{"id":184664,"date":"2012-02-19T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/19\/republicans-the-party-of-values\/"},"modified":"2012-02-19T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T22:26:00","slug":"republicans-the-party-of-values","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/19\/republicans-the-party-of-values\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans the Party of Values"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What a surprise.  We have an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/arizona-sheriff-facing-allegations-of-misconduct-forced-to-publically-announce-he-is-gay\/2012\/02\/18\/gIQA3Zr8LR_story.html?tid=pm_pop\">Arizona sheriff being accused of corruption after he threatened to deport his gay lover in order to force his silence<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu \u2014 who became the face of Arizona border security nationally after he started stridently opposing illegal immigration \u2014 threatened his Mexican ex-lover with deportation when the man refused to promise never to disclose their years-long relationship, the former boyfriend and his lawyer tell New Times.<\/p>\n<p>The latest of the alleged threats were made through Babeu&#8217;s personal attorney, who&#8217;s also running the sheriff&#8217;s campaign for Congress in District 4, the ex-lover says.<\/p>\n<p>He says lawyer Chris DeRose demanded he sign an agreement that he would never breathe a word about the affair. But Jose (New Times is withholding his last name because Babeu and his attorney have challenged his legal status) refused.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This guy first came to prominence when one of his deputies fabricated a story about being shot at by illegal aliens, and Babeu went on a self promotional media tour.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, until this all blew up, he was one of Mitt Romney&#8217;s campaign co-chairmen in Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a surprise. We have an Arizona sheriff being accused of corruption after he threatened to deport his gay lover in order to force his silence: Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu \u2014 who became the face of Arizona border security nationally after he started stridently opposing illegal immigration \u2014 threatened his Mexican ex-lover with deportation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051,1053,972,1041,978,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy","category-immigration","category-justice","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-politics","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184664"}],"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=184664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}