吧.因为对他们也不利. 我去的一家
FFL,里面一个老墨女的就坚决反对疤蟆禁枪,她老爸就是当初合法移民过来的.当然可能
也与禁枪后他们生意可能会不好有关系.
【在 r*****3 的大作中提到】
: 别费心机了,有sun city 和 mesa那帮白人伯伯在,我们的sheriff就会一直做下去.那帮
: 老莫游行渣东西就积极,叫他们投票,影子就没有一个.
| c****p
发帖数: 6474 | 6 取决于合法移民（以及已经合法化的前非法移民）现在做的生意和他们的亲属的利益是
不是建立在非法移民之上的。
奥巴马相当于把美国的利益寻租给有投票权的、代表非法移民利益或者有利益相关的团
体换自己的选票。
而真正为美国科技领先做出贡献的科技工人，却要老老实实排期等绿卡，为毛不为这些
人松口？
因为这帮科技工人没有投票权，大科技公司又没有足够话语权。
【在 l****z 的大作中提到】
: 其实如果是合法移民的老墨也不太会支持非法老墨吧.因为对他们也不利. 我去的一家
: FFL,里面一个老墨女的就坚决反对疤蟆禁枪,她老爸就是当初合法移民过来的.当然可能
: 也与禁枪后他们生意可能会不好有关系.
| l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 7 大科技公司都是支持民主党的吧,所以自然不会为科技工人说话.
然后科技工人基本都是华人和老印,老印不知道, 但华人里面70%以上投票给疤蟆. 疤蟆
一看: 我都没有替华人说话,华人还会投票给我,这种好事哪里去找啊.
【在 c****p 的大作中提到】
: 取决于合法移民（以及已经合法化的前非法移民）现在做的生意和他们的亲属的利益是
: 不是建立在非法移民之上的。
: 奥巴马相当于把美国的利益寻租给有投票权的、代表非法移民利益或者有利益相关的团
: 体换自己的选票。
: 而真正为美国科技领先做出贡献的科技工人，却要老老实实排期等绿卡，为毛不为这些
: 人松口？
: 因为这帮科技工人没有投票权，大科技公司又没有足够话语权。
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