{"id":3862,"date":"2011-10-08T02:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/10\/08\/six-arizona-sheriffs-say-enough-is\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:16:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:16:31","slug":"six-arizona-sheriffs-say-enough-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=3862","title":{"rendered":"Ten Arizona Sheriffs Say Enough Is Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16865,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.abc15.com\\\/dpp\\\/news\\\/state\\\/arizona-sheriffs-blast-gun-smuggling-operation&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.abc15.com\\\/dpp\\\/news\\\/state\\\/arizona-sheriffs-blast-gun-smuggling-operation&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Sheriffs from <strike>six<\/strike>&nbsp; ten Arizona counties held a press conference outside the Arizona State Capitol today. They said it was time for an independent investigation into Operation Fast and Furious.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe sheriffs represent Pinal, Cochise, LaPaz, Mohave, Greenlee, and Yavapai counties and are both Democrats and Republicans. They all agreed that it was not a partisan issue for them but rather a feeling of betrayal by the Federal government. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc15.com\/dpp\/news\/state\/arizona-sheriffs-blast-gun-smuggling-operation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the report by ABC 15 reporter Lori Jean Gliha<\/a>,&nbsp; all the sheriffs were united in their call for an independent investigation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;It&#8217;s embarrassing to this country and me,&#8221; said LaPaz County Sheriff Don Lowery. &#8220;I&#8217;ve spent fifty years in uniform, and it&#8217;s embarrassing for me to stand before you and apologize for people that we elect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lowery, a Democrat, said when it comes to this case, he is not a politician and believes people should be held accountable for the case, no matter what their party affiliation is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If this guy (Holder) done something wrong,&#8221; Lowery said, &#8220;He needs to be terminated, if he did. It needs to be investigated first.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>&nbsp;UPDATE: <\/b>According to other news reports it was not just six Arizona sheriffs who called for an independent investigation but ten. <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheriffs from six&nbsp; ten Arizona counties held a press conference outside the Arizona State Capitol today. They said it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1096,544],"class_list":["post-3862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arizona","tag-project-gunwalker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7300,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions\/7300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}