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Nice, NCD. "The years-long

we are stardust — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:44:21 +0000

Nice, NCD. "The years-long conflicts among Arpaio, Thomas and the supervisors has cost $5.6 million over the past two years, according to a Republic analysis of public records."

Thank you very much NCD. My

Richard Day — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:25:28 +0000

In reply to Richard, recent report on

Thank you very much NCD. My goodness.

This is a lot of material to digest for sure.

Graft is everywhere. It is just when people take an interest and connect the dots that we learn about it.

It may be rare for D.A.'s to be held accountable; but it should not be rare that D.A.'s be held accountable.

This situation in Arizona just presents me with nausea.

And I have seen this type of activity. I mean, in this state we used to allow a municipal cop to be summoned in a criminal jury trial as a juror when the reporting officer was in the sheriff's department.

I have seen instances where judges say that a defendant cannot present an opening argument when he presents no witnesses. As if the attorney even knows if he will call a witness until the prosecution has rested its case.

Attorneys fight these practices every single day in this country as well as others.

Long after Arpaio is dead, cases shall surface calling into question his actions as well as the actions of his staff.

Richard, recent report on

NCD — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:18:33 +0000

In reply to I think I have written five

Richard, recent report on Arpaio's legal beagles and their disbarment:

Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Lisa Aubuchon, a onetime deputy prosecutor, vowed Monday to keep practicing law and to vigorously fight new allegations of ethical and criminal misconduct that, if proved, could result in their disbarment.

Thomas, Aubuchon and former Deputy County Attorney Rachel Alexander misused their prosecutorial powers over the past three years to retaliate against judges and county officials, according to a report released Monday by Colorado ethics investigator John Gleason, who investigated the officials for the state Bar of Arizona

It is rare, legal experts say, for an elected prosecutor to face such disciplinary actions in connection with performance of official duties.

Gleason alleges in the nearly 100-page report that the attorneys violated 33 ethics rules involving, among other things, conflicts of interest, dishonesty, misrepresentation, filing a frivolous suit and filing charges against county officials solely to embarrass or burden them.....

Oh, please do; I won't. I

we are stardust — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:43:19 +0000

In reply to If you decide not to I will

Oh, please do; I won't. I poked around the other day to see whassup, and failed. I think my heart wasn't really in it, and there is a subject to poke into everywhere you can look. I found info about the increase of undocumented immigrants having increased under Obama (800,000 in 2010), and some of the justifications for it, but my heart wasn't in chasing down the verity of any of that, either. He seems to think it will give him more cred with Republicans on reform, but it's hard to see that happening if an eventual bill were a good one. And no; I don't know what a good one, or a fair one, might look like yet. Hope I'd know it when I saw it, though. ;o)

If you decide not to I will

Richard Day — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 23:01:11 +0000

In reply to I noticed I'd written several

If you decide not to I will look this up and publish on Thursday or something. Arpaio is in trouble with judges in his own district as well as D.A.'s in his own district as well as the Feds.

As I have pointed out before, Arpaio is already a triple dipper in terms of Federal and State Pensions. He wants to prove something, make a dent. And all he ever does is hurt people.

There was the incident where he arrested a judge, arrested a D.A. and refused to honor subpoenas.

You cannot do this as a public servant.

It is about time anyway even though I included him in my Joy of American Christmas post.

I am more interested in outsourcing our prisons to corporate pigs and in the fact that 3 million people in this country are in prison without even counting the 'illegals' in concentration camps.

Arpaio is just a symbol in all of this and like I said, his days are numbered.

I noticed I'd written several

we are stardust — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:51:39 +0000

In reply to I think I have written five

I noticed I'd written several diaries about the asshole, too. We were advised that the Holder DoJ had opened an investigation into him by Spam at the Cafe. Last I'd heard (and it's been awhile), he was still refusing to honor subpoenas for his records, and the papers said they were awaiting court decisions on the matter. I'd have thought people would have been brought to jail for that. Any idea on what's going on in the matter? I sort of wondered if any of this was the long case A-man had referenced the other day, though my nosiness is probably not a good thing. ;o)

I think I have written five

Richard Day — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:44:52 +0000

In reply to I tend to shy away from using

I think I have written five or more posts on this guy.

This octogenarian will not be around that long anyway. But he is the meanest white man I have heard about since the KKK guys who ran the sheriffs departments in the South decades ago.

He is involved with out-sourced prisons and state run prisons. And nobody has any control over this bastard. That is all I got right now!!

The man infuriates me.

I tend to shy away from using

we are stardust — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:26:22 +0000

In reply to Richard, a prison story!

I tend to shy away from using the word "evil', since I think it's a serious word that deserves serious discussion about it as an adjective, and more importantly as existing as a Malign Force. But after watching Arpaio, his tactics, his smears, his associations with White Supremacists, and his grotesque tent cities for 'illegals', even when they aren't, but weren't carrying their papers when they were picked up, I will say I think he really may be evil.

I'll desist in tying him to J. Napolitano in the past, as some here take offense at that characterization. Pace.

NCD--some people count more

Richard Day — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 21:25:15 +0000

In reply to Richard, a prison story!

NCD--some people count more than other people

I bet when Abramoff had the sniffles, he had an attending physician.

This stinks. And I told somebody else this week I do a blog on prisons once a month.

Except for MSNBC, this stuff is hidden from the general population.

If this happened in Iran everyone would be screaming bloody murder.

Richard, a prison story!

NCD — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 20:42:21 +0000

In reply to Education does demonstrate an

Richard, a prison story! Read this article, 'What's Mom Worth?' on how in wildly popular GOP Sheriff Joe's jails guards apparently diagnose medical conditions and withhold treatment, a practice that led to the death of an insulin diabetic who was thought to be 'in withdrawal' from drugs, but was dying from not getting insulin over a 3-4 day incarceration in Sheriff Joe's jail.

This after her daughter called the county to tell them about her Mom's need for insulin, and despite the fact that the woman had been in Joe's jail a few years previously, and it had been known she needed insulin then and got it at that time.

The case as it winds it way through our exceptional 'justice system':

BRAILLARD v. MARICOPA COUNTY

Jennifer BRAILLARD, personal representative of the Estate of Deborah Ann Braillard, deceased; Jennifer Braillard, surviving daughter of Deborah Ann Braillard, Plaintiff/Appellant/Cross-Appellee, v. MARICOPA COUNTY; Maricopa County Sheriff.S Office; Joseph M. Arpaio and Ava Arpaio, husband and wife; Cincy Rodriguez; Randal S. Harenberg and Carlene Harenberg, husband and wife; Diane Galaviz; Karyn Kleinschmidt, nka Karyn Schwartz; Stephanie Leppert; Sandra M. Garfias; and Lucy F. Akpan, Defendants/Appellees/Cross-Appellants.

No. 2 CA-CV 2009-0059.

-- May 27, 2010

......you can read in the legal link how Maricopa County claimed it wasn't their fault the woman died, it was her fault for not telling them she needed insulin in the speedy 54 second or so intake interview, and before she was locked up, went into convulsions that lasted days, in and out of consciousness, and then was finally sent to the medical clinic 40 or so feet down the hall, dying not long afterward.