Sheriff Joe Arpaio Targeted By Arizona Recall Leader Randy Parraz In Ad (VIDEO)

WASHINGTON -- The Arizona community organizer who led a successful recall campaign against the architect of the state's controversial immigration law SB 1070 unveiled a new ad Wednesday aimed at ousting another divisive figure, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Randy Parraz -- president of Citizens for a Better Arizona, a rising figure in progressive circles and an occasional HuffPost blogger -- visited The Huffington Post newsroom in D.C. Wednesday, the day of the Republican presidential debate in Arizona. Arizona will hold its primary Feb. 28.

Parraz, who ran for Senate in 2010, talked about his new campaign against Arpaio, whose alleged abuse of undocumented immigrants has earned him a rebuke from the U.S. Justice Department and charges that he has mishandled more than 400 sex-crime cases in his county.

The Latino community organizer talked about Republican congressional candidate Paul Babeu, the tough-on-immigration Arizona sheriff now in hot water for allegedly threatening to deport his former boyfriend. Parraz said Babeu "drank the same Kool-Aid" as Arpaio and Republican Russell Pearce, the architect of SB 1070 and the Arizona senate president Parraz helped recall.

Parraz also said he'll be watching Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) closely in the next few months and said he won't rule out launching a recall petition against her if she continues to champion legislation that hurts Latinos and other immigrants.

Video produced by Sara Kenigsberg.

Comments

[xAmerican Pridex]

03:08 AM on 03/30/2013

I was so hoping that Parraz would say he was going to run for office so we could enjoy watching him lose AGAIN. Parraz and his circus whine about the money that Sheriff Joe has cost taxpayers yet have no problem costing taxpayers another $5.5 MILLION (perhaps more) for this idiotic recall. They also have the audacity to call the recall group 'Respect Arizona' when they have absolutely NO respect for Arizona voters who made their choice in November and that choice was Sheriff Joe... for the 6th time! They claim that Arizona voters weren't 'informed' yet spent the entire summer whining ad nauseum about the lawsuits against the MCSO, the deaths in his jails and, of couse the child sex crimes that went uninvestigated. (Funny thing, they go on and on about those uninvestigated/mishandled crimes and act like they're so concerned for the children and others involved yet make no mention/have no interest in the same types of uninvestigated/mishandled crimes in our other law enforcement agencies.... hmmmm.) Hypocritical much????

[Sean777]

06:27 PM on 02/23/2012

Why Paul Babeu has not been arrested by Joe Arpaio for breaking the new law SB1070?
It is clear by now that Babeu broke the SB1070 law provisions regarding helping an undocumented immigrant concealed his immigration status as Babeu has been accused of using deportation treats to intimidate his lover.

[rdrover]

09:36 AM on 02/24/2012

Hey -- the things one does for love, hunh?

[Broderick Crawford]

03:58 PM on 02/23/2012

Randy Parraz couldn't even get 15% of the vote in a democratic primary in the August 2010 senate race. And who can argue with a man who has a recidivism rate of about 16% at Tent City vs. the national average of 85%. No wonder he has been around so long.

[rdrover]

09:39 AM on 02/24/2012

Tent City recidivism? Do you GOPhers ever read what you type? Hey, what's your take on Hitler's solution to the Jewish Problem?

[xAmerican Pridex]

02:49 AM on 03/30/2013

Big difference, rdrover. The Jewish people were legal citizens and there isn't the tiniest of comparisons between what Hitler did to them and how illegal aliens are treated. If there were, most illegals would have been gased or died of starvation in work camps by now. By the way, I'm an American of Mexican descent who has lived in Maricopa county for all but one of my 57 years and I always have and always will support Sheriff Joe Arapio 100%.

[ruthtruth]

03:09 PM on 02/23/2012

You may be in a heap of trouble, Joe. Hooray! Recall him.

[hans sulu]

02:57 PM on 02/23/2012

Two things, one Sheriff Joe will not be removed from office. The Neo-Cons who live in the valley love him and think he is doing a wonderful job. He appeals to their sense of "justice" Be it making prisioners work chain gangs, wear pink underware, or eat disgusting food three times a day.
Second, Sheriff Joe has a history of getting even with political opponents. The political landscape is littered with people who challanged Sheriff Joe or slighted him. I would not be surprised if Randy Parraz suddenly is being followed or some blown up story about him appears in the news soon.

[musicdude50]

12:10 PM on 02/23/2013

And rightfully so. Thanks for your comment!

[freedom1947]

11:21 AM on 02/23/2012

Joe can get a job as a taco bell security guard

[bpdarling]

01:54 PM on 02/23/2012

No..Wall Mart would be a better place for him. He can clean their toilets.

[timesrtough]

10:42 AM on 02/23/2012

We got to get rid of this guy; he is actually enforcing the law. Can't have that can we?
Just a guess but if were a sheriff on a border state with Canada and we were being invaded with Canadians, he would take the same position of enforcing the law.

[go-dills]

03:44 PM on 02/23/2012

There are instances of white illegals being pulled over and NOT being asked for their papers. Your inference that it's not a racial thing with him doesn't hold much water.

[xAmerican Pridex]

02:56 AM on 03/30/2013

It's not Joe's fault that we live in a border state that has become the gateway for illegal aliens from south of our border so, consequently the majority of our illegals are brown and a lot of them make a habit of breaking laws. What else would you expect from people who had no respect for our immigration laws and borders when they came here?

[den1953]

10:38 AM on 02/23/2012

So the AZ Taliban does exist?

[qq33jb]

10:04 AM on 02/23/2012

Sheriff Joe will be in office as long as he wants. The voters ,{silent majority } will keep him there. They like the job he is doing.

[bpdarling]

01:58 PM on 02/23/2012

More like IGNORANT majority who doesn't BOTHER to educate themselves on what is going on in Arizona. THe majority of the ignorants in Arizona don't vote at all, and Republican primary voter turnouts are falling off a cliff. Many are leaving the Republicans all together due to people like Arpaio and Jan Brewer. These two, in Arizona don't want you to live a happy life, they want you to be FEARFUL that someone is going to rob you, steal from you, and they tell Arizona residents that only Mexicans do those things......Republican leadership is NON EXISTENT in Arizona. Arpaio and Brewer are the PROBLEM. Gabrielle Giffords is the solution, and we know what Brewer and Arpaio allowed to happen to her......Arpaio cannot even keep Arizonan's safe......time for him to go. Brewer too.

[fsj2]

07:26 AM on 02/23/2012

Keep up the good work Joe. Thank you for enforcing our laws.

[bpdarling]

01:59 PM on 02/23/2012

He's actually BREAKING more laws than he is enforcing, and causing Arizona to rack up TENS OF MILLIONS in LEGAL BILLS and settlements that are paid to people that Arpaio discriminates against, and denies them their constitutional rights....they sue, and Arpaio loses....and taxpayers in Arizona PAY!

Not a great record........time for Joe to go.

[Aristarchy]

06:37 AM on 02/23/2012

Sayonara Old man

[piceaglauca]

02:15 AM on 02/23/2012

How can these hypocritical people maintain public office and how is it that the state governor hasn't ordered an investigation? There are so many powerful agencies condemning this guy and still he is a law Inforcement officer? Whose law? Time to retire him.

[ArticleFriendly]

04:57 AM on 02/23/2012

He reminds me of J. Edgar Hoover.. Hoover and Arpaio are both the type of men that play political theater to convince people they are far more important than they are, while abusing the powers of their positions. both despised by many and loved by few (hoover choose to live his life with longtime Associate Director Clyde Tolson rather than marry or date women), but as Hoover knew where the bodies were buried and the skeletons in the closets of important people (as I'm sure Arpaio does), they were/are both feared and, like Hoover, Arpaio will probably be in power until he dies of old age. But then, maybe not...

[wyb]

09:40 AM on 02/23/2012

Joe is a Jersey shore reincarnation of Pinky Hoover.

[bpdarling]

02:00 PM on 02/23/2012

Brewer is paid off....therefore she "looks the other way".

[Sean777]

01:49 AM on 02/23/2012

Mr. Parraz has brought very important points about Arpaio; especially about the image of Arizona. Arpaio has destroyed the tourist business of Arizona by parading prisoners wearing holocaust uniforms and pink underwear in Phoenix to campaign for his re-election, not to mention showing tent city resembling concentration camps on TV claiming that he is proud of exposing detainees to extreme heat and hunger providing only two rations of green bologna per day, which is considered by many Governments’ standards forms of torture. That’s why Arpaio has been found guilty of violating many federal and international laws and the State had paid millions of dollars in lawsuits.
The situation is even more outrageous because the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors made a formal accusation against Joe Arpaio for misspending over 100 million dollars of the state budged doing his immigration enforcement. Meanwhile Jan Brewer has failed in recoup those funds from the federal government so Arizonian taxpayers ended up paying for Arpaio’s persecution of immigrants.

[Viper1st]

05:25 AM on 02/23/2012

Similarities w/Obama's birther allegations?

Lots of allegations ~ no proof.

As evidenced no convictions in how many years, of how many different investigations?

[Mary Scirdinsky]

01:06 PM on 02/23/2012

Sherriff Arpaio didn't destroy the tourism business in Arizona, the gun carrying illegals and cartels did that for most of the border states.

[Sean777]

05:53 PM on 02/23/2012

You are seriously confused; “gun carrying” Jared Lee Loughner is not an undocumented immigrant, actually the persecution is adding hate crime charges as his assassination attempt against congress woman congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords could have been motivated because she is a strong supporter of immigration reform.

[azkingofpoems]

10:56 PM on 02/22/2012

I am a Hispanic who worked hard to get the benefits of this country. I am a pround American who feels that anyone in this country illegally should be dealt with. No rewards for law breakers. Stand and line and do it right. I love this State (AZ) and am proud of Joe Arpaio's handling of our immigration problem. Who in their right minds would sue any State for trying to enforce the laws of this land espcially when the Federal Government fails to do so. I can't wait to have a new President that will give each American, including those who are working towards that goal, to be proud again. This president is taking us to a path that I would have never imagined a President of the U.S. would. I pray to God each and every night, that he keeps his eye on this precious country and gives a a new and true loyal American to lead us.

[gonzie46]

11:57 PM on 02/22/2012

Here is something you should read:
At the federal level. A series of high-profile sweeps known as Operation Cross Check have netted thousands of what the Obama administration refers to as criminal aliens. And felony prosecutions for immigration crimes increased by 42 percent during President Obama's first two years in office, a factor in the record 400,000 deportations this fiscal year, according to data from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, an immigration tracking agency at Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y.

You should be loving this President after all he's doing them same thing that Arpaio's doing catching illegals. Also Please tell me What path is this president taking us down, did you have this kind of concern from 2000-2008 when Dubya nearly collapsed this great nation. We already have a true loyal American leading us. One who is trying to work for the people and is being stopped at every turn by Republicans.

[nutzodriven]

05:37 AM on 02/23/2012

Bet you hated Bush Gonzie14 for doing the same thing.btw it was 2006-2010 when the democrats had full control that destroyed us. we stopped it in 2010 when we split the house. 2000-2006 with republicans we got unemployment down from 7 percent to 4.5 and the CBO said we were on the way to 2011 paying off the debt till the democrats took control of the senate and house.

[wyb]

09:45 AM on 02/23/2012

If your state empowers the ill and semi literate as a voting bloc, their "X" and level of comprehension follows and shapes policy.

[Sean777]

02:02 AM on 02/23/2012

Posting as a "Hispanic" to promote a Hispanic hater like Arpaio…That’s low… well expected for somebody who dares questioning the loyalty of our President as phony as Arpaio’s Birther investigation.

[nutzodriven]

05:39 AM on 02/23/2012

not a Hispanic hater, just law breakers get it right sorry breaking immigration laws is a crime but i guess you cannot comprehend that. Never will either since you hate enforcing our laws.

[retired old fart]

10:46 PM on 02/22/2012

Name one liberal organization that would even give Joe a fair hearing? Because he up holds the law folks are against him. If you live within the laws, you got nothing to worry about. Them that break the law, its bollogna sandwitches and pink undies. I aint going to his jail, are you?

[Wrongway62]

01:16 AM on 02/23/2012

Nice thought, when was the last time you had to show your papers for being here legally? If your Hispanic old Joe and the boys can pull over and ask for them just cause.

[piceaglauca]

02:16 AM on 02/23/2012

And very, very wrong I would like to add. I don't want to have a tan when I drive through your state. Scary place to be but only in America.

[nutzodriven]

05:42 AM on 02/23/2012

I do it twice a week or more depending what state I am traveling through and if I bring a load back into this country from Canada. Also show them when I get stopped at the scales, or pulled over, so why are the Hispanics different?

[spikeydave]

01:20 AM on 02/23/2012

I live in Arizona and in Arpiaos county there are thousands of unserved warrants against felons. Arrest them then go after the illegals who simply mow lawns for less than Americans would, not the other way around. Also my state has paid out millions in law suits against Arpiao for his abuses of power such as having police follow and perform surveillance on his political opponents.

[wyb]

10:01 AM on 02/23/2012

He is the cat's paw of the same right wing exremists Republicans who voted in the Arizona Militia Act this week.