I have watched Sheriff Joes’ rise to power over the years. Having grown up in California over the last 55 years and been a police officer for 32 of those years, he has always been an interesting fellow. He has always looked out for his constituents. From cutting out expensive lunch meat, making inmates eat baloney sandwiches to making them wear pink underwear, he knows how to keep people from thinking that county jail is better than life on the outside. Something most people never think about. Joe has been a staunch supporter of making the Federal Government responsible for immigration. That’s an interesting topic in it’s self.
I remember as a young police officer calling INS (now ICE) and having them come and pick up a group of illegal aliens one night. They just took them back to the border and told them to go home. No big issues and everyone played the game. Then suddenly we could not call INS any more as they had left Northern California, home to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. Just moved their headquarters for the region and left about 20 agents to tend to the millions of people living here.
So now that I’m retired, a minority in my home state, who does not speak the prevailing language (Spanish), I’m moving to TV. Not that it’s much different in Florida, but at least it is not the left coast. I wish Joe all the luck in the world, as he will need it given the direction this country is going, I think he is fighting against the current, but I still would vote for the man in a second.