Recall effort against Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio fails by Jongsstraw

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Recall effort against Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio fails

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UPDATED: Friday, May 31, 2013 03:40
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May 30, 2013, 6:39 p.m.
TUCSON -- Despite a recent court ruling that the department run by Maricopa County’s top cop used racial profiling in his quest to crack down on illegal immigration, a recall effort against Sheriff Joe Arpaio has failed.

On Thursday, members of Respect Arizona and Citizens for a Better Arizona -- who launched the recall effort against Arpaio -- failed to gather the necessary 335,000 valid voter signatures by the 5 p.m. deadline. The aim was to force a recall election.

Activists behind the recall effort would not say how many signatures they were short. Randy Parraz, president of Citizens for Better Arizona, only said the two groups had collected close to 300,000 signatures.

Arpaio, reelected in November, blasted the group in a prepared statement.

“After months of name calling, after the disparaging effigies and theatrics … this latest recall effort has failed,” Arpaio said. "This effort failed because the good people of Maricopa County, whom I'm honored to serve, rejected the wrongheaded idea of overturning an election."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-ff-arpaio-recall
-fails-20130530,0,7548060.story

I've seen his jail on MSNBC's "Lock Up". Not a place I'd want to spend even ten minutes in. Actually, none of the prisons they take their cameras into look like much fun.

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