Recall Bid Against Arizona’s Joe Arpaio Faces Tough Odds

[DonViejo]

JACQUES BILLEAUD APRIL 22, 2013, 5:54 AM

PHOENIX (AP) — Volunteers set up a table outside a music festival one day last month to gather signatures for a drive to oust the notoriously polarizing sheriff of metropolitan Phoenix. The venue, with its largely liberal crowd, seemed the perfect place to drum up support.

But it didn’t take long for fans of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to show up and deliver a heckling. “Free handouts for illegal immigrants,” one of the sheriff’s backers intoned as other sign-carrying supporters raised their voices to try and drown out those of Arpaio’s opponents.

The recall group walked away with only 100 signatures, compared with the 500 gathered in the same spot a day earlier when the sheriff’s supporters weren’t there.

The confrontation underscores the feisty ground campaign being mounted on both sides — but also the increasing difficulty that Arpaio critics face in getting enough signatures to put a recall before voters.

full AP article:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/recall-bid-against-arizonas-joe-arpaio-faces-tough-odds.php?ref=fpb

[Turbineguy]

1. He's popular among those

who miss slavery.

[former9thward]

2. The recall effort is not popular among Democrats in AZ.

It is using money and resources better spent on 2014 battles. They need to collect about 6500 signatures every day until the end of May. A nearly impossible task since donors have backed off.