So yesterday Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas sued his client, the Board of Supervisors, again. Taxpayers of this county should be getting to used to this sideshow: By our count, Thomas has now sued the Supes three times during his scant five years in office. And Thomas wonders why they're trying to fire him as their legal adviser!
All this is annoying and costly -- but yesterday's suit was especially appalling. Arizona is facing an unprecedented budget crunch.
Torturer with a badge? You don't have to convince us...An opinion piece published yesterday on National Public Radio's Web site, written by Hector Sanchez, Director of Policy and Research for the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, calls Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio "a pernicious person," a macho champion of "denigration and mental abuse," and a "torturer on U.S. soil."
Sanchez makes the valuable point that in the current debate on CIA torture of so-called enemy co
