{"id":27289,"date":"2018-01-09T21:46:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T21:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27289"},"modified":"2018-01-09T21:47:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T21:47:28","slug":"felon-u-s-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27289","title":{"rendered":"A felon for U.S. senator?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/YBgveu59.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27290\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/YBgveu59-300x157.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/YBgveu59-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/YBgveu59.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is fantastic. A man convicted of civil rights violations and disobeying a federal court order is going to run for the U.S. Senate from Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, sure, Joe Arpaio has received a presidential pardon from Donald John (Stable Genius) Trump Sr., which means that <em>technically<\/em> he&#8217;s no longer a convicted felon.<\/p>\n<p>He had been convicted of violating a federal court order stemming from accusations that he discriminated against Latinos in his hunt for illegal immigrants. That&#8217;s when the president stepped in to pardon the former Maricopa County sheriff.<\/p>\n<p>So, the ex-lawman is going to seek to pay Trump back by being elected to a Senate seat that would enable him to support the president&#8217;s political agenda. Is this a <em>quid pro quo?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Arpaio wants to succeed Sen. Jeff Flake, the Republican who&#8217;s retiring at the end of his current term, which expires at the end of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe Arizona Republicans should nominate this guy to represent the GOP, let alone elect him to the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Arpaio said this, according to the Arizona Republic: &#8220;I&#8217;ll outgun anybody running against me or otherwise,&#8221; Arpaio said. &#8220;I wouldn&#8217;t do this if I felt that I couldn&#8217;t put all my energy into being elected and also in Washington, doing what I can to help the country and the state. So I feel good about it. I&#8217;m not worried about the age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Arpaio would be 86 at the beginning of a Senate term.<\/p>\n<p>Weird.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is fantastic. A man convicted of civil rights violations and disobeying a federal court order is going to run for the U.S. Senate from Arizona. Oh, sure, Joe Arpaio has received a presidential pardon from Donald John (Stable Genius) Trump Sr., which means that technically he&#8217;s no longer a convicted felon. He had been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27289\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A felon for U.S. senator?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,1941,2240,2430,7266,5051],"class_list":["post-27289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-illegal-immigration","tag-jeff-flake","tag-joe-arpaio","tag-us-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27292,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27289\/revisions\/27292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}