John Saulnier
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The Good Years
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Subject: SHERIFF JOE IS AT IT AGAIN!
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> This guy is on the ball! We need more of him.
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> Oh, there's MUCH more to know about
> Sheriff Joe!
>
> Maricopa County was spending approx. $18
> million dollars a year on stray animals, like cats
> and dogs. Sheriff Joe offered to take the department
> over, and the County Supervisors said okay.
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> The animal shelters are now all staffed
> and operated by prisoners. They feed and care for
> the strays. Every animal in his care is taken out
> and walked twice daily. He now has prisoners who
> are experts in animal nutrition and behavior. They
> give great classes for anyone who'd like to adopt an
> animal. He has literally taken stray dogs off the
> street, given them to the care of prisoners, and had
> them place in dog shows. The best part? His budget
> for the entire department is now under $3 million.
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>
> Teresa and I adopted a Weimaraner from a
> Maricopa County shelter two years ago. He was
> neutered, and current on all shots, in great health,
> and even had a microchip inserted the day we got
> him. Cost us $78.
> The prisoners get the benefit of about
> $0.28 an hour for working, but most would work for
> free, just to be out of their cells for the day.
> Most of his budget is for utilities, building
> maintenance, etc. He pays the prisoners out of the
> fees collected for adopted animals.
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>
> I have long wondered when the rest of the
> country would take a look at the way he runs the
> jail system, and copy some of his ideas. He has a
> huge farm, donated to the county years ago, where
> inmates can work, and they grow most of their own
> fresh vegetables and food, doing all the work and
> harvesting by hand. He has a pretty good sized hog
> farm, which provides meat, and fertilizer. It
> fertilizes the Christmas tree nursery, where
> prisoners work, and you can buy a living Christmas
> tree for $6 - $8 for the Holidays, and plant it
> later. We have six trees in our yard from the
> Prison.
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>
>
> Yup, he was reelected last year with 83%
> of the vote.
> Now he's in trouble with the ACLU again.
> He painted all his buses and vehicles with a mural,
> that has a special hotline phone number painted on
> it, where you can call and report suspected illegal
> aliens. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement wasn't
> doing enough in his eyes, so he had 40 deputies
> trained specifically for enforcing immigration laws,
> started up his hotline, and bought 4 new buses just
> for hauling folks back to the border. He's kind of
> a "Git-R Dun" kind of Sheriff.
>
> Update on Joe Arpaio
>
> TO THOSE OF YOU NOT FAMILIAR WITH JOE
> ARPAIO
>
> HE IS THE MARICOPA ARIZONA COUNTY SHERIFF
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> AND HE KEEPS GETTING ELECTED OVER AND OVER
>
> THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY:
> Sheriff Joe Arpaio
> (In Arizona)
> who created the
> "Tent City Jail":
> He has jail meals down to 40 cents a
> serving and charges the inmates for them.
>
> He stopped smoking and porno magazines in
> the jails. Took away their weights Cut off all but
> "G" movies.
>
> He started chain gangs so the inmates
> could do free work on county and city projects.
>
> 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 Only
> Let In The Disney Channel And The Weather Channel.
>
> When asked why the weather channel
> He Replied,
> So They Will Know
> How Hot It's Gonna Be
> While They Are Working
> ON My Chain Gangs.
>
> He Cut Off Coffee
> Since It Has
> Zero Nutritional Value.
>
> When the inmates complained, he told them,
> "This Isn't The Ritz/CarltonIf You Don't Like It,
> Don't Come Back."
>
> He bought Newt Gingrich's lecture series
> on videotape 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 might explain why a lot of
> the inmates were in his jails in the first place.
>
>
> More On The Arizona Sheriff:
>
> With Temperatures Being Even Hotter
> Than Usual In Phoenix
> (116 Degrees Just Set A New Record),
> 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
> boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or
> chatted in the tents, which reached
> 138 Degrees
> Inside The Week Before.
>
> Many Were Also Swathed In Wet, Pink Towels
> As Sweat Collected On Their Chests And Dripped Down
> To Their PINK SOCKS.
>
> "It Feels Like We Are In A Furnace,"
> Said James Zanzot,
> An Inmate Who Has Lived In The TENTS for 1
> year.
> "It's Inhumane."
>
> Joe Arpaio,
> the tough-guy sheriff
> who created the tent city and long ago
> started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat
> bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic
> He said Wednesday that he told all of the
> inmates: "It's 120 Degrees In Iraq And
> Our Soldiers Are Living In Tents Too,
> And They Have To
> Wear Full Battle Gear,
> But
> They Didn't Commit Any Crimes,
> So Shut Your Damned Mouths!"
>
> Way To Go, Sheriff!
> Maybe if all prisons were like this one
> there would be a lot less crime and/or
> repeat offenders.
> Criminals should be punished for their
> crimes - not live in luxury until it's time for
> their parole, only to go out and commit another
> crime so they can get back in to live on taxpayers
> money and enjoy things taxpayers can't afford to
> have for themselves.
>
> If you agree, pass this on. If not, just
> delete it.
>
> Sheriff Joe
> was just reelected Sheriff in Maricopa
> County , Arizona .
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