In the meantime, Arpaio continues to spend his time, like his role model, thinking up attention-grabbing ideas. "Actually, the president should make me the press secretary," he said after the event at the SaddleBrooke Republican Club, where he drew a crowd much bigger than his rival, Ward, who had spoken there in January. "That would be a great combination, what a great combination. I'll have all those reporters eating out of my hand, you know that."