TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE ARPAIO, HE IS THE MARICOPA COUNTY
SHERIFF (ARIZONA) AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

These are some of the reasons why:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio created the "tent city jail" to save Arizona
from spending tens of million of dollars on another expensive prison
complex.

He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the
inmates for them.

He banned smoking and porno magazines in the jails, and took away
their weightlifting equipment and cut off all but "G" movies. He says:
"they're in jail to pay a debt to society not to build muscles so they
can assault innocent people when they leave."

He started chain gangs to use the inmates to do free work on
county and city projects and save taxpayer's money.

Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for
discrimination.

He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal
court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable
TV again but only allows the Disney channel and the weather channel.

When asked why the weather channel he replied: "so these morons
will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain
gangs."

He cut off coffee because it has zero nutritional value and is
therefore a waste of taxpayer money. When the inmates complained, he
told them, "This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't
come back."

He also bought the Newt Gingrich lecture series on US history
that he pipes into the jails. When asked by a reporter if he had any
lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture
series that actually tells the truth for a change would be welcome and
that it might even explain why 95% of the inmates were in his jails in
the first place.

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116
degrees just set a new record for June 2nd), the Associated Press
reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed- wire-surrounded tent
encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to
strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.

On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing pink boxer shorts were
chatting in the tents, where temperatures reached 128 degrees. "This is
hell. It feels like we live in a furnace," said Ernesto Gonzales, an
inmate for 2 years with 10 more to go. "It's inhumane."

Joe Arpaio, who makes his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna
sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. "Criminals should be punished
for their crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for parole, only
to go out and commit more crimes so they can come back in to live on
taxpayers money and enjoy things many taxpayers can't afford to have
for themselves."

Wednesday he told all the inmates who were complaining of the >
heat in the tents: "It's between 120 to 130 degrees in Iraq and our
soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to walk all day in the
sun, wearing full battle gear and get shot at, and they have not
committed any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!"

Way to go, Sheriff! If all prisons were like yours there would be
a lot less crime and we would not be in the current position of running
out of prison spaces.

If you agree, pass this on. If not, you are a namby-pamby liberal
bed-wetter so just delete it.
Sheriff Joe was just re-elected Sheriff in Maricopa County,
Arizona...!