{"id":180970,"date":"2016-11-09T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/09\/a-silver-lining\/"},"modified":"2016-11-09T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T01:55:00","slug":"a-silver-lining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/11\/09\/a-silver-lining\/","title":{"rendered":"A Silver Lining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The racist sh%$ bag Sheriff Joe Arpaio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/09\/us\/joe-arpaio-arizona-sheriff.html\">has lost his bid for reelection in Maricopa County Arizona<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sheriff Joe Arpaio, an enduring symbol of Arizona\u2019s unforgiving stance toward illegal immigration, lost his bid for a seventh term on Tuesday, effectively ending the career of perhaps the most divisive law enforcement figure in the country.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">In the end, Sheriff Arpaio\u2019s bid for re-election as sheriff of Maricopa County was undone by Latino voters who responded to his hard-line position on illegal immigration, which included workplace raids, frequent traffic stops and harsh talk.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cThe people Arpaio targeted decided to target him. He lost his power when undocumented people lost their fear,\u201d said Carlos Garcia, executive director of Puente, an advocacy group formed in 2007 to counter the sheriff\u2019s embrace of a federal program that allowed his deputies to act as de facto immigration agents.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe knew that losing an election was only a matter of time,\u201d Mr. Garcia said. \u201cFor us, what is most important now is to undo the damage and culture of hate that he has brought upon this county.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This man was a cancer on law enforcement and the body politic of Arizone.<\/p>\n<p>It could only get better if he dies as a prisoner in what used to be his own jail, which is possible, as he is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/local\/phoenix\/2016\/10\/17\/department-of-justice-contempt-sheriff-joe-arpaio-susan-bolton\/92300986\/\">facing a criminal contempt citation from a Federal judge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The racist sh%$ bag Sheriff Joe Arpaio has lost his bid for reelection in Maricopa County Arizona: Sheriff Joe Arpaio, an enduring symbol of Arizona\u2019s unforgiving stance toward illegal immigration, lost his bid for a seventh term on Tuesday, effectively ending the career of perhaps the most divisive law enforcement figure in the country.In the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[867,761,808,766,799,875],"class_list":["post-180970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-corruption","tag-elections","tag-evil","tag-politics","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}