Word: joe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nervous because Joe is attached tothis project," she says...
Take a recent chilly night in Phoenix. It's raining to end the world, and Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose department was sued by the feds last year for excessive force against inmates, could not be happier. More than 1,000 prisoners in his custody are jammed into Korean War Army tents, and it must be miserable out there, he tells the enthralled Italian American Society at a sausage feed. "There's holes in the tents," he says for the fifth or sixth time that day, grinning like...
Picture the bullnecked jailer in Cool Hand Luke, throw in some of former Philadelphia mayor Frank Rizzo, add a touch of Yosemite Sam and you get Sheriff Joe. And right now the boss hog, who averages a speech a day and makes Madonna look like a media wallflower, is wowing the retirees with lines about how he'd hate to be in a top bunk tonight...
...served ostrich meat and green bologna to save tax dollars and made the inmates wear that pink underwear to make it harder for them to smuggle it out and to humiliate them. Sales of pink boxer shorts to civilians are a statewide sensation that helps pay for Joe's volunteer posse of 3,000, some of whom carry guns. But hey, Italians have been good thinkers going back to Michelangelo, haven't they? And, by God, "the tradition continues!" Joe bellows at the sausage feed, a fist thrust into the air. And then he lets the applause blow...
...Sheriff Joe has an answer to those questions. "Why are you talking to the enemy?" he bristles...