Thursday, May 10, 2012

A story for both

This is something that I had been keeping up with since I had a trip through Arizona a while back, and it deals with a Sheriff that should never have turned his job into politics, which is what he did.
 
The US Federal Government is suing Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio over the departments treatment of Latinos, which he shouldn't have been doing in the first place, but he was also a supporter of that anti-Latino bill SB-1070 which is mostly the start of this entire thing. Now the one thing that I had noticed when they went through a history of his being there, is that Arpaio has turned this job into something political which it never should have been in the first place. Plus in not one of the photos that I've seen of him has he ever worn a uniform at all (OK scratch that, I just discovered one, and I think that it was back when he was first elected into the office position in the first place. The photos above show both with and with out the uniform on). The problem is, what's happened to him should never have happened at all, he really should have been voted out of office a long time. The problem is that no one so far has been able to defeat him.
 
This is one of the main reasons why I'm a huge supporter of term limits for every position in politics, doesn't matter the level, everyone should only be allowed to serve for only just so long, and once they've served that's it they can't be allowed to run again at a different time (like what Brown did). This was, the power that one gains from the position that the person happens to fill, it doesn't go to their heads at all. This is something that needs to change, however I know that the opponents of that would say that if the person is good then why should they be taken out of where they happen to be, well the answer to that is right there in the persons face with Sheriff Joe. The power went right to his head and he really should be taken down.
 
Now the level of his arrigance he has stated time and again that he won't leave the position he's in, and the fact that last I knew he has over $6 million for a reelection campain. Here's the thing that I've learned when it came right down to elections, it really doesn't matter how much money you happen to have, in the end it will come down to the will of the voters. So if the voters decide that Joe must go, then he will be going and there will be no stopping that at all, it's just like one of his greatest supporters was voted out of office in a recall election. Right now thanks to everything that Joe is doing, Arizona is becoming known as the hate state, and that's not good for any state to have. Plus I know of one person that thought she could actually win an election with the amount of money that she put into it, and yet she still lost, that was Meg Whitman to Jerry Brown (though personally I still think that Meg should've won that in the first place, namely after what Jerry did to this state (and continues to do, after all he's got the ballot petitions for putting his tax hike bill on the ballot, I'll get into this later))
 
Anyway, check out the information that's included and see for your self what you happen to think of what's going on down there, and then post what you think should really be done.
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Felix Sanchez
Sign Dancer, Liberty Tax Fresno, CA
Alhambra High School
Class of '97
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