Perry Chats With Sheriff Joe
Sep 4, 2011 3 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Rick Perry, who’s currently getting bracketed by Mitt Romney on the topic of immigration and asked about it on the trail in New Hampshire today, apparently chatted by phone this afternoon with nationally known Arizona immigration hard-liner Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Arpaio tweeted at around 5 p.m. Eastern time, “Just received phone call at my house from TX. Gov. Rick Perry. Had a great conversation especially about immigration and other matters.”
Arpaio, who also tweeted two weeks ago that he’s been contacted by the Romney and Michele Bachmann camps, has been a nationally controversial for awhile (including, most recently, an issue involving actor Steven Seagal) for a range of issues, as well as allegations of racial profiling.
Perry is currently being hit from Romney on immigration, an attack the former Massachusetts governor and faltering front-runner is attempting to lob from the right. It’s an issue, as we noted the other day, that is potentially complicated for the Texas governor, who has a business-centric donor base in his home state that views it differently than, say, some early-state Republican activists.
A Perry spokesman didn’t respond to an email about Arpaio’s tweet.
