Pearce recently revealed plans to intervene in his son's career. He announced before television cameras that he would be happy to succeed Arpaio should a federal grand jury indict the sheriff.
When it became obvious just how easy it was to get into a graduate program in Arizona, what began as a trickle of Canadian Jews jumping the border became a flood.
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Border security reacted with spot circumcision inspections.
Canadian Jews lived in terror of a red uniformed Mountie's extending a gloved hand and demanding: "Put your shvantz right here, eh . . ."
The desire to leave Canada, coupled with restrictive legislation in Arizona, created a new form of border racketeering. Shalom Shleppers (S.S.) was one typical cartel taking advantage of the dispossessed. The thugs lined up transport for Canadian Jews looking to sneak across the border. Stretch Mercedes limos were loaded to the limit. But the victims often found themselves abandoned in places like Victoria, mere kilometers from the safety of America.
Ephraim Katz, the goniff from S.S., explained the fate of the Canadian Jews who can see, but not reach, Seattle.
"What can I tell you?" said Katz. "We sold short."
But enough Canadian Jews made it into Arizona that their presence is keenly felt in bank parking lots and in graduate schools.
Pearce bragged, "Let me tell you that my other landmark legislation passed out of committee last week — the bill allows a person to carry a concealed weapon without a permit or training. And this is going to introduce just the right note of tension on campus.
"Let's see how Moishe from Montreal reacts in dental school. Who can concentrate on caps and crowns when the cracker next to you in class might bust a cap in your ass?"
Predictably, the Arizona Civil Liberties Union has strongly opposed the rounding up of Canadian Jews.
"Arizona has a shameful history of segregation, the internment of Japanese Americans, the expulsion of Mexicans. Now you are going to round up Canadian Jews. What's next? When do you start eating children?" asked a clearly frustrated Alessandra Soler Meetze, executive director of the Arizona ACLU.
"This is barbarism," she concluded.
"Let me tell you something," said candidate Hayworth responding to the ACLU. "After we get done paying for Obamacare, we might be happy if there were children to eat. And it's a matter of historical fact that Jews ate Christian children in the Middle Ages. Maybe we should learn something from them.
"Let's look at it another way," said Hayworth. "We know people are starving in Haiti. Al Gore insists that global warming will cause crop failure. And you still can't get a decent po-boy in the 9th Ward of New Orleans.
"Would you be willing to eat children if it would end world hunger?" asked Hayworth.
"What if the kids were half-breeds?"