Paul Babeu, the Suddenly Openly Gay Pinal County Sheriff, Vows to Continue Congressional Run, Serve Out Remaining Term as Sheriff -- Despite Mexican Ex-Lover's Insistence That Sheriff's Camp Threatened Him With Deportation

• Sloppy New Times reporting, yet again!  Don't you fact check anything?  First, the Dible decision by the 9th Circuit regarding his termination was filed in 2010.  The 2007 decision dealt with whether a client can pay for a lawyer's misdeeds, pursuant to Rule 11 (and the Dibles won!).  Second, firing an individual who is an employee, e.g., a police officer, is completely different from the employment policies applicable to an elected official, e.g., a sheriff.  Dible just doesn't apply.  And dating sites aren't the same as porn!  Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy.

•  He can still repent and that would be courageous. He would need to call his fellow Republicans (especially Romney) DIRECTLY on their anti-gay stances.  He would also need to tone down the anti-immigrant stuff and this so-called "pro-life" stuff.

• You know before - I just thought he was just a conservative cocksucker. Now we all know, he's a conservative cocksucker.

• "I do not understand the failure by Tom Horne and his staff as well as the Federal LEO and Phoenix news media." >>Tom "Conflict of Interest" Horne is Babeu's good buddy politically. Any investigation he or his office completes is rife with ethics issues. >>The DOJ has no balls to go after Babeu. Just look at how slowly they are going after Babeu's politically good buddy the Flaccid Failure of MCSO. >>NT and the Arizona Republic have been following it. NT first broke the story, and the Republic soon followed suit.  

• On national T V Just think you,the old sea hag and studboi , hell yeah and jose    A    tooo!

• Joe here's your calling!!!!!!!

• I wan't to know when he's going to be on steve springer, with HOSE A maybe jan and joe too!

• http://www.sheriffpaul.com/on-to-victory/ check out studboi1's web site ...what a dillusional, narcissistic little prick.

•  Babeu never indicated he is anti-hispanic - just anti-illegal immigration.

• Ok press!  It's time to identify this phantom person "Jose".  That aside, Babeu is stupid to think his postings are of a strictly personal nature and nobody's business.  People need confidence in their public servants.  He has destroyed his own credibility.  I doubt he'll be re-elected Sheriff.  He certainly will not win a Congressional seat in Arizona.

• He did indeed. Did you see the photo of Freddie in today's Arizona Republic (Section D)?

• At least the liberals are up front about their deviant and debased behaviors. (Barney Frank?)  The sheriff let alot of people down and fooled them all.  Now he will be welcomed and embraced by MSNBC, CNN and the rest of the liberal society corrosive media outlets. 

• If a teacher were to post pictures like these, how long would it take to fire that teacher?

• NewSlimes should do a story on Larry Sinclair. Janet Nappy is a lesbian. No story there.

• New Slimes "takes no prisoners"? Give me break dogfucker. You are the dumb-ass who thinks The Slimes has no liberal agenda. Stupid Dogfucker, another lapdog for the left.

• Well said.

• Suit yourself, I do not care about another person's private life, what he does behind closed doors is his business, he is however a politician and a public figure being paid by my tax dollars, so what he says or does in public, THAT, is my business.

• I bet a show of hands from the Pinal county sheriff's deputies would show him how little their boss is respected.   Time to hit the road Studboi 1.

• I don't really understand why Jose is trying to hide his identity.  Paul and numerous other people know who he is.  I can only guess that Jose or NewTimes is going to grab the headlines again when Jose's identity is made known, and claim that Paul is responsible for that too in some twisted way (such as if he, Jose, receives any threats, its going to all be due to Paul). Give it another day or two and see what happens...I think its a calculated move meant to draw this out longer and keep it current in the news for much longer than the original story would have.

• For someone running for federal office, listing the Desisto private school as his history of experience is problematic. Not being familiar with the place, I googled it. The school wiki info lists financial mayhem, sexual and safety charges as well as eventual discovery of fraud, licensing revocation, and shuttering of the facility. None of these reflect well on a (recently outed) formerly closeted conservative from Arizona... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSisto_School

• Having dealt with Jose's attorney, I wouldn't be surprised to see her completely twisting facts in a "demand" letter of sorts. 

•  Which isn't allowed in AZ

• LOL! Was he sticking out at the interview? i know he was sticking out when he was sticking Jose!

• man, you hit the nail on the head!! Take for example, their ex. chairman steele, who was made to give a speech about Pres. Obama's state of the union address. He `disagreed' with a lot of what the Pres said, and when asked what exactly he disagreed with, he could not say, because he was just a messenger, and boy did he look foolish on TV!!!!!!!

• hey, the sheriff just changed his facebook status to "gay hypocrite"!!

• >> Babeu stressed, however, that he plans to stick it out. Without photos, we hope.

• Personally, i beleive your sexual preference is your perogative, but dont use it to try and get some special recognition or protected status. Just cuz you like to bump pee pees does not mean that I have to give you special respect. You choose that lifestyle and accept the consequences, just like unfaithful heterosexuals also have consequences to face. if you r gay, more power to you - but respect those who are not gay too!!!

• It is unfortunate that the investigation of Paul Babeau has focused on his sexual orientation. A through investigation of his activities as Sheriff is needed.  Following are some of the charges which have been forwarded to the Pinal County Attorney, The AZ Attorney Generals Office, the FBI, The BATF and all of the Phoenix News outlets: Loss of 200 weapons from the Pinal County SO along with the documentation. Harrassing critics. Sending deputies to harass citzens who report criminal violations by his supporters. Illegal wiretapping. Low money ceasures from drug bust. Source of campagin donations. Release of investigative files to subjects of investigations. Dispatching a Swat team to Apache County to "conduct a surviliance" of a critic. Fox News was repeatedly informed of these allegations and continued to use Babeau as a source. Each of the major TV stations was given information concerning these allegations and did not investigate. The FBI instructed one complaintent to file a complaint with the Pinal County Sheriff's Office when the Sheriff was the subject of the complaint. The AZ Attorney General's Office charged with investigating Public Corruption refused to investigate Babeau and his ally Supervisor Bryan Martin. The Civil Rights Division refused to investigate complaints of racial profiling by his officers. As a former intelligence analyst, I provided each of the entities with actionable intelligence.  Had these charges been investigated in 2010 Babeau would have been gone. I understand the County Attorney's reluctance to investigate.  I do not understand the failure by Tom Horn and his staff as well as the Federal LEO and Phoneix News media.

• But the butt loving sheriff has enabled Jose's protection and protected status. . . . .. . .so are you saying, lets screw him (literally!), and send him back? 

• That's right - just cuzhe likes to bump pee pees does not make him some sort of protected status individual!!! He shoulda married Jose then...dumbass..

• The flash is not very flattering. Perhaps he should have done a profile shot.

• First I'd like to start by saying that Paul Babeu's facebook page is actively censoring and banning people who ask questions that paint the "Bologna Bopper" in a negative light. I believe there may be something to Paul whitewashing the MCSO investigation for fear of being outed. Joe Arpaio may have already had dirt on Paul's penial pandering.  Does anyone else wonder how many men Babeu has frisked and stripped whilst on duty and if he derived any pleasure or gratification from it. We routinely see deviants take jobs to put them in positions of power where they can feed their deviant sexual desires.Might be something to ask him if he didn't hide behind censors and an attorney. I can say deviant because what he did was devious and it has nothing to do with being gay.

• He was a great singer & Queen a great band,but you must admitt Freddy did have a slight overbite.

•  I'm sorry, but if he had been monogamously dating Eva since 2006, he would have married her and trotted her out as part of his happy family in campaign posters.

• this man needs to resign ASAP..he is a pig taking naked pictures of himnself and posting online...fire his ass

•  Hey, there's top and bottom and versatile.  I'm a do-me top and a pushy bottom all rolled into one.

•  Oh, Guillermo, did you make it back into the country so soon?  It must help when you suck off the Border Patrol guards to make your way back to your North-of-the-border Sheriff!

• NT's Stephen Lemons asked Nappy that very question, and reported on her response. Look it up, dumbass! And look at Monica Alonzo's reporting on Phil Gordon, a liberal Democrat. New Times takes no prisoners.

•  Too bad, Danny - he only likes Mexicans.  REAL Mexicans.

•  No, it *IS* my business where he puts his dick when his Party makes it THEIR business where I put MINE.  So - shove your hypocrisy where this guy loves to shove his penis.

•  But then how bad of an investigator must this jackass be if he had a RELATIONSHIP with this guy.  He didn't just casually date him a few times.  THEY LIVED TOGETHER.  If he was SO easily duped by an illegal alien, how does he expect to have enough intelligence to be a congressman?  He claims to have all answers about illegal immigration and he can't even tell when he's putting his penis in one?

•  No, I expect that if you're going to be a gay-bashing SOB who stands for the removal of all civil rights protections for gays that you then have to face the EXACT SAME TREATMENT you'd get if you were a gay liberal.  See, it's called HYPOCRISY, you stupid SOB, and that is WRONG.  You don't pretend to be holy when you're a whore.  That's just wrong.

•  "When did he hide he was gay?"  He did that when he lied to get into the military, and he lied when he stated he'd uphold ALL of the laws of the state of Arizona (where sodomy was a law until it was thrown out in Lawrence V Kansas).  THAT is when he lied.  Now having been proven a liar - what's your NEXT excuse for him?

•  I care.  I wanna know all the dirty little details.  Is it true he likes to get pissed on while wearing women's underwear?  Is it true he's into self-catheterization (where men stick objects up their urethra)?  Is he into scat?  Does he like to get fisted (where an entire man's hand/wrist/arm) is inserted into his anus/rectum/colon?  Is he into bondage and discipline and does he like to eat out of dog-food bowls?  What type of gay man is he???  WE WANT TO KNOW!!!

•  He lied to the military to obtain and secure his employment.  Why would you think he'd do any less right now?  He's a proven liar.  Now I know Republicans like their liars, but really - do they like homosexual liars???

• Did you bother to even read what was printed by both the New Times and the Arizona Republic? There was no reason to believe Jose was illegal. In fact, he had a valid visa allowing him to be in the United States. Jose is not using this story to "out" the sheriff. The Bald Bunion did that all on his own through the press conference he held Saturday. You don't have all the facts, amigo. Here ya go...

• The self-loathing log cabin Repuglykkans.

• ... and Ted Haggard

• You mean the Tea Baggers ?

• Babeu says: "For any other person to define somebody else's relationship and to say that it's not okay, that is not who we are as Americans."  This made me spit my jasmine green tea out through my nose!!!!  Not because I think that statement is untrue, I just couldn't believe who said it.  It was just so ironic! Defining other people differently than they identify themselves is the CORE of Republicant and conservative values!!!!  Everything regarding "positioning" is important to the conservative politician - positioning oneself as a pious christian and positioning others as THE DEVIL is crucial to lulling the dullards out there who vote for "values" candidates.  According to these voters, Liberals are to blame for every social ill and liberal positions and people are what the conservatives say they are.  The dictionary defines Liberal and Conservative a little differently - Liberals want change and Conservatives want to keep thing the same or refine what we have slightly - that's the dictionary definition in a nutshell.  When viewed from the perspective of the correct usage of the English language, the actions of the so-called "values voters" become quite different than the definition of conservative.  The voter who identifies themselves as a "family values voter" only votes for those who talk the talk and they don't give a good damn about whether these politicians walk the walk.  Christianity was based on love, forgiveness and healing - these family values voters have turned those values on their head!  Hate, vengence and killing is what these voters have in their hearts and that's what they want reflected in their politicians. Babeu is in trouble with the family value voters because he actually showed he has a heart - and loved a man. Babeu is in trouble with the law and the rest of us because he used his political position to threaten another person - something we know that Arpaio, Babeu's hero, has done multiple times.  I know this has been said a thousand times before but we got to get the political house of Arizona back into balance.  These right wing wackos who've been in charge these past 30 years are just killing our economy and making Arizona a hard place to raise children.

• Not a Nappy fan, but I do not believe she had half naked foto of herself on the web. Babeu is a whore. peace

• Republicans attract all the weird, just Santorum.  he doesn't believe in birth control.  Come on now.  Our population would be tripled by now without birth control.  But this is the weird thinking and the control Republicans want over our lifes.   They know nothing about jobs or economics.  Just about women's issues and SEX.

• How do U know he threaten Jose.  Jose is in the USA illegally, he should be deported   He is using this method of outing the Sheriff, to stay in the USA.  Just think, an illegal, now getting the full rights or maybe even more rights than an American citizen.   Lets see how the facts finally end up, don't come to a conclusion until you know all the real facts.    So much gossip and little knowledge thus far on here.    Lets deport Jose as an illegal NOW.   Don't waste our taxpayers money on him and the court system.  

• He is a fraud and a Bully that needs to resign in shame.  If the alleged threats he made are true of course.

• Wow, now he is pro this and pro that publically. This outing may have been the best thing that happened to him in terms of not having a "skeleton " in his closet. Ricky Martin stated he coul not live this way any longer because he wanted his children to know the truth. This pig dies it for politucal gain! Opportunist!

• If I were to start counting, I'd have to take my shoes off.

• Delusional much?

• I agree, However the problem is his deception to his conservative supporters about being a homo and his possible criminal abuse of power in threatening his (Cough) boyfriend.  Shows some serious problems for him.

• So let me get this straight, (No pun intended)  A lying cop because he was in the closet, and a Bully.   Schmooooozing up to the republicans for some of that GOP money and support for his political campaign. This sounds like something out of a movie!  If all this is true then you really blew it sheriff!  (Again, No pun intended)  

• Pole Smoking is not a Political Party.

• Obviously, home schooled.

• Lets not forget John Mc Cain putting "Rump Ranger" Babeu in his Border Commercials, hugging Babeu and saying: "Now your one of us." Makes me want to vomitt.

• "He also has a slight Freddie Mercury-esque overbite." That's just insulting to Freddie Mercury. I mean, the man was a great singer.

• Stop bashing The News Times and Monica Alonzo.  What are they going to do when presented a story this big. "Say oh no we can't expose the sheriff".  It's their job to report information given to them.  It's called freedom of the press. So back off you hypocrital bullies.

• remember he's fickle. 

• Actually, the most important aspect of this story is the allegation that he "threatened" a person with deportation. As a law enforcement official, any truth to this allegation would likely be at the least unethical if not criminal. The story is the "threat" not the fact that he is gay. Put the focus where it should be placed. 

• This guy can win. He is anti immigrant, anti illegals, pro-gun. Shit he is accused of trying to get his ex deported, Right Wing nuts love that. He's against photo radar, another sore point in AZ. I would not be surprised if he did win.

• The Democratic party has "OUTED" another homosexual who does not conform to their definition of what a homosexual should be. The left-wingers at the New Slimes have once again chosen to attack a conservative for wishing to keep his sexual affiliation private. Janet Napalitano never would have been asked such a question... Then again, she deserves her privacy. She wants open borders!

• Puts the bad guys to the test, a flaming queen of the wild west.

• Stick a fork in Babeu,perferably at least a 7" one,he's done.

• News analysis Paul Babeu, the Suddenly Openly Gay Pinal County Sheriff, Vows to Continue Congressional Run, Serve Out Remaining Term as Sheriff -- Despite Mexican Ex-Lover's Insistence That Sheriff's Camp Threatened Him With Deportation By Monica Alonzo Sat., Feb. 18 2012 at 4:58 PM Comments (166) Categories: News analysis Share 0diggsdigg Photo by Jamie PeacheyThe sheriff's friend, Jay Stewart, praises Babeu during the press conference.​Photo by Jamie PeacheyThe sheriff's friend, Jay Stewart, praises Babeu during the press conference.​Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu turned a nearly hour-long press conference to address allegations of threats that he and his attorney made to Babeu's ex-boyfriend into a parade of people defending his right to be gay. He asked a slew of own employees and friends to the microphone to offer him their unyielding support, trying to spin the situation he finds himself in into an attack on his homosexuality -- which until he confirmed it today was something he never talked about publicly. Indeed, many people New Times spoke with yesterday were amazed to learn that the tough-talking, right-wing Republican lawman is gay.The huge irony is that Jose, Babeu's ex-boyfriend and a Mexican national, says threats of deportation came because he refused to sign an agreement not to disclose details of his relationship with the sheriff. (New Times is withholding Jose's last name because of these threats.)See additional photos from Saturday's press conference as well as additional images obtained from Sheriff Babeu's ex-lover allegedly showing text message communication between the two.Jose's attorney, Melissa Weiss-Riner, who received phone calls directly form Chris DeRose, Babeu's attorney and congressional campaign consultant, confirms that DeRose claimed Jose's visa was expired, as well as warned that Jose shouldn't bring attention to himself or he could be deported.Babeu's spin is that the media (that is, New Times) used the "baseless" allegations as a "hook" to write a story about his sexuality.Babeau's claim that the allegations are baseless is far from the truth.The story is about a sheriff who is accused of abusing his power and displaying reckless judgment in e-mailing explicit photographs of himself to at least one anonymous individual. Courtesy photoPhoto Paul Babeu sent to Jose.​Courtesy photoPhoto Paul Babeu sent to Jose.​As we pointed out in our news story, Weiss-Riner wrote to the sheriff's attorney on January 17 that the sheriff's "continued harassment and intimidation have caused [Jose] to live in fear." In an earlier letter on September 30, Weiss-Riner wrote to DeRose that his "claim that [Jose] does not have legal status in this country is simply not true. However, if your client ... Mr. Babeu wishes to make these allegations, my client will prevail against the claims."Babeu's own text message to Jose states: "You can never have business after this and you will harm me and many others in the process ... including yourself and your family."Excerpts from the letters were included in the New Times' article, along with text messages between Babeu to Jose. Babeu told reporters that he did not deny the veracity of the photos or text messages.Pinal County Board of Supervisors chairman Pete Rios has called for Babeu's immediate resignation.Babeu stressed, however, that he plans to stick it out.1 | 2 | Next Page >> Tags: chris derose, gay, joe arpaio, melissa weiss-riner, mitt romney, paul babeu, pinal county, ron gould, sheriff

• oops gotcha!! Michael Berry Another Hypocrite!  Busted Conservative radio host accused of "hit and run" after visiting a gay bar(frequent visitor no less)!  He is also anti-gay???? How many more of you are in the closet?

• It was a great bit on kdkb. I wonder if paul hangs out at the throbbing knob saloon.

• Is this the Republican spin of the day?  Do you really think people are that stupid? Good luck!

• Now that Paul Babeu has been exposed, does that mean you are going to have a gay militia at the Mexican border? 

• Dear Sheriff, We DON"T believe a word of the allegations.  And, we stake our reputations on it. Signed, Congressmen Foley, Craig and Houston radio host Michael Berry

• The New Slimes never bothered "OUTING" Janet Napandragony-apolitano? Obviously, she/he conformed to their radical left-wing ideology. Babau, on the other hand, is attempting to enforce the law.

• He is a REAL MAN, unlike Richard Simmons or that true fruitcake on the T.V show "Glee" (real sissy-boys!) -- and most Arizonians support him 100%.  You'll see . . .

•  I do not believe that most people know about gay dating websites - because they are not gay. With all of the horrific gay-bashing going on in this thread, do you really blame the man for being secretive? This is shameful in America....first Ms. Rice isn't "black enough" and now Mr. Babeu isn't "gay enough." You insist on believing the GOP is something it is not - you draw a cartoon and expect it to be a valid depiction.

• Hopefully the Pinal Co. Attorney has more balls than the MCAO.

• Great story Monica. Hopefully we'll see more stories showing the true characters of the people who would like our votes. The problem isn't that Babeu is gay, the problem is he led a fake life, associated with people that he continually had to lie to in order to receive their approval - and then used his power, that he obtained by deceit with those same people, to threaten someone who he felt was going to blow the deception that he had created. I didn't like Babeu before this, never would have voted for him. Didn't believe his Arpaio report was honest, thought he was full of BS.  This story was a confirmation of my beliefs.

• Do you have the current issue of the Pro-Homo Agenda ? .. I seem to have misplaced mine.

• Am I the only one who finds it ironic that the sheriff of "Pinal" County is gay? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! Tooooo perfect!

• "He's Rump Ranger, turns his back in the face of danger!" Ha! I remember that show! Used to make me late to class in high school listening to it in the parking lot!

• What a hypocrit!

• There must be some truth if he came out

• Who said he was still in the military (national guard...not a real Soldier)?

• 7"

• Already an investigation is being demanded.

• "Babeu stressed, however, that he plans to stick it...."

• You're an idiot. This is about abuse of power, you nimrod! Even if you are gay, do you think it's ok for this Nazi clown to use his power to intimidate a former lover? You probably do, because you're a self-loathing cracker who hasn't come out of the closet. Otherwise, get a clue.  

• Will the Pinal County Board of Supervisors have the courage to do what the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors could and should do?

• He is not a Chicano, a lot of tea baggers post with Latino names to try to confuse us, just like the tea party putting up a Latina puppet ( Olivia Cortez ) on the rus-SELL pearce recall ballot to confuse the voters.

• You are missing the point, or you are trying to pull a Joke arPayaso by giving miss-information and putting a spin on the article.

• Again, this is not about him being gay or not, this is about him dating an illegal immigrant while publicly being an anti-illegal immigrant crusader, this is NOT about his sexual preference, this is about his hypocrisy, lies, and deception.  It doesn't matter that is love interest is a man or a woman, the only thing that matters is the this person is an illegal, and he knew it.

•  The sheriff outed himself with reckless behavior like posting seminude pictures on a public forum.  Do you want someone that stupid in office?

• No, this article is about a politician's hypocrisy, lies, and deception, his public persona about being a crusader against illegal immigration while at the same time sharing his bed with an illegal immigrant, and it doesn't matter if the illegal immigrant is a man or a woman, the only thing that matters is that he gets on Faux News to talk about how we need to deport all illegals and what he is doing to deal with the problem, but at the end of the Faux News interview he goes home to where an illegal immigrant is waiting for him.  Talk about being a hypocrite.

• No he needs to put his shirt on and buy some new undies.  Sheriff Babeu, aka 'studboi1' age 37 is neither a stud nor a boi nor 37.  Discuss!

• Sheriff Babeau. hang in there. You are a true American hero for serving our country in the military and law enforcement. Thank you for our service to our country.

• Alonzo, openly gay people attend Tea Party meetings and are embraced. Try again with more nonsense.

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