Vandals spray-paint 'Kill Obama' on Cave Creek signs

[kpete]

Source: Arizona Republic

Vandals spray-paint 'Kill Obama' on Cave Creek signs

11 comments by Alex Bloom - Oct. 8, 2009 05:37 PM
The Arizona Republic

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is looking into vandalism to two Cave Creek election signs on which vandals spray-painted "Kill Obama" in purple.

The message appeared on two signs, one supporting the renewal of Cave Creek Unified School District's K-3 override and one supporting the K-3 measure and two ballot measures on whether to allow a local Walmart store to be built.

The Sheriff's Office confiscated the two signs, which were at two locations: at Cartwright's Sonoran Ranch House and west of Galloway Drive.



Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/community/scottsdale/articles/2009/10/08/20091008sr-sign1010.html

[imdjh]

1. So writing death threats on signs, gets those signs taken away in evidence.

[d_b]

2. is it just me

or has Arizona become a mecca for right-wing shitheads? I was going to make this post 17 'arizona rightwing shithead does something stupid' threads ago but I decided now is the right time.

[Alexander]

6. You're absolutely right. Fascists, racists, religious freaks and right-wingers are all over.

Many of them are employed by the local police departments.

What can anyone expect from a place that has kept Joe Arpaio in office since 1990, giving him landslide victories every time?

I am so glad I am escaping the hell that is Maricopa County.

[City Lights]

10. I escaped in 2005 after a 5-year stay.

Glad I got the hell out.

[Cha]

13. I lived there in the '60's for 5 years when

it was still a small town fun place to liveB-)

:hi:City Lights~

[City Lights]

31. Hiya Cha!

:hi:

I didn't know you spent time in the Valley. B-)

[Javaman]

25. it's always been a mecca for right wing shit heads.

drive through Kingman sometime. it's a scary place.

[KittyWampus]

29. An old flame of mine lived in AZ back in the 80's and said it was bad even then.

I think there are and have been pockets there with larger areas of new age and monied retirees.

[Alexander]

3. That's Arizona for you. A fascist hellhole and a cesspool of idiocy.

"The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is looking into vandalism to two Cave Creek election signs on which vandals spray-painted "Kill Obama" in purple."

Knowing Sheriff Joe, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office probably approves of the vandalism.

[Tansy_Gold]

16. Excuse me if I just politely disagree with that idiotic assessment

yes, we have our share and then some of idiots and wingnuts and fascists and morons, but we also have a lot of fine, hardworking, LIBERAL folks here, enough that we elected a Democratic governor a few years ago, and a woman to boot.

Joe Arpaio is an ass, no question, and it's horrible that the voters in Maricopa County keep returning him to office, but that doesn't mean everyone in Maricopa County is an idiot.

It's so damn easy to paint with that broad brush, isn't it?



Tansy Gold, who loves her adopted state of Arizona and does actually try to turn voters around, one at a time.

[AzNick]

19. Same here. Not all of us are idiots.

Trailer parks, large business owners and Christian zealots (Mormons, mostly), this is where the GOP gets most of its electorate now.

We need to really do something about the first one.

My Mormon friends will not budge, even when I have some intelligent discussions and brings the facts to them, and they admit I may be right... they still will vote in lockstep with the rest of their crowd.

Large business owners... ok, they vote in their own interests (although Bob Parson -Go Daddy- is known for being a liberal).

And yes, Joe, the "tough" sheriff who will not debate his opponents on TV and trashed his main opponent (Dan Saban)'s reputation.

Note that Joe is taking the spray painting incident seriously.

[Tansy_Gold]

20. Um. about those "trailer parks"

I know several transplanted Minnesotans and Chicagoans, hard core Dems all, who live in "trailer parks."

:hi:

Do be careful with that broad brush, even when you're sayin' nice things about fellow Arizonans.




Tansy Gold

[RebelOne]

37. Agreed. I'm a hard-core Democrat who lives in a trailer park

in North Georgia. Why is it that people look down their noses at us trailer park dwellers?

[AzNick]

45. Not in my part of town. Come and see for yourself...

Lots of big pickup trucks, nobama stickers, gun rack in the cab.

[Le Taz Hot]

23. I feel your pain.

I live in Fresno, apparently EVERY single one of us are the stupidest people in the U.S., even though that "study" has holes large enough to fly a 747 through. And it's DUers who are doing it. I can understand some no-talent like Conan O'Brien making fun of us. His rating are in the shitter, as they should be, but DUers? Thhppppptttttt!

[Tansy_Gold]

24. But but but. . . . .

EVERYONE in Fresno is a freeper, right? And you're all related to Jim Robinson by marriage three times over, right?

And you all eat raisins, right?

(only kidding!)


Yeah, I can imagine what you deal with, even if I have no idea what "study" you're referring to. But there are some folks here on DU who, well, maybe they just need a little more experience of the world, iykwim. Eventually, in a few years, they'll learn. Maybe.

:hi:


Tansy Gold

[Alexander]

39. I didn't say everyone in Maricopa County is an idiot, but thanks for not reading my post.

With your total failure in basic reading comprehension, I wouldn't be surprised if you are the product of AZ's pathetic public education system.

[Tansy_Gold]

41. Excuse me?

Here's your subject line:

That's Arizona for you. A fascist hellhole and a cesspool of idiocy.

The two lines of your post were about the defaced signs in Cave Creek and suggested that Joe Arpaio painted them himself.



Actually, I'm a product of the Arlington Heights, Illinois public school system (AHS, '66), plus the University of Illinois and Arizona State University, from which I hold a master's degree in sociology.

I'm sick and tired of the personal insults that are being flung about here. It's one thing to have differing opinions, but virtually every "discussion" on here deteriorates into name calling and demands to conform to whichever ideology the poster is espousing at the moment. There's no civility here any more; there's just outrage and ad hominem attacks.

And don't bother to tell me to just go over to that other site. As I've said before, I've been on DU since sometime before 9/11/01, first under another screen name and then after being verbally attacked and threatened with bodily harm by one of DU's leading lights, I reregistered in early 2002 as Tansy_Gold. I've been here ever since. I have every right to be here, and I have every right not to be insulted. Argued with, yes, but not insulted. NO DUer should be subjected to that.

It's a sign of emotional, if not physical, immaturity.



Tansy Gold

[Name removed]

42. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[Alexander]

44. Your poor reading comprehension is excused.

[CurtEastPoint]

4. Just like the Facebook poll was written by a kid, so was this. I hope. n/t

[DJ13]

5. I hope people realize that as long as these kinds of things make news

it wont stop.

Ignore these idiots and the "I want some attention too" crowd will move on to something else.

[tomm2thumbs]

7. Cheney probably did it - he's so mad that everything isn't going his way anymore

[thunder rising]

8. F#k'n PUMA's will never give up!

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

9. The Sheriff's Office confiscated the two signs, which were....

later thrown in the dumpster. What evidence??

[Grassy Knoll]

11. Cave Creek AZ. is 95 % white and very redneck....

You would think they would want a Walmart, so they could get their ammo for their next salt lick party.

[Mosby]

15. cave creek is a very expensive place to live

Zillow Home Value Index:
$467,770


and that's the average after a 23% drop for the ttm.



http://rates.banks.com/realestate/arizona/cave-creek

I believe that carefree AZ is the only town/city in the Valley with higher average home prices.

[Grassy Knoll]

17. So its the upper middle class who are trying to stop Walmart....

Because Obama is in support of lower class equality, and Walmart would bring customers
to their uppity neighborhood, ....wait...I just got that.

[Tansy_Gold]

21. You obviously know diddly point squat about

Cave Creek and Carefree.

I suggest you stop making utterly uninformed (read, stoopid) comments before you show how really deep down ignorant you are.

But that's only a suggestion, you understand.



Tansy Gold

[Grassy Knoll]

22. Im Ignorant ? HAHAHAHAHA

Learn to spell, OK, "STOOPID " is not a word,
But that's only a suggestion, YOU UNDERSTAND ?

[kestrel91316]

43. "Stoopid" most certainly IS a word in Freeperese, and we use it here to mock said.

[JonLP24]

28. Cave Creek is nice

DMX lives there and he has a very nice home.

[Tansy_Gold]

34. Cave Creek and Carefree both are lovely places.

They are also mostly white -- no surprise -- and probably mostly right-leaning.

But my point to the other poster was that they are not "redneck" by a long shot, and it's simply not a "wal-mart" community. both towns are much more oriented to small, and dare I say artsy, businesses than to big box cheap crap from China stores.

That poster would have known that if he knew much about Cave Creek /Carefree at all.



Tansy Gold, who does live there but lives not too far away and has driven through many many times on rock hunting expeditions

[City Lights]

30. IIRC, Paradise Valley has the highest average home prices.

Zillow's home value index for PV is $1,120,534.

http://rates.banks.com/realestate/arizona/paradise-valley

[Cha]

12. Rec'd~ Funny there was never any stupid "kill" vandalism when bush-

cheney was in office. That's because those who are against them are much brighter people who have heart and soul.

[NAO]

14. The guy who brought an assault rifle to an Obama town hall was in AZ

Phoenix or Tempe, if I remember

[alp227]

18. So unfortunate this happened in McCain's home state

This doesn't reflect well for Arizonans then. Hopefully justice will be served.

[Odin2005]

26. Call them what they are: Terrorists.

[Xenotime]

27. Yup. Time to start rounding them up.

[Taverner]

32. I'll bet Joe Arpaio did it himself

[newspeak]

33. I was raised in Phoenix AZ as a child

My family lived in Sunnyslope and Paradise Valley. That was back when there was more desert, especially out on Cave Creek Rd. My aunt lived in the middle of the desert. They hauled water from the gas station on Cave Creek Rd. My aunt (different aunt) was a secretary to Carl Hayden-democratic senator of Arizona. Yeah, we had the John Birchers and Goldwater is from Arizona. But hell, now days with the freepers, even Goldwater looks liberal to them. My uncle was a bodyguard for FDR and later worked for the juvenile division of the Phoenix police department. In those days, there were lots of Democrats in Arizona, maybe the snowbirds changed the dynamics, who knows? :shrug:

[Taverner]

35. Sherriff Joe must burn you up then

No pun intended...

The man uses the constitution as TP

[newspeak]

38. yeah, it's a different atmosphere today

than it was in the sixties and seventies.

[pklaz96]

36. Spray painting vandalism - treason

Another reason to move out of Arizona and back to the East Coast. It's too scary here!

[Mz Pip]

40. I have family in Cave Creek

My cousin-in-law would send me the most hateful anti-Obama emails. When I finally got sick of it she pointed out that she and her friends all loved God and the USA, like that was some kind of excuse. The whole exchange brought an end to our relationship, such as it was.

She is seeing the fruits of that hatred up close and personal right now. Kind of sad really, but irrational hatred has no place in our discourse. Unfortunately that's about all the rwers use anymore.