Submitted by Carolyn McCorckle, First Vice Chairman, Sun Lakes Republican Club
The Sun Lakes Republican Club will feature “Law and Order 2012” with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio at its monthly meeting Tuesday, August 14th, at 6:30 p.m. in the Arizona Room of the Sun Lakes Country Club, 25601 S. Sun Lakes Blvd., Sun Lakes, AZ 85248. The public is invited!
You will want to hear this “state of the county law enforcement” message from “America’s Toughest Sheriff”. Sheriff Joe has earned this name as head of the nation’s third largest Sheriff’s Office, which employs over 3,800 people. He has been elected to an unprecedented five four-year terms, since 1992.
During his tenure as Sheriff, Arpaio has consistently earned extraordinarily high public approval ratings.
With over 50 years experience in law enforcement, Arpaio know what the public wants. “The public is my boss, so I serve the public,” he says. Arpaio has 10,000 inmates in his jail system. Two thousand serve in a canvas incarceration compound. Years ago, when the Sheriff learned that the inmates were stealing jailhouse white boxers, he had all inmate underwear dyed pink for better inventory control. He has also launched the only accredited high school under a sheriff in an American jail, “Hard Knocks High”, and ALPHA, an anti-substance abuse program that has greatly reduced recidivism.
After serving in the U.S. Army from 1950 to 1953, and as a Washington, D.C., and Las Vegas, NV, police officer for almost five years, Arpaio went on to build a federal law enforcement career and a reputation for fighting crime and drug trafficking around the world. As a federal narcotics agent, he established a stellar record by infiltrating drug organizations from Turkey to the Middle East, to Mexico and Central and South America to cities around the U.S. His expertise and success led him to top management positions around the world with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He concluded his remarkable 32 year federal career as head of the DEA for Arizona.
AZ State Senator Steve Yarbrough will provide an important update on AZ ballot issues and the upcoming Primary Election on August 28. Please contact us if you require assistance with voter registration or transportation to your polling location to vote. For more information, visit our web site at www.slgop.org , or contact Mike Tennant, 480-802-0178.
