In Today's Primary, Write-In Candidate Tim Coomer Seeks Votes
"The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is bleeding money. Since assuming the reigns of the MCSO in 1992 the current Sheriff has cost county tax payers not millions, not tens of millions but hundreds of millions of dollars. Starting with a public relations department that acts as a self serving media machine. Not merely providing photo opportunities for the Sheriff but gradually, over the years, meeting out a long procession of media stunts designed to capture headlines.
First tent city, pink underwear, green bologna and of course the posses. Then chain gangs were all the rage. Then female chain gangs. Then female chain gangs burying the indigent deceased. Anything to stir up some "controversy." When the debate over illegal immigration heated up more performances would ensue. Setting up a perimeter and targeting random "suspects" when over 40,000 felony warrants remain unserved is not efficient police work. None of it has worked.
We are no safer as a result and that only accounts for a portion of the 99.5 million dollars of mis-appropriated funds. The rest used on operations not only targeting political opponents contending for the office but members of the county board of supervisers, judges and journalists. In addition to the nearly hundred million of misused resources, there is the lawsuits, mostly for wrongfull injury and death occuring inside the jails."
- Tim Coomer, Write-In Candidate for Sheriff
With the August 28th Democratic primary well underway today, political activist and Phoenix punk scenester Coomer has officially written his hat into the ring as a candidate for Maricopa County Sheriff.
You can too, when voting for Sheriff, by writing his name in as your vote of choice.
Readers of AZ Kaos may remember Coomer, who also ran against Arpaio as a write-in candidate in 1996, being arrested shortly after shouting “$100 Million Dollars” during the Maricopa County Sheriff’s speech in April 2011, as that incident was covered in this blog (with video of the arrest itself included).
So, as the saying goes: Vote Early. Vote Often. Vote Coomer.