And as Arpaio made clear to the Arizona Republic, there would be no putting this toothpaste back in the tube. Despite his ouster from 1033, he had found other funding for the war gear: he’d just purchased four hundred AR-15s for his department with federal anti-racketeering grants. As for Babeu, his 2012 bid for Congress was cut short when an undocumented immigrant alleged that he’d been having an affair with the sheriff since 2006, and that Babeu had threatened him with deportation to ensure his silence. Babeu, a hard-line immigration hawk, responded by acknowledging he is gay, but denied the
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