Clint Bolick

Goldwater Institute Feeds from Tax-Exempt Trough While Decrying Cost of Medicaid Expansion

When the Goldwater Institute isn't "lending" $1.9 million to some fatcat on its board or suing the state government over a fish-foot-sucking cosmetic practice, it's arguing against the evils of expanding Arizona's Medicaid program so as to cover hundreds of thousands of poor people and pump billions ... More >>

Resolution Guide: Manifesto -- Local Creatives and Their Words of Wisdom

Jay Bennett's Phoenix Music Manifesto

In early 2012, Jackalope Ranch began inviting creative types around town to write a manifesto -- a personal list of 10 hard-and-fast rules of life or pieces of advice. Each manifesto was paired with a local designer who illustrated one lesson/rule in poster form. We loved the Manifesto series so m ... More >>

Judicial Watch vs. Goldwater Institute: Conservative Think Tanks Clash Over Taxpayer-Funded Police Union Work

A legal battle over whether Phoenix police union leaders should be able to perform union-related duties while collecting their taxpayer-funded salaries has pitted two uber-conservative groups -- Goldwater Institute and Judicial Watch -- against each other. At the crux of the debate is Goldwater's ... More >>

Rachel Alexander Sues Maricopa County for $67,000 -- the Cost of Legal Fees for Her Appeal of Law-License Suspension; Wilcox Wins $975,000 Settlement

Rachel Alexander, acolyte of former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, is suing Maricopa County for $67,000 to cover the legal fees of the appeal of her law-license suspension.Alexander, along with Thomas and former deputy county attorney Lisa Aubuchon, was disciplined for their bad ethics in a ... More >>

Foot-Feasting Fish Case to Be Heard by Court of Appeals

www.barfblog.com Dinner is served. ​Goldwater Institute wants nothing more than to protect your right to have hundreds of small fish suck dead skin off of your feet. Later this week, the Arizona Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear a lawsuit filed by Goldwater on behalf of a Gilbert spa ow ... More >>

Tea Party T-Shirt: Can What You Wear Determine Whether You Can Go to the Polls?

U.S. Supreme Court Clean Elections "Matching Funds" Block: What It Means for Arizona

Attorney Nick Dranias' efforts will change the 2010 election cycle.​As attorneys at the Goldwater Institute stressed in a conference call with reporters this morning, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to block matching funds -- effectively stopping their dispersal for the 2010 election cycle ... More >>

Flagstaff Tea Party Member Told to Cover Up Her Shirt by Poll Workers

Clint Bolick says a Flagstaff woman's First Amendment rights were violated when she was told not to wear a Tea Party T-shirt to the polls.​A Flagstaff woman was told she would not be allowed to vote if she wears her Tea Party shirt to the polls.And when Diane Wickberg called the Coconino Cou ... More >>

Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has No Conflict in County Attorney Replacement Pick, Supes Say

Good to go: County Supervisors decide they have no conflict in deciding who will replace former County Attorney Andrew Thomas.​ We thought it was possible the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors had a conflict of interest in picking a new county attorney, with two of the five having be ... More >>

Joe Arpaio and Andrew Thomas Subjects of Long Story Today in American Bar Journal

Just read a pretty detailed piece in the American Bar Journal about the crazy goings-on in our county -- you know, the Joe Arpaio/Andy Thomas vs. Everyone Else show.   ​It's called "The Maricopa Courthouse War -- An Arizona Showdown Over Populist Politics, Abuse of Power, and P ... More >>

Chicago Cubs Deal With Mesa Could be Soured by Possible Goldwater Institute Lawsuit

www.podbean.com​Just when we thought the whole Chicago Cubs spring training situation was sorted out, the Goldwater Institute has reared its ugly head to rain on the city of Mesa's parade.While the agreement between Mesa and the Cubbies to keep the lovable losers' spring training facilities in Mes ... More >>

Reason Magazine Assails Andrew Thomas as "Sheriff Joe's Enabler"

​Reason, the influential libertarian magazine devoted to "free minds and free markets," has published a piece criticizing Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas as "Sheriff Joe's Enabler."The piece was published online yesterday.In it, senior editor Radley Balko explains that "[f]or all of Arpaio' ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Slammed by Goldwater Institute Over Stoddard Mess

from the Goldwater InstituteG.I.'s Bolick, sticking it to the man, and the man, he be Sheriff JoeThe Goldwater Institute can be reactionary on various issues, particularly when it comes to denouncing President Obama on health care reform, siding with the tea bag types or rah-rahing charter schools. ... More >>

Goldwater Institute Sues Cosmetology Board Over Fish That Give Pedicures

www.barfblog.com​The state Board of Cosmetology threatened in April to pull the license of a Gilbert spa because of a treatment the owners were calling "doctor fish.""Doctor fish" is a pedicure treatment where people dip their feet in tanks of water that have hundreds of live imported G ... More >>

Sept. 8 In Blogs: Clint Bolick, The Mars Volta, Z'Tejas, and Valley Monkey

​​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: Feathered Bastard: The Goldwater Institute's Clint Bolick Jumps on the Anti-Intellectual Bash-Obama Bandwagon ... More >>

MCSO Arrest Rate Is "Startlingly Low," Says Goldwater Institute

Clint BolickThe Maricopa County Sheriff's Office arrested suspects in less than five percent of its cases in 2007, the Goldwater Institute says -- a shockingly low statistic that contradicts what the Sheriff's Office has long officially maintained.The statistics, which the Goldwater Institute ... More >>

Supreme Court to Hear Phoenix Appeal in CityNorth Case

Sarah FenskeThe $97 million CityNorth tax giveaway supposedly paid for this parking garage.This just in: The Arizona Supreme Court will revisit the appellate decision that struck down the city of Phoenix's $97 million subsidy of the CityNorth development.Today's decision to grant review is a victory ... More >>

How the MCSO Neglected a 14-Year-Old Rape Victim — and Went to Town on Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon

Politicians Burn Taxpayer Cash on "Shameless Self Promotion," Says Goldwater Institute

www.goldwaterinstitute.orgPoliticians waste millions of your tax dollars pumping up their own names for illegitimate purposes, says a new report by the Goldwater Institute.The author of "Shameless Self-Promotion, How Politicians Use Your Money to Get Re-Elected," is Shawnna Bolick, wife of the Gold ... More >>

Sheriff Arpaio's Deputy Chief Twists His Own Words in Public Letter on Warrants

Paul Chagolla, a deputy chief for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, claims in an open letter published in the Arizona Republic that his office does enough work serving felony warrants, and that critics on the subject are advocates of illegal immigration. It's difficult for us to believe nearl ... More >>

State Senate to Hold Hearing on Issue of Felony Warrants

  Whether Sheriff Joe Arpaio is using his resources correctly when it comes to serving felony warrants will be among issues discussed at a legislative hearing on Monday. The State Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hear testimony starting at 1:30 p.m. on the sub ... More >>

Goldwater Institute "Not Ruling Out" Legal Action Against Phoenix Coyotes and Glendale

Jobing.com Arena, where the Phoenix Coyotes play. The Goldwater Institute has submitted a public records request to the City of Glendale, asking for information on lease negotiations between it and the Phoenix Coyotes. Goldwater attorney Clint Bolick told the Phoenix Business Journal tha ... More >>

Goldwater Institute Calls Out Sheriff Joe: MCSO "Has Lost Sight Of Its Most Essential Priorities"

  The Goldwater Institute has released a harsh critique of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office -- concluding that the office "falls seriously short in all three of the core components of its mission" and calling for policy reform. Among other things, the Phoenix- ... More >>

The Goldwater Institute takes aim at Sheriff Joe Arpaio; MCSO flack Paul Chagolla spars with KPNX.

New Times files a prelude to a lawsuit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, County Attorney Andy Thomas and a discredited ex-special prosecutor on behalf of its readers and the Constitution

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, December 13, 2007

Who's Sorry Now?

Andy Thomas eats crow to save his political career, but wants us to apologize to Sheriff Joe. Fat chance

Revolting Development

The CityNorth project hosed Phoenix taxpayers, but don't look to city leaders for an apology

Move Over, Ann Coulter

Meet the woman behind ASU's Caucasian American Men's Club

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Judging Stanley

Justice Stanley Feldman has ruled the Arizona legal scene for years. But now he's gone. And Governor Janet Napolitano has some important decisions to make.

Letters

From the week of March 21, 2002

The Merry Revolutionary

Clint Bolick is trying to change the world, one lawsuit at at time.