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Marcus Reid 11/14/2008 7:20:00 AM
I think you're "Apt37" and you fixed the wiki page, so you would have something to write about. See how easy it is to throw around BS, huh?
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tax payer 09/07/2008 6:20:00 AM
missing from above for those searching for information:
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2005-01-13/news/welcome-to-thomasville/
Welcome to Thomasville!
Some surprising demotions, and a Republican babe at the new County Attorney's Office
How do we afford a deputy county attorney to send press releases as a full time job, with photos of herself attached to the articles? Self-promotion at tax payers expense! Disgusting!
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Tax payer 09/07/2008 6:14:00 AM
from above: "I regret ever using Thomas's initials, perhaps that wasn't the wisest decision, but I never thought someone would write an article accusing him of modifying his own entry! For crying out loud, the guy has a Harvard law degree and runs an office of 1000 employees, do you really think he's dumb enough and has the time to modify his own wikipedia entry?"
The answer is YES! Look at all his internet sites -- Rachel Alexander busy sending them off to Germany and elsewhere. The taxpayer can't afford the waste of time, money and resources on the internet games the MC attorney's office plays.
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apt37 07/31/2008 4:43:00 PM
I am a huge fan of Thomas (no relation), a self-professed computer geek, and the person who modified Thomas's wikipedia entry using "apt37" as the username. 37 is my favorite number, that's why I picked it. I regret ever using Thomas's initials, perhaps that wasn't the wisest decision, but I never thought someone would write an article accusing him of modifying his own entry! For crying out loud, the guy has a Harvard law degree and runs an office of 1000 employees, do you really think he's dumb enough and has the time to modify his own wikipedia entry? Now his campaign opponents are accusing him of modifying his own entry, which isn't surprising considering they're always lying anyways (aclutimwillsayanythingtogetelected.blogspot.com).
You should retract your article. It's false and libelous. It's clear that because you can't find anything legitimately wrong with Thomas, you resort to false articles about him. Get a grip. He didn't modify his own entry, and I'll get this resolved with wikipedia one way or another to get it corrected. I really don't want to bring myself into this to be harassed but if I have to I will.
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Denette Reid (Brent's mom) 05/20/2008 6:16:00 PM
please visit www.tlc24seven.webs.com to see how Andrew Thomas is treating first-time offenders who are teenagers in the adult judicial system, without taking anything into consideration except how far he can use the law to support his upcoming election.
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Concerned Taxpayer 03/02/2008 2:01:00 AM
Great investigative work. If website manipulation is being done on Thomas vanity page, then one can only imagine
how he or his cronies are manipulating other websites. Hope you investigate to where else they are going!
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Mesa Reader 03/01/2008 8:58:00 PM
Just a correction to my previous comment which was stated ambiguously. It has not been lobbyist Joanie Flatt's influence peddling that has been at taxpayer expense, but rather her desired outcome of the influence peddling (her clients' expense) that has resulted in great taxpayer expense.
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Mesa Reader 03/01/2008 6:12:00 PM
Kudos to New Times for exposing just the most recent conflict of interest matter by lobbyist and Arizona Republic darling Joanie Flatt. Joanie Flatt's self-serving influence peddling in Mesa at taxpayer expense has been going on for a long, long time, and she obviously has no qualms about selling her wares via the print newspaper and blogs sponsored by that same newspaper as she does. Push, push, push, write, write, write for her self-serving "causes."
Unfortunately, with the Republic (specifically the "Mesa Republic") and with her printed columns headed and identifying her as a "Community Columnist," readers are misled into believing that she is a professional journalist which she is not. Joanie Flatt is not accountable to the Code of Ethics laid out by the Society of Professional Journalists. Many legitimate columnists are also journalists, and the newspaper that encourages the stuff that Joanie Flatt pumps out aids in destroying its own credibility. Too bad.
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Concerned Taxpayer 03/01/2008 1:08:00 AM
CONFLICT OF INTEREST SHOULD BE A FELONY! SINCE THIS STATE CRIMINALIZES EVERYTHING ELSE THEY SHOULD THROW THIS ON THE HEAP. PRETTY SOON NO ONE WILL BE LEFT ABLE TO FOOT THE BILL SINCE THEY WILL ALL BE IN PRISON IN ARIZONA. NO SCHOOLS JUST PRISONS, JAILS, PROBATION TO TRACK AND HUNT EVERYONE DOWN FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES. AND THIS IS AMERICA?
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ScottsdaleWatcher 03/01/2008 1:03:00 AM
Mesa Watcher thank you for the information that the public needs to be made aware of. You are doing a public service and we are sick of those businesses making millions in this state while the taxpayers suffer and have to foot the bill. The Photo Radar on the highways must be stopped! This is a disgrace. We're building prisons and and closing schools. How can we close Aztec School and have money for everything else especially the profiteers who make their money off the misery of others. Keep on watching, Mesa Watcher. We all need to keep a list of these names and haul them out during the election and rallies downtown.
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MesaWatcher 02/29/2008 6:05:00 PM
Concerning the last third of this article on Mesa Public Relations flack, Joanie Flatt. She has a history of failing to disclose her clients, even as she shills online for them at the Mesa Republic. The Mesa Republic's editors whine that they can't possible police all the blogs, but Flatt's status is above any random anonymous blogger. Other bloggers are capable of providing a brief paragraph outlining their background and affiliations, so should Joanie. She has misled the public about her ties to any number of groups or campaigns; all the while writing as a "community columnist". Mesa Arts Center, Riverview, Property Taxes, American Traffic Solutions.
It's understood that she needn't disclose her *entire* client list, but please, when the topic at hand *IS* the client, full disclosure is in order!
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02/29/2008 1:48:00 PM
After reading this last night, I went over to wiki to see for myself. It looks like therer must be someone assigned by Thomas, full time, to continue making sure that the wiki reference remains Thomas's own vanity piece.
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Coz 02/29/2008 5:58:00 AM
Thomas is a piece of dung, just like his daddy Arpaio.
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stewart M. 02/29/2008 12:56:00 AM
Correction on above: they are NOT listed in "collectibles" where books might be $70,000. So when Thomas says he wrote four books does that make him a specialist in criminal justice? -- I think NOT. Especially if the book has so little value that it sells for slightly more than one dollar.
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Stewart M. 02/29/2008 12:50:00 AM
Looking for Andrew Thomas books, Theoline? You might try Amazon.com. The sell for a dollar and change in their "used" books. They are listed in "collectibles" where you thought you might have to pay $70,000.
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Stewart M. 02/29/2008 12:42:00 AM
Theoline, to answer your question, the "crime prevention" brochure is being handed out in the seminar packet County Attorney Andrew Thomas is holding in the area churches. Look in the small classified ads in your neighborhood newspaper and pg. 2 of the AZ Republic. Someone needs to find out the cost of the expensive pocket folder all the "hand-outs" are put in. It is navy blue, heavy stock, with metallic gold embossed logo, with County Attorney Andrew Thomas' name in very large letters. This is a pocket folder you would receive at a University graduation from medical or law school, certainly not in a taxpayers budget.
Andrew Thomas name was also printed in color on the notepads. A continental breakfast and lunch were served. All this is a waste of taxpayer dollars, in a county and state that is deeply in debt.
This "seminar" by the MCAO Conference given by County Attorney Andrew Thomas, appeared to be nothing more than deceptive election campaign tactics using the churches, as a way to collect names and addresses. If the motive were an honest one, then the ads would say "open to the public" and not ask for names and addresses. The public needs to be made aware of this deception. Your article goes a long way to confirm what we seem to be seeing all around us.
The classified ad and the notice asked people to call in and register. If gathering names and addresses was not a motive,
the ad simply would say, "open to the public".
The public needs a brochure on how to protect itself from overzealous law enforcement and prosecution. 40,000 felonies on one year in Maricopa County should send a red flag to the public that they need something to protect themselves from the out of control broken criminal justice system. Where's that pamphlet? Where are our civil rights listed?
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Matilda 02/29/2008 12:15:00 AM
Outstanding article and research! I like how you tied it all together. All the loose ends going in different directions aren't fooling those who remain vigilant of the devious activities going on around us by those who only are interested in themselves at taxpayers expense and those who are losing their lives with this abuse of power.
It's hard to outdo #2 Theoline's comments, which ring out clearly.
Sarah, keep on digging, you have struck a gold mine that few others would have the courage to write about. Keep up the great work.
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Coz 02/28/2008 8:09:00 PM
Obviously his hack Buttstein has been taking lessions from the hack Lisa Allen on how to lie for his boss and post bogas bullshit.
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Theoline 02/28/2008 5:00:00 PM
Damn . .you're good ! Really enjoyed your article, so gives insight into the personality, the unreality in the psyche. . .The guy defines vanity. .The darker,more dangerous side of this individual's mindset, the values,the morals void of decency,compassion, rights of others is clearly evident in the ABC's 20/20 transcripts re: Bandy prosecution. His responses are of the nature of dogma, rhetoric,explaining how the judicial system works by doing deals and pleas that there is no real statute for so they find something that sounds like,or looks like, or is smaller than a breadbox. Crackhead! Gee, I'd like to get that latest booklet mentioned in his bio that cost 2 million, I just can't afford it right now. .Could you tell me where I could possibly get a used copy for under say 75,000?
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Gregory Kohs 02/28/2008 1:53:00 AM
Great article. Interesting how the Wikipedia "creed" is to have fair, neutral, objective articles about people like Andrew Thomas. Here's a fun experiment, though -- try writing an article about Carolyn Doran in Wikipedia. She was written about multiple times by the Washington Post, and an extensive story about her has appeared in the Tampa Tribune, the Associated Press, and in the UK in The Register. Watch what happens when you try to create a fair, neutral, objective article about her!
