Andy Thomas

Bill Montgomery and the Latino Community: Time for a Divorce

Imagine my surprise, when checking the website of the venerable Valley organization Chicanos por la Causa, to see a photo of a beaming Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery on a page advertising the group's 44th anniversary dinner, coming up on April 4. See also: -County Attorney Bill Montgomery ... More >>

Bill Montgomery Skewered in Puente March, SANE Defends Monty

Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery took it on the chin today, as about 120 demonstrators protesting Monty's discriminatory policies toward undocumented workers marched more than 3.5 miles from Steele Indian School Park to Montgomery's offices in the county administration building in downtown P ... More >>

S.A.N.E. Immigration Initiative Undercut by Bill Montgomery's Nativist Panderings

Tom Horne's Snakepit, Bill Montgomery's Dirty Money, and the Problem with Carmen Chenal

The media's been hot for Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne's head over allegations that during the 2010 campaign he was improperly involved in supporter-turned-staffer Kathleen Winn's independent expenditure committee Business Leaders for Arizona. See also: -Tom Horne's Alleged Hit-and-Run at an ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Secretly Recorded '09 Staff Meeting -- Hear It Here

The public first saw a transcript of a secret recording made of one of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's staff meetings after New Times published it online.Last week, we noticed that Channel 5 News (KPHO-TV) had obtained the actual audio recording and aired pieces of it in a broadcast. That spurr ... More >>

Mary Rose Wilcox, Barbara Mundell and Susan Schuerman Settlements Will Save Maricopa County Millions, County Says

Pending settlements to Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox, retired Judge Barbara Mundell and county employee Susan Schuerman will reportedly save the county millions.The county says that, the settlements to Mundell and Schuerman (Supervisor Don Stapley's executive assistant) are now final, ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, September 15th, 2011

The Feds Have Evidence That Joe Arpaio Broke the Law -- When Will The Indictments Come?

Dec. 13 In Blogs: Zack de la Rocha, Tron, Miley Cyrus, Eggnog, and medical marijuana

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

Bill Montgomery Leads Herd of Prosecutors to Orpheum--Promises Good Things Ahead

Quite a sight yesterday afternoon in downtown Phoenix.   ​The entire workforce of the Maricopa County Attorney's Office--it numbers in the hundreds--took to the streets (Jefferson, to be exact) as one, and trooped north a block or two to the Orpheum Theatre for a big meeting, It w ... More >>

That Andy Thomas Won't Win Election Today is Reason to Rejoice

It's depressing out there, no doubt. ​ President Barack Obama's "honeymoon" never happened, partly his fault, partly not. The collective memory of the "American public" is about as long as that of a rather slow 2-year-old. Joe F-ing Arpaio, a paragon of everything that can be bad about l ... More >>

Is PR Stuntman Jason Rose "Wilting"? The Arizona Guardian's Winged One Gives Him a Feather-Lashing

Is Jason Rose still a political heavyweight?​Jason Rose has never been one to mince words or hold back on a stunt if he thinks it would win him political points. And points for his clients, of course. Rose has worked hard to earn a reputation as a straight-talking, political-bomb-lobbing pub ... More >>

Morning Poll: Does Andrew Thomas Kinda Look Like a Grown-up Version of Super-Bully Scut Farkus?

www.imdb.comSuper-bully Scut Farkus​Since Andrew Thomas quit his gig as Maricopa County attorney to run for attorney general, his sinister smirk hasn't been plastered all over the New Times Web site nearly as often as when he was launching baseless investigations into judges and his -- and Joe Arp ... More >>

Andy Thomas and Joe Arpaio and David Hendershott and Lisa Aubuchon--Dangerous Liaisons

What happened when a shamelessly ambitious zealot (Andrew Peyton Thomas, a timelessly paranoid publicity-seeker (Joe Arpaio), a meglomaniac with a heart of coal (David Hendershott), and a person whose interpretation of the rule of law differs from ours (Lisa Aubuchon) conspire to violate their oaths ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, August 5, 2010

Joe Arpaio To Live Stream the Bull Every Wednesday at 1:30 P.M.

I'm gonna be famous, ma. I'm gonna be on da Internets...The MCSO's highly-paid PR apparatchiks have just sent out an announcement on the one guy who seems to get more publicity than neo-Nazi J.T. Ready these days.I'm talking, of course, about our own geriatric, Mr. Magoo-esque gendarme, Sh ... More >>

Andrew Thomas Pledges Cooperation to Rick Romley, Who Believes Thomas Brought "McCarthyism" to Valley

Joe McCarthy (above) and Andrew Thomas have a lot in common, according to Rick Romley.​ Outgoing Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas wants us to believe he's just fine with the decision to replace him with Rick Romley. A statement by Thomas, released through his über-flack, Jason Ro ... More >>

Lisa "Let's Charge the Max `Til We Get the Facts" Aubuchon May Find New Life With Sheriff Joe

We reported yesterday about the inappropriate, unforgivable, thoughtless -- and utterly delicious -- heckling by two county workers of Lisa Aubuchon, a special assistant to departing County Attorney Andy Thomas. ​ The pair wondered aloud about Aubuchon's job prospects at the County Attorney ... More >>

Andrew Thomas Bar Complaints to Be Handled by Colorado Official

Image: Colorado Bar Association Colorado legal official John Gleason will examine allegations of misconduct against Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas.​ To guard against possible conflicts of interest, the Arizona Supreme Court has handed off bar complaints against Maricopa County ... More >>

Don Stapley's New Criminal Defense Attorney Used to Do What Andy Thomas Never Did -- Prosecute Major Crimes

Supervisor Don Stapley, one of two Maricopa County supes under criminal indictment, has hired a new defense attorney to defend him against the latest set of charges he faces from County Attorney Andrew Thomas. ​His name is Kurt Altman (pictured), and he earned his stripe ... More >>

Arpaio Detention Officer Adam "Sticky Fingers" Stoddard Out of Clink Pending Appeal, but His Days as, um, "Political Prisoner" May Be Over

James King Adam Stoddard (front) and his attorney Tom Liddy.​ Adam Stoddard, the sticky-fingered detention officer jailed for defying a court order demanding he apologize to a defense attorney for taking her legal papers, has been released from jail.At a press conference this afternoon ... More >>

County Attorney Thomas and Crew File "Special Action" in Arpaio Detention Officer Flap

We've just gotten word that the Maricopa County Attorney's Office has filed a "special action" with the Arizona Court of Appeals in legal protest of Judge Gary Donahoe's recent jailing of county Detention Officer Adam Stoddard. ​We haven't yet seen the pleading, filed on behalf of Stodd ... More >>

Seven Hells Angels Busted in Felony Assault Roundup Could Be Charged as Gang Members Thanks to Recent Court Ruling

​Department of Public Safety officers, in collaboration with several other law enforcement agencies, carried out one of the final stages of "Operation Quiet Riot" last night, arresting seven members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club for a series of violent assaults in Northern Arizona ... More >>

Phoenix New Times Seeks Critic for Weekly Reviews of the Meth Scene

Montana Meth ProjectDon't worry, she's not a meth addict, she just plays one in Andy Thomas' ad campaign -- we want the real deal.​Phoenix New Times is asking local meth-heads to put those euphoric buzzes or even shattered dreams to use by applying to write a new weekly column called, "You Do the ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, October 22, 2009

Thomas: Crackdown on Illegals is Reducing Crime

County Attorney Andrew Thomas​Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas is crediting a recent reduction in the county's crime statistics to a crackdown on illegal immigrants.Of course! Because U.S. citizens never break the law.According to Thomas, the percentage of illegal immigrants sentenced for fe ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, May 21, 2009

April 6 In Blogs: Don Stapley, Al Sharpton, Tempe Music Festival and More

We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Valley Fever: Don Stapley Case Bombshell: Andrew Thomas Refers Prosecution to Yavapai ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, April 2, 2009

Can Maricopa County’s Juvenile-Justice System Fix Troubled Teens? Rarely, One Judge Laments

Did Joe Arpaio "Threaten" Joe Arpaio by Publishing His Home Address on the Internet?

Remember the hubbub in 2007 when Sheriff Joe Arpaio's bad boys tossed our owners, Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, into jail for having written about the agency's Banana Republic-like "investigation" into us for publishing the old guy's home address on the Internet? Now, seems Joe's th ... More >>

Sonoran Alliance Anonymous Blogger Criticizes, Praises New Times Coverage of Don Stapley

In looking at Sonoran Alliance blog post about Andrew Thomas running for state attorney general, we couldn't help but notice another post by our mostly anonymous friends -- this one about New Times.  It seems that "Pat," whoever that is, believes that New Times contradicts itself about i ... More >>

Andrew Thomas and Crew Likely Authors of Anonymous Blogs, Report States

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, October 9, 2008

In Your Own Words:

A liberal bastard defends the crypto-racist, conservative wing-nuts at KTAR-FM.

Letters from the issue of Thursday, March 20, 2008

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, December 27, 2007

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, December 13, 2007

Jokes you won't hear at the Joe Arpaio roast...

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, November 15, 2007

UPDATE: NEW TIMES FOUNDERS MIKE LACEY AND JIM LARKIN RELEASED FROM SHERIFF'S CUSTODY, VOW TO FIGHT ON.

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, October 4, 2007

Candy Thomas

Judge Thomas O'Toole made tough-talkin' Andy Thomas a loser, but sounds like he's a big chicken, too?

Bluntabulosity

Hollywood Alley's thicker than super-chunky Skippy as the Crown City Rockers help celebrate Blunt Club's birthday

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, May 18, 2006

Tag, You're It

The feathered fiend bombs County Attorney Andy Thomas for throwing the book at teen taggers

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, April 6, 2006

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, March 23, 2006

Letters

Letters from the issue of Thursday, May 19, 2005