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January 10, 2018

Notorious Racist Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio Announces Senate Bid
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The notorious racist former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio has announced he
is running for Senate in the race to replace retiring Republican Senator
Jeff Flake. Arpaio has been a major supporter of President Trump, who
pardoned the ex-sheriff last year, after he was convicted of contempt of
court for defying an order to stop his deputies from racial profiling.
For years Arpaio ran a notoriously racist sheriff's department in
Maricopa County, Arizona. He once bragged that he ran his open-air tent
city jail like a "concentration camp." Arpaio was first elected in 1992
and was voted out of office in 2016 after Latinos organized a massive
get-out-the-vote campaign.


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