ARIZONA: Joe Arpaio Signals Bid For US Senate

Salon reports:

For anyone who can’t stomach the idea of Roy Moore occupying a seat in the upper chamber of Congress, here are three words that may send a shiver down a spine: Senator Joe Arpaio.

Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff who has had several brushes with the law of his own, is thinking about running for the open Senate seat that will be vacated at the end of 2018 by the retiring Jeff Flake. Arpaio told ABC News he was “strongly considering” mounting a run, and also told the Daily Beast Thursday that he wanted to take Flake’s seat.

Given the Republican electorate’s recent willingness to overlook controversial candidates like Donald Trump and Alabama’s Roy Moore, he might have a chance.

Arpaio would be 87 years old at his swearing-in.