These guys are brazen. And the only thing that makes it okay is that at least Mayor Gordon knew what he was getting into.
In his state of the city address May 16, Gordon referenced the sheriff's retaliatory nature.
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"Will you pay a price for speaking out?" he asked. "Yeah, you might. We only need to look toward the deputies who have been forced to resign, the publishers who have been jailed, or the Mesa, Phoenix and West Valley chiefs who — along with elected officials like Rick Romley and Terry Goddard — have been targeted by [Arpaio's] Selective Political Enforcement Unit."
Gordon knew how the sheriff played the game, and yet he spoke out anyway. That's courage.
We can only hope he was really, really careful with his city e-mail account. Otherwise, I'm betting, we're all going to hear about it.