Email Author Stephen Lemons

Awards

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published November 3, 2011

  "Sourpuss"

• 2012 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published May 12, 2011

  "White Lies"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2011 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

• 2010 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc.

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2009 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists

  Feathered Bastard

• 2006 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published April 7, 2005

  "Behind the Green Door"

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2011 Stories by Stephen Lemons

• Russell Pearce and the Fake Jerry Lewis Twitter Account

  published Aug 09, 2011

  The product of some right-wing wag or the latest example of dirty pool from the camp of state Senator Russell Pearcer I'll opt for a little of both, as the phony Twitter account under the name of Legi... More >>

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  Russell Pearce Legal Challenge Argued Before Judge Hugh Hegyi

  published Aug 08, 2011

  State Senate President Russell Pearce was a no-show today to the hearing that could, hypothetically, save his hide in the upcoming November 8 recall election in Legislative District 18. Ditto the... More >>

• Russell Pearce's Tea Party Pal Franklin Bruce Ross, Plaintiff in the Recall Lawsuit

  published Aug 07, 2011

  Monday morning, oral arguments are scheduled to begin in the legal challenge to the recall of state Senate President Russell Pearce. Lawyers representing the Arizona Secretary of State, Maricopa ... More >>

• Russell Pearce's Mystery "Challenger" Olivia Cortes Speaks, Kinda-Sorta

  published Aug 04, 2011

  Who is Olivia Cortes, and why has she filed to run in the November 8 recall race against state Senate President Russell Pearce in Legislative District 18rOver the weekend, I paid Cortes' modest condom... More >>

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  Russell Pearce Fundraiser Uses New Times Photo, Sans J.T. Ready

  published Aug 03, 2011

  Shucks, seems I'm doing my bit to help state Senate President Russell Pearce beat back the recall, too. Albeit, inadvertently.See, the anti-recall committee "Patriots for Pearce," chaired by Jess... More >>

• Russell Pearce's Recall Downfall May Come in the Form of Jerry Lewis, One of LD18's Good Guys

  published August 4, 2011

  They came out in droves in the triple-digit heat to help the man who would topple the most powerful politician in Arizona. Republican... More >>

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  Russell Pearce's Favorite Scribe Linda Bentley Repeats Smear of Mesa Woman

  published Aug 01, 2011

  I'm getting pretty annoyed at having to berate Sonoran News' nutjob newshound Linda Bentley over her myriad stupidities, but I can't let this one go.As I noted in a recent column, neither Bentley, her... More >>

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  Tom Horne and His Office's Possible Conflict in Redistricting Probe

  published Jul 28, 2011

  In this week's column, I addressed the claims of Arizona Tea Party members, and some Republicans, concerning the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission. One of these claims is that the AIRC... More >>

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  Russell Pearce Challenger Jerry Lewis Formally Announces Candidacy in LD 18 Recall Race

  published Jul 27, 2011

  As Eddie Albert liked to say in The Longest Yard (the original, not the Adam Sandler remake), "His-to-ry."That's what Arizona witnessed this morning in Mesa in the garden room of the Victorian-style ... More >>

• Arizona's Redistricting Commission Should Regard the Tea Party as Disruptive Loons

  published July 28, 2011

  More than anything, the Tea Party movement in Arizona reminds me of the assorted wackjobs who believed that the 9/11 attacks on America were an... More >>

• Russell Pearce Recall Committee Formed by "Outside Interests"

  published Jul 25, 2011

  Ah, sweet irony.State Senate President Russell Pearce's supporters love to prevaricate about Citizens for a Better Arizona, the committee that's collected enough signatures in Legislative District 18 ... More >>

• Tea Party Calls for Redistricting Chair's Head: Republican and Democratic Commissioners Support Her (w/Addendum)

  published Jul 22, 2011

  Despite calls from Tea Party activists and some Republicans for the resignation of Colleen Mathis, chairwoman of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, both Republican commissioner Scott Fr... More >>

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  Tom Horne Announces Probe of Redistricting Commission as Wingnuts Plot To Axe It (w/Update)

  published Jul 21, 2011

  I'm more than a little concerned by Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne's announcement today of a "probe" into the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, which will be holding a public meeting t... More >>

• Russell Pearce's Desert Divas Connection and Chuck Coughlin's Threats

  published Jul 20, 2011

  I have to give a nod to the Arizona Republic's Mary Jo Pitzl for nabbing a little item I'd been sitting on regarding a fundraising e-mail to fellow lobbyists sent from Mike Williams of the Phoenix fir... More >>

• Russell Pearce's Lawyer Is Full of Bunk

  published July 21, 2011

  I understand that lawyers need to make a buck, and usually I wouldn't worry about one latching onto Republican state Senate President and... More >>

• Russell Pearce Files Lame Court Challenge to Recall Petitions (w/Update)

  published Jul 18, 2011

  State Senator Russell Pearce's lawyer Lisa Hauser filed one of the lamest legal challenges in this history of civil actions today. This, to the so-far successful recall effort against Pearce, which ha... More >>

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  Jan Brewer Shills for Russell Pearce, and More in the Pearce Recall

  published Jul 18, 2011

  Governor Jan Brewer is helping raise money for the man many have called the de facto governor of Arizona: state Senate President Russell Pearce.In an e-mail blast sent out today, Brewer asks recipien... More >>

• Russell Pearce Foe Andrew Sherwood Opts Out of LD18 Donnybrook

  published Jul 15, 2011

  Andrew Sherwood, the Mesa Democrat who unsuccessfully took on Republican state Senator Russell Pearce in 2010 (before Pearce was Senate president), just called to let me know that he will not be thro... More >>

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  Russell Pearce's Possible Challenger Jerry Lewis, and the Yelping of Pearce's Media Lap Dogs

  published Jul 15, 2011

  Channel 12's Brahm Resnik has outed a possible challenger to state Senate President Russell Pearce in the November 8 recall election in Legislative District 18: Jerry Lewis, and, no, not the cheesy d... More >>

• Governor Jan Brewer Issues Order for November 8 Russell Pearce Recall Election (w/UPDATE)

  published Jul 12, 2011

  I like Sinema, but she flubbed a couple of facts on OlbermannUPDATE, July 13 5:17PM: Sinema called me about her appearance on Olbermann. She explained that she didn't call Parraz ahead of time because... More >>

• Attorney General Horne Hired Carmen Chenal to a Highly Paid Top Post -- 'Cause She's His Goomba

  published July 14, 2011

  If you needed the services of a criminal attorney, would you hire a lawyer with no experience in criminal law, who had been suspended from the... More >>

• Russell Pearce Denied: AG's Office Says No Corporate Contributions for Pearce's Anti-Recall Committee

  published Jul 09, 2011

  More bad news for state Senate President Russell Pearce.One day before the historic announcement by the Arizona Secretary of State's Office that the Pearce recall will go before the voters of Legislat... More >>

• Russell Pearce Recall Election Headed for November Ballot

  published Jul 08, 2011

  I'm cooking up some barbecued black bird for all of my colleagues in the local press who pooh-poohed the recall of state Senate President Russell Pearce. First slice goes to lifelong hack Howie F... More >>

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  Joe Arpaio Loses Again: Maricopa County Settles for $200K in Mora Racial-Profiling Case

  published Jul 07, 2011

  As Sheriff Joe Arpaio plots to humiliate Arizona by deploying a chain gang of illegal immigrants to clean up around Chase Field, where the Major League Baseball All-Star Game is scheduled to take pla... More >>

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  SB 1070 Shooter Gary Kelley Sentenced to 27.5 Years in White-on-Brown Slaying

  published Jul 05, 2011

  A note to Sand Land's hillbilly gun-huggers: Beer and firearms don't mix. And they mix especially poorly with bigotry, latent or otherwise. Case in point is Gary Kelley, the South Phoenix man who... More >>