Joe Arpaio Cost $100 Million…one hell of an action figure

 


 Not Joe, but close enough...


Remember Joe Arpaio? He was the tough guy Arizona sheriff of Maricopa County who was sort of a pre-Trump Trump. He did all sorts of awful things to people, particularly people of color, and kept getting voted back into office by Republicans who thought such behavior was just fine, thank you very much. Keep those [deleted] in their place, and all that.


Until, that is, he ended up getting his country sued like a zillion times and he became a very expensive liability. Finally, even Republicans got a little wigged out by his antics, and the Democrats got their act together, and he got kicked out of office.


Ah, but there’s the rub. He was gone, but all those suits against the county for Arpaio’s misdeeds were still pending. The last major case was just settled this year. And, according to the Associated Press, the total cost of Sheriff Joe’s Trumpian actions was a cool $100 million.*


Let me repeat that. He cost his county one hundred…million…dollars.


Gee.


I wonder if the people of Maricopa County really felt like they were getting their money’s worth. I mean, a tough guy is all fine and good, but $100 million? I mean, really…


You can get a John Wayne movie on Amazon for a couple of bucks.  And Mr. Wayne was a lot better looking than Joe, believe me.


‘Course, that isn’t hard. 




~mjt



*Source: “Arpaio legal tab hits $100M as taxpayers foot his last bills,” by Jacque Billeau, Oct 29, 2021, Associated Press, https://apnews.com/article/immigration-business-arizona-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-fa5aab2f85ca6d7b22b2a028759eb44a



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