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Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Why don’t activists get mad when people call me ‘Hitler’?
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Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio rejected accusations on Thursday that a state lawmaker’s jokes at a recent roast event featuring him were racist, instead accusing critics of harboring a double standard against him.
“These same people, for four years, have been going around calling me ‘Nazi,’ ‘Hitler,’ and everything else,” Arpaio told CNN correspondent Ana Cabrera. “Why don’t they defend me?”
Arpaio was criticized on Wednesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which released audio on Wednesday of state Rep. John Kavanagh’s (R) set during the roast, held at the Western Conservatives Conference in Phoenix last weekend.
Kavanagh said during his set that when he goes out to eat with Arpaio, “most of the waitstaff and cooks dive out the back window.” He also asked Arpaio, “How many Hispanics did you pull over on the way over here?” Kavanagh released a statement on Thursday saying the release of the audio was “a personal attack upon me by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which appears to be politically motivated, probably due to my support of SB 1070.”
Well, you know Joe, if the jackboots fit...