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Sheriff Mark Dannels |
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MAGA
Republican
extremist
Sheriff Mark J. Dannels
is the
current
Sheriff of
Cochise
County,
Arizona. |
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Congressman Andy
Biggs,
Sheriff
Dannels and
Republican
Congressman
Brian
Babbins
(Texas) |
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Photo: Wikimedia
Commons |
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Cochise
County
Sheriff Sued
For Ignoring
Public
Records
Request |
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"Cochise
County
Sheriff Mark
Dannels has
been sued
for
allegedly
ignoring a
public
records
request made
nearly seven
months ago
by an
investigative
reporter ago
seeking a
list of all
deputies and
other sworn
personnel." |
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Mar. 15,
2023 |
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| Sheriff Mark Dannels Uses Frequent Right-Wing Media Appearances To Demonize Immigrants And Push Falsehoods About The Border |
| Jan. 31, 2023 |
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"According to the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, Dannels is an adherent of the far-right “constitutional sheriffs” movement, which claims sheriffs are the highest legitimate legal authority in the country. (Legal scholars say the movement’s reading of the law is baseless.) He also spoke at a 2019 event for the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), an organization founded by former Sheriff Richard Mack with origins in the far-right “posse comitatus” movement of the 1970s. |
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Dannels is also linked to anti-immigrant group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which is classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. He spoke at one of the organization’s events in June 2021, and attended a FAIR event in Washington, D.C., in 2022, praising the group for “doing what you have to do for the country.” |
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| In July 2019, Dannels was pictured smiling alongside then-Rep. Steve King (R-IA), who The Washington Post had already characterized as “the U.S. congressman most openly affiliated with white nationalism.”" |
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Dannels,
Others Fired
From
Homeland
Security
Advisory
Council |
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Sheriff Mark
Dannels,
along with
several
other
individuals,
has been
dismissed
from the
Homeland
Security
Advisory
Council, a
bipartisan
panel put in
place by the
Obama and
Trump
administrations.
The “pink
slip” to
Dannels and
about 29
other
members of
the advisory
group was a
letter dated
March 26
from
Alejandro
Mayorkas,
the new
secretary of
the
Department
of Homeland
Security.
Mayorkas was
recently
appointed by
the Biden
administration
to head the
federal
agency. |
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May 5, 2022 |
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