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Liberation
February 13, 2018
One of the most bigoted cops in U.S. history is running for office. Ex-sheriff Joe Arpaio is not running for another term as the sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, but as a U.S. senator, where his policies of racism, sexism, and police brutality can have even farther-reaching consequences for the working classÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
February 9, 2018
Controversial former Arizona sheriff and U.S. Senate candidate Joe Arpaio quoted rap star Eminem in his latest fundraising email this week. The email pulls a quote from Eminem's hit song “Lose Yourself,” the lead single from the soundtrack of the 2002 film “8 Mile” that was based primarily on Eminem'sÃÂ ...
POLITICO Magazine
February 2, 2018
During a 24-year career that not long ago seemed to be over, Arpaio was the tough guy Sheriff of Maricopa County. He dressed his inmates in pink underwear and housed them in outdoor barracks known as Tent City. He became the face of the anti-immigration movement, gaining national prominenceÃÂ ...
AZCentral.com
February 2, 2018
Arpaio, the controversial former Maricopa County sheriff, said he was unfamiliar with other stories on the "American Free Press" website, such as an interview with the author of an anti-Semitic book that was headlined "Jewish Fingerprints All Over 9-11." But Arpaio declined to criticize it or other anti-SemiticÃÂ ...
AZCentral.com
February 2, 2018
Maricopa County has paid nearly $1 million in attorneys fees as final settlement of an ongoing lawsuit over former Sheriff Joe Arpaio's workplace immigration raids. The case, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the immigrant advocacy group Puente Arizona, originated in 2014, when Arpaio wasÃÂ ...
The Tennessean
January 31, 2018
The former Arizona sheriff known for his controversial anti-immigration patrols plans to hold an event in Music City this spring. Joe Arpaio, the longtime sheriff of Maricopa County who lost re-election in 2016, was convicted last year of criminal contempt of court after a U.S. District Court judge ruled he hadÃÂ ...
Salon
January 27, 2018
Arpaio is also coming off a loss to a Democrat. In the 2016 election for sheriff, Paul Penzone defeated Arpaio in a county that is heavily Republican. In fact, Maricopa County was the only top-10 county in terms of population to vote for Trump. Hillary Clinton's margin of defeat was only 3.5 percentage points,ÃÂ ...
ABC News
January 27, 2018
Arpaio, a controversial, longtime sheriff who was subject to multiple federal investigations relating to discriminatory conduct, and Ward are two of at least seven Republicans who will be battling it out in the primary, vying for the Senate spot that will be vacated by Flake's decision not to run for re-election.
Roll Call
January 26, 2018
Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks with members of the Arizona delegation on the floor of the 2016 Republican National Convention in ... A cohort of state GOP officials in Arizona is trying to nudge Joe Arpaio out of the Senate primary race, according to a draft resolution the group plans toÃÂ ...
AZCentral.com
January 26, 2018
Draft GOP resolution would flatter Joe Arpaio, then urge him to quit Senate race. Dan Nowicki, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 11:04 a.m. MT Jan. 25, 2018 | Updated 12:29 p.m. MT Jan. 25, 2018. CLOSE. Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has announced he will run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacatedÃÂ ...
The Hill
January 21, 2018
Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has filed to have a contempt of court conviction cleared as he officially kicks off his bid to be Arizona's next senator. Local Arizona news station KTAR reported Friday that Arpaio has filed an appeal with the U.S. District Court, arguing that Judge Susan BoltonÃÂ ...
Newsweek
January 21, 2018
Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has filed, again, to have a contempt of court conviction cleared before he starts campaigning to be Arizona's next senator. Arpaio has filed an appeal against the U.S District Court, arguing that Judge Susan Bolton “refused to hear or rule on the Motion for NewÃÂ ...
Media Matters for America (blog)
January 18, 2018
On January 9, former Maricopa County, AZ, Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced a run for Senate, seeking to replace Republican Sen. Jeff Flake, who is not running for re-election. Arpaio's candidacy will undoubtedly be accompanied by controversy, given his long track record of incredible cruelty, racism, andÃÂ ...
KTAR.com
January 18, 2018
Former Maricopa County Sheriff and U.S. Senate candidate Joe Arpaio speaks at his office, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, in Fountain Hills, Ariz. Arpaio, who was spared a possible jail sentence when President Donald Trump pardoned him for disobeying a judge, announced Tuesday, Jan. 9, that he wouldÃÂ ...
ABC15 Arizona
January 17, 2018
MINDEN, NV - Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio will be a guest speaker at a Republican dinner in Nevada. The Reno Gazette-Journal reports the 85-year-old Arpaio, who recently announced he is running for the U.S. Senate, will speak at the Lincoln Reagan Dinner and Fund Raiser Feb. 18 at the CarsonÃÂ ...
Arizona Daily Star
January 17, 2018
Former Maricopa County Sheriff and U.S. Senate candidate Joe Arpaio speaks at his office, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2018, in Fountain Hills, Ariz. Arpaio, who was spared a possible jail sentence when President Donald Trump pardoned him for disobeying a judge, announced Tuesday, Jan. 9, that he wouldÃÂ ...
Washington Examiner
January 16, 2018
This logic cannot be applied more perfectly than for former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who announced earlier this month his intention to run for the U.S. Senate seat in Arizona to replace Jeff Flake after he retires. In an interview on Friday with Ari Melber on MSNBC, Arpaio was asked about the presidential pardonÃÂ ...
Newsweek
January 16, 2018
A segment on MSNBC Friday turned awkward for Joe Arpaio, the controversial former sheriff running for Senate in Arizona. .... The Trump ally and former Maricopa County sheriff has already had a tumultuous campaign in his effort to take over the Arizona seat set to be vacated by Senator Jeff Flake.
Los Angeles Times
January 14, 2018
Yenni Sanchez had thought her work was finished. Spared from the threat of deportation by the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, she campaigned to oust Joe Arpaio when he unsuccessfully ran for reelection as Maricopa County sheriff in 2016. She knocked on hundreds of doorsÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
January 13, 2018
On Saturday, in his first public appearance since he announced his candidacy for a Senate seat here, Arpaio attended a gathering of Maricopa County Republicans. “You're loved, Joe,” said a woman, placing both hands on his cheeks. “Am I? I thought I was loved — thanks for confirming it,” said Arpaio,ÃÂ ...
The Hill
January 12, 2018
Melber informed the former Maricopa County, Ariz., sheriff that the source was actually a Democratic lawmaker at the meeting and that the White House did not deny Trump's use of the language. "I don't have a position," Arpaio responded. "Listening to everybody talking on the radio, making bad remarksÃÂ ...
Snopes.com
January 12, 2018
U.S. Senate hopeful Joe Arpaio, 85, who boasted of being “America's Toughest Sheriff” while holding the office in Maricopa County, Arizona for 24 years, has had a few run-ins with the law himself, including a conviction for criminal contempt by a federal court in July 2017. Although President TrumpÃÂ ...
CNN
January 10, 2018
The former Maricopa County sheriff was convicted for defying a court order to stop racially profiling Latinos, and he has been widely criticized for his hard-line stances on immigration. Arpaio has touted "birtherism" in the past, and, when speaking to CNN's Chris Cuomo on Wednesday evening, said he hasÃÂ ...
New York Magazine
January 10, 2018
When President Trump pardoned former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio last August for criminal contempt of federal court associated with his defiant pursuit of racial and ethnic profiling in harassing Latinos, the main rationalization was that the old demagogue wasn't in a position to do much moreÃÂ ...
CNN
January 9, 2018
Arpaio was defeated in the 2016 election after 24 years in office as sheriff. He was convicted last year of criminal contempt for defying a court order to stop racially profiling Latinos but was pardoned by President Donald Trump, whose presidential campaign Arpaio had supported, in August before servingÃÂ ...
Alabama's News Leader
January 9, 2018
18, 2013, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks at a news conference at the Sheriff's headquarters in Phoenix, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, ... Former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio has announced he plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Jeff Flake. The 85-year-old Arpaio is aÃÂ ...
Arizona Daily Sun
January 9, 2018
Maricopa County spent $141 million defending Arpaio against lawsuits. That includes $54 million in the racial profiling case alone and $82 million in judgments, settlements and legal fees for the sheriff's office, covering issues such as lawsuits over deaths in his jails and the lawman's failed investigations ofÃÂ ...
ABC 57 News
January 9, 2018
(CNN) -- Joe Arpaio, the Republican former Maricopa County sheriff known for his hard-line immigration tactics, says he's running for Senate. "I have a lot to offer. I'm a big supporter of President Trump," Arpaio told the Washington Examiner in an interview kicking off his campaign. "I'm going to have to workÃÂ ...
Tucson News Now
January 9, 2018
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -. Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio announced via Twitter Tuesday that he will be running for Senate. "I am running for the U.S. Senate from the Great State of Arizona, for one unwavering reason: to support the agenda and policies of President Donald Trump in his missionÃÂ ...
Red and Black
January 9, 2018
The self-described "America's Toughest Sheriff" has thrown his hat into the ring to replace Jeff Flake in the Senate. In a tweet announcing his run for Senate Tuesday morning, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says his single goal is to support the agenda and policies of President Donald Trump.
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
January 9, 2018
PHOENIX (AP) — Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff who was spared a possible jail sentence when President Donald Trump pardoned him for ... His re-election defeat came amid a crush of criticism over the $141 million in legal costs that Maricopa County taxpayers footed for defending him in lawsuitsÃÂ ...
The Columbian
January 9, 2018
PHOENIX — Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was spared a possible jail sentence last year when his political ally President Donald Trump pardoned his ... Arpaio 's re-election defeat came amid a crush of criticism over the $141 million in legal costs that Maricopa County taxpayers footed for defending himÃÂ ...
MarketWatch
January 9, 2018
Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio plans to run for Senate in Arizona, he announced Tuesday. Arpaio was pardoned in August by President Donald Trump, after being convicted for defying a judge's order to end traffic patrols targeting immigrants. Arpaio said in a tweet he's running "to support the agenda andÃÂ ...
News-Herald.com
January 9, 2018
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of metro Phoenix, during a news conference in Marshalltown, Iowa. Former Phoenix lawman and Trump ally Arpaio says he will run for the Arizona U.S. Senate seat held by Jeff Flake. Mary Altaffer — The Associated PressÃÂ ...
Reno Gazette Journal
January 9, 2018
Former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who for years has teased potential runs for higher office, has told the Washington, D.C.-based Washington Examiner that he is running for the U.S. Senate in Arizona. More: Trump move to boot Salvadoran TPS holders from U.S. would affect thousands in Nevada.
Phoenix New Times
December 29, 2017
As it happens, the actual authors are only slightly less outrageous. The book is co-authored by actor/director Seagal and former Arizona Republican Party chairman Tom Morrissey. Morrissey even got former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to pen the book's foreword before it was published in October.
AZCentral.com
December 21, 2017
But when a Sheriff's Office news release stated she won the competition, her name didn't jump out. In 2013, her trial would result in a life sentence and rivet the nation. People searching for all nuggets of information about Arias found the video where it had been hiding in plain sight, on the Maricopa CountyÃÂ ...
Arizona Daily Star
December 15, 2017
26, 2016, file photo, then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is joined by Joe Arpaio, the then sheriff of metro Phoenix, during a news ... refused to award damages against former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio at a civil trial for bringing a since-dismissed criminal case against one of Sen.
ABC15 Arizona
December 15, 2017
Stephen Montoya, the couple's attorney, said his clients disagree with the verdict said that they were grateful for "the opportunity to force former Sheriff Arpaio and his subordinates at Maricopa County to account for their indisputably reckless conduct." "The struggle to hold government officials accountableÃÂ ...
CBS News
December 14, 2017
Closing arguments are scheduled Thursday at a civil trial over an allegation that one of Sen. Jeff Flake's sons was maliciously prosecuted by then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio in a now-dismissed animal cruelty case. Austin Flake and his then-wife Logan Brown were charged with animal cruelty in the 2014ÃÂ ...
AZCentral.com
December 13, 2017
Jeff Flake's son on Wednesday testified that he lost faith in the criminal-justice system after former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio waged an animal-cruelty case against him and his ex-wife. Austin Flake and his then-wife, Logan Brown, have accused Arpaio of malicious prosecution in connection withÃÂ ...
Latina Lista: The Smart News Source
December 7, 2017
As a result of the federal court case, originally known as Ortega Melendres v. Arpaio, now known as Ortega Melendres v. Penzone, people who were stopped by Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MSCO) between December 23, 2011 and May 24, 2013, based on their immigration status, can finally have theirÃÂ ...
ABC News
December 7, 2017
Controversial former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is "strongly considering" mounting a bid for the U.S. Senate in 2018, he told ABC News Thursday. ... The former sheriff of Maricopa County said he has not spoken with the president about his thoughts of running for the Senate, but added, "if I run, I'm runningÃÂ ...
ABC15 Arizona
December 6, 2017
PHOENIX - Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio was unable to cite any evidence on the witness stand Wednesday to back up his now-dismissed animal cruelty case against one of U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake's sons in the 2014 deaths of 21 dogs. The former six-term sheriff of metro Phoenix told jurors he felt hisÃÂ ...
AZCentral.com
December 6, 2017
A program intended to compensate people who were stopped or held by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office in violation of an immigration-related court order is accepting applications. The victim-compensation program stems from a long-running racial-profiling case under ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reign.
CBS News
December 6, 2017
"Conclusions were drawn in good faith by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office." Leonard also told jurors that the prosecutor who filed the charges was not pressured by Arpaio's office to prosecute the couple. Arpaio, who lost his re-election bid last year after serving as sheriff of greater Phoenix for 24 years,ÃÂ ...
ABC15 Arizona
December 5, 2017
PHOENIX - A civil trial beginning Tuesday in Phoenix will focus on former Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reputation for pursuing trumped-up criminal charges against his political adversaries. One of Sen. Jeff Flake's sons alleges in a malicious-prosecution lawsuit that the six-term sheriff of metro Phoenix filed animalÃÂ ...
Arizona Daily Star
December 5, 2017
PHOENIX — Latinos who were illegally detained when then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio disobeyed a 2011 court order barring his immigration patrols can now ... Under the compensation system, Maricopa County will pay $500 for the first hour of a person's illegal detention and $35 for each additional 20-minuteÃÂ ...
Arizona Daily Star
December 31, 1999
FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2013, file photo, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaks to reporters in Phoenix, Ariz. A judge will hold a hearing in Phoenix, Ariz., Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016, to discuss legal issues raised by a recommendation that prosecutors file a criminal contempt-of-court case against Arpaio.
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
Senate hopeful Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff pardoned by President Trump after his conviction in a racial-profiling case, said he did not realize he had given an interview to a publication that peddles anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial. Arpaio's statement posted on Twitter on Thursday was a virtualÃÂ ...
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