Oh the Sheriff was going to run for Congress too!
Hasn't withdrawn yet.
The campaign has taken in around $3,000 from 46 donors since the scandal broke, said Chris DeRose, Babeu's campaign manager and the lawyer representing him in the dispute with the ex-boyfriend. But one donor sought a refund of his $2,500 contribution, DeRose said.
I still think it's fair to say he's got his work cut out for him.
I've mentioned Babeu before. He did his best to be Pinal County's version of Sheriff Arpaio. He was also in charge of the investigation into the allegations in the Munnell Memo, which of course resulted in a bunch of the highest-level deputies being forced to resign while Babeu assured everyone that Arpaio had no idea what was going on in his department.
I acknowledge some schadenfreude at seeing another hypocritical bigot crash and burn.
The people in Talking Time bring up a good point: how the hell does a gay mexican get involved with a Republican sheriff in Arizona of all places?
Opposites attract, I guess.
I took a rather interesting sociology of sex course in college; one of the videos we watched was about a fetish club. There was more than one example of a submissive wanting to be dominated in a racially-charged roleplay -- a black man wanting to play the role of a slave and be dominated by a white "owner", a Jew wanting to be dominated by a woman dressed like a Nazi prison guard, and so on.
Not saying that's what happened here, but it's a fascinating bit of human psychology. (And I also admit a certain amusement at trying to guess who was the top.)
MEANWHILE:
Well, they want to pass a law that would force teachers to be fired for using profanity. As defined by FCC broadcast rules.
I was talking to a teacher about this the other day. She said, "Wait...so I'll be able to say anything they can say on TV? That's 'bitch', 'ass', 'damn', 'hell'..."