
It is this writer’s recommendation to the editors of Time magazine that they add the name of Clarence W. Dupnik to its short list for “Person of the Year” in 2011. Less than two weeks into the new year, this outspoken and articulate sheriff of Pima County, Arizona, home of the horrific murders and assassination attempt against U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, spoke for an entire nation by indicting the rise in the politics of hate in the land. Sheriff of Pima County since 1980, it didn’t take proof of any specific connection of the murderer in this case to any political or hate group for Dupnik to condemn all the political peddlers of anger and hate in the entire nation.
