> >TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO, HE IS THE MARICOPA COUNTY 
>>SHERIFF(ARIZONA) AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER AGAIN. 
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>>These are some of the reasons why:  
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>>   Sheriff Joe Arpaio created the "tent city jail" to save Arizona from 
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>>spending tens of million of dollars on another expensive prison 
>>complex. 
>>*   He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the 
>>inmates for them. 
>>*   He banned smoking and porno magazines in the jails, and took 
>>away their weightlifting equipment and cut off all but "G" movies. He  
>>says: "they're in jail to pay a debt to society not to build muscles so 
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>>theycan assault innocent people when they leave." 
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>>*   He started chain gangs to use the inmates to do free work on  
>>county and city projects and save taxpayer's money. 
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>>*   Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued 
>>for discrimination. 
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>>*   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 
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>>TV again but only allows the Disney channel and the weather channel. 
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>>*   When asked why the weather channel he replied: "so these morons  
>>will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain 
>>gangs." 
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>>*   He cut off coffee because it has zero nutritional value and is 
>>therefore a waste of taxpayer money. When the inmates complained, he  
>>told  them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it,don't 
>>come back." 
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>>  * He also bought the Newt Gingrich lecture series on US history that  
>>he pipes into the jails. When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture 
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>>series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series that 
>>actually tells the truth for a change would be welcome and that  
>>it might even explain why 95% of the inmates were in his jails in   the 
>>firstplace. 
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>>   * With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 
>>degrees just set a new record for June 2nd), 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.  
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>>   * On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing pink boxer shorts were 
>>chatting in the tents, where temperatures reached 128 degrees. "This is 
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>>hell. It feels like we live in a furnace," said Ernesto Gonzales, an  
>>inmate for 2 years with 10 more to go. "It's inhumane." 
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>>   * Joe Arpaio, who makes his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna 
>>sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. "Criminals should be punished  
>>for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for parole, only 
>>to go out and commit more crimes so they can come back in to live on 
>>taxpayers money and enjoy things many taxpayers can't afford to have  
>>for themselves." 
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>>   * Wednesday he told all the inmates who were complaining of the heat 
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>>in the tents: "It's between 120 to 130 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers  
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>>are living in tents too, and they have to walk all day in the sun, 
>>wearing full battle gear and get shot at, and they have not committed 
>>any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"  
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>>   * Way to go, Sheriff! If all prisons were like yours there would be 
>>a lot less crime and we would not be in the current position of running 
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>>out of prison spaces.  
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>>* If you agree, pass this on. If not, you are a namby-pamby liberal 
>>bed-wetter so just delete it. 
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>>Sheriff Joe was just re-elected Sheriff in Maricopa County , Arizona