Sheriff Paul Babeu from rising political star to using 

political clout to allegedly threaten a Mexican 

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Babeu returned to Arizona shortly after losing an election for North Adams mayor in 2001. He has been something of an enigma since he appeared on the Arizona political scene and it was suspected he was homosexual. Being homosexual isn't the issue, it's the alleded abuse of his office to intimidate his ex-lover...

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In Arizona He became a Chandler police officer and in November 2008 defeated a Democratic incumbent to become sheriff.

Along the way, he served in the Army National Guard as both an enlisted man and an officer, retiring from the Arizona Guard as a major after serving stints in Iraq and along the U.S.-Mexico border. Sheriff Babeu is best known for his hard stance on illegal immigration appearing in video "Build the Dang Fence."

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] Babeu is President of the Arizona Sheriffs’ Association^[16] and was named the National Sheriff of the Year in 2011 by the National Sheriffs’ Association.^[17] Babeu is Arizona’s youngest Sheriff and leads the third largest Sheriff’s Office in Arizona with 700 full-time employees.^[7]

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]

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