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General Interest => Tacitus' Realm => Topic started by: Ursus on February 20, 2012, 02:28:09 AM
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Many thanks to the astute Fornits reader who alerted us to this story, and who wishes to remain anonymous...
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The Arizona Republic
AZ/DC Blog
By Dan Nowicki
Babeu steps down as Romney Arizona co-chairman (http://http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/azdc/155462)
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Embattled Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, who is facing explosive allegations (http://http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/2012/02/17/20120217pinal-county-babeu-threatened-ex-lover-article-claim.html) that he and his attorney tried to intimidate a former lover by threatening to have him deported, on Saturday quit his position as an Arizona co-chairman (http://http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/azdc/145469) of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.
“Sheriff Babeu has stepped down from his volunteer position with the campaign so he can focus on the allegations against him," Romney spokesman Ryan Williams told The Arizona Republic in a statement. "We support his decision."
Babeu, who also is running for the U.S. House in Arizona's new 4th Congressional District, and his attorney, Chris DeRose, deny the accusations. But Babeu's judgment also is coming under scrutiny for allegedly taking provocative photos of himself and sending them over the Internet. News of the accusations against Babeu first broke Friday (http://http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2012-02-16/news/paul-babeu-s-mexican-ex-lover-says-sheriff-s-attorney-threatened-him-with-deportation/) in the Phoenix New Times, which also published the photos.
Besides being a Romney Arizona co-chairman, Babeu also recently appeared at a Romney event (http://http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2011/12/06/20111206dan-quayle-endorses-mitt-romney-for-president.html) with former Vice President Dan Quayle in Paradise Valley.
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Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 11:51 AM
Topics: Arizona, Mitt Romney, AZ POLITICS, paul babeu, 2012 presidential race
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Comments (http://http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/azdc/155462) left for the above blog piece, "Babeu steps down as Romney Arizona co-chairman (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=39105&p=413813#p413813)" (by Dan Nowicki; February 18, 2012; AZ/DC Blog/The Arizona Republic):
Mike McNew · Top Commenter · Saturday at 12:29pm
Nothing like those family values, homophobic Republicans. The GOP continues to re-define hypocrisy.
Jose Quiles · Top Commenter · Saturday at 12:58pm
As long as the tea drinkers overlook the facts then why should they stop.
Jim Zambelli · Queens Vocational High School · 19 hours ago
Nothing like ignoring the stupidity and ignorance of the left, as if their actions and behavior are something to be proud of. There are enough jerks to go around in every party, so don't gloat.
Jose Quiles · Top Commenter · 17 hours ago
Jim Zambelli Typical RWNJ response. If you don't have a valid argument then resort to insult. BTW, don't bother to respond. I usually don't engage in name calling.
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Nirmal Bhattarai · Faculty at AIOIC · Saturday at 12:50pm
here is an another conservative family value, traditional marrage bla! bla1 bla!------but secect exploitation. Real conservative should not intimidate partner for sex. Real conservative should declare he is a a gay. It is okey to a gay and conservative and Republican. America accepts it.
Priscilla Martinez · Director at CBS47 Fresno Ca · Saturday at 12:57pm
Hahaha! Typical GOoP behavior!
Eusebia Aquino-Hughes · Saturday at 1:00pm
American racism has no end or shame!
Joe Bua · Top Commenter · Carlsbad, California · Saturday at 1:02pm
Gotta wonder what Mitt is thinking about this guy, his AZ campaign co-chair. Also, you gotta wonder how this guy faced himself every morning in the mirror as he got ready to be the Republican party supporter/sheriff with a secret boyfriend every day. Republicans may have not invented hypocrisy but they've certainly perfected it.
José Filardo · São Paulo, Brazil · Saturday at 1:06pm
One down. What about Arpaio?
Scott Lanz · Top Commenter · Saturday at 1:16pm
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Louie Campos · Top Commenter · College of the Sequoias · Saturday at 1:08pm
and he gave this press conference in his uniform. What a ----chebag.
Andy Rohrer · Denver, Colorado · Saturday at 1:40pm
I could get behind ultra-conservative Republicans if I just weren't so homophobic.
Danny Carlton · Top Commenter · Owner/Developer at Danny Carlton Web Development · Yesterday at 4:44am
Okay, let me see if I've got this straight (no pun intended). Because Romney asked a homosexual to be his Arizona co-chair, that "proves" he's homophobic?!? I am constantly amazed at the depths of stupidity American Liberals are able to plunge to.
Elizabeth Bishop · Northern Arizona University · 23 hours ago
nice try, the sheriff was in the closet, don't pretend that romney is accepting or was accepting of homosexuality. and i think this is more about the sheriff abusing his status and threatening his lover to keep his secret, so again, how did romney know and no one else?
Danny Carlton · Top Commenter · Owner/Developer at Danny Carlton Web Development · 22 hours ago
Elizabeth Bishop Except lots of people knew he is a homosexual, and he only announced it publicly in response to the false accusations in the news article. (unlike Liberals, normal people don't parade their private lives in public) By and large, Conservatives are standing by Babeu's record as a more than competent sheriff, although noting the lack of judgement in posting questionable photos of himself. Not one single Conservative source I can find has offered any criticism of Babeu based on his sexual orientation. Only hypocrite Liberals are doing that.
Margaret Graczyk · Marygrove College, Henry Ford Community College · 19 hours ago
Danny Carlton Re: Conservative sources that haven't criticized Babeu's sexual orientation. Answer: But they sure are slipping away from his support base without saying a word. And just wait until the votes come in from his run for Congress. Amazing how one's sexual preference really matters for Republicans and conservatives.
Danny Carlton · Top Commenter · Owner/Developer at Danny Carlton Web Development · 18 hours ago
Margaret Graczyk : And Democrats abandoned Anthony Weiner because...? You see, you Democrats are way, waay ahead of Republicans when it come to homophobia and gay-hatred. You have no room for accusing anyone else of anything, because you've already done it all.
Elizabeth Bishop · Northern Arizona University · 15 hours ago
Danny Carlton who's accusing anyone of anything exactly? it's called hypocrisy plain and simple. the republican platform is anti homosexual, what are you even talking about? all liberals are evil and republicans are what? just victims? you do not even have a clue as to my affiliation, who says other republicans are not sick and tired of the hypocrisy? and do tell me who exactly knew he was openly gay man? the status of his personal life is not my concern, it is the fact that he fought against illegal immigration while having a relationship with someone who is illegal and then allegedly asked him to lie about it. I'd also like you to give me examples of Liberal homophobia and gay - hatred as you state. You cannot simply say things without backing it up with evidence. Still, nice try though.
Danny Carlton · Top Commenter · Owner/Developer at Danny Carlton Web Development · 12 hours ago
Elizabeth Bishop : Apparently you haven't read any other posts here—as well as your own if you think you as well as every other Liberal have not been "saying things without backing it up"
Babeu's former boyfriend is legal. No one has said any different, even Babeu. Several articles mention that in the area it was known that Babeu is a homosexual.
That Liberal leap with drooling glee to attack any Conservative that's even suspected of being homosexual is more than enough evidence of their homophobia and hatred of homosexuals.
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Karla Taylor · Aurora, Colorado · 10 hours ago
Romney did not ask this guy to be his co-chair. He does not handle these things. Has somebody else do this stuff, so he probaly didn't even know about him.
James Wilk · 10 hours ago
The issue isn't Romney at all. The issue is this sheriff's hypocrisy. This Republican law-enforcer has worked against the gay community in the past and now it turns out that he threatened a gay ex-lover with threat of deportation. How typically Republican is that? I hope he gets a nice stay in his own jail like your own Arapahoe County Sheriff Sullivan!
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Mitt Romney is a tool · 6 hours ago
How many hypocritical conservative GOP politicians are going to have to be outed before the party abandons its out-moded positions on who’s allowed to bang who?
http://mittromneyisatool.com/2012/the-s ... comin-out/ (http://mittromneyisatool.com/2012/the-sheriffs-comin-out/)[/list]
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Sheriff Babeu is originally from Massachusetts (where he more than simply whetted his political chops), but apparently found the Arizona climate more to his liking...
From a Wikipedia article (http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Babeu) on him (which seems to undergo revision several times per day at this point):
Paul Raymond Babeu (born February 3, 1969) is the elected Sheriff of Pinal County in the U.S. state of Arizona. First voted into office in 2008 by defeating the Democratic incumbent, Babeu became the first Republican Sheriff elected in the history of Pinal County.[1] He has received national media attention for speaking out against illegal immigration,[2] the unsecured US border with Mexico, and Operation Fast and Furious gun smuggling facilitated by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.[3]
On October 23, 2011, Babeu announced the formation of an exploratory committee to run for U.S. Congress.[4] On February 18, 2012, due to allegations of a sexual relationship with a former male lover, Babeu came out publicly as a gay man. He did this in a major press conference held in front of the Pinal County sheriff office.[/list][/size]
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From the article (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=39105#p413813) in the OP, emphasis added:
Babeu, who also is running for the U.S. House in Arizona's new 4th Congressional District, and his attorney,
Chris DeRose, deny the accusations. But Babeu's judgment also is coming under scrutiny for allegedly taking provocative photos of himself and sending them over the Internet. News of the accusations against Babeu first broke Friday (http://http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2012-02-16/news/paul-babeu-s-mexican-ex-lover-says-sheriff-s-attorney-threatened-him-with-deportation/) in the Phoenix New Times, which also published the photos.[/list][/size]
Here's that article from the New Times:
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Phoenix New Times
Paul Babeu's Mexican Ex-Lover Says Sheriff's Attorney Threatened Him With Deportation (http://http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2012-02-16/news/paul-babeu-s-mexican-ex-lover-says-sheriff-s-attorney-threatened-him-with-deportation/)
By Monica Alonzo · Thursday, Feb 16 2012
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu — who became the face of Arizona border security nationally after he started stridently opposing illegal immigration — threatened his Mexican ex-lover with deportation when the man refused to promise never to disclose their years-long relationship, the former boyfriend and his lawyer tell New Times.
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Paul Babeu and Jose
The latest of the alleged threats were made through Babeu's personal attorney, who's also running the sheriff's campaign for Congress in District 4, the ex-lover says.
He says lawyer Chris DeRose demanded he sign an agreement that he would never breathe a word about the affair. But Jose (New Times is withholding his last name because Babeu and his attorney have challenged his legal status) refused.
See additional photos obtained from Sheriff Babeu's ex-lover allegedly showing text message communication between the two. (http://http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/slideshow/sheriff-paul-babeu-responds-to-new-times-article-36168981/)[/list]
The 34-year-old from central Mexico charges that the sheriff's lawyer warned against mentioning the affair with Babeu. DeRose said gossip about Babeu would focus attention on Jose, attention that could result in his deportation, Jose says.
Melissa Weiss-Riner, Jose's attorney, confirms her client's account.
She says she spoke directly to the sheriff's lawyer, DeRose, about the Babeu camp's threats that Jose could be deported if he "revealed the relationship." She says DeRose falsely claimed that Jose's visa had expired.
"Jose came to our firm because he felt he was being intimidated, and he was in fear for his life," Weiss-Riner says. "He wanted his legal rights protected."
Babeu didn't respond to requests for comment by publication time for this article, but his attorney, DeRose, says the dispute between Jose and the sheriff concerned Jose's work on Babeu's websites. He says Jose was a former volunteer who hacked into a campaign website.
DeRose didn't immediately address the other claims against him and the sheriff, except to say, "I never threatened to deport anybody" and that "[Babeu's] not threatening anybody."
Informed of the situation, Nancy-Jo Merritt, a longtime Phoenix immigration attorney, says such a threat would be indicative of an "atmosphere that's been created politically in this state, so that if you get angry at someone who is Hispanic, you immediately jump down to the level of threatening to deport him.
"If what [Babeu's attorney] says is correct [about Jose's being illegal], either the sheriff had a long relationship with someone he knew was undocumented, while all the time being Mr. Bluster about the border and using it for political gain," or he threatened to deport someone he just broke up with, Merritt says.
"That's just the worst kind of hypocrisy."
She adds that federal immigration-enforcement agents have better things to do than "take care of Babeu's boyfriends."
Antonio Bustamante, a criminal defense attorney and immigration activist, tells New Times that if the allegations against Babeu are true, "To use a position of authority . . . and make legal threats opens a Pandora's box of ethics issues for any law enforcement person or any elected person. In this case, he's both."
Jose says he met Babeu in October 2006 on gay.com, a dating website. What started with an online invitation from Babeu for the two to get together, he says, turned into not only a personal relationship but a professional one.
Jose says he created and maintained Babeu's campaign websites, his Facebook page, and his Twitter account. Babeu didn't pay him for his online services, he claims.
Jose says Babeu told him that he loved him and was with him exclusively. But Jose suspected Babeu was lying. The relationship soured, and Jose believes that Babeu sent DeRose after him. He says DeRose demanded the passwords to Babeu's websites and social-media accounts. Jose says he complied but that Babeu and his attorney also wanted Jose to sign a document that would bind him legally to keep silent about the relationship.
Jose admits that he lashed out on news websites featuring stories about Babeu. He says he commented anonymously that the sheriff was not who people thought he was. He says he once wrote a comment on Chino Valley eNews that Babeu had an account on adam4adam.com, where gay men arrange sexual liaisons.
Jose shared text messages between him and Babeu with New Times. A September 4, 2011, text from the sheriff reads: "You can never have business after this and you will harm me and many others in the process . . . including yourself & your family."
A couple of minutes later, Babeu followed with: "And you say you have loved me? Papi . . . this is no good."
Jose responded: "Good threats. Wont work. Im already hurt me . . . and you didn't care."
(http://http://media.phoenixnewtimes.com/paul-babeu-s-mexican-ex-lover-says-sheriff-s-attorney-threatened-him-with-deportation.7645574.40.jpg)
Text messages between Jose and Babeu
They exchanged more texts on September 6.
Jose: "Dont threat me. Thats illegal. Im just speaking . . . true."
Babeu: "You have crossed the line. Better get an attorney. You brother will also be contacted."
The following day, on September 7, DeRose sent an e-mail directly to Jose ordering him to "cease and desist."
DeRose wrote: "If you are serious about an amicable resolution to this, it is critical that no further offensive actions against my client be taken in the meantime. This should go without saying."
Jose says that's when he hired Weiss-Riner.
In addition to the text messages and e-mails, Jose shared letters from Melissa Weiss-Riner to Chris DeRose and photographs of Babeu and of him and Babeu together. He and his lawyer sat for several extensive interviews with New Times over the past month. He says he reached out to New Times because he was tired of living in fear.
The text messages — many still saved on Jose's cell phone — appear to be sent from Babeu's business cell phone. Babeu identifies himself on his voice mail and says he is the sheriff of Pinal County.
In a phone conversation with Weiss-Riner on September 12, Jose's attorney says DeRose launched a series of attempts to keep Jose from posting comments and to get him to sign a non-disclosure statement about the relationship. She says DeRose brought up Jose's supposedly expired visa, possible deportation, and threatened a defamation lawsuit. She says DeRose mentioned that Jose's comments were "embarrassing" for Babeu.
Weiss-Riner responded to DeRose in a September 30 letter: "I'm sure I don't need to remind you that truth is an absolute defense to any of these claims. Therefore, even if my client's alleged comments regarding Mr. Babeu were 'embarrassing,' as you state, they were in fact truth."
Jose says he contacted New Times because he's had to turn his life upside down to stay out of Babeu's reach. Since the two parted ways, he says, he's moved twice, is looking for a new job, and has spent his life savings to hire Weiss-Riner to defend against a series of claims by the sheriff.
As for the ones related to the unpaid website work, Jose thought everything was settled after turning over the passwords. The ex-lovers left it that they would discontinue contact with each other, Weiss-Riner says. But several weeks later, after Jose moved into an apartment with roommates — leaving no forwarding address — a Christmas card arrived in his new mailbox from Babeu.
"It was [Babeu's] way of letting me know that he knew where I was," Jose says.
Shortly after the card appeared, Jose says he angrily posted more anonymous comments online about Babeu's sexuality.
DeRose again flew into action, Weiss-Riner says, e-mailing her that Jose wasn't living up to his and Babeu's no-contact agreement.
She responded to DeRose in a January 17 letter: "My client requested that your client discontinue any and all contact with him. You advised me that Mr. Babeu would comply with that request. However, your client violated that promise and sent [Jose] a Christmas card at his new address. Clearly, your client has no intention of leaving [Jose] alone, but instead intends to continue to harass and threaten him."
She also wrote that Babeu's continued "harassment and intimidation have caused [Jose] to live in fear. [Jose] has done nothing wrong; he has a right to live in peace without worrying about himself, his family, and his friends."
Weiss-Riner told DeRose that if Babeu didn't leave her client alone, she would seek an injunction against the sheriff to prevent further harassment.
She says she had no more contact with DeRose after that.
Paul Babeu's slick presence and conservative views — particularly on border control — have garnered him national popularity among the Tea Party element of the Republican party. He's frequently appeared on national Fox News broadcasts as a border hawk.
Babeu's presence on the national stage reached a new high in May 2010, when he was featured in U.S. Senator John McCain's "complete the danged fence" TV ad. Babeu's inclusion was meant to bolster the senator's credibility on border security during a heated Republican primary race against former Congressman J.D. Hayworth.
In the ad, McCain and Babeu are shown walking along a slatted steel fence delineating the U.S.-Mexican border. The longtime senator asks the first-term sheriff whether the McCain plan is the "right plan" for the border. Babeu says McCain's plan is "perfect." Then, he gives his political nod to McCain: "Senator, you're one of us."
When Babeu was elected sheriff in January 2009, he made sweeping changes in the Pinal County department, replacing its command staff, and according to the county's website, "implemented high employee standards."
In January 2011, Babeu fired Pinal County Deputy Louie Puroll, who claimed he was ambushed in the desert by runners employed by a Mexican drug cartel ("Pinalcchio (http://http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2010-09-23/news/pinalcchio-renowned-forensics-experts-say-a-pinal-county-deputy-s-high-profile-tale-about-getting-shot-after-encountering-drug-smugglers-doesn-t-add-up/)" and "White Wash (http://http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2010-11-25/news/some-one-on-one-time-with-a-pinal-county-deputy-whose-claim-he-was-shot-by-a-drug-smuggler-is-full-of-holes-produces-startling-results/)," September 23 (http://http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2010-09-23/news/pinalcchio-renowned-forensics-experts-say-a-pinal-county-deputy-s-high-profile-tale-about-getting-shot-after-encountering-drug-smugglers-doesn-t-add-up/) and November 25, 2010 (http://http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2010-11-25/news/some-one-on-one-time-with-a-pinal-county-deputy-whose-claim-he-was-shot-by-a-drug-smuggler-is-full-of-holes-produces-startling-results/)), saying the deputy violated several departmental rules.
Among them was that Puroll had "been abusive in attitude, language, behavior, or conduct" and that he "engaged in conduct, on- or off-duty, that is of such nature that it would tend to bring discredit to the county."
During the previous year, Jose says, Babeu e-mailed explicit photographs of himself to an anonymous man he met on the gay adam4adam.com website.
Jose knows this because he posed as this man after his suspicions resurfaced that Babeu was cheating on him.
He shared with New Times photographs that he claims Babeu e-mailed to the anonymous love interest. In the photographs, the sheriff revealed himself shirtless, in his underwear, and naked from the waist down.
Attorney Antonio Bustamante said Babeu's alleged actions demonstrated bad judgment.
"To behave in a way that can threaten your own political career, it means that this person is a risk-taker," Bustamante says. The public "needs to know how far [politicians] are willing to go in taking risks."
Babeu's alleged adam4adam.com profile — which since has been blocked — listed him as a "good guy looking for another." He called himself "studboi1," described himself as "str8 acting, hard working and loyal," and said he was openly gay, looking for friendship and "1-on-1" sex.
(http://http://media.phoenixnewtimes.com/paul-babeu-s-mexican-ex-lover-says-sheriff-s-attorney-threatened-him-with-deportation.7645572.40.jpg)
Paul Babeu's alleged profile on adam4adam.com
While still in what he thought was a monogamous relationship with Babeu, Jose says, he had stumbled upon the sheriff's page on adam4adam, which is peppered with pornographic images of men having intercourse. He says he confronted Babeu and that the sheriff told him it was an old profile.
"I told him to delete it because he was the sheriff, and it didn't look right," Jose tells New Times. "I told him that if you don't want [to be with] me, I'll stop helping you with your websites, and you move on with your life, and I'll move on with mine."
Babeu assured him that he would delete the profile, Jose says.
When Jose checked again, he says the account still was there — so he created his own profile under an assumed name.
He says Babeu then sent pictures to Jose, thinking he was a guy named "Matt." In one photo, Babeu poses grinning in a pair of gray underwear in front of a mirror. The flash from his camera phone obscures his left shoulder. In another photo, he poses naked with an erection. His face isn't visible, but the bottom edge of one of Babeu's unmistakable arm tattoos can be seen.
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Paul Babeu's self-portrait
"When I saw the pictures and was [communicating with] him, I just couldn't believe it," Jose says. "I just wanted to see how far he'd go with his lying."
In one of more than a hundred explicit text messages Jose provided between Babeu and "Matt," Babeu wrote: "I'm in law enforcement . . . sheriff. Didn't tell you that earlier stud . . . that's why I must be discrete." This exchange occurred while Babeu was attending police-training classes in Denver in June 2010, and he also offered Matt help in becoming a cop.
Like the aforementioned text messages, these apparently came from Babeu's current cell-phone number.
In one exchange Jose shared, Babeu texted: "I will suck you off as much as needed."
After another exchange, Jose (as Matt) asked if Babeu was masturbating, and Babeu wrote: "I'm just leaving mtg and headed home . . . still in uniform."
Babeu added: "Dude, I can't send naked pics over e-mail . . . just can't for my job . . . you can have me in person and what ever else you want."
The following morning, Jose says, the sheriff sent explicit pictures.
At that time, Jose says, Babeu bragged in a text that he was the sheriff who had appeared in the aforementioned TV ad on border security with McCain. That night, he texted Matt that he "just did a TV show in Phx . . .Channel 12 news live."
The two planned to meet at San Tan Flat, a steak house in Queen Creek, in mid-June 2010, and Babeu texted Matt to bring an overnight bag.
Babeu was standing in the restaurant's parking lot when he drove up, Jose says. For about two minutes, Jose recalls, Babeu said nothing.
"He [finally] said he couldn't believe [Matt was really me]," Jose says. Babeu had worried that "maybe it was a reporter trying to catch him," Jose recalls.
The two wound up having dinner and going back to Babeu's place, Jose says.
Jose says he and Babeu first met in October 2006, after he got a message on his gay.com account from the then-Chandler police officer. That night, the two agreed to meet in downtown Chandler.
"We were supposed to go to a bar, but we decided not to go," Jose says. "We went to a hotel in downtown Chandler instead."
The two met several times for dinner and movies from November 2006 to January 2007, and they usually ended up going back to a hotel, according to Jose. With the exception of a couple of phone calls, Jose says, they lost touch until September 2007.
"We ran into each other at a bar, but he was with someone else," Jose says. "I was surprised. I didn't expect to see him. We started talking again, texting a few times. He was telling me he was going to run for sheriff."
The conversations turned to Jose's potentially helping with Babeu's political websites, which he soon did. Babeu was elected sheriff in November 2008.
Jose's suspicions that Babeu was cheating heightened when the newly elected sheriff asked him to make changes to a campaign website to prevent e-mails sent there from going to his political staff.
His suspicions were confirmed, he says, when he discovered that an enraged spurned lover of the sheriff's was sending e-mails through the site.
A native of North Adams, Massachusetts, Paul Babeu's first foray into politics was his election to the North Adams City Council at just 18 years old. He later served a term as a county commissioner in Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
In 1992, Babeu lost a state senate bid in Massachusetts, and he made two failed runs for North Adams mayor in 1997 and 2001. He was headmaster of the DeSisto School in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, a controversial boarding school for troubled teens, from 1999-2001.
Babeu arrived in Arizona in 2002 and worked as a Chandler cop until he ran for Pinal County Sheriff in 2008 against then-Sheriff Chris Vasquez on an anti-corruption platform.
When Babeu's deputy, Louie Puroll, claimed in April 2010 that he was ambushed in the desert by Mexican drug runners, it fueled anti-immigration sentiment in Arizona and nationally.
Babeu became a regular on Fox News and other conservative national broadcasts, touting the Puroll story and bashing President Obama for failing to secure the border and for suing Arizona over state Senate Bill 1070, the stalled law that calls for local police officers to enforce federal immigration law.
He became the go-to politician for the likes of Fox News on Arizona border security, even managing to outshine Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Indeed, he became known in some circles as the "new Arpaio."
His chest-pounding over border violence always had included a prediction that his deputies would have a violent showdown in the desert with Mexican drug runners, and Puroll's claim was manna from Heaven for the sheriff.
Even after it was proved that Puroll had engaged in no such skirmish, Babeu stood behind him. It wasn't until Puroll told a New Times reporter that he had met with a smuggler who threatened to kill the writer — and Puroll hadn't reported it to superiors — that the deputy was fired.
Undaunted by the Puroll scandal, Babeu has continued to pursue funding to prepare for such showdowns.
Openly gay Tucson state Representative Matt Heinz was one of two Democratic lawmakers who broke ranks with the party in March 2011 and voted to give Babeu $5 million to combat border violence. Other lawmakers opposed the measure, in part, because Babeu's county is at least 70 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. The measure finally was pared down to $1.7 million and passed by the Legislature.
About a week after Heinz's nod to Babeu, the sheriff spent the night at Heinz's home, text messages that Jose shared with New Times show.
"I'm at Mat Heinz and his boyfriend for dinner & ice cream . . . we are going out to bar and . . . to their house. [Am] staying over," Babeu texted to Jose at 1:04 a.m. last April 2.
Heinz didn't immediately return a phone call seeking confirmation of the sleepover.
On October 23, Babeu announced that he was considering a run to represent Arizona's newly formed 4th Congressional District, which includes parts of La Paz, Yavapai, Mohave, and Pinal counties. (Heinz announced recently that he's also running for Congress — to fill Gabrielle Giffords' vacated seat.)
Babeu has since confirmed that he's running, and polls of voters in the extremely conservative congressional district show him with a strong lead over Republican opponents Paul Gosar and Ron Gould — the latter of whom is campaigning on a strong family-values ticket.
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Discussion of Paul Babeu's time at DeSisto School starts pretty early on in the multitude of comments left...
Comments (http://http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2012-02-16/news/paul-babeu-s-mexican-ex-lover-says-sheriff-s-attorney-threatened-him-with-deportation/) left for the above article, "Paul Babeu's Mexican Ex-Lover Says Sheriff's Attorney Threatened Him With Deportation (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=39105&p=413848#p413848)" (by Monica Alonzo, Feb 16 2012, Phoenix New Times), #s 1-30:
WhoKnows · 4 days ago
Paulie should just admit he's gay, as people love an honest politician! The Tea Party will surely vote for him! They are so accepting, after all!
Maybe368 · 4 days ago in reply to WhoKnows
Hey New Times, you are aware of archive.org. They have the adam4adam website archived all the way back to 2002. I personally didn't want to sign up to view the archived pages, but I would think that the New Times would. They can take down pages, but they cannot take down the traces of it, do your worst to this Bozo...
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Eleanor Holguin · 4 days ago
Who cares if he's gay........he is a big fucking Mexican chasing (in all sorts of ways) hypocrite.
Babeu......go away now!
Tell me again why we would believe any "report, investigation" he did into Arpaio.....Babeu is a liar all the way around.
Gusto · 4 days ago in reply to Eleanor Holguin
I've often posted here that Arpaio has a list locked away of everyone he has anything on. What better person to "hire" to perform the investigation for Arpaio. Arpaio says, hey Paul, leave me out of the mix and I won't out you and ruin your political career.
So, Babeu does his big investigation and sure enough Arpaio is almost next to exonerated.
Church lady · 3 day ago in reply to Gusto
Not only did he exonerate him, butt he let everyone know that Joe was a saint and the protector of all babies born in America!
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Eleanor Holguin · 4 days ago
Way to go, Ms. Alonzo. Thanks for the great expose on the hypocrite Babeu is.
Wanumba · 4 days ago
Paul, come out of the closet, and maybe Arpaio and Andrew Thomas will too!
Eleanor Holguin · 4 days ago in reply to Wanumba
Arpaio will never come out of the closet because he can't recall why he is in there in the first place.
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Lars · 4 days ago
Interesting that his public persona has been so over-the-top ultra-masculine. How many other politicians are routinely described as, and seek to be seen as 'macho,' 'manly,' 'tough guy,' etc? He refers to his preferred deputies as 'studs.'
An outstanding specimen of the thought-to-be-extinct subspecies that includes Gen. Edwin Walker, Billy James Hargis, Roy Cohn, etc.
He may have felt stuck in the closet in part because his homosexuality complicates his preferred narrative about the DeSisto School, his family background, the Lavigne case, etc.
His openly gay brother's partner is also ethnically Mexican, and the mother of his kids is a Mexican national. The term 'Papi' is also used in that relationship.
Jerry Romolt · 4 days ago in reply to Lars
DeSisto School, in the Berkshire Mountains was run by Mike DeSisto. Mr. Mike had what can be called a Messianic Complex. He expected his acolytes to display a religious fervor towards himself. He hired sexual surrogates to help him play out the role as a hetrosexual. My two oldest sons were sent to his enclave for therapy. Mr.DeSisto was a narcissistic, meglomanicial, twisted example of humanity. I can not begin to tell you of all the children that became a suicide statistic while in his care.
Mikel · 4 days ago in reply to Jerry Romolt
Thanks for posting. If anything, things got worse after your sons were there. DeSisto hired Babeu the way other men hire mistresses as their secretaries. He had no background in clinical psychology, educational administration, or any other relevant field. Sexual relationships between staff & minor students came to be a part of the culture of the place. This is one of the big other shoes to drop on this story.
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Timmythefag · 4 days ago
Is Tim Gaffney his in-house butt boy?
Mikel · 4 days ago in reply to Timmythefag
Blake King? The whole stud-squad he's surrounded himself with?
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Ken · 4 days ago
For those of you that say people against illegals are racist, this proves you wrong. Paul loved this Mexican man. He surely doesn't hate Mexicans. So he isn't a racist. Most people against illegals (including me) are not racist. They are against illegal entry. As for Paul, he is not the family man type that I thought he was. I will not vote for him.
Mikel · 4 days ago in reply to Ken
Willingness to sodomize an immigrant doesn't, sadly, prove the absence of bigotry. Do you think Strom Thurmond & the legions like him weren't bigoted, just because they had sex with members of the group they subjugated?
Babeu's rhetoric never systematically distinguished between illegal immigrants and legal ones. His worst term of abuse wasn't 'illegal,' but 'foreign-born.' He explicitly attacked equal rights for legal immigrants -- thus putting himself at odds with settled Constitutional law. The problem wasn't so much their legal status as the fact that 'they weren't even born here.'
Car_del99 · 4 days ago in reply to Ned
" Willingness to sodomize an immigrant doesn't, sadly, prove the absence of bigotry " The Immigrant was SODOMIZING him !!!
I guess baboon didn't ask for his papers.. just how big he had it !!!
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Fgjjjfshhjj · 4 days ago in reply to Ken
Tony · 4 days ago in reply to Ken
Could that be because he is GAY! How do you know he is not a Family Man...what defines that for you? Not being Gay? Maybe you are a Bigot! Say what you mean dude!
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Not Surprised · 4 days ago
Now that 1 of his studs is out many more will follow. Pauls sister, Lucy Babeu, has been posting his boyfriends names on facebook for years.
Ned · 4 days ago in reply to Not Surprised
Ah, yes. I'm thinking a lot of people owe the lady an apology about now.
Tony · 4 days ago in reply to Ned
Yes they do...they have said a lot of nasty things about her for telling the Truth about her Brother!
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Wanumba · 4 days ago
I think his new lover is Mike Broomhead...LOL
FushYumeng · 4 days ago
Is that burnt toast I smell?
Wanumba · 4 days ago
Just keep him away from JD Hayworth's horse...
Josh Kilroy · 4 days ago
As a progressive, I have no patience for AZ sheriffs who use immigration to divide our communities.
As a friend of Chris DeRose, I can say he is one of the most honorable men I know and that it is very hard to imagine him acting in the manner described in this article. I have faith that his good name will be vindicated when this is over.
Thesis · 2 days ago in reply to Josh Kilroy
So you want open borders? You want unlimited hispanics coming over, while keeping (as it is currently) a low quota on how many European and Asians we let in? Let's just get overrun with the third world, huh? You don't think too far ahead to see how that will affect the number of our jobs, the types of our jobs, or the level of our societal education, eh?
There already is a HUGE number of hispanics allowed in legally each year, way more than from nonhispanic countries, and they get to bring over umpteen relatives. Just because MORE want to come, doesn't mean they get to. And it's also a problem because with their huge numbers, more and more don't assimilate, don't even learn English. I've met people in their 80s who were born here who don't speak English. Try thinking ahead. Think a new civil war, caused because we get overrun with people who don't assimilate and want to recreate their own country here. We need assimilation. If you don't want to be an American, don't even think of coming here. There has to be a commonality to a country or we won't survive. Melting pot works, but "multiculturalism" destroys countries - just ask France and Germany.
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Jfhdmdj · 4 days ago
Eleanor Holguin · 4 days ago in reply to Jfhdmdj
If he sent a text to a guy about wanting to suck his cock.....ummmm.....what do you think?
Are you looking for a date with Babeu.... 520-866-6800 you can find him there for the time being.
yugo1 · 4 days ago in reply to Jfhdmdj
who really cares. Does it make him any less of a leader? Also, let's not convict him based on "allegations" by some illegal wetback
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Comments (http://http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2012-02-16/news/paul-babeu-s-mexican-ex-lover-says-sheriff-s-attorney-threatened-him-with-deportation/) left for the above article, "Paul Babeu's Mexican Ex-Lover Says Sheriff's Attorney Threatened Him With Deportation (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=39105&p=413848#p413848)" (by Monica Alonzo, Feb 16 2012, Phoenix New Times), #s 31-60:
Rob · 4 days ago in reply to yugo1
Did pictures of Former Rep Anthony Weiner's underwear make him any less of a leader?
The stories are one thing; the pictures are indisputable.
Thesis · 2 days ago in reply to Rob
If a man is obsessed with his penis, he probably needs a job mowing lawns, not a job with great responsibility. Weiner was sending those photos from work. He was wanking off on OUR tax dollars. That's not a leader. Elect women. Female politicians work hard and don't screw around.
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Tony · 4 days ago in reply to yugo1
All this matters when the guys pretends to be someone else and is running for political office! I think if you asked any Gay American they would be concerned about this guy!
The sad part is that i thought this guy was Honest and voted for him. No worries...more will sure to come out and the Republican Party will not support a gay leader...this is for sure! I'm wondering what John McCain is thinking since he supported this guy. Yikes!
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Tony · 4 days ago in reply to Jfhdmdj
His own sister has posted he is Gay...go on Google and enter his name and see all the stuff that comes up! Amazing! Another Closet case who is republican...Go figure!
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Royalphoenix2 · 4 days ago
Ohhh didn't know dude is gay. Ummmm dude, remember the NY congressman who sent pics of his unit, then resigned ? Geeez some of these folks in law enforcement are really dumb. peace
Rob · 4 days ago in reply to Royalphoenix2
Yes, let's see if this garners the same reaction of "disgust" from the right as did Anthony Weiner.
Tony · 4 days ago in reply to Rob
NoBodyScanners · 4 days ago in reply to Rob
It won't.
Rescumlicans feed off hypocrisy like crack addicts.
LD19 Resident · 3 days ago in reply to Rob
I doubt that the R's in this state will be disgusted with this latest act of cowardice coming from a fellow R.
Remember, during the Pearce recall, Pearce & Co. committed a Class 5 felony by entering a diversionary candidate (Olivia Cortes) into the recall election just so that Pearce could retain his Senate seat. Pearce was booted out with a 12-point margin loss.
Also, notorious woman-beater Scott Bundgaard resigned from the state Senate only AFTER Aubry Ballard testified she was knocked around by Bundgaard. He clearly knew he was guilty.
So, don't be surprised to see Republitwits coming to the aid of one of their own...Especially the Flaccid Failure of MCSO...
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Dkephart · 4 days ago
I just checked his campaign website and he boasts that he was the Headmaster & Executive Director of DeSisto Private Boarding School. God only knows what happened there. It's only a matter of time before other men and boys come forward about their sexual encounters with Paul. So sad.
Iyg98jjj2 · 4 days ago in reply to Dkephart
get a life. You can't say he was going after kids simply because he is may be gay. It's like saying a principle of a normal school was a pedophile because they were straight and going after girls. Get a life.
david · 3 days ago in reply to Iyg98jjj2
your confusing me are we talking about sandusky or gayboo.....
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tony · 4 days ago in reply to Dkephart
You are clueless on this ...The majority of pedifiles are hetrosexual men! Not Gay. Look up the research thats been put into this criminal activity!
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Gerry_C · 4 days ago
Another Rump Ranger! How does Babeu feel about gay marriage? As a congressman, would he support it or not? As a Far right republican, would he support it or not?
Ssn · 4 days ago
Who cares? Sounds like Babeu's lover was the stalker! You would have to be blind to not know Babeu was gay! What I can't understand is how Babeu could stand McCain and Romney, that is just fucking wrong!
So, when did the Phoenix New Times interview Babeu on this?
david · 3 days ago in reply to Ssn
who cares if they ever interviewed him,I believe everything i read in the new times....so there,
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yowzers · 4 days ago
I just hope he tries to say he isn't gay. Hey dkephart, what are the odds of a story coming out of that boarding school? I say 3:1.
Usgovfail · 4 days ago in reply to yowzers
I'm going to start a website and company and hire private investigators to trail phoenixnewtimes and azcentral employees, then post up the dirt so everyone can see how these hypocritical low lives live, the way they judge people and act as though they are so innocent and perfect.
K E · 4 days ago in reply to Usgovfail
Good luck with that buddy
mirele · 4 days ago in reply to Usgovfail
You know, the problem is not that Babeu had an undocumented immigrant lover. It's not that Babeu appears to be gay. Frankly, if the guy was a private citizen and New Times published this about him, I'd be all over New Times about invasion of privacy. Thing is, Sheriff Paul Babeu is not a private citizen. He is a prominent elected official in south central Arizona.
This is what it IS:
1) Babeu is a rising star in the GOP, which hates on illegal immigrants and gay people. (Indeed, Babeu was a speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference just last weekend, a veritable festival of anti-gay and anti-immigrant fervor.)
2) Babeu himself was quite strident in his defense of some of the worse aspects of the anti-immigrant people, including "build the fence now" (when there's no indication a fence would have the desired effect).
3) Babeu was quite willing to use the threat of his office to have his former lover picked up for deportation.
So what we have here is first, a flaming case of hypocrisy and second, threats. From the highest-ranking law enforcement official in Pinal County, the guy who was selected to give Sheriff Joe Arpaio a clean slate.
tl;dr: I have no idea why I'm wasting my time spelling all this out for you but I did.
Bnbk · 4 days ago in reply to mirele
And you did a very good job of it. Thank you.
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Tony · 4 days ago
I think Paul Babeu should be challenged on having a Illegal Mexican Lover and he knew about it and on top of that is all over Imagration border issues in the state. It's clear to all this sheriff is gay when his photo is posted on a GAY site in his underwear! OMG! Who does that stuff! I'm even amazed he is republican since that party has sooooo many issues with Gay Americans. What's sad is that there are so many other Gay Americans who are ashamed of who they are for the same reasons and this man is unable to be honest with who he is by threatening others to Shut-UP or ship you back to Mexico! It's simple...Abuse of Power or Position as a Sheriff if all these aligations are true! Shame!
samazf · 4 days ago
What liberals won't do. So much for supposed "tolerance" either way.
neverGreen23 · 4 days ago in reply to samazf
At least we don't deport our gay boyfriends after we break up.
Usgovfail · 4 days ago in reply to neverGreen23
No, you chop their heads off. Isn't that the rich cultural heritage way of the people from south of the USA?
Just google Mexican violence and click on images and we can see how you treat your own.
K E · 4 days ago in reply to Usgovfail
You're implying liberals have something to do with the drug-related gang violence in mexico?
Thesis · 2 days ago in reply to K E
Obama and Holder do. Fast and Furious. Look it up. Obama should be impeached and convicted.
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samazf · 4 days ago in reply to neverGreen23
Would be nice if it was proven. Right now it's left wing gossip. So yeah.
K E · 4 days ago in reply to samazf
Uh look at those pictures.. really?
Tony · 4 days ago in reply to samazf
The Photos on that Gay site speak volumes...not to mention the Crap this man posted!
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Every 20 or 30 comments or so, someone mentions Paul Babeu's sister Lucy, or refers to what she's apparently been posting about for years... Namely, that — amongst a trove of alleged other abuses of power — folks would do well to take a closer look at what was going on during her brother's tenure at DeSisto School.
Comments (http://http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2012-02-16/news/paul-babeu-s-mexican-ex-lover-says-sheriff-s-attorney-threatened-him-with-deportation/) left for the above article, "Paul Babeu's Mexican Ex-Lover Says Sheriff's Attorney Threatened Him With Deportation (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=39105&p=413848#p413848)" (by Monica Alonzo, Feb 16 2012, Phoenix New Times), #s 61-90:
neverGreen23 · 4 days ago
Paul Babeu is not gay. He never has been gay. He just has a wide stance
Usgovfail · 4 days ago
This liar propaganda rag really expects me to believe this story? Hahaha. Pulease. You fucking losers suck off illegal aliens every chance you get. You openly support criminals. You ask of our law enforcement to practice selective law enforcement, yet when a crime is committed against you, you losers are the first to dial 911 crying for help.
Fuck new times. Go suck a brown dick and choke.
Mexico = shit
motorfingaz · 4 days ago in reply to Usgovfail
Truth hurtz, huh baggabot! LOL
guest · 4 days ago in reply to Usgovfail
Yeah, it must be harsh when your poster-boy teaparty, tough-on-illegals Sheriff is the guy dippin his wick into the brownies....
Lmao, priceless.
david · 3 days ago in reply to guest
I think gayboo is a bottom..
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Gofuckyourself · 4 days ago in reply to Usgovfail
Fuck you!! You are a fucking piece of white trash shit like Paul B. Go fuck your self!!
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Usgovfail · 4 days ago
Phoenixnewtimes and their liberal liar rag friends over at azcentral are trying their hardest to turn Arizona into a cesspool extension of mexico by throwing every law enforcement official who fights against ILLEGAL immigration under the bus.
Let's not confuse illegal immigration with legal immigration. They are completely different. I welcome people from all over the world to come to the USA, but follow our laws like me must follow yours.
Illegal is not a race or ethnicity, it is a unlawful act
Rob · 4 days ago in reply to Usgovfail
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motorfingaz · 4 days ago
These republicans are a mess!
Gerry_C · 4 days ago
Babeu can chomp as much sausage as he likes. However, posting graphic and/or suggestive pictures of himself is rather pretty lame and does not honor the position of Sheriff or create respect for the law. Since Babeu is a Republican, it seems a bit strange that his party would worship him in the future. But if he is messing around with an illegal immigrant, his whole position on the issue is dishonest and demonstrates that he is only saying what his followers want to hear.
Rob · 4 days ago
Because no American has ever decapitated another person.
Right?
Guess the white, bible thumping meth freak, US citizen that cut his son's head off - with a pocketknife - on an Arizona highway then tossed it out the window along a New Mexico highway was just a myth.
Stand With Arizona · 4 days ago
If true, it is all over for Babeu.
Chicago Nick · 4 days ago
I could photoshop that pic in 5 minutes. If that's all they have this man is just an illegal hired or working for the left, but if true this guy is quite duplicitous. IF TRUE. I don't think it is.
They pulled this with California congressional candidate Meg Whitman and her 'poor wittle iwwegal awien' housekeeper banking 50 thou a year as a year cleaning lady, an freaking illegal, remember that?
It worked, she disappeared into Gloria "I Hate Allmen" Allred's stable and they could be implementing it here. Seems familiar. These leftists are so close to the prize and so desperate seeing what Obama's gotten away with, and as a result they're more brazen than ever and they'll do anything.
In fact many feel the law enforcement isn't even out to get them they're so comfortable here now because they're not with this guy, (Obamadinejad) and his claim to have deported more than Bush is a flat out lie. Bald faced Obama special lie, he throws em around like Pygmies chuck spears.
K E · 4 days ago in reply to Chicago Nick
You are too funny man.. why is everything a left wing conspiracy?
Jonas · 4 days ago in reply to Chicago Nick
come on you've got to be kidding... it's very strong evidence
everything nowadays is a left wing conspiracy to some people
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Nuagevu · 4 days ago
not to be condescending, but to those of you who may be surprized about this aspect of your sheriff, don't be. this info has been out there on the blogisphere for at least the last couple of years, thanks to someone who knows him well, though you may not have wanted to believe her.
obviously i'm talking about his sister Lucy Babeu.
the way the sheriff has tried to bully and threaten jose to keep quiet sounds just like how lucy has described on the blog how he's threatened her to keep quiet. and by her accounts there's a lot more that she knows that the good sheriff wants her to keep quiet about. and this lawyer of babeu's, who's suppose to be of such high integrity, as one commenter suggests. well, he sounds like a "sheister" to me. as a lawyer, how could he not know or find out if jose is in the country legally or not. and if he knows jose is legal then there goes his "lawyer integrity" out the window. he's just as dirty as his client, the sheriff. trying to use their professional positions and authority to disenfranchise someone of their legal rights. not to mention, how could he not think that jose's lawyer wouldn't know whether jose is legal or not. almost sounds as though babeu's lawyer isn't competent.
so, let's see now. what will happen to his run for congress. there's a good chance his conservative constituency will elect him anyway. many of them won't care that he's dishonest. they will ignore that this sheriff's extremely risky behavior, as a sheriff, is likely to surface again as a u.s congressman. after all, he's demonstrated this behavior ever since his days in north adams, ma. at the disisto school with the students. he'll do it again. he can't stop.
three cheers for lucy babeu.
a hundred cheers for lucy.
enough said!!!
neverGreen23 · 4 days ago
Paul's tweaking his boyfriend's nipple in the picture and Republicans are still trying to call this a conspiracy.
Follower_of_the_ONE · 4 days ago
Wonder if Arpiao's cabin boy will use this picture during his campaign for Congress? I see the possiblities for a movie here..."Brokeback Border...Busted-ass Sheriff"....
Gerry_C · 4 days ago in reply to Follower_of_the_ONE
Brokeback Mountain - Penile County Edition.
Nuagevu · 4 days ago in reply to Gerry_C
lol,lol,lol,lol,lol,lol,lol,-good one Gerry_C. i really like that one. more than appropriate!
Follower_of_the_ONE · 4 days ago in reply to Gerry_C
Wonder if they'll have a scene in script with St. Paul riding his little mule['s] back across the border.
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lambeau · 4 days ago
IF this article is TRUE, that Babeu used his position to threaten his ex that would be wrong. But if this is just a smear campaign, and if anyone thinks that Republicans will be turned off because he might or is gay..... GET REAL! Until I know the FACTS about the whole case, I will not judge. HOWEVER I do not CARE one bit was his sexual preference is, not do I care what sights he looks at, what he does on his FREE time! I just know that I sleep better at night knowing he is working hard to protect America!
Follower_of_the_ONE · 4 days ago in reply to lambeau
Yeah you might be right, and while you might sleep better knowing he is working hard to protect America, I bet I'll be sleeping on my back to protect my ass.
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Circa53 · 4 days ago
babue,,isn't that what the Charlie Brown little girl calls him ? Her Sweet Babue..so Charlie is a fag..
OnlyinArizona · 4 days ago
This is just TOO much. Babeu parading as a law enforcement officer and abusing his office for what appears to be a long, long time.
FBI - step in to this mess. Babeu needs to be indicted for threatening deportation of a lover he thought was A-ok during the relationship. So much for a moral compass.
Babeu is F I N I S H E D in politics - he may want to move to San Francisco and try that shit there.
slippery mike · 4 days ago
and here I thought he was giving me bad looks at the gas station,being a long haired biker,as common rif-raf,when really he was checking out my tushie!!...........................................................Now I'm really creeped out!
david · 3 days ago in reply to slippery mike
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OnlyinArizona · 4 days ago
Where was fatass ARPAIO with his infamous "tip line" catching all the illegals? Guess he looked the other way when the boyfriend was giving head. No calls to the MCSO hotline on this illegal? Any business or person who greases Arpaio's butthole don't get investigated - tip or not. The many Car Wash companies, car companies and local businesses that hire undocumented workers are overlooked if they meet Arpaio's criteria - $$$$$$$$ in the pocket.
If THIS isn't the kiss of death for Babeu's career, I don't know what is.
And Maricopa County paid BABEU'S OFFICE thousands of dollars to conduct an "ethics" and "administrative" investigation into MCSO? Where were his ethics during THAT investigation.
Babeu, like Arpaio is a fraud. Plain and simple.
Gerry_C · 3 days ago in reply to OnlyinArizona
Arpaio gave Babeu first dibs on the catch of illegals.
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Lucy Babeu joins the discussion in the following set...
Comments (http://http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2012-02-16/news/paul-babeu-s-mexican-ex-lover-says-sheriff-s-attorney-threatened-him-with-deportation/) left for the above article, "Paul Babeu's Mexican Ex-Lover Says Sheriff's Attorney Threatened Him With Deportation (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=39105&p=413848#p413848)" (by Monica Alonzo, Feb 16 2012, Phoenix New Times), #s 91-120:
Caige · 4 days ago
Lucy Babeu? Where are you?
NorthAdamsRemember · 4 days ago in reply to Caige
There are 11 kids in the Babeu family. They all tend to be screwed up due to the home they grew up in (having a religious zealot father). They are a "feral family" that left North Adams after wearing out their welcome. They didn't come here for the weather.
Lucy is the only one of the messed up kids that ever got professional counseling for the crap they grew up with. Paul and Shaun are #10 and #11 of the kids. Paul and Shaun have lived most of their adult lives together in the same homes. Forthy years and there ain't something funny going on there?
Let Lucy take a break. She shared here for years. You laughed and scoffed. She has lost a lot at the hands of the rest of the family. She is easy for Paul to tag as being "mentally disturbed." She has told sick stories of rape and incest and brutality and substance abuse within the walls of their home. The family needs her to be quiet and keep the family's private life private. Sounds just like Paul now, doesn't it.
This article is just the tip of it all. When it is all over, maybe Lucy will be the one looking normal as you begin to get exposed to the rest of the family and their uniquenesses. Lucy never faulted him for being gay, only for not being honest about his gayness.
Wait for the rest of the family to file out. It will be a side show.
Tex12 · 4 days ago in reply to NorthAdamsRemember
Kim Babeau made a huge mess out of Rincon High in Tucson before she got fired.
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OnlyinArizona · 4 days ago
Yup, that's what I want to see....another political candidate (and a current law enforcement officer at that) in his underwear, with an erection, pimping himself out to nameless individuals on websites. Makes you want to donate, doesn't it? I'll donate .......to get that son of a bitch out of Arizona completely. A one way bus ticket to Hollywood. What a joke.
guest · 4 days ago
News Times! Thank you for keeping those in power in check. I thank God, we have people with backbone in the media.
JOEY M · 4 days ago
There's your Tea Party for you.More like Tea Bag Party
K3 · 4 days ago
"Even after it was proved that Puroll had engaged in no such skirmish, Babeu stood behind him. " ------- Literally
Gran Torino · 4 days ago
How can you fucking idiots read this, and not put a single thought about TOTAL SLANDER....???
Hotsunaz · 4 days ago in reply to Gran Torino
Because slander is only slander if it's untrue. Paul has been sucking dicks for years.
OnlyinArizona · 4 days ago in reply to Gran Torino
PICTURES and TEXT MESSAGES are worth their weight in gold. Perhaps Babeu should have been a little smarter.
Rule_of_Wolves · 4 days ago in reply to Gran Torino
Because its true. It's not slander just because he's embarrassed by it. How can he deny the photos and the text messages coming from his business cell phone? He can't..
mirele · 4 days ago in reply to Gran Torino
First of all, it's libel if it's in print on a website. It's slander if it's spoken.
Second, truth is an absolute defense to libel or slander. I'd say that New Times has a lot of very suggestive evidence.
Let me repeat that second point, in case this was too hard for you to understand the first time: TRUTH is an absolute defense to libel or slander.
If Paul Babeu has a problem with New Times' reporting, there are the courts. He can sue New Times, get depositions, etc. However, that also means New Times can depose him.
Tommy Collins · 1 day ago in reply to Gran Torino
Well, GT, slander is spoken, libel is written. And neither is a causable action if the statements made are true and factual and can be validated.
The report seems to be true and factual and has been validated.
C apish?
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CptZEEP · 4 days ago
Well that was a short run for congress.
From this
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valley ... ime_fo.php (http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2012/01/sheriff_paul_babeu_its_time_fo.php)
To this story in less than 2 months. Nice.
(why can't I get the song 'mama said knock you out' of my head)
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OnlyinArizona · 4 days ago
So Babeu was using his BUSINESS PHONE paid by the taxpayers to send pictures, messages and threats to a (now) ex-boyfriend? If he's willing to misuse county property, what other improper uses of resources is he engaged in? Were Sheriff's Office resources used to investigate, threaten and intimidate any lovers he disagrees with? My guess is that Babeu has been abusing funds and resources from the SO for a long time...and it's just now coming to light.
NorthAdamsRemembers · 4 days ago in reply to OnlyinArizona
You are imagining (according to DeRose). Babeu's campaign manager when he ran for sheriff was Cheryl Chase. After he was elected, she was put on his staff (catchy term for him) as a Director II, a paid, at-will PCSO position and remained as his campaign manager. In August 2010 Chase lost her driving privileges with MVD. Since then, she has been driven to and from work by sworn deputies or supervisors.
Now Babeu's chief deputy Steve Harris wants to run for sheriff and Babeu is his campaign manager. Cheryl Chase wants to run for board of supervisors and Babeu is her campaign manager. The apologists point out the great job he has been doing. He is never there!
Babeu's problem is not being gay. Babeu's problem is being Paul Babeu. Pay attention when you are looking in the mirror at yourself, Paul. And get ready for the others that are not longer threated by him and will soon start to contact media sources.
mirele · 4 days ago in reply to NorthAdamsRemembers
Paul Babeu's problem is lying about who he is in today's Republican party.
If he'd been having an affair with American citizen Suzy Creamcheese, this would have been no problem. Look at Newt Gingrich.
However, in one person, "Jose," Babeu has run up against the two trip wires of modern Republican politics: hatred of gay people and undocumented immigrants. I asked an elderly relative and registered Republican last night about that--"what do you think AZ Republicans are going to hate more about this?" He said, "Oh, the illegal immigrant thing for sure."
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Babeu · 4 days ago
Ned, I appreciate you saying that, It has been very difficult to get everyone to understand and listen. It is not about Paul being gay. It is about Paul threatening and intimidating people. There are many more past lovers of his that hopefully will come forward that he has done the same thing too. Also, Paul and his lawyer have already started spreading false rumors about me because they are afraid about all the family secrets coming out. This will be next. He has told all my sisters not to talk to me and my father won't let me talk to my mother on the phone per orders of Paul. Sorry Paul, all names will be released and all family secrets. You better put your pants on. Lucy Babeu
OnlyinArizona · 4 days ago in reply to Babeu
Lucy: wonder just how much more corruption is going to be uncovered in the Sheriff's Office under Babeu? I've thought for a long time that the entire administration was corrupt. Any thoughts? Clearly using a taxpayer paid phone for your sexual pleasure isn't what we had in mind when we pay our taxes. What about any other abuses of the resources of the office?
Thesis · 2 days ago in reply to Babeu
Sounds like a vendetta and obsession on your part. Especially since the family is siding with Paul.
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Guest · 4 days ago
The 4th congressional district has a higher population of gay voters, I can't wait to see what transpires, especially when asked what his stance on gay maraige is? Looks like his campaign has serious damage control either way.
Babeu · 4 days ago
Tony, thank you too for saying that. I was called a lot of nasty things. I was only trying to help people to know the truth about Paul. He uses threats and lawyers to try to get you to shut up about his wrong doings. He has ruined a lot of peoples lives. More of his ex's will be coming forward. This is not Paul's right to have this get private, because he using the fact that he is a Sheriff to threaten people. His days are numbered. Lucy Babeu
OnlyinArizona · 4 days ago
I don't think being gay is the issue here. Being gay is a private matter, and Babeu's preferences don't bother me. What DOES bother me is that a law enforcement officer who advertises the size of his penis and memorializes himself on a website in his underwear with an erection goes beyond personal preference. It is conduct that is unbecoming of a law enforcement officer. If AZ Post does NOT address his certification, and quickly, this issue will become even messier. I believe we should ALL demand that AZ Post investigate Babeu for this conduct...................
mirele · 4 days ago in reply to OnlyinArizona
Apparently he used his work mobile phone for this private affair as well. That's misuse of taxpayer monies as well as just bloody stupid.
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Babeu · 4 days ago
Hi Caige, I am here, all this is true. Paul will not admit to it. He will have to soon than later because there are many more lovers than this that he has threatened. His Lawyer and him have already started rumors on me because he knows I am going to tell all the family secrets. I am not afraid of all of Paul threats and my father's. Paul is nothing but a bully. He needs to be stopped because he uses his position as Sheriff to intimidate people. Paul is not about being gay, he is about using males for sex and tossing them aside. He has too many male lovers to count. This is just the beginning. Have a nice night. Lucy Babeu
Matt Slusarz · 4 days ago in reply to Babeu
Thesis · 2 days ago in reply to Babeu
Well, certainly not uncommon. How many bosses have chased and then caught their secretaries, then either fired them or threatened them not to tell their wife (or their next conquest)?
How many men are womanizers, sleep with one a few times, dump her, and move on? Many. Unfortunately, if Paul is doing this, it's because he is a male, not because he is gay.
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Matt Slusarz · 4 days ago
Paul Babeu: Strong and Caliente, Thick and Wild. Has a nice ring to it.
NorthAdamsRemembers · 4 days ago in reply to Matt Slusarz
Try this. Paul Gosar was a dentist. (Dr.) Gosar has spent 25 years of his adult life filling cavities, as a profession. Mr. Babeu has spend the last 25 years of his life filling cavities, just for the fun of it.
Thesis · 2 days ago in reply to NorthAdamsRemembers
If you're not a woman, you've been doing the exact same thing, duh.
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Comments (http://http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2012-02-16/news/paul-babeu-s-mexican-ex-lover-says-sheriff-s-attorney-threatened-him-with-deportation/) left for the above article, "Paul Babeu's Mexican Ex-Lover Says Sheriff's Attorney Threatened Him With Deportation (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=39105&p=413848#p413848)" (by Monica Alonzo, Feb 16 2012, Phoenix New Times), #s 121-150:
Babeu · 4 days ago
onlyinArizona, Paul thinks he can use money anyway he wants. Look at the St. Louis Trip. My brother Peter and his two kids from CO were there. Peter raped two of my sister and admits to it. Paul does not care, he brings him along. Look at the amount of money he spent on that trip. Paul lies and says that financially the Sheriff office is fine, when they are a couple million in the hole.Paul has no clue about how to manage money. My parents names are in bankrupcy court because they have supported Paul and Shaun their whole lifes and they have never gave them a penny back. Paul does not care about the taxpayers money only about himself. He will leave the Sheriff Office a mess. There are so many abuses of resources I don't even have time to mention them right now. People have been blogging about it on newszap. Have a nice night. I am truely sorry for what Paul has done to the community and taxpayers. I have tried my best to get the word out. Best regards, Lucy Babeu
OnlyinArizona · 4 days ago in reply to Babeu
Thank you for your insight. This certainly seems to lend itself to an AUDIT. Perhaps those who are interested in monies that may have been misappropriated will speak up and put the pressure on. Audits are done all the time. Perhaps this one is long overdue.
Lapp · 4 days ago in reply to Babeu
It's revealing that when eNewsAZ asked DeRose about allegations Jose made on one of their websites, his response was to attack not Jose but Babeu's sister -- even though they (obviously) knew who Jose was. I guess it makes DeRose an honorary member of the family, but I wonder what else they're blaming on her.
As Chris Spitzzeri, DeRose had a reputation for sleazy politics in Illinois, but this is contemptible even by his standards. His wife & family must be proud.
CptZEEP · 4 days ago in reply to Lapp
Late to the party so I'm missing a lot of back story chunks, but this link ties in nicely to your post :
http://www.prescottenews.com/news/curre ... es-article (http://www.prescottenews.com/news/current-news/item/19483-babeu-campaign-denounces-allegations-in-phoenix-new-times-article)[/list][/list]
Thesis · 2 days ago in reply to Babeu
You're awfully bitter. Try counseling.
http://www.prescottenews.com/news/curre ... es-article (http://www.prescottenews.com/news/current-news/item/19483-babeu-campaign-denounces-allegations-in-phoenix-new-times-article)[/list][/list]
BJ · 4 days ago
Why don't you show Jose's face? If you make accusations be forthrite and prove them ,it's no little wonder Arpiao went after this rag
CptZEEP · 4 days ago in reply to BJ
Love your name *wink* meet you round back.
Bite it BJ · 4 days ago in reply to CptZEEP
yeah, perhaps a "senor-eater" this BJ guy.
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mirele · 4 days ago in reply to BJ
Because, unlike elected official Sheriff Paul Babeu, "Jose" is a private member of society.
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guest · 4 days ago
I think these crazy kids will patch things up. No wonder I saw Babeu dressed in drag. He said he was working undercover trying to pump a mexican for information. He's my hero. Long live New Times.
alison hicks · 4 days ago
Couple months to become a Sheriff, no education. However with there connections they can take away someone with a college degree, U.S.P.T.A. Tennis Association, Wilson Contract for a false arrest in a blink of an eye. That happened to me by a Sheriff Anthony Rogers. Be careful of these non educated Sheriff's. They ruin innocent lives for power, money and control. Just look at this guy!!! He is a true Sheriff now that is only AZ...
Dez · 4 days ago
At what age does it become delusional to call yourself any kind of "boi"? The dude's 43. And advertising himself as "StudBoi1" sort of casts a whole new light on his habit of referring to his preferred deputies as "studs." Is there a "StudBoi2"? When he complained that President Obama was "kicking" him in "the ding-dong," I didn't expect him to whip it out (7'' Cut) and brandish it in public. Say what you will about Arpaio or Pearce, but they never insisted on talking about their genitalia.
guest · 4 days ago
Babeu should not be authorized to carry a weapon until this matter is resolved. Take his sidearm, and the one bullet he carries away from him. His hatred for mexicans is just a cover. During better times, he and Jose would play border patrol. I bet the boys of the Cess Pool, are not to happy with Babeu.
Arpio has always known Babeu was gay. Babeu had to do what Arpio wanted him to do. The feds need to be brought in as the AG can not be trusted. Gov Brewer what the hell are your Sheriffs doing?
Dez · 4 days ago in reply to guest
"I bet the boys of the Cesspool are not too happy with Babeu."
In 70 or more of those many hundreds of interviews he gave with people like the Cesspoolists, he pled with the good, God-fearing rednecks of the land to send him their dimes and nickles, via SheriffPaul.com. He neglected to add that the website was maintained by his secret Mexican boyfriend.
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CptZEEP · 4 days ago
Oh before anyone accuses "Jose" of editing Baboo's wikipedia page - it was me, but I'm sure someone else can word it better (it's late on a Sat morning - and making reference links is a pain on Wikipedia. I've got two links to the sources for the controversy, and his announcement of candidacy, but I can't fathom the footer system to save my life) :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Babeu (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Babeu)[/list]
guest · 4 days ago
Who will protect us from the mexicans? I want louie back so he can tell us the truth!
Jbgoldcanyon · 4 days ago
So friggin what. Everyone knew he was gay when he was elected. He probably found out the stupid wetback was illegal . And as all illegals do, they attempt to use our justice system to protect them . Sorry idiot, my heart does not go out to you. Go back to Mexico!
guest · 4 days ago
Who Says Chivalry Is Dead? “ I will suck you off as much as needed” said Paul Babeu. What a true romantic and gentlemen! I knew there was something special about Paul.
Lapp · 4 days ago in reply to guest
Definitely a better campaign slogan that "Send a Sheriff to Washington."
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Andrew · 4 days ago
Propaganda and Photoshopping to promote illegal aliens. Typical New Times.
CptZEEP · 4 days ago in reply to Andrew
Because the Weekly World News is your source for news - including where Batboy is currently hiding.
Trip · 4 days ago in reply to Andrew
"propoganda and photoshopping"? really? keep your head buried in the sand, buddy.
Ross · 4 days ago in reply to Andrew
Your denials mean nothing. Babeu's refusal to deny, in his interview with the Republic, says everything.
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Antinous · 4 days ago
Call Jan Brewer, she'll fly in on her broom and take care of everything, she'll sweep this under a rock pronto.
Thesis · 2 days ago in reply to Antinous
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DNichols · 4 days ago
Wow Babeu truly is "Tough on Immigration".
Rump Ranger Rides!
Whole new meaning to Immigration "En-Force-ment"!
When I called this little Media "Whore" a "Drama Queen", I didn't know he really was a "Queen"!
Is Russell Pearce his new Lover?
Ah; Arizona Politicians, How Low Can You Go?
It Really is a War in Pinile County, Battling over who's on top of the Doggie.
Babeu, you suck!
Oops, I guess you really do? You Penis Smoker!
Jbgoldcanyon · 4 days ago in reply to DNichols
Really,, the guy is gay, so what. Last iI checked he was also single. Wake up morons,
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DNichols · 4 days ago
Washington Needs a New Sheriff, "Sheriff Rump Ranger"!
TubeMonster · 4 days ago
And "What a surprise!" another right wing piece of shit is also a criminal and a law enforcement official and of course his lawyer will turn out to be a criminal as well. Where the fuck is the DOJ?
rick the prick · 4 days ago
oh my god, can arizona politics get any more disgusting. now Babeu is a queer. wow, payback are a bitch(so is babeu)
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Comments (http://http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2012-02-16/news/paul-babeu-s-mexican-ex-lover-says-sheriff-s-attorney-threatened-him-with-deportation/) left for the above article, "Paul Babeu's Mexican Ex-Lover Says Sheriff's Attorney Threatened Him With Deportation (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=39105&p=413848#p413848)" (by Monica Alonzo, Feb 16 2012, Phoenix New Times), #s 151-180:
85014 · 4 days ago
I've been convinced for several years that Sherriffs should not be elected. They should be at-will employees who are hired by the County government. We don't elect police chiefs. If a professional law enforcement office was serving as the Officer in Charge of the PCSO, more than likely Paul would be a patrol officer and would have his own blog, but would not be a media star bloviating about his ability to catch illegals and building fences on the border. The hypocrisy is amazing.
bert · 4 days ago
Hey Babeu....under your watch 3.5 million of Pinal Counties budget has been overspent. Over $100,000 of the Justice Foundation funds are missing. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in drugs, cash and guns are missing from his evidence room. You hired several friends that are paid to do nothing. You've been terrorizing Pinal and its citizens since you moved here. A dozen of your best officers are paid to stay at home because they don't fear you and the rest of your officers live in fear and until now no one has cared. I say this will pass as everything else you do does you little prick!
Olivia Gonzalez · 4 days ago
mother fucker Paul Babeu is a hypocrite. For him manvagina does not need to be legal to fuck. Fuck him.
Conbservative Republican
phx · 4 days ago
Again, another one-sided story from New Times.
TubeMonster · 4 days ago in reply to phx
I admire people like yourself. You never get tired of being used by these right wing criminals and liars. Your endurance and your lack of any analytical skills is truly breathtaking.
Eleanor Holguin · 4 days ago in reply to phx
Check out azcentral there is a video. He refused to talk.
Cockbreath · 3 days ago in reply to Eleanor Holguin
He refused to talk cause his mouth was full of cock and cum.
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Highlifemgmt · 4 days ago
It doesn't get better than this, Babeu needs to resign.
torqued · 4 days ago
Just a matter of time before dirty lies are set forth against another sheriff who tries to enforce the law and stop the Mexican invasion of our country.
OnlyinArizona · 4 days ago in reply to torqued
How is Babeu trying to stop Mexican invasion in our country. By PENETRATING the illegals?
Ross · 4 days ago in reply to torqued
You can always spot the Christian fundamentalists -- they never let the facts get in the way of their faith.
Myfanny · 4 days ago in reply to torqued
Hey, he's a fanny bandit who likes brown meat.
TubeMonster · 4 days ago in reply to torqued
So sad how all you right wingers are always lied about. Gosh what are the odds? Must be tough living in fantasy land!
david · 3 days ago in reply to torqued
here's a clue moody, that my lil cousins are already here check out the bilingual signs at the stores,the guy selling palletas in your neighborhood and all those 1989 crown victorias you see on streets.....have a nice taco tuesday.
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Ross · 4 days ago
This definitely calls for an investigation of the Pinal County Sheriff's Office.
Who better to conduct it than Joe Arpaio?
Yourpal · 4 days ago in reply to Ross
Funny how penal rhymes and sounds like penile as in penis. now we know why a gay cop lived in penal -penile county. he had penis on the brain.
Bikertrash81 · 3 days ago in reply to Yourpal
I have warm tight juicy pussy on the brain.
Thesis · 2 days ago in reply to Yourpal
They don't rhyme.
Pee-nill
Pee-nile
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Gohomespics · 4 days ago
Thats right idiots believe a stupid wetback attempting to stay in he country. did anyone ever notice that the people reporting this crap are also mexicans... hmmmmm
Grnch · 4 days ago
Sometimes self-loathing becomes so prominent that the hatred gets channeled to other people. It's sad, really.
Life · 4 days ago in reply to Grnch
life is sad. we all die in the end. movie over.
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Wow · 4 days ago
Babeu was pumping the mexican for criminal information. That's how he did it in the National Guard. He is a hero and defender of family values. First it was Palin, now its Babeu. McCain is not good at making new friends.
Avoncalling · 4 days ago in reply to Wow
He was also pumping his tight mexican boy ass.
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Kathi Burdikoff · 4 days ago
Elilove · 4 days ago in reply to Kathi Burdikoff
You support ass fucking sodomy and cock sucking?
Wartscancer · 3 days ago in reply to Elilove
That shit will give you warts in your ass and throat then leads throat cancer.
Thesis · 2 days ago in reply to Elilove
So that must mean you don't do either of those with your girlfriend. We woudn't want you to be a hypocrite.
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Malewhore · 4 days ago in reply to Kathi Burdikoff
Your probably a lezbo gay wad bull dyke female yourself.
Marta · 4 days ago in reply to Kathi Burdikoff
Somebody must care or it wouldn't be a big news story. this is actually a real news story for once and its funny as hell.
david · 3 days ago in reply to Kathi Burdikoff
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Comments (http://http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2012-02-16/news/paul-babeu-s-mexican-ex-lover-says-sheriff-s-attorney-threatened-him-with-deportation/) left for the above article, "Paul Babeu's Mexican Ex-Lover Says Sheriff's Attorney Threatened Him With Deportation (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=39105&p=413848#p413848)" (by Monica Alonzo, Feb 16 2012, Phoenix New Times), #s 181-210:
charlie_oscar · 4 days ago
Babooo demands all illegal mexican men be deported without delay - UNLESS they are under 40, 5'9, smooth with a swimmer build and are willing to be submissive and role play with handcuffs.
You can't make this stuff up!
I'm waiting for the Russell Pearce "Border Bear Seeks" scandal to hit the wires...
Guest81 · 4 days ago
At least sheriff Joe dont fuck mexican boys in their tight asses or suck their cocks thank god.
Eleanor Holguin · 4 days ago in reply to Guest81
How do you know he doesn't?
Guest81 · 4 days ago in reply to Eleanor Holguin
im psychic. I know all. .
Italianamerican · 4 days ago in reply to Eleanor Holguin
Italians dont fuck dirty assholes.
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david · 3 days ago in reply to Guest81
no he likes men uniforms like fox and black....
Thesis · 2 days ago in reply to Guest81
You men are such hypocrites. You want to do that to your girlfriend, and have the girlfriend do the other to you, but oh don't faint!, if another man wants it done by another man, the acts themselves are disgusting!!!!! Get a clue! You're no different than the gay man, the gender of your partner is just different! Same sex acts!!!!
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Roy Warden · 4 days ago
Oh, this is priceless, absolutely priceless!
For the past half decade, I've been writing about Republican hypocricy regarding Open Border Policy and their support for Mexican Cheap Labor to exploit, going way, way back to Senator Barry Goldwater. Now, Babeu has given the term "exploitation" a whole new meaning!
First, "Bareback Riding, Butt Bustin'" Gentleman Jim Kolby and now "Studboi" Babeu!
This is how they'll spin it: "Republicans, the New Party for Diversity!"
Thank you Phoenix New Times. And give my regards to the "Feathered Bastard" hmself, Steve Lemon.
Warden, the Notorious Mexican Flag Burner
Guest54 · 4 days ago in reply to Roy Warden
You are 100% correct. this is priceless at its best. LOL its like a giant comedy show.
GIANT PENIS HEAD · 3 days ago in reply to Guest54
And Pauls head looks like a GIANT PENIS!
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Thesis · 2 days ago in reply to Roy Warden
And the dems want them here for the votes, even illegal ones. Both parties are playing us, letting tons of illegals in, for their own benefit. Sorry to trash your dream, but it's not just one party.
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ChrisInTempe · 4 days ago
I'll take this one point at a time, admitting up front I liked Babeu when he first became Sheriff in Pinal County but over time he lost my support. Most recently for spending $35,000 of RICO funds for jewelry when he has been claiming for a couple of years that his deputies cannot afford adequate guns.
If Babeu did threaten the man, then he deserves to lose his job.
If all really proves to be is some noise between lovers, well then it is tawdry but none of my business and not deserving of news coverage.
Phoenix New Times has done some outstanding investigative journalism in the past. At the moment, all that is in their story are a lot of suggestions that something improper happened. No solid evidence is presented.
Yes, the photos look like Babeu. Yes it is all quite incriminating of Babeu being gay and rather reckless considering his position in politics.
No, the story supplies no hard evidence of a crime or a major ethical lapse.
Therefore all that I see in this New Times story is a whole lot of wrong headed reporting. So far I see the New Times throwing monkey poo.
This could change. If they print something solidly linking Babeu to a threat, the color of the entire story changes and it all becomes fair game.
From what's there at this moment, it isn't a fair piece of reporting at all.
Margie · 4 days ago in reply to ChrisInTempe
Of course he threatened him. he did not want the world to know he was gay. never post gay pictures of yourself online if you want to keep it on the down low. especially if your in public office. I mean how dumb can you get? are all govt people retarded or what? they do this alot.
Iworkforaliving · 4 days ago in reply to ChrisInTempe
Umm dipshit.. 35000 in badges,love how little fluff idiots like yourself tend to twist shit around
Shogo · 4 days ago in reply to Iworkforaliving
Life is twisted 365 24/7 so get used to it pal.
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Guest · 4 days ago
Great reporting Monica. Pulitzer?
GAYMALE · 4 days ago
Babeu is what is known in the gay mens world as a troll. trolls in the gay mens world are older gay men who go after young handsome gay males sexually. the term troll was alive and well and used in the gay male world 20+ years ago before it became an internet word.
Wow · 4 days ago
There was a saying in Pinal County "The most dangerous place to be is between Babeu and a news reporter." I never thought I would see the day Babeu runs away from a camera. This is better than if the we won the Super Bowl.
COPS SUCK · 4 days ago in reply to Wow
Typical hypocritical.coward cop behind a badge.
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Guest · 4 days ago
Sounds like extortion to me. Hopefully this will be addressed from a legal standpoint as well. Power does strange things to people.
Cockburn · 4 days ago
He should have come out at the start and let it be known that he was gay then nobody would care about this story cause then there is nothing to hide. when you hide things thats when it becomes blown out of proportion. its called in the closet gay man. he is now out of the closet gay. not that there is anything wrong with that. Jerry Seinfeld quote.
Creature58 · 4 days ago in reply to Cockburn
There's nothing wrong with it as long as you are not one of the hate-filled, bigoted, fear-mongering, hypocritical Republicans. That's the issue Mr. Burn.
Shogo · 4 days ago in reply to Creature58
I think he said that there was nothing wrong with it by using the Jerry Seinfeld quote. read it again fool.
Cockburn · 3 days ago in reply to Creature58
I dont hate anybody. im just a common sense advice column.
Cockburn · 3 days ago in reply to Creature58
Im a free spirit I belong to no political party at all. I only belief in the planet earth life party.
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Carl Toersbijns · 4 days ago
Is this story about Jose, or is it about the lawyer that "represents" the Sheriff because it's not about the Pinal County Sheriff ~~ I don't see anything where it impacts the Sheriff as it has long been established that being gay don't interfer with the ability to do the job. Thus whether the Sheriff is gay or not is not my concern nor my business.
This sounds like a publicity stunt unless there is real evidence this is all verified and documented to be true and that it was THE Sheriff did "order" Jose to be quiet thus an abuse of authority of his position as an public officer. If you are going to jump on this bandwagon, you must have your ducks in a row and so far, anyone could have been in "Jose's situation" and make it all up since he admitted all those things he did to lay the groundwork to discredit the Sheriff and admitted it. You must question the offense or motive first, then the inquisition, then the evidence without bias then the facts..... a lot is missing here ~~
Hock · 4 days ago in reply to Carl Toersbijns
You saying that only his attorney is threatening the guy with deportation, and therefore Babeu's hands are clean?
If that's the case, totally disagree. At this point in time, Babeu's hands are dirty.
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Wow · 4 days ago
The military, most likely CID or Intelligence, will have to interview Babeu. He will most likely be brought back on temporay active duty because of his status as an Officer. He will have to be debriefed to determine if his status compromised the United States. Babeu is in a world of shit. His claims of being green lighted by the mexican cartel could have been a diversion. All because he wanted to get a piece of the mexican culture.
I being honest, someone in the military is initiating a SSI ROI which will be read by the Army Chief of Staff by COB today! Chief of Staff will inform the Chairman, who will inform the SECDEF. Maybe he can give the SECDEF a nice commander's coin.
david · 3 days ago in reply to Wow
wonder if josie got a coin too...
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BS artiste · 4 days ago
Why is it that those tea baggers Republicans that are virulent anti-gay turn out to be homosexuals? We see this all the time.
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teknik1200 · 4 days ago in reply to BS artiste
they are ashamed of themselves and take it out on society in an attempt to hide their true colors. It's kinda sad really, they would be much happier if they were open and didn't have to hide.
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Wow · 4 days ago
Sheriff Joe knew all along that Babeu was gay and had many lovers. This is why Babeu failed to report the truth in the MCSO's investigation. Babeu is done. His military retirement may fad away, not for being gay, but conduct unbecoming of an Officer. Photos were taken prior to his retirement. You pissed off the Commander in Chief for the last time Babeu. Babeu, given the President one of your coins and maybe he will forget the whole thing ever happened.
LD19 Resident · 4 days ago
A few thoughts...
(1) If the Bald Bunion of Pinal County was/is gay, so what? That's no one's business.
(2) SInce it appears he abused the power of his office, he should be a part of the USAO's abuse-of-power investigation into the Flaccid Failure, Henderbulk, Candy Andy Thomas and Aubuchon.
(3) Threatening someone, regardless of their immigration status, about being gay (something that would damage Buffoon politically) then he is guilty of witness intimidation and tampering with a witness. The Bald Bunion has learned really well from his hero, mentor and savior the MCSO shurf.
(4) I predict the Bald Bunion will lose his congressional race.
Carolana · 3 days ago in reply to LD19 Resident
Did I call it right or not?
LD19 Resident · 3 days ago in reply to Carolana
Let's wait and see what the Bald Bunion has to say about all this... I wonder if his hero, mentor and savior the MCSO shurf will be in attendance?
Carolana · 3 days ago in reply to LD19 Resident
Just saw the news conference. ANOTHER CROCK OF CRAP!
LD19 Resident · 3 days ago in reply to Carolana
It appears that the Bald Bunion of Pinal County has learned exceptionally well from his hero, mentor, and savior the Flaccid Failure of MCSO.
Lie about something (being gay and intimidating a witness) and then, when the truth is exposed, lie to cover it up (the press conference held by the Bald Bunion)
I have to wonder what Babeu knew and when he knew it...Maybe he'll pull an MCSO shurf stunt and claim he can't recall...
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Lewis · 4 days ago
I can't believe I donated to this freak. I want my donation back.
Lewis · 4 days ago in reply to Lewis
Shogo · 4 days ago in reply to Lewis
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BS artiste · 4 days ago
You wonder how many other closet gay Republicans are out there & why why why do these Republicans punish the people they love?
Hock · 4 days ago in reply to BS artiste
About 10%...give or take.
Jafafa Hots · 3 days ago in reply to Hock
With Republicans it's always take.
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david · 3 days ago in reply to BS artiste
cause makeup sex is awesome
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Wow · 4 days ago
I have been up all night. I don't want to go to sleep and wake up, only to find out that I was dreaming.
maninphx · 4 days ago
Too bad Studboi1 did not just come out of the closet and be honest about who he is and what he is attracted too. This is 2012 and honestly no one really cares. His sister "Outed Him" years ago on a blog right here. So he took the low road and had his attorneys lie about it.
Not a good way to get elected. Missed opportunity.
A guilty dog barks the loudest.
This is interesting as well:
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DNichols · 4 days ago
Is The New Arizona form of Law Enforcement "Attrition" against illegal Immigrants Sodomy?
Sick, I think it will work on All in Arizona!
Un- Real!
Hock · 4 days ago
The hypocrisy is unbelievable.
Pit Boss · 4 days ago
LOL! He called him "Papi."
Wow · 4 days ago
Sheriff Devers what is your position in this mess. Devers, Babeu screwed you, and you are just finding out. Babeu has often thought of you when he is with his lover.
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maninphx · 4 days ago in reply to Gohomespics
O you just like uniforms with badges and coins that cost 35K....
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Joseneedsdeported · 4 days ago
Anyone can put anyones name in their phone, how stupid people must be to believe this shit..lol
602Guy · 4 days ago in reply to Joseneedsdeported
And what about the photos?
Lolipopppy · 3 days ago in reply to Joseneedsdeported
You go by their phone number you dumbass. The numbers were confirmed when the person calls!
Iworkforaliving · 3 days ago in reply to Lolipopppy
How dumb can you be.your too stupid to explain this one.I could put Paul's name at my sisters phone number. When she calls,it appears Paul is calling.duh dumbass
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Wow · 4 days ago
it's alledged that Babeu also likes the "Alabama Black Snake" on occasions. This is why he hired his friend. Gov Brewer, what do you think of wonderboy?
Wow · 4 days ago
"Fast and furious", is how Babeu's lover described him.
who cares? · 4 days ago
First off this probably isn't true, being that nothing reported in a tabloid is true. Second of all who cares?
COPS SUCK · 4 days ago in reply to who cares?
You cared enough to respond. your a hypocrite.
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There's a longish post by Lucy Babeu, originally posted elsewhere, which has been copied below by "maninphx" and is well worth a closer look...
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Suzanne Noel · 4 days ago
This guy is a stalker - plain and simple. The guy says that he created a fake persona to monitor and stalk Babeu. He trashed the campaign websites. He left anonymous comments at different websites to hurt Babeu.This story broke because Babeu got tired of this nut and took legal action. Phoenix New Times is pro-illegal alien and took this opportunity to try and take down Babeu.
The problem with Babeu is he is a good guy who had too much patience when he was dealing with this psycho.
It is hard to take Ms. Alonzo's journalistic capabilities seriously with this one sided story.
PeeOnT · 4 days ago in reply to Suzanne Noel
No one would care except Babeu is the national poster boy for the Tealaban Republican Party and its agenda hating Latinos and Gays!
Now f...off, you Hypocritical ....!
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Wow · 4 days ago
This is the "Sheriff of the Year" I want proof.
Sally Pine · 4 days ago
Paul Babeu is not reqired to be straight, he only needs to shoot straight. Barry Goldwater Sr.
COPS SUCK · 4 days ago in reply to Sally Pine
He does shoot straight. he shoots his hot cum wad straight into a young tight Mexicans ass.
Suckmyschlong · 3 days ago in reply to COPS SUCK
They cum to this country to do the gay job that white gay male Anglos are to lazy to do. they are here to sexually service older rich gay white male fag trolls.
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Tommy Collins · 4 days ago
Ut oh. Not good for Paulie Boy....
WhoKnows · 3 days ago
Babeu has scheduled a press conference for noon. Which of the Village People will he dress as?
"Working at the the PCSO. Love to work at the PCSO!"
Vic · 3 days ago in reply to WhoKnows
What an idiot, he thinks he can talk his way out of this. He will never be elected to any
office in this state again and he may as well face it now. There is no way the GOP
money people are ever going to help this phoney again.
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J Ballard · 3 days ago
This has all been coming to a head ( no pun intended) . Its been building up for a long time and believe it or not thier is more to cum...LoL Paul Babeu is a very bad person. He will get whats he deserves. Just wait and see!!!!
Chris · 3 days ago
Who gives a damn to what he does in his personal life. Let the man be as long as he is not breaking the law
Jesus Christo de Nogales · 3 days ago
Leave it to the Phoenix "New" Times news to post any and all stories that take attention away from the most serious destruction of the American way of life. We should all be concentrating on how we end the illegal Mexican occupation of America and return the occupiers back to Mexico!
John Hallman · 3 days ago in reply to Jesus Christo de Nogales
Coward, who don't you put your real name on your racist puke? Because you are a little sissy boy, that's why.
CHICO HAMC PHX AZ · 3 days ago in reply to John Hallman
Here is mine Chico Mora Hells Angels MC phx AZ 147 west Mojave wt phx AZ. try and top that john hallman.
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radical_dawg · 3 days ago
Some say Babeu's hands are clean, others no, but the crux of the problem is that nobody knows where they have been.
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J Ballard · 3 days ago
If he didnt want his personal life out in the public he shouldnt have got into politics.
Nocommonsense · 3 days ago in reply to J Ballard
Or take or send gay pics threw email and put them gay male websites. how stupid is that? more proof that gay sex rules and over rides his common sense.
tdj · 3 days ago in reply to Nocommonsense
Any sex, hetero or homo, can override a human's common sense.
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Billy · 3 days ago in reply to Marta
He is possibly a sex addict? oh no say it aint so! GET THERAPY QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.
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Nocommonsense · 3 days ago in reply to J Ballard
Or gotten near a computer. or a gay porn site. or a digital camera. etc etc. the man has no common sense folks. sexual conquest over rode his common sense just like drug and alcohol abuse does.
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maninphx · 3 days ago
Here is a post by Babeu's sister:
SHERIFF PAUL BABEU 1 Year, 7 Months ago
This is a question I would like to ask Paul and pose to the people on the forum.
As Paul sister, I know for a fact that he is gay, our 9 other brother and sister's know. My parent's too and everyone wants it kept a secret. This has caused great damage to family ties and relationships amongst us. The reason being is Paul and our family all know he has lived with many different men, and we have all met them. Some very young as 18, which when he was running for mayor in North Adams and him being 32 and this boy was his former student at Desisto, we all thought it was inappropriate. I told Paul so, but he did not agree. (This is first hand information and should not be deleted.) He lived at willow St. in North Adams, Ma. if you want conformatiioin to this time. In Az, he lived with a lover at his present house where he lives with his brother Shaun, for six months and then Paul kicked his lover out. His ex-lover moved in with my sister Veronica in florence for a year because he was friends with her. This Paul was angry about, too close to home.
I just think if Paul was open about his lifestyle, it would not cause problems in the family. I have many of his ex-lovers calling me, because they are angry because Paul dumps them after a few months and never returns their phone callls. What am I suppose to do? I don't talk to him anymore because he lied about things in my life so he wouldn't be exposed for being gay during his bid for sheriff. Some people may think that this is his own personal business, but it is not, when it effects other people's life's. I think people would still want him as sheriff, he just couldn't be in the military. Unless, he stood up for gay rights like he should. Is Paul a liar and a hypocrit? Maybe Sheriff Paul is just out for himself? You decide, I am just asking him to be who he really is and stop the secrets and the lies. How about you?
Paul, Do you think you with ever tell the truth, or are you going to have people attack me and tell me I am crazy or have me deleted from here? I would rather come out of the closet and be who I am,and have people respect me, than lie to them and betray my followers about who I am. Is it that important to you, that you are willing to lose people in your life that loved you and truely cared, to just get ahead? For what? To fall in the end? Because, that is what is going to happen! Good luck with your fake identity! When will the real Paul Babeu stand up!
Thesis · 2 days ago in reply to maninphx
OMG. How lucky we are that no men do that to women. Oh, wait, that's what womanizers do!!! To his sister: Your brother is a slut, as many men are.
Sure sounds like his sister should work on his own life, and stop being obsessed with her brother. Sounds like she may have a personality disorder.
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JesterJackson · 3 days ago
That he is gay is not a big deal to me I had always assumed he was. What bothers me is that he shows lack of judgment , he cheated on his boyfriend and then tried to use his position to silence his ex boyfriend. Babeu shows he is not an honest person.
maninphx · 3 days ago in reply to JesterJackson
Sheriff Paul Babeu has some ‘splaining to do.
According to FOX Phx News: Sheriff Babeu's attorney issued a statement saying: "We strongly deny the sensationalist headline published by the Phoenix New Times."
We asked if Babeu had any statement about the dating profile pictures posted on the New Times Website. Babeu's attorney said: "No. He believes he'll be judged by his record.
Well Jester it is looking like he is not honest with anyone and has a huge lack of judgment. A guilty dog barks the loudest.
Fuckthepigs · 3 days ago in reply to JesterJackson
Thats the typical pig cop way when they are up against the wall. I knew this shit about pigs years ago.
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Josh Weinberg · 3 days ago
At this point, it's no longer shocking when you see the headlines about some moralizing republican being outed as gay, it's almost expected. Kinda like American Idol.
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Humpdyhump · 3 days ago
Paul Gosar's best day EVER!
DangedFence · 3 days ago
Makes you wonder what Babeu really meant when he told McCain, "Senator, you are one of us" in his campaign ad....
Red River Rover · 3 days ago
This gives a whole new meaning to digging up bones in the desert...
Cockburn · 3 days ago
Is Paul wearing the puffy shirt from the Jerry Seinfeld show in that gay picture? why is his hand inside that young mans shirt anyway? hint.....his young hard mexican gay cock is just below the shirt and pants belt sir gay cop sir. thats so gay sissy looking it makes me want to puke. im sure glad im a hetero sexual male and im not like that. that picture is so 7th grade high school teenybopper.
Alesbian · 3 days ago
That picture is gross. this is why lesbians like me cant stand gay males. gay men make even lesbian dykes like myself very irritated. thats why we dont generally hang out with them gay men even as friends. they get on your nerves with their weird gay ways and gay behavior.
MARTinNJ · 3 days ago in reply to Alesbian
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Why don't we try an intelligent or at least funny comment.
Guinea · 3 days ago in reply to MARTinNJ
There is plenty of funny comments on here so keep reading you idiot. you give up to easy. I thought NJ people were tough and smarter than you.
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PeeOnT · 3 days ago in reply to Alesbian
thanks Mary Claire Cheney!
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MARTinNJ · 3 days ago
Which goes to prove the point: If you're in a town you are unfamilar with, and you want to find a gay bar or where to pick up men, just ask the 'x-gays' and the republican elected officials.
Pete Clark · 3 days ago in reply to MARTinNJ
Like Barney Frank??..idiot...lol
Cockburn · 3 days ago in reply to MARTinNJ
was that suppose to a joke? if so it sucked. try again jersey boy.
MARTinNJ · 3 days ago in reply to Cockburn
Yes, it did suck. Sort of like Paul I guess.
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PeeOnT · 3 days ago
Today at 12:30 p.m. Sheriff Paul Babeu will be holding a Press Conference in front of the Pinal County Sheriff's Office.
Watch for hate speech, bashing Liberals, gays, and Mexicans...
WhoKnows · 3 days ago in reply to PeeOnT
Will it be televised by anyone?
Gayporn · 3 days ago in reply to WhoKnows
Yes the gay porn network.
OWN · 3 days ago in reply to Gayporn
Is that a part of OWN Oprah Winfrey network? I heard her OWN network was not doing well. gay male porn might be the answer to her own gay financial network problems.
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Marta · 3 days ago in reply to PeeOnT
maybe he is gonna quit or retire?
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Pete Clark · 3 days ago
OHHH..Look at the libtard pro illegal trash,SUDDENLY worried about someone being gay..What pathetic desperate parasites these people are!!..Cry all you want,Paul will do his Job today,like everyday..Enjoy your bus ride home!!
Beanersgohome · 3 days ago in reply to Pete Clark
I hate illegal mexican trash. what are you talking about?
John Hallman · 3 days ago in reply to Pete Clark
scary! such a dumbasss, you are. hmm, pete, are you jose?
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wherewasi · 3 days ago
Geez Louise! Where are Michelle Bachmann and her gay-curing hubby when the Tea Party needs them?? Clearly this can all be solved with a little straightening therapy.
JesterJackson · 3 days ago
Paul Babeu says he will be judged by his record/actions not his personal life. I don't think he realizes how quickly his 'friends' in the teaparty and conservative GOP'ers will turn on him. If you want to have a 'private life' you don't go into politics or use your position to threaten others. Unless you are Arpaio of course.
MARTinNJ · 3 days ago in reply to JesterJackson
Studboi1 has my vote. Oh yeah.
Ssn · 3 days ago in reply to JesterJackson
Obviously you haven't been to any Tea Party meetings. There are a number of openly gay members.
WhoKnows · 3 days ago in reply to Ssn
Do they have it printed on their name tags? How do you know they are gay? A secret hand signal?
Jim · 3 days ago in reply to WhoKnows
The gay looking puffy shirt and hand in stuck in that young studs shirt kinda gives it away. the gay web sight ad he had up is another way to tell. what are you stupid or what? wise up you fool!
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JesterJackson · 3 days ago
Gay or straight, I think sex in general can make people do stupid things that would be considered self sabatoging or self destructive. Honesty is the best policy.
Gleazc · 3 days ago
What a surprise... Another racist, homophobic and anti-immigrant Repuke turns out to be a lying hypocrite...oh the shock!!!
MARTinNJ · 3 days ago
Maybe he can run for the House of Reprentatives on the studboy1 ticket?
MARTinNJ · 3 days ago
What is it about Repugs? They are either all pasty old repressed white men, or hot-muscled-in-their-underwear-picking-up-boys- repressed-white-men.
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Oldschoolgay · 3 days ago in reply to MARTinNJ
I know a few old school gay guys that look like old long haired bearded 1960s hippies and they dont speak with a gay lisp at all. they live in the woods in northern california and they cant stand these types of city flamer gay men. gay flamers who talk with a lisp are and embarrassment to classy gay males who dont flaunt the gay way of life.
Velvetunderground · 3 days ago in reply to Oldschoolgay
Like the book on the cable guy movie with jim carry called loose your lisp in 30 days book.
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freedom_72 · 3 days ago
Wow, I'm amazed (actually not, it's Arizona) about the amount of judgemental nasty homophobic comments. No wonder he didn't want to be open about being gay, especially as a Republican.
To all the haters here: ever heard of "do not judge, and you will not be judged"?
And to "Cockburn": ever heard of "those who protest the loudest..."? ;-)
Shitsville · 3 days ago in reply to freedom_72
Everybody hates everybody in Arizona. its a unfriendly classless ignorant trashy uncultured redneck dusty desert hellhole full of uncultured unsophisticated white trash loser bottom feeders. its worse that living in the old deep south states. its a sad place to live. but the weather is great and its the skin cancer capitol of the world. dont forget the tent city compound.
RUFFTOUGHCREEMPUFF · 3 days ago in reply to Shitsville
It sounds a fucking paradise!
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Cockburn · 3 days ago in reply to freedom_72
cockburn is not being serious.
str8 n AZ · 3 days ago in reply to freedom_72
Where do you live? Cause I find Arizona to be amazingly cultured as compared to other places I've lived. Central Arizona is a melting pot of peoples, cultures, and lifestyles.
Even gays.
I love tent city. I wave every time I drive by. If I lived in Maricopa County, I'd vote for Joe 'til he's old and in the grave. Don't like the living conditions? Don't be a criminal. Easy as pie.
I don't particularly care about MY sheriff's sex life. The story here is in the *alleged* threats of legal action. Who and how's he's screwing is none of my business.
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Gerry_C · 3 days ago
This article, and the comments are rather insensitive to Mr. Babeu. Get it through your heads that Paul Babeu is the bonerfied and duly erected Sheriff of Penile County. If you don't like him, don't vote for him at erection time.
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Anile8r59 · 3 days ago
Looks like he was checking if the guy had a gun in the pic
Shuman · 3 days ago in reply to Anile8r59
He does , its in his pants.
Marta · 3 days ago in reply to Shuman
And its cocked! get it? cocked?
Avoidthevoid · 3 days ago in reply to Marta
and filled with with love cream.
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Humanrights · 3 days ago
Paul Babeu's illegal Mexican ex-boyfriend might be eligible for a visa as a victim of a crime if Babeu is charged with one, and pleads guilty or is found guilty.
Pit Boss · 3 days ago
So I guess all of those helicopters and fancy badges he needed money for were for looking fabulous and finding hot, willing Mexicans in the desert at night. Would have cost us less if had just figured out about the gay dating site earlier :(
Katie T. · 3 days ago
This is genuinely appalling.
WhoKnows · 3 days ago
He's already stepped down as the AZ co-chairman of Romney's campaign. I wonder if it was his idea, as this story has gone national.
christian · 3 days ago
This is why any gay man who claims to be a Republican or a member of one of the gay Republican groups should ALWAYS be avoided. They are most always pathetic closet cases or media hungry turds like Paul.
Jose, the "Don't F**k with me Fellas, This Aint My First Time at the Rodeo...." award of the day goes to you.
Not sure why you would be into a bald closet case jerk considering you look to be pretty sexy. Give me a ring via your real A4A profile! :)
WhoKnows · 3 days ago in reply to christian
Actually, if you could read, you'd know that Jose has a visa.
And BTW, ANYONE on US soil has rights. Or do you hate the US Constitution?
WhoKnows · 3 days ago in reply to WhoKnows
Sorry. Looks like my response went to the wrong post!
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wilder5121 · 3 days ago
I know it's hard for average Americans to keep track of the endless stream of Republican perverts, criminals, and scandals.
So as a public service, Republican Offenders (website) provides a long, long, long list of Republican criminals from the past ten years...nicely organized by category: Drugs/Prostitution, Murder, Corruption/Bribery, Rape, Lewd Conduct, Assorted Felonies, Fraud/Embezzlement etc etc etc...and a ridiculously huge section on Pedophiles, as would be expected from the "Family Values" GOP.
Looks like only about 400 or so Republicans listed...so it's obviously a work in progress.
Peggyann629 · 3 days ago
To the sheriff, Shame on you. Jose, I hate to say this, but you have no legal rights. You are illegal and I for one am extremely tired of the game. You want American rights, do it the right way and go home and get back here the legal way. We Mexican-Americans are tired of the scrutiny from everyone else because of people like you.
WhoKnows · 3 days ago in reply to Peggyann629
Actually, if you could read, you'd know that Jose has a visa.
And BTW, ANYONE on US soil has rights. Or do you hate the US Constitution?
Mike · 3 days ago in reply to Peggyann629
You have no proof that he is illegal. According to the article he has documents allowing him to be in the country.
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Richard Grayson · 3 days ago
The Pinal County Greens, members of the Arizona Green Party in Pinal County, today met in emergency session in Apache Junction and passed a resolution calling on Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu to be nicer to his ex-boyfriends; "Deporting them is tacky," said the resolution:
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Capritaur · 3 days ago
Ha, ha, ha! So delicious it has to be fattening.
Whenever a racist gay homophobe hypocrite falls, the world becomes a happier place.
christian · 3 days ago
Hey "WHO KNOWS" - (we know one thing about you for sure, you are a .... ::)
I'd suggest first that maybe you read my reply to this great story. It says nothing about Jose's Visa or lack of one. It says nothing of the Constitution, or about ones rights while on "US SOIL" .
We' re all cool with Jose here - don't care if he is "illegal" or not. Some of us could care less.
Adam · 3 days ago in reply to christian
Surely you don't plan to argue that because this particular article does not discuss the rights of foreign citizens (which are both part of the US Constitution and international law), they aren't a valid response to the uninformed - or misinformed - opinion that they don't exist at all
Also, paragraph 6 mentions the false claim of an expired visa.
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Mary · 3 days ago
I have no problem with any of these guys being gay. My problem is that the sheriff (Babeu) is a lying S.O.B. and he should not be in law enforcement. Poor Jose!
Chico · 3 days ago in reply to Mary
All pigs- cops are SOBs. you just haven't been around enough in the ghetto hood on the poor side of the tracks. cops are assholes with an limp dick inferiority complex. thats why they become pigs so they can compensate for their mass insecurity by wearing a badge a gun and be on a power trip over the rest of society. better known as little man broke dick limp dick syndrome.
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bigbubbatadsworth · 3 days ago
What is it, about these republican hypocrites? They hate gays, and then we find out, that they are gay. If republicans vehemently hate a particular group, they are usually part of that group. They hate what and who, they are. These clowns, need counseling.
Thesis · 2 days ago in reply to bigbubbatadsworth
Ah, the people in the republican party who hate gays, aren't the gays themselves - not too hard to wrap your mind around, is it? The tiny fringe of religious radicals have taken over, and pushed the moderate republicans into the dem party. Which is why the dems now have Obama, because he sure isn't a democrat.
And the democratic party needs major counseling. They pretend to be for gays, women, blacks, EVERYbody, but it's all words. If they addressed the concerns of these groups, they wouldn't be able to keep them in the party. Now they've got them thinking, where else are you going to go? trying to keep them in the dem party. But they don't like them or do anything for them.
The parties are the same. They are rich people who are in it for themselves. They bring out wedge issues to get us to vote for one side or the other - but they are more alike than different. It's all games with them.
Former dem/now independent since 2008 when the Obamacrats hijacked the dem party and stole Hillary's delegates (I saw it live on CNN May 31, 2008) to force Obama over the line, even though Hillary won the popular vote and neither one had enough delegates. Never again will I believe that the dems are "the good guys". Both parties suck.
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naithom · 3 days ago
OK, he chooses to start a relationship with someone he knows to be undocumented, uses him for unpaid work and the threatens him and his family after the boyfriend discovers he's cheating.
I'm counting civil rights violations, DOL violations, felonies, as well as the general hypocrisy. Well done, Sheriff, you are another true blue family values politician!
tdj · 3 days ago in reply to naithom
Actually, the ex-boyfriend does have a visa.
Thesis · 2 days ago in reply to tdj
I have heard that too, but then why is he afraid of the deportation threat and why has he hired himself an attorney to prevent that deportation?
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Lakewood Twoonesix · 3 days ago in reply to naithom
Jose is stating that his visa is still valid. Considering he hired an attorney, he's probably telling the truth.
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Lawrence Liles · 3 days ago
Another law and order hypocrite exposed
Cockbreath · 3 days ago in reply to Lawrence Liles
Earth is really called planet hypocrite.
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soondalo · 3 days ago
It's not a good time to be Paul and Joe right now.
Cockbreath · 3 days ago in reply to soondalo
Joe seems to be the good guy now. this takes some of the heat off of him.
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Jsmith · 3 days ago
He doesn't hate Mexicans at all,,, well cute ones.
MARTinNJ · 3 days ago in reply to Jsmith
Can you get more pathetic: "I want to have sex with you hot thing you, but if you tell people I am having sex with you, I will use my position in the government to get your foreign-born butt deported."
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LiberalTexasDemocrat · 3 days ago
Is there a Republican out there who doesn't have a secret boyfriend? This is really getting old. It's like the Republican party is the closet of last resort for insecure, self loathing, gay men.
Cockbreath · 3 days ago in reply to LiberalTexasDemocrat
most are in the closet fags.
Cockbreath · 3 days ago in reply to Cockbreath
and or chomo child molesters.
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Angelica915 · 3 days ago in reply to LiberalTexasDemocrat
They already have a club for gay self-loathing men....it's called the Log Cabin Republicans!
Rufftuffcreempuff · 3 days ago in reply to Angelica915
Brown logs that come out of ones ass type logs perhaps?
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mikefrombisbee · 3 days ago
A literal, as well as figurative teabagger.
I could care less who he wakes up with in the morning. But he is living a lie and is willing to put himself in the limelight as a conservative-nativist darling while hiding in the closet. Whatcha bet America's self-proclaimed toughest sheriff used his knowledge of Babeau's secret life as leverage to get him a wash job during the "investigation" following the Munnell memo.
Hypocrisy, thy name is tea bagger.
1000 yards · 3 days ago
Well Sheriff Ba-blew, Hang up your political career. You see we are deluged with low or no-morality folks in Washington already. I have no problem with your being gay, but trying to hide it because you thought it would harm your career, was an intential attempt to hide (why) who you are. You've crossed the thin line pal, already trying to alter public perception! Ethic problem too?
I am but one vote, but I will raise up many; again not because you are Gay, but because of your thinking and acctions regarding the matter!
Joe to Paul · 3 days ago
If you had been an honest man, you would have come out sooner. Not after being exposed! You are nothing but a hypocrite. Arresting latins at the border while enjoying sexual acts with them. It's not that your gay, its that you are a phony. And you want to run for congress? You say you did not do anything illegal. Yet you know as a lawman that you cannot send pictures of your porn over airwaves or any other waves. That is a crime. All I saw behind you were sad faces knowing what they were saying about you was false. By the way how are Pearce and Arpaio?
Rainkitten · 3 days ago
Heinz should be investigated imo.
Bfkron · 3 days ago
Well well well. Another gay blade from the Gay old Party who hate gays. What a bunch of hypocrites. Larry Craig, Mark Foley, etc. etc. The gayest party of all but they preach the family values to the hilt if you get the drift.
MARTinNJ · 3 days ago in reply to Bfkron
Let's not forget last week's Texas right-wing anti-gay radio commentator banging up the bouncer's car outside the gay bar after the right-winger leaves the bar....and him leaving the bar is on video tape. Thank you Jesus!.
DNichols · 3 days ago in reply to MARTinNJ
Babeu may want to stear clear of Texas, Rednecks, and log chains behind 4x4s?
A Gay Red Neck Sheriff!
My God, this is better than when "Slick Willy" was Prez., or even the Mesa Az. Fire Chief caught hosing out the Fire inside his 15 year old Neighbor girls Sheep!
Arizona is the "Best"!!!
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mjcc1987 · 3 days ago
Interesting here. When you create a climate of hate and fear such as Arizona has, taking advantage of those "intimidated" becomes much easier. I suspect if we look a little harder, we will find many more examples of Hispanics being used in this manner, "do as I say or I will have you deported" is the new slavery for Arizona. Labor can be even cheaper if you have "them" deported AFTER they've done the work.
DNichols · 3 days ago in reply to mjcc1987
In this case the work is very, very Dirty No?
Thesis · 2 days ago in reply to mjcc1987
The guy had a visa all that time. It just recently expired. It's time for him to go back home anyway.
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Attorney · 3 days ago
This is a disgusting article and not news worthy. Who cares if Babeau is gay? Who cares if he cheated on his boyfriend, who is clearly a manipulative jerk? New Times needs to find real news. If there was a real abuse of power by a sheriff, there are way better means of relief than going to this rag. New Times is enabling pettiness. Gross.
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Comments (http://http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2012-02-16/news/paul-babeu-s-mexican-ex-lover-says-sheriff-s-attorney-threatened-him-with-deportation/) left for the above article, "Paul Babeu's Mexican Ex-Lover Says Sheriff's Attorney Threatened Him With Deportation (http://http://www.fornits.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=39105&p=413848#p413848)" (by Monica Alonzo, Feb 16 2012, Phoenix New Times), #s 361-390:
mjcc1987 · 3 days ago in reply to Attorney
Yes, bend over or I'll have you deported is not noteworthy.............
Cockbreath · 3 days ago in reply to mjcc1987
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Cockbreath · 3 days ago in reply to Attorney
If you got any better real news let us know big mouth.
MARTinNJ · 3 days ago in reply to Attorney
Not news worthy? Hey Attorney, Is there air on your planet? The friggin hypocrite is campaigning against the immigrant coming here, banging him when he gets here, then threathening him (can we spell T-h-e S-h-e-r-i-f-f b-r-o-k-e t-h-e l-a-w?) with deportation if he tells. Hello? Where did you go to law school? Arizona?
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DNichols · 3 days ago
Arizona Sheriffs Association New Attrition Program: "Sodomiize" Immigrants!
Hell this should work well!
I would get the Hell out of Sick Arizona as fast as I could!
Babeu is a Sick Piece of Hypocritical Trash!
The sign in the Desert in John (Shit Stain) Mc Cains old Commercial in the Desert should read:
Warning to Immigrants: Sick Homosexual Sheriffs want you!
Keep your Backs to the Wall!
Brewer , and Mc Cain must be as proud as the entire Arizona G.O.P.
In Arizona G.O.P.= G.ay, O.r P.erverted.
DNichols · 3 days ago
Babeu is fighting illegal Immigration one Culo at a time!
MARTinNJ · 3 days ago in reply to DNichols
Make that one blow-job at a time.
DNichols · 3 days ago in reply to MARTinNJ
Mark · 3 days ago in reply to MARTinNJ
BJs give you throat cancer or haven't you heard that news yet?
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MARTinNJ · 3 days ago
An angel just got its wings.
MARTinNJ · 3 days ago
See there are some nice people in Arizona. What was that 8 of them?
CHICO HAMC PHX AZ · 3 days ago in reply to MARTinNJ
The Hells Angels MC are the most respectful and nicest guys in Arizona. how do I know? I am one of them. CHICO MORA HELLS ANGELS MC PHX AZ.
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DNichols · 3 days ago
@Jbgold canyon;
You sound Butt Hurt?
Are you a Partner of Rump Ranger?
"Who Yahh!"
Party in the Brown Canyon Tonight!
Did Arpaio lend Rumpy some Pink Hand, or Feet Cuffs?
MARTinNJ · 3 days ago
More than Shame on Sheriff-hide-the-winnie. He should be prosecuted for threatening illegal prosecution.
Vin Lemar · 3 days ago
so heinz, boyfriend, and babeu had a 3way huh? sounds pretty gay to me.
MARTinNJ · 3 days ago
Bad boy Gerry. At least Sherrif-hide-the-winnie, didn't get all up in his boyfriend's Santorum.
Dave Muckey · 3 days ago
He quit the Romney campaign? It would seem that he's been into Santorum more that anybody thought.
MARTinNJ · 3 days ago
Thank you CB for your clarification.
Tjay229 · 3 days ago
BRAVO ARTICLE NEW TIMES.
Another classic example of a hypocritical scandalous deceitful Republican.
He's ready to deport a man whos resident status is questionable, the same one who's cock he's been sucking for years... while trying to run a high and mighty persona of law enforcement.
He can be gay all he wants, that's not the issue.. the is now is why be two faced about it and your platform.
Let's see how well the republican party accepts him. Like Gene Hackman said " two things kill a conservatives political career, a dead black girl, or a live boy".
Newtimessuck · 3 days ago
So what, he's gay. Ignorant people like the ones posting on here is why he kept quiet. He never lied about so what is the big deal? The green card carrying fool has already admitted he stalked him and more than likely pushed Babeu to the brink of " telling him to get a lawyer" Oh my, what a threat. I see nothing in the supposed texts anyway that equal any type of threat except perhaps a legal one. The green card carrying fool was just looking for a sugar daddy and when he found out the Babeu was not going to be that person, he retaliated.
DNichols · 3 days ago in reply to Newtimessuck
John Hallman · 3 days ago in reply to Newtimessuck
Another Log Cabin Republican speaks!
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Jimmy Equality Gruender · 3 days ago
Another self hating person out of the closet, maybe now he can learn to love himself, btw if you have tattoo's and want to stay in the closet you may not want to put them all over Adam for Adam just saying
Momma Angel · 3 days ago
Sorry Paul, once you become a political figure you have no personal life. Your life becomes an open book. You should have just come out of the closet in the first place. Shame on you for threatening your "former" lover.
Mark · 3 days ago in reply to Momma Angel
He has no common street sense for a cop. he should have known that.
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Wow · 3 days ago
Note to self, never have a Arizona Sheriff endorse you if you are running for President. Perry, now Rommey.
KarenMrsLloydRichards · 3 days ago
Downlow Baboon is deluded if he thinks: a) his private life is his own business; b) he has any chance of a future in the GOP; c) he will serve out the rest of his term as Pinal County Sheriff; d) he has any possible life in the state of AZ.
DNichols · 3 days ago in reply to KarenMrsLloydRichards
One correction; "Pinile Sheriff".
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Robert M · 3 days ago
Wow., what's wrong with Arizona in general? Gay Sheriff's, attempts on murdering a Senator, the most radical and craziest immigration laws, the most backwards State in the USA in general. Arizona seems to have all of the bad stuff going on that would be going on at such places as Iran, Sherriff Joe A, and etc. What a bummer.
Thesis · 2 days ago in reply to Robert M
Keep paying attention to this, make D.C. happy, so you don't see that both parties are trying to take away contraception. You "third wave feminists" who have done nothing but rationalize pole dancing and prostitution are going to find out you're going to have all the fights that were already won. We fought for our rights, passed them on to you, and you're more interested in being sluts. You're going to be on your own, having to do it all again, because we're not going to help you get back what we already fought for. YOU lost it, YOU get it back. And by the way - Obama is NOT your friend. He is NOT a feminist.
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Paul Babeu's Suspicious Past as School's Headmaster
A A A Comments (9) By Monica Alonzo Thursday, Mar 8 2012
The most riveting detail to come out of Paul Babeu's three-year tenure as head of a private Massachusetts boarding school for troubled teens was his close relationship with a 17-year-old student there.
Former students of the now-defunct school tell New Times that they often saw Babeu showering attention on fellow student Joshua Geyer.
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Former DeSisto School student Melissa Burech
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Late school founder Michael DeSisto
"I'd see [Babeu] around campus all the time," says Melissa Burech, who attended DeSisto School during Babeu's tenure. "And I saw [Babeu and Josh] together more than they should've been. I saw [Babeu] take him off campus."
Babeu's sister, Lucy, alleges that Babeu was engaged in a sexual relationship with Geyer.
The Rose Law Firm — hired by Babeu after allegations arose that he and his lawyer, Chris DeRose, threatened his Mexican ex-lover with deportation if the man revealed their romantic relationship — did not return calls for comment on his relationship with the student. Babeu, however, denied wrongdoing through the firm.
Students say Babeu was a constant presence at DeSisto. The school occupied an expansive campus in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, where wayward teens, plagued with such problems as drug addiction, depression, anorexia, and mental illness, received what was deemed therapeutic treatment.
Babeu was headmaster and executive director at DeSisto from April 1999 to August 2001, and students say they often saw him milling around campus with the school's founder, the late Michael DeSisto.
Since the scandal involving his ex-lover broke in New Times on February 17, Babeu has minimized his role at the school, which was investigated for nearly two decades because of allegations that students endured systematic neglect and sexual and physical abuse there.
Babeu, elected Pinal County sheriff in 2008 after serving as a police officer in Chandler for several years, lately has claimed he did not interact with students and had no direct supervisory responsibility over staff at DeSisto.
But students who attended the school tell New Times that they saw Babeu in daily meetings where administrators discussed issues facing the school, including its disciplinary practices — which included students being forced to sit on metal folding chairs facing a corner for hours on end and students getting stripped naked and forced to wear nothing but bedsheets.
Babeu's camp has carefully parsed denials that he engaged in a sexual relationship with Joshua Geyer.
That is, Babeu, who would have been in his early 30s at the time, has not denied having a relationship with Geyer; he's only denied having an "inappropriate" relationship with his former student, according to his legal handlers.
One justification for this statement could be that Geyer was old enough to consent to sexual intercourse in Massachusetts.
The sheriff has eluded questions about how he could have developed a close relationship with a DeSisto student if his job did not involve dealing with students.
ABC 15, in a report on Babeu's years at the school, received signed, but undated, letters from the former student. The Rose Law Firm released the letters to the station.
"I have never at any time lived or engaged in any inappropriate sexual relationship with Paul Babeu," the first letter reads. "I have remained personal friends with Paul Babeu."
The second reads, "I never lived with or engaged in any sexual relationship with Paul Babeu while I was a student at DeSisto private school."
The station said neither letter was notarized and that there was no proof the letters were written by the student.
New Times was unable to reach Geyer for comment.
Lucy Babeu tells it differently, recalling a time when she saw Geyer at her brother's home in Massachusetts, and when she confronted her brother about the boy, Paul Babeu confessed that he was in love with Geyer.
Melissa Burech and other students who knew Geyer, and attended DeSisto while Babeu was headmaster, recall signs of a close relationship between the two.
Burech, who followed her family to Arizona a few years ago and now lives in Deer Valley, says she had friends in common with Geyer, friends in whom he confided about his "inappropriate" relationship with Babeu.
"Because the school was so intense, so cult-like, you developed close bonds with people," she says. "I think Josh looked to [Babeu] for guidance, and I believe Paul twisted that, abused that power to get what he wanted."
Another student, who grew up in New York, also found herself at DeSisto while Babeu was in charge of the school.
The former student, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirms what others have said: Babeu and Geyer were "together a whole lot," and Geyer "got taken off campus for lunch a lot" by the future National Sheriff of the Year. She says word got back to students that the pair often went to the Panda House, a Chinese restaurant in the area.
"Everybody on campus knew about it," she says. "When Josh left the program, and so did Paul, it was a big thing about them dating. Everybody knew."
The woman described Babeu as Geyer's "commitment holder," a title the school gave to staff members selected by students to monitor their progress.
"You would go to someone you could trust, or [whom] you could speak to about your problems," the former student says. "They were supposed to help you heal."
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When Babeu took over as the school's headmaster, it was operating unlawfully without a state license, and it already was embroiled in lawsuits from dissatisfied parents.
Each family paid tuition of about $65,000 a year for their child to be in an environment that was "excessively punitive" and created "an extreme risk of injury even death," the Massachusetts Office of Child Care Services said in legal papers.
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The Massachusetts mansion that served as the school's headquarters
This state agency "received many allegations of abusive practices at the school," state investigators said, adding that Massachusetts officials repeatedly were denied access to the campus and to student files:
"The school effectively stonewalled the OCCS, claiming [DeSisto School was] not subject to [state] licensing, but refusing to provided necessary information to back up [the] claim."
The school argued that it didn't need a license because it wasn't serving enough special-needs students. According to Massachusetts law, if more than 30 percent of the student population was made up of such students, a license was required.
When state officials finally forced open the school's files in 2001 after almost 20 years of complaints, they classified more than 40 percent of the student body as special needs. The school ultimately shut down in 2004 because it was unable to comply with state mandates.
Court and state records paint a chilling account of life at DeSisto, including during the time that Babeu ran it.
One student refused to stop leaning against a wall and was physically restrained for several hours. Another who threw a plate and got into an argument was tied up for nearly six hours.
A student forced to sit in a metal chair for weeks, facing the corner, wasn't properly medicated, became severely depressed, and urinated and defecated on himself. The teen eventually was taken to the hospital for treatment for pneumonia.
Records show that students had to take group showers, "denying them privacy and leading to instances of sexual abuse."
A few months after a court ordered the school in 2001 to either shut down or apply for a license, Babeu resigned. He recently told various media outlets that he was only responsible for the school's operations, including maintenance of the grounds.
But he told another story on a campaign website. There, Babeu described his time at DeSisto as a period when he was "frequently recognized for his effectiveness in personnel management and fiscal abilities."
In 2002, when he applied for a job as a Chandler cop, Babeu noted on his application that, while at DeSisto, he supervised directors of the school and 80 full-time employees.
Babeu counters allegations of his relationship with the student or his knowing about abusive conditions at the school by attempting to discredit his sister. He portrays himself as a victim under attack by a mentally ill family member.
Babeu, the second-youngest of 11 children, described his family as one with "lots of different personalities" in a 2010 interview with the Arizona Daily Star.
"I've seen lots of different things in our family, but that's all family business," he said at the time.
Babeu's representatives at the Rose firm now are divulging this "family business" by releasing allegations detailing Lucy Babeu's alleged mental illness. According to the firm, she was placed in psychiatric care on two occasions, had her children taken away, and has been a frequent drug abuser.
Lucy Babeu denied these claims to New Times, calling them "slanderous."
The sheriff, a candidate for Congress in Arizona's conservative 4th District, says he's also a victim of attacks by political enemies.
On March 3, during an interview with Newsmax, Babeu says the timing of the allegations are suspect.
"[His being gay was] pushed around for months and months — in fact, for years," he told the conservative website. "Political opponents have threatened me, trying to go to the newspapers and the TV stations . . . clearly, looking at the timing of this election. They're literally five months away from primary ballots being mailed to voters, we being 10 points ahead."
That was then. A new poll — taken after New Times broke the story that Babeu's Mexican ex-boyfriend says the sheriff and his lawyer tried to intimidate him into keeping the love affair secret — showed Babeu six points behind Congressman Paul Gosar in the 4th District.
The former lover, Jose Orozco, says the sheriff's attorney raised threats of deportation when he refused to sign a document promising he would never disclose details of the affair. Orozco has filed notice that he intends to sue Babeu and Pinal County for $1 million for violating his civil rights.
Babeu denied that he or his camp did anything inappropriate then, too, portraying himself as a conservative politician under attack because he is gay. And he again played the victim card, claiming Orozco had hacked into his campaign website and his Twitter account and had stolen his identity — charges that seem unlikely given that the sheriff gave Orozco access to his websites and accounts.
Orozco and his lawyer, Melissa Weiss-Riner, say he turned over everything Babeu and DeRose requested but that they still pressured him to sign the non-disclosure document concerning the romance.
An interesting side note is that Babeu, in 2002, went public about getting sexually abused by a Catholic priest in Springfield, Massachusetts. He said he was outraged because the church took years to defrock the priest who had abused him, his older brother Francis, and other children.
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It is similar outrage that moved DeSisto alumni to speak out against their former headmaster and the abusive treatment they received, partially under his reign.
The New York student, who attended DeSisto from 1998 to 2003, is surprised to hear that Babeu now describes himself as a career-long advocate for victims' rights.
"When did he become that guy? When did he become so involved in victims' rights? Why didn't he see problems in the [DeSisto] program, see that things needed to change?" she says. "He would hear about kids starving in the corner . . . You'd think he would know that was wrong."
Melissa Burech, sent to the school from West Virginia when she was 15 because of a history of depression, says, "Things got worse" during Babeu's reign.
"He signed up to be an administrator at this school, and he didn't do anything to help us or change what was happening there," she says.
When state officials finally got on campus and gained access to students, their files, and school staff, the school was ordered to immediately stop its most abusive practices — such as strip-searching students, barricading them in their bedrooms with mattresses (or with staff sleeping outside doors), and banishing them to remote areas of the campus.
Students, sent to what was known as the "farm," were not allowed to attend academic classes and were forced to perform manual labor for five to eight hours a day before they could eat or drink, Massachusetts child welfare authorities reported.
"We had to cut down trees or restore the buildings," Burech says. "It was a big joke that we attended the school of the janitorial arts."
The former student from New York recalls being forced to hold hands with several other girls for days at a time, no matter where they went, unless they were sleeping or eating meals that were limited to 15 minutes each.
"We had to go to the restrooms that way, take showers that way, get dressed — try to put on our underwear that way," she says. "We had to hold hands under the stalls and, even if we had a male staff member [supervising], we had to ask for permission to take our hands apart so we could do what we needed to do in the bathroom. It was humiliating."
She says they would rotate so that each girl had a chance to be at the end of the human chain and have the privilege of a free hand.
"We all had different problems, obviously; that's why we were in that school," she says. "But we weren't stupid. We knew this behavior was wrong, and we knew it wasn't helping. It was just a way of torturing us."
Burech now is attending school to become an occupational therapist.
"If I saw [Babeu] today, I would say 'thank you' because those horrible experiences taught me to be a fighter," she says. "No matter what, he is part of my past. But I'm speaking up now because I want to inform Arizona about his past so he doesn't become part of our future."
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Paul Babeu's Suspicious Past as School's Headmaster
A A A Comments (9) By Monica Alonzo Thursday, Mar 8 2012
The most riveting detail to come out of Paul Babeu's three-year tenure as head of a private Massachusetts boarding school for troubled teens was his close relationship with a 17-year-old student there.
Former students of the now-defunct school tell New Times that they often saw Babeu showering attention on fellow student Joshua Geyer.
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Former DeSisto School student Melissa Burech
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Late school founder Michael DeSisto
"I'd see [Babeu] around campus all the time," says Melissa Burech, who attended DeSisto School during Babeu's tenure. "And I saw [Babeu and Josh] together more than they should've been. I saw [Babeu] take him off campus."
Babeu's sister, Lucy, alleges that Babeu was engaged in a sexual relationship with Geyer.
The Rose Law Firm — hired by Babeu after allegations arose that he and his lawyer, Chris DeRose, threatened his Mexican ex-lover with deportation if the man revealed their romantic relationship — did not return calls for comment on his relationship with the student. Babeu, however, denied wrongdoing through the firm.
Students say Babeu was a constant presence at DeSisto. The school occupied an expansive campus in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, where wayward teens, plagued with such problems as drug addiction, depression, anorexia, and mental illness, received what was deemed therapeutic treatment.
Babeu was headmaster and executive director at DeSisto from April 1999 to August 2001, and students say they often saw him milling around campus with the school's founder, the late Michael DeSisto.
Since the scandal involving his ex-lover broke in New Times on February 17, Babeu has minimized his role at the school, which was investigated for nearly two decades because of allegations that students endured systematic neglect and sexual and physical abuse there.
Babeu, elected Pinal County sheriff in 2008 after serving as a police officer in Chandler for several years, lately has claimed he did not interact with students and had no direct supervisory responsibility over staff at DeSisto.
But students who attended the school tell New Times that they saw Babeu in daily meetings where administrators discussed issues facing the school, including its disciplinary practices — which included students being forced to sit on metal folding chairs facing a corner for hours on end and students getting stripped naked and forced to wear nothing but bedsheets.
Babeu's camp has carefully parsed denials that he engaged in a sexual relationship with Joshua Geyer.
That is, Babeu, who would have been in his early 30s at the time, has not denied having a relationship with Geyer; he's only denied having an "inappropriate" relationship with his former student, according to his legal handlers.
One justification for this statement could be that Geyer was old enough to consent to sexual intercourse in Massachusetts.
The sheriff has eluded questions about how he could have developed a close relationship with a DeSisto student if his job did not involve dealing with students.
ABC 15, in a report on Babeu's years at the school, received signed, but undated, letters from the former student. The Rose Law Firm released the letters to the station.
"I have never at any time lived or engaged in any inappropriate sexual relationship with Paul Babeu," the first letter reads. "I have remained personal friends with Paul Babeu."
The second reads, "I never lived with or engaged in any sexual relationship with Paul Babeu while I was a student at DeSisto private school."
The station said neither letter was notarized and that there was no proof the letters were written by the student.
New Times was unable to reach Geyer for comment.
Lucy Babeu tells it differently, recalling a time when she saw Geyer at her brother's home in Massachusetts, and when she confronted her brother about the boy, Paul Babeu confessed that he was in love with Geyer.
Melissa Burech and other students who knew Geyer, and attended DeSisto while Babeu was headmaster, recall signs of a close relationship between the two.
Burech, who followed her family to Arizona a few years ago and now lives in Deer Valley, says she had friends in common with Geyer, friends in whom he confided about his "inappropriate" relationship with Babeu.
"Because the school was so intense, so cult-like, you developed close bonds with people," she says. "I think Josh looked to [Babeu] for guidance, and I believe Paul twisted that, abused that power to get what he wanted."
Another student, who grew up in New York, also found herself at DeSisto while Babeu was in charge of the school.
The former student, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirms what others have said: Babeu and Geyer were "together a whole lot," and Geyer "got taken off campus for lunch a lot" by the future National Sheriff of the Year. She says word got back to students that the pair often went to the Panda House, a Chinese restaurant in the area.
"Everybody on campus knew about it," she says. "When Josh left the program, and so did Paul, it was a big thing about them dating. Everybody knew."
The woman described Babeu as Geyer's "commitment holder," a title the school gave to staff members selected by students to monitor their progress.
"You would go to someone you could trust, or [whom] you could speak to about your problems," the former student says. "They were supposed to help you heal."
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When Babeu took over as the school's headmaster, it was operating unlawfully without a state license, and it already was embroiled in lawsuits from dissatisfied parents.
Each family paid tuition of about $65,000 a year for their child to be in an environment that was "excessively punitive" and created "an extreme risk of injury even death," the Massachusetts Office of Child Care Services said in legal papers.
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The Massachusetts mansion that served as the school's headquarters
This state agency "received many allegations of abusive practices at the school," state investigators said, adding that Massachusetts officials repeatedly were denied access to the campus and to student files:
"The school effectively stonewalled the OCCS, claiming [DeSisto School was] not subject to [state] licensing, but refusing to provided necessary information to back up [the] claim."
The school argued that it didn't need a license because it wasn't serving enough special-needs students. According to Massachusetts law, if more than 30 percent of the student population was made up of such students, a license was required.
When state officials finally forced open the school's files in 2001 after almost 20 years of complaints, they classified more than 40 percent of the student body as special needs. The school ultimately shut down in 2004 because it was unable to comply with state mandates.
Court and state records paint a chilling account of life at DeSisto, including during the time that Babeu ran it.
One student refused to stop leaning against a wall and was physically restrained for several hours. Another who threw a plate and got into an argument was tied up for nearly six hours.
A student forced to sit in a metal chair for weeks, facing the corner, wasn't properly medicated, became severely depressed, and urinated and defecated on himself. The teen eventually was taken to the hospital for treatment for pneumonia.
Records show that students had to take group showers, "denying them privacy and leading to instances of sexual abuse."
A few months after a court ordered the school in 2001 to either shut down or apply for a license, Babeu resigned. He recently told various media outlets that he was only responsible for the school's operations, including maintenance of the grounds.
But he told another story on a campaign website. There, Babeu described his time at DeSisto as a period when he was "frequently recognized for his effectiveness in personnel management and fiscal abilities."
In 2002, when he applied for a job as a Chandler cop, Babeu noted on his application that, while at DeSisto, he supervised directors of the school and 80 full-time employees.
Babeu counters allegations of his relationship with the student or his knowing about abusive conditions at the school by attempting to discredit his sister. He portrays himself as a victim under attack by a mentally ill family member.
Babeu, the second-youngest of 11 children, described his family as one with "lots of different personalities" in a 2010 interview with the Arizona Daily Star.
"I've seen lots of different things in our family, but that's all family business," he said at the time.
Babeu's representatives at the Rose firm now are divulging this "family business" by releasing allegations detailing Lucy Babeu's alleged mental illness. According to the firm, she was placed in psychiatric care on two occasions, had her children taken away, and has been a frequent drug abuser.
Lucy Babeu denied these claims to New Times, calling them "slanderous."
The sheriff, a candidate for Congress in Arizona's conservative 4th District, says he's also a victim of attacks by political enemies.
On March 3, during an interview with Newsmax, Babeu says the timing of the allegations are suspect.
"[His being gay was] pushed around for months and months — in fact, for years," he told the conservative website. "Political opponents have threatened me, trying to go to the newspapers and the TV stations . . . clearly, looking at the timing of this election. They're literally five months away from primary ballots being mailed to voters, we being 10 points ahead."
That was then. A new poll — taken after New Times broke the story that Babeu's Mexican ex-boyfriend says the sheriff and his lawyer tried to intimidate him into keeping the love affair secret — showed Babeu six points behind Congressman Paul Gosar in the 4th District.
The former lover, Jose Orozco, says the sheriff's attorney raised threats of deportation when he refused to sign a document promising he would never disclose details of the affair. Orozco has filed notice that he intends to sue Babeu and Pinal County for $1 million for violating his civil rights.
Babeu denied that he or his camp did anything inappropriate then, too, portraying himself as a conservative politician under attack because he is gay. And he again played the victim card, claiming Orozco had hacked into his campaign website and his Twitter account and had stolen his identity — charges that seem unlikely given that the sheriff gave Orozco access to his websites and accounts.
Orozco and his lawyer, Melissa Weiss-Riner, say he turned over everything Babeu and DeRose requested but that they still pressured him to sign the non-disclosure document concerning the romance.
An interesting side note is that Babeu, in 2002, went public about getting sexually abused by a Catholic priest in Springfield, Massachusetts. He said he was outraged because the church took years to defrock the priest who had abused him, his older brother Francis, and other children.
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It is similar outrage that moved DeSisto alumni to speak out against their former headmaster and the abusive treatment they received, partially under his reign.
The New York student, who attended DeSisto from 1998 to 2003, is surprised to hear that Babeu now describes himself as a career-long advocate for victims' rights.
"When did he become that guy? When did he become so involved in victims' rights? Why didn't he see problems in the [DeSisto] program, see that things needed to change?" she says. "He would hear about kids starving in the corner . . . You'd think he would know that was wrong."
Melissa Burech, sent to the school from West Virginia when she was 15 because of a history of depression, says, "Things got worse" during Babeu's reign.
"He signed up to be an administrator at this school, and he didn't do anything to help us or change what was happening there," she says.
When state officials finally got on campus and gained access to students, their files, and school staff, the school was ordered to immediately stop its most abusive practices — such as strip-searching students, barricading them in their bedrooms with mattresses (or with staff sleeping outside doors), and banishing them to remote areas of the campus.
Students, sent to what was known as the "farm," were not allowed to attend academic classes and were forced to perform manual labor for five to eight hours a day before they could eat or drink, Massachusetts child welfare authorities reported.
"We had to cut down trees or restore the buildings," Burech says. "It was a big joke that we attended the school of the janitorial arts."
The former student from New York recalls being forced to hold hands with several other girls for days at a time, no matter where they went, unless they were sleeping or eating meals that were limited to 15 minutes each.
"We had to go to the restrooms that way, take showers that way, get dressed — try to put on our underwear that way," she says. "We had to hold hands under the stalls and, even if we had a male staff member [supervising], we had to ask for permission to take our hands apart so we could do what we needed to do in the bathroom. It was humiliating."
She says they would rotate so that each girl had a chance to be at the end of the human chain and have the privilege of a free hand.
"We all had different problems, obviously; that's why we were in that school," she says. "But we weren't stupid. We knew this behavior was wrong, and we knew it wasn't helping. It was just a way of torturing us."
Burech now is attending school to become an occupational therapist.
"If I saw [Babeu] today, I would say 'thank you' because those horrible experiences taught me to be a fighter," she says. "No matter what, he is part of my past. But I'm speaking up now because I want to inform Arizona about his past so he doesn't become part of our future."
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Michael Acosta 8 minutes ago
My sh*t detector went off the first time this guy popped up.
TellTheTruth 1 hour ago
Another sad thing is that the Babeu side (Rose Law Group and his PIO lackeys) keeps lying and his apologists and the believers in him keep believing him/them.
A special shout-out to Timmy Gaffney for his undying efforts as he continues to threaten and intimidate several good media investigators and writers that are covering this Babeu aberation. Timmy, the problem just might be your boss. Work on that for awhile.
Then tell us about your company trip to San Diego last November.
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Alice in Wonderland 1 hour ago
This is a very sad story. A story of horrible abuse regarding a school where Paul Babeu was the Headmaster and now he is an Arizona Sheriff and looking to go to DC for the people. No thank you. He is a piece of garbage. He needs serious help. One thing for sure though, he would fit right in with all the other perverts in DC.
The more I hear and learn the more disappointed I am that he continues to be a leader in Arizonoa.
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Ddesertdawg 1 hour ago
Once a HEADmaster, you will always be a HEADmaster.
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Jimsmtz 1 hour ago
Babeu will continue to lie to cover himself. He has been asked to resign as Sheriff and he should. His ex-boyfriend, Jose has just filed a one million dollar notice of claim against Pinal County because of Babeu. Time for Babeu to go back where he came from.
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Paulie Babeu walked into his room
only to find Gideon's bible
Paulie had come equipped with a gun
to shoot off the knees of his rival
His rival it seems had broken his dreams
By stealing the boy of his fancy
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Gerry_C 2 hours ago
So the 17yr old was technically not a student in the evenings.
This school must have been a twink buffet for Babeu.
I know it is harsh, but this says we should avoid gay men in situations with children...or should we just avoid Babeu in such situations. I believe it is a Babeu issue...a predator issue. Clearly this could hurt gay men in general.
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Melissa Burech 1 hour ago in reply to Gerry_C
i am the girl in the article we were students 24/7 we were rarely able to get off campus we got excited to go to the doctor (only allowed when EXTREMELY sick) it took me 3 1/2 years to get a three day trip home for xmas (which is when i ran away) i wasnt even allowed going to my grandmas funeral
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Gerry_C 2 minutes ago in reply to Melissa Burech
I think that telling your story will help other students from DeSisto and other places that were victims of cruel people. I hope that telling it helps you put this unforgettable mess further in your past.
Alice in Wonderland 1 hour ago in reply to Melissa Burech
Thank you for sharing your story.
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Melissa Burech 1 hour ago in reply to Alice in Wonderland
you're welcome i am glad i have the chance to tell it other students are telling me to keep my mouth shut but i have no reason to its the truth yes it is my past but i will not let it be my future i also hope that it opens the eyes of those that are asked to investigate similar schools yes we were "troubled" kids but we deserve to be heard i was never in trouble with the law i had never even smoked a cigarette my problem was that i was a cutter and that was my outlet for dealing with an abusive childhood if it makes me a less credible source so be it but i feel the truth needs to be told
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Kit 54 minutes ago in reply to Melissa Burech
I suppose it's understandable, but it's pretty shortsighted for students to imagine they should keep quiet about this. (It's also past the point where it'd work.) Again, thanks.
Melissa Burech 34 minutes ago in reply to Kit
i agree but you have to understand after 3 1/2 + years at the school where we had to keep everything hush hush and repremanded when we did speak up it becomes part of who you are or when you do speak up people dont believe you it is hard to feel you have a voice i however have grown out of that in a lot (but am delayed in many other areas) abuse is one thing i will no longer keep quiet about i am in school to become an OTA (occupational therapy assistant) and also mentor kids i have a responsibility in general but especially now to show them that no matter what they need to speak up when abuse occurs i figure talking about this now is better than never even if it is way past the fact
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mirele 2 hours ago in reply to Gerry_C
This is stupid..."avoid gay men in this situation"? Suppose it had been a 17 year old girl and Babeu? What would you say then? It's not about Babeu being gay. It's about Babeu taking advantage of a young person that he was in a position of authority over. Certainly, based on the other things stated here about the DeSisto school, it should be asked whether or not the student could legitimately "consent," given that Babeu was in a position of authority and could make him sit on a chair for hours or some other punishment.
This article doesn't make clear whether or not the DeSisto school had any policies and procedures regarding sexual contact between staff and students. Given how the outfit resisted licensing up to the point of being closed, it wouldn't surprise me at all to learn there was nothing of the sort. But, in general, even if it's legal to have sex with a 17 YO in Massachusetts, there's something seriously ethically dicey about having sex with someone you're in authority over. And Babeu was a mentor to this young man...a "mentor with benefits," if you will. The whole thing is hinky and, dare I say, wrong. It's my opinion that Babeu used his position and authority inappropriately at best.
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Gerry_C 4 minutes ago in reply to mirele
Thank you for your comment. I posted to draw out such a comment with emotion. You said what I was wanting to say but can't type so much on my phone.
Melissa Burech 1 hour ago in reply to mirele
to answer your question if two students liked each other they were not allowed to communicate with each other in any way if so they were punished the issue with faculty was not discussed with us but we were belittled if we tried to confront staff especially someone in pauls position
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Bnbk 3 hours ago
Babeu is one sick,twisted individual that needs to be kept away from civilized society. He needs to pay for the torture & crimes he has committed against these children. Why wasn't this monster locked away along time ago ? Shame on anyone who backs this sick ass human. Babeu,you sick bastard,you don't deserve to be walking around,enjoying your freedom,after having tortured these children.
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Kit 3 hours ago
How on earth was that bizarre photo of a topless Michael DeSisto surrounded by sleeping boys & shag rug not a huge warning sign, esp. to someone professedly concerned about the sexual abuse of minors? The guy was already notorious for his predatory interest in the boys at the school, among many other things, when Babeu signed on as his right-hand man. (If you doubt it, do a Google search.) Babeu was almost twice Geyer's age when all this happened. And then less than a year later, as part of his high-dollar lawsuit against the Catholic Church, there he was on the courthouse steps, weeping about how a priest had told his teenaged self that homosexuality isn't wrong.
It turns out that the politician who most effectively captured the emotional state of conservative Arizonans in the post-1070 period is an unimaginably tormented, twisted soul. All his talk about being "into punishment" and all his insistence about his own "purity" is beginning to take on new significance.
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ChrisInDenver 3 hours ago in reply to Kit
Probably a Photoshopped image, Kit.
Kit 3 hours ago in reply to ChrisInDenver
No. It's from a 1980 People magazine article. A favorable article, if you can imagine. DeSisto was proud enough of it to use it in PR. It's not unlikely that Babeu would've seen it at some point.
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ChrisInDenver 3 hours ago
Stick a fork in him. Baboon's political career is over.
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david saint 3 hours ago
lol so before he was this "Great educator" and victims rights..whatever bullshit Rose tried to spew last week..now he didnt have much affiliation?! Well one things for sure, Babeu sure has turned into a full blown politician....
By the way, dont you love the latin definition of politics? Poli = many ; tics = blood sucking creatures. IE many blood sucking creatures.
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Car_del99 1 hour ago in reply to david saint
So , in other words Baboon is a " poli ( tiic ) ?
We have many like him in Az...
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By: Dave Biscobing By: Dave Biscobing
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Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu made his first public appearance in more than two weeks at a county board meeting Thursday.
Babeu has avoided the media since the ABC15 Investigators uncovered his ties to an unlicensed boarding school with a history of abuse.
The investigation also included allegations he had a relationship with a student while he ran the DeSisto School in Massachusetts.
Sheriff Babeu said, “That is false, blatantly false. And what that is [is] reckless disregard for the truth.”
From 1999 to 2001, Babeu was Headmaster at the unlicensed boarding school and the State of Massachusetts found repeated documented cases of physical and sexual abuse.
When the ABC15 Investigators asked him to respond to the questions about the abuse at the school and the state investigation, he responded, “You don't even know what you're talking about.”
“You already have a written statement by me and my attorneys and that's all I'll say to Channel 15.”
In his statements, Babeu said he had a limited role as Headmaster.
But he touts his leadership experience at the school on his campaign website.
He also included it on his application for a job with the Chandler Police Department.
Babeu wrote that he was in charge of "legal issues".
The state’s legal documents report case after case of abuse discovered while Babeu was Headmaster.
Two former students told us Babeu knew what was happening .
“He was certainly aware of that,” said Holli Nielsen.
“He was there for all of it,” said Melissa Burech. “He was part of all the meetings.”
They also confirmed that Babeu had a relationship with a 17-year-old male student.
“Everybody knew about it,” said Burech. “He broke every rule to be with that student.”
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Suzanne Noel
Everybody knew about it! That is what I call jpurnalism. lol
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HEADmaster indeed!
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YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY M C A!
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I didn't do it!!!!!!!! Casper did . you know Casper the ghost.
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Richard Ybarra
Not enough has been said about this sorry excuse of first, a human then a public official then , he tries to to brush off the questions and obvious answers like they don't exist and I think he still thinks its OK to tap a young man . This crap is so disgusting .....to me anyway ... What do you think?
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What a creep!!!!!
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Yea if I were him I would avoid abc15 too.
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Babeu: Legal action to come against news station
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Published: Friday, March 16, 2012 11:26 AM MST
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FLORENCE — Last month, ABC15 reported on allegations tied to Pinal County sheriff Paul Babeu when he was headmaster at the DeSisto School in Massachusetts.
Confronted by reporters outside the meeting room at the Pinal County administration building, where Babeu spoke at a county Board of Supervisors meeting, he addressed one of the allegations against him.
Babeu’s sister, Lucy, and former students at DeSisto said Babeu had a relationship with a 17-year old student when Babeu was at DeSisto from 1999-2001.
“That is absolutely false. Blatantly false,” Babeu said. “[Due to] the reckless disregard of the truth by one news station in particular, there have been notices filed with them, not only to cease and desist, that there’s likely legal action that will follow with that. That shall be an actual case that’s filed (against the station) in the future.”
When pressed by a reporter who asked Babeu to respond to allegations of abuse at the boarding school during his tenure, Babeu said, “You don’t even know what you’re talking about.”
Babeu referred to the story as a “wild pile-on” and refused to answer any other questions regarding those allegations, saying he already made his stance clear in a statement released by he and his attorneys earlier this month which touted Babeu’s work in “helping restore financial stability of the school.” That statement also said Babeu was never the focus of any investigation or lawsuit in his role as headmaster of the boarding school.
Resign to run proposal draws Babeu’s ire
Babeu faced off with board chairman Pete Rios, who initiated a “Resign to Run” resolution that prohibits political activity for county employees. As it pertains to employees of the supervisors, the resolution states, “When performing their duties on behalf of Pinal County, employees must refrain from political activity while on duty or at public expense.”
The proposal Rios, a Democrat, is backing would be binding for all county employees, even those who are elected, save for those running for office in the final year of their current term.
While Babeu would be exempted from such a rule as he followed the state law allowing him to run for office without resigning, as he is in his final year as sheriff, it could affect PCSO chief deputy Steve Henry, who has formed an exploratory committee as an announcement of his desire to run for sheriff this year.
Babeu questioned why this legislation was being brought forth now and said it seemed politically motivated with early ballots going out for elections in a little less than five months.
“As I heard the chairman’s first public comments, [that] we shouldn’t have people who are serving in one elected office running for another office — Mr. Rios, you serve at the height of hypocrisy because that’s in fact what you did when you, as a state representative, ran for the board of supervisors.”
Rios said when he ran for supervisor, he was doing the same thing that Babeu is doing right now, running for Congress while serving as the Pinal County sheriff. Rios said because Babeu announced his run for Congress in the final year of his term, state law permits it; Rios said he followed the same protocol when he ran for supervisor.
“You know that law as well as I do, so I didn’t violate it any more than you’re violating it, unless you think you’re violating something because I sure didn’t,” Rios said to Babeu.
Babeu asked why the board wasn’t adopting a resolution about more important matters such as preventing convicted felons from working in Pinal County. He said hiring convicted felons, “as certain elected officials have done” should be prohibited in a resolution. Babeu added that these felons have stolen from the citizens of the county and committed other felonies.
Supervisor Bryan Martyn, a Republican, said he refused to make a decision on the “Resign to Run” resolution during what he referred to as a “political storm.”
The agenda item was pulled because the supervisors agreed it needed another look from attorneys to clean up confusing language in the policy. It was the second straight supervisors meeting where the agenda item was pulled for further legal review.
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cjm wrote on Mar 17, 2012 7:31 PM:
" Paulie is only spouting off. The last thing this gay exhibitionist wants is to be deposed under oath. Several of the students at the school discussed his inappropriate behavior with the child. What reason do they have to lie? A resolution to keep felons out should include the actions of Child Predator Sheriff. Be careful what you wish for Paul and stop playing the victim. All your pain is self inflicted. "
paulb wrote on Mar 18, 2012 7:21 AM:
" It's telling that Sheriff Paul's primary response to serious allegations about his past has been to hire a law firm to smear and slience his sister, and then to promise legal action against the media. "
desertnana wrote on Mar 19, 2012 11:56 AM:
" Paul Babeu kept his sexuality where I, and most hetrosexuals, keep it: private and personal. I applaud him for that. He has done an excellent job as Sheriff and that is all he should be judged on unless he makes his sexuality an issue. I would greatly prefer that he stayed the 'big fish in the Pinal county pond' rather than trying to be a small fish in the House of Representatives. Pinal county needs him to remain as Sheriff "
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I hear a Pride Parade is being scheduled for Casa Grande. Great opportunity for little Paul here. . .