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SassyLady
01-12-2011, 03:35 AM
My daughter (who lives in Tucson) said that the locals are getting angrier by the day at the media who have invaded their town and even more so at their own Sheriff.....who is an elected official.



On Saturday afternoon, with his friend Gabby Giffords in surgery fighting for her life, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik railed against the tense partisan politics - "the anger, the hatred, the bigotry" - that prompted the mass murders outside Tucson, in his view.

And, jarring as such claims may be, we understood. Or tried to understand, despite the spectacle of a lawman - an official whose very job it is to dispassionately gather facts and to maintain order and calm - tying the attack on Rep. Giffords and others to political speech in Arizona, which he considers prejudiced and bigoted. There is no evidence that the state's politics in any way contributed to this atrocity.

Was Dupnik unnecessarily inflammatory? It seemed so. But it came mere hours following a horrific, bloody mass murder. If you weren't on edge, you weren't being human. But then, on Sunday, the venting continued anew. And a horrified nation began paying closer attention to the Pima County sheriff.


The world's eyes, once again, focused on Arizona for the worst of reasons. And Dupnik stood before the cameras interpreting the shootings as politically motivated, despite an increasing weight of evidence depicting the shooting suspect, Jared Loughner, as a mentally ill young man who rambled incoherently about pervasive bad grammar and other apolitical obsessions. Even Dupnik has observed that Loughner had made death threats against others and that they had been investigated by police.

Still, Dupnik used the opportunities to blame Arizona's lax, new gun laws and, again, the angry "rhetoric" of talk radio. The shootings were spurred, he suggested, by "the rhetoric about hatred, about mistrust of government, about paranoia of how government operates."

Dupnik took up his cause again on Monday. And, in response, we have to say at last . . . enough. Enough attacks, sheriff. Enough vitriol. It is well past time for the sheriff of Pima County to get a grip on his emotions and remember his duty.

With each passing hour, we learn more about the 22-year-old suspect. And everything we learn adds to the profile of a deeply troubled young man detached from reality. There is nothing to date that suggests any partisan motivation for his crimes, whether right-wing or left.

Dupnik needs to recall that he is elected to be a lawman. With each additional comment, the Democratic sheriff of Pima County is revealing his agenda as partisan, and, as such, every bit as recklessly antagonistic as the talk-show hosts and politicians he chooses to decry.



Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/2011/01/11/20110111tue1-11.html#ixzz1Ao9zNhYM

red states rule
01-12-2011, 03:45 AM
I suspect he has political ambitions later on down the road

NightTrain
01-12-2011, 03:48 AM
My daughter (who lives in Tucson) said that the locals are getting angrier by the day at the media who have invaded their town and even more so at their own Sheriff.....who is an elected official.

It strikes me that his 15 minutes landed in his lap out of nowhere and he's going to work it for all it's worth.

red states rule
01-12-2011, 03:48 AM
It strikes me that his 15 minutes landed in his lap out of nowhere and he's going to work it for all it's worth.

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red states rule
01-12-2011, 04:51 AM
It looks like this guy has become a political hack and here he is with Keith Olhermann


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bullypulpit
01-12-2011, 05:24 AM
My daughter (who lives in Tucson) said that the locals are getting angrier by the day at the media who have invaded their town and even more so at their own Sheriff.....who is an elected official.

A sheriff who has held the office continually since 1980...Has watched the ebb and flow of local, state and national politics. His comments were general in nature, he named no names...He just called for and end to the divisive, corrosive political rhetoric which has led others to violence and may have done so in this case.

<center><a href=http://mediamatters.org/research/201101100015>A Tale of Two Sheriffs: Right-Wing Media Assails One AZ Sheriff For Condemning Vitriol; Praises Another Who Attacks Left</a></center>

bullypulpit
01-12-2011, 05:30 AM
I suspect he has political ambitions later on down the road

Really Red? He's 75 years old, and has never voiced any interest in office outside his office as Sheriff of Pima County. Ya got anything to back that up? Or, as usual, you're operating in the fact-free zone? My money is ever on the latter.

darin
01-12-2011, 06:21 AM
A sheriff who has held the office continually since 1980...Has watched the ebb and flow of local, state and national politics. His comments were general in nature, he named no names...He just called for and end to the divisive, corrosive political rhetoric which has led others to violence and may have done so in this case.

<center><a href=http://mediamatters.org/research/201101100015>A Tale of Two Sheriffs: Right-Wing Media Assails One AZ Sheriff For Condemning Vitriol; Praises Another Who Attacks Left</a></center>


He would be more-correct to call for ending the terrible "ideas" and policies enacted by our "leaders".

Liberals constantly miss the point. The point is NOT talk radio. The point is not Citizens who are angry at the power-grab going on; the problem is 'the power grab'.

red states rule
01-12-2011, 06:54 AM
A sheriff who has held the office continually since 1980...Has watched the ebb and flow of local, state and national politics. His comments were general in nature, he named no names...He just called for and end to the divisive, corrosive political rhetoric which has led others to violence and may have done so in this case.

<center><a href=http://mediamatters.org/research/201101100015>A Tale of Two Sheriffs: Right-Wing Media Assails One AZ Sheriff For Condemning Vitriol; Praises Another Who Attacks Left</a></center>

Named no names? BP this guy has named Ms Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and others and has blamed them for some liberal left wing nut for killing people

Once agin you are ignoring the facts and going along with your side trying to score political points after this slaughter

gabosaurus
01-12-2011, 01:31 PM
Tell me why Dupnik should not be allowed to state his opinion, but fellow Sheriff Arpaio be allowed to state his racist views.

I find it interesting that the Arizona Republic is being lauded here. Since the conservative talking heads were blasting the same newspaper earlier for its investigation into wrong doings by Arpaio.

fj1200
01-12-2011, 01:39 PM
Tell me why Dupnik should not be allowed to state his opinion, but fellow Sheriff Arpaio be allowed to state his racist views.

I find it interesting that the Arizona Republic is being lauded here. Since the conservative talking heads were blasting the same newspaper earlier for its investigation into wrong doings by Arpaio.

Is it proper for the lawman in charge of the investigation to be voicing his opinions as to motive? Nevertheless, he is apparently free to voice his ignorant opinion?

Arpaio's racist views? Another distraction?

red states rule
01-13-2011, 04:14 AM
Tell me why Dupnik should not be allowed to state his opinion, but fellow Sheriff Arpaio be allowed to state his racist views.

I find it interesting that the Arizona Republic is being lauded here. Since the conservative talking heads were blasting the same newspaper earlier for its investigation into wrong doings by Arpaio.

Damn Gabby, I always thought a Police investagation was based on FACTS, and PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

Not on conjecture

Since when is enforcing existing immigration law racist? Are you now is desperation mode to try and change the topic

Perhaps Dupnik wants to have his face on TV more then Joe Arpaio with his opinions rather then with results like Joe Arpaio has done

PostmodernProphet
01-13-2011, 10:38 PM
just off the top of my head, it seems to me that a sheriff's job is to investigate why a crime happened, not to tell everyone his opinion of it before investigating......

red states rule
01-14-2011, 04:56 AM
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