The Supreme Court has refused to hear Arpaio's appeal of an abortion transportation case. Best comment I've read so far is by "CHRISin Tempe" on the azcentral.com story link:
Nickel Bag Joe made out like a political bandit on this caper. Actual requests to take female prisoners to abortion appointments were quite rare, and cost him next to nothing. It was all about publicity.
Win or lose, far right right wingers see him as their kind of guy on the abortion issue. Those are the sort of people who would force even a rape victim to carry the resulting pregnancy to term.
Fiscal conservatives too, get spoon fed the image of Nickel Bag struggling to save them money. Knowing full well that people see only what they wish to see, his spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to save a few hundred dollars is completely ignored by most voters.
Nickel Bag Joe is not stupid, he's a crafty politician. Yes, he's a dishonest, conniving, mean spirited low down snake in the grass politician, but he's no idiot. He couldn't be to have survived this long at his game of ripping off the taxpayers just so he can live in his own private weird little world.
