Dennis Gilman

Randy Parraz Lawsuit Vs. Maricopa County Over '08 Arrest Can Proceed, Judge Rules

A lawsuit filed by activist Randy Parraz against Maricopa County following his 2008 arrest outside the Board of Supervisors Auditorium can move ahead, a federal judge ruled yesterday. Parraz was arrested on September 29, 2008, after he and members of his group, Maricopa Citizens for Safety and Acco ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Lies, Insults His Deputies, Promises School-Posses with "Automatic and Semi-Automatic" Weapons

Arpaio, howlin' at the moon in his appearance on the Thom Hartmann radio show: The fun begins about 16:18 in Hat tip to Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman for letting me know about Sheriff Joe Arpaio's appearance Thursday on the uber-lefty Thom Hartmann show, where he howled at the moon, boasted ab ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Slimy Bro Lester Pearce Censured and Fined by Commission on Judicial Conduct

Irish wolfhound Tom Ryan lets the Pearces have it, and Judge Pearce nearly scraps with Dennis Gilman (@ 3:32) in this classic video from 2011 Add another scalp to the lodge wall. Recalled, disgraced former state Senate President Russell Pearce's brother, ex-supervisor's candidate and one-time Justi ... More >>

Paul Penzone (Video), Rich Carmona Still in Play, and the Problem with Provisionals

Dennis Gilman and I talk to Penzone following his concession Above is a video from election night of Democrat Paul Penzone, shortly after he conceded in the sheriff's race to Joe Arpaio. Needless to say, Penzone looks like he's been through the proverbial ringer. I know there are those who disagre ... More >>

Russell Pearce in the Bunker, Part Deux

Thanks to Dennis Gilman for posting this piece of comedy genius... You loved him last time, frothing at the mouth about leftist pigs, throwing pencils at his subordinates, pleading for someone to phone his good buddy J.T. Ready for him. And you'll love him again, ranting in the bunker, as a fundra ... More >>

Russell Pearce on Blast for Racist E-mails in New Dennis Gilman Video

Gilman skewers Pearce and brings back an old Pearce bud from the dead From beyond the grave, J.T. Ready haunts recalled, disgraced state Senator Russell Pearce in this new video by Dennis Gilman on the controversy surrounding Pearce's racist e-mails, unearthed and made public by the ACLU. Some of ... More >>

Russell Pearce Freaks Out in the Bunker in Downfall Spoof

Think Pearce will laugh? Yeah, probably notMy good friend Dennis Gilman was kind enough to upload this delicious new parody for me of the much-spoofed "raving fuhrer" scene from the 2004 German film Downfall, starring Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler.Long have I dreamed of having one of these Downfall spo ... More >>

Joe Arpaio on Blast by Tom Perez, Courtesy of Dennis Gilman

Tom Perez blasts Sheriff Joe in Phoenix yesterday Hey, did you hear that the U.S. Department of Justice is suing Sheriff Joe Arpaio?Well, in case you were hibernating beneath a saguaro yesterday, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Tom Perez was in town to blast everyone's least-favorite sheriff for his ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Foe Mike Stauffer: Video Interview by Dennis Gilman and a Certain Reporter You Know and Love

Mike Stauffer, looking to retire Arpaio this fallRecently, Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman and I interviewed the two men who want to put Sheriff Joe Arpaio out to pasture come November: Democratic candidate and former Phoenix Police Department Sergeant Paul Penzone, and Scottsdale Police Departme ... More >>

Paul Babeu Supports Gay Marriage and Gays in the Military

Dennis Gilman's raw footage of Babeu's Saturday presserIn addition to Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu's admission to being a gay man during a Saturday press conference, wherein he denied allegations published in my colleague Monica Alonzo's expose concerning deportation threats against his ex-lover, ... More >>

Russell Pearce Nabs First Vice Chair, Ron Paul Dominates Straw Poll at State GOP Meeting

Ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce began slithering back into relevancy this Saturday during the Arizona GOP's winter meeting, held at Phoenix's Church for the Nations, where he was elected to the party's First Vice Chair position.Despite an embarrassing 12-point loss to fellow Republican Jerr ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Joe Arpaio's Victim Marty Atencio in MCSO's "Safe Cell": Mike Manning Comments

Video of Atencio being stripped and left naked in a cell, taken from MCSO footage by Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman. Note: Gilman obscured parts of Atencio's body to maintain the dignity of the victim. As with the first video, there is no sound.Above is more disturbing raw footage culled from th ... More >>

Russell Pearce-Foe Jerry Lewis Swings and Connects During Thursday's Debate

Eye of the tiger, indeed...State Senate hopeful Jerry Lewis, the man seeking to topple the most powerful politician in Arizona, landed several verbal blows both during and after his debate in Mesa Thursday with state Senate President Russell Pearce, as you can see in this latest video from my collea ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Relatives and Olivia Cortes Get a Visit from Channel 12's Brahm Resnik

Bravo to Channel 12's Brahm Resnik for tonight's news segment where he pays a visit to the modest residence of Legislative District 18 recall candidate Olivia Cortes, and stops by the homes of some of state Senate President Russell Pearce's relatives to ask them why they circulated petitions for Co ... More >>

Russell Pearce/Olivia Cortes Probe Requested by Ex-LD 18 Candidate

Dennis GilmanWhat did Pearce know about Olivia Cortes' candidacy? And will the Secretary of State's Office heed calls for an investigation?Below is a letter e-mailed today from Democratic precinct committeeman Robert McDonald to Arizona Elections Director Amy Bjelland requesting an investigation int ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Olivia Cortes Fiasco: Video

My compatriot Dennis Gilman put together the video above of our forays in search of the elusive Olivia Cortes, wannabe contender in the upcoming November 8 recall of state Senate President Russell Pearce in Legislative District 18.Cortes's nomination signatures were submitted to the Arizona Secretar ... More >>

Ethnic Studies Smear: Wingnuts Slime Corky Gonzales, Civil Rights Hero

A nativist nutcase sticks Corky Gonzales quotes into the cheap blender of her brain and makes mush of it allIt's always amazing to me the way ignorance spreads like a vicious rash through the Internet. One idiot spouts some bull that the confirms the prejudices of the far right, it makes it onto You ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Laughs as a Little Girl Cries

You remember Sheriff Joe Arpaio, our bete noir before Russell Pearce ascended to the state Senate presidency?Well, Sand Land's smarmy, strutting, pseudo-lawman takes top bill along with little Katherine Figueroa in a recently-released teaser for the documentary Two Americans, which is currently ... More >>

Russell Pearce Fundraiser To Be Protested Friday

Pearce builds his own trough and goes hog-wild FridayAnti-Russell Pearce activists are set to protest both a Friday, January 7 fundraiser for the state Senate President-elect, and the opening day of business for the Arizona Legislature on Monday, January 10, when Pearce will take his seat as the Dar ... More >>

Russell Pearce Versus J.T. Ready in Dennis Gilman's New Video

Pearce vs. Ready: The Dennis Gilman videoWho's more credible: Arizona's best-known neo-Nazi J.T. Ready, or state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce? Watch Dennis Gilman's latest, and you be the judge. In it is some never-before-seen footage of Pearce endorsing Ready for Ready's 2006 Mesa city cou ... More >>

ICE Punks Out To DREAM Act Students

In the light of day, while they're being watched, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents ain't so tough.The above video with footage by Bill Pierce and editing by Dennis Gilman documents a November 19 demonstration outside the Phoenix offices of ICE by undocumented Arizona DREAM Act student ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Young Nemesis Andrew Sherwood: The Dark Horse I Like

Sherwood gets the Dennis Gilman treatment in this YouTube video Andrew Sherwood may not slay the anti-immigrant goliath, neo-Nazi-huggin' state Senator Russell Pearce, but he's got the right idea on how to take on the beast. And that is, talk about everything Pearce's not doing, and all the stuff h ... More >>

Jan Brewer Wrong Again: FBI Stats Show Violent Crime Down in Arizona 14 Percent

courtesy of Dennis Gilman The FBI gives the lie to Jan Brewer's noxious rhetoric It's been proven over and over again: Governor Jan Brewer's hysteria and the hysteria of her nativist allies over alleged illegal-alien-perpetrated crime in Arizona is founded on anecdotal evidence, some of it gl ... More >>

Jan Brewer's U.N.-Bashing PR Stunt, and Its Sliver of Truth

courtesy of Dennis GilmanJan finds the State Department's mention of 1070 "downright offensive." Governor Jan Brewer's political operatives are by no means as dumb as their candidate. Evidence the PR stunt they let drop Friday, berating the U.S. State Department for daring to mention Arizona's brea ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Worst Nightmare: Salvador Reza Triumphant

Sheriff Joe's bully boys in beige targeted him for a political arrest on Friday, July 30, but now Phoenix civil rights leader Salvador Reza is sitting pretty, with even Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley agreeing that there was no probable cause for his arrest by the MCSO. Reza has Arpaio on ... More >>

J.T. Ready's Neo-Nazi Patrol for Migrants in the Vekol Valley, and Its Discovery of a Dead Body

JT Ready at the press conference before "securing" the slaughterhouseFor the "reporters" at ABC 15: Ready in neo-Nazi garbIt's not every day that a well-known neo-Nazi offers to take you to a place called "the slaughterhouse."But that's what Mesa neo-Nazi J.T. Ready did this Saturday, leading a grou ... More >>

Joe Arpaio/SB 1070: Witnesses for Thursday's Congressional Hearing by Rep. Raul Grijalva

Catherine Figueroa, one of Arpaio's many victims, is slated to testify at a Congressional hearing ThursdayArizona Congressman Raul Grijalva's office has released a schedule of witnesses for the hearing he's holding Thursday afternoon in D.C., and it includes several Phoenix residents, some of whom h ... More >>

Tucson Border Patrol HQ Protested by Activists, Half-Dozen Cited by Tucson PD

from FiresNeverExtinguishedProtesters occupied Border Patrol HQ in Tucson Friday...At least six activists were cited Friday after occupying Tucson's Border Patrol headquarters at Davis-Monthan AirForce Base in an act of civil disobedience similar to that which occurred on April 20 at the Arizona sta ... More >>

Russell Pearce's SB1070: Welfare for Anti-Immigration Lawyers, Says Attorney David Selden

Attorney David Selden on Russell Pearce's SB 1070As I previously blogged, state Senator Russell Pearce's police state bill SB 1070 is going to the floor of the House today for COW and a possible third read. Pearce's arguments for it are filled with half-truths and racist shibboleths, as he demonstra ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Indictment Called for by Mary Rose Wilcox in New Video, and Puente's Protest of Eric Holder

Video of Mary Rose Wilcox in D.C. by videographer Dennis GilmanTelling the crowd at the big immigration rally on Sunday in Washington, D.C. that Sheriff Joe runs Maricopa County like a "police state," county Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox urged listeners to call the U.S. Department of Justice and tell ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, March 18, 2010

No Thanks, Joe Arpaio: St. Mary's Food Bank Suspends Use of MCSO Deputies

photo of a ski-masked deputy from a January 2009 sweep courtesy of Dennis GilmanYeah, Joe, why would the community be intimidated by MCSO deputies at a local food bank? Can't figure.Due to the efforts of local activists lead by Phoenix litigation support investigator Jameson Johnson, St. Mary's Food ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Skewered in Opening of Arizona Latino Arts and Cultural Center

Crucifixion by Ramon DelgadilloI've often fantasized about an anti-Joe Arpaio art show utilizing the talents of the Phoenix art community, a show that would address the ongoing repression and tyranny here in Marikafka County (as some call it) in specific, and our beloved state of Ari-bama, in genera ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Foes Score: Acquitted Activists Win Legal Fees from County Attorney

photo by Dennis GilmanShe shoots, she scores! ACORN's Monica Sandschafer and her activist pals have won in court againCall it the cost of clapping. Five anti-Arpaio activists were awarded legal fees Monday by Justice of the Peace C. Steven McMurry in a case that involved four of them being arrested ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, October 8, 2009

United for a Sovereign America's Racist Anti-Obama Images, and Its Plan to Terrorize Kids at Today's Children's March

from immigrationbuzz.com The full anti-Obama poster on U.S.A.'s Web site​ from immigrationbuzz.com The latest evidence of U.S.A.'s blatant racism...​The KKK-wannabes over at ex-KIA dealer Rusty Childress' United for a Sovereign America have really outdone themselves this time. Not ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Whines About Three Illegals Released on Orders of ICE (Or Were They?)

courtesy of Dennis Gilman Why does this man still have federal power? Ask Janet Napolitano...Is ICE finally yanking on Sheriff Joe Arpaio's leash? And is it too gentle of a tug to stop the sweeps? Check out the press release below sent out by Arpaio announcing a 4 p.m. press conference today s ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Confronted by Channel 5 Over Video of Crying Child Robbed of Her Parents by MCSO

Katherine Figueroa weeps, and all Joe can think about is himself KPHO Channel 5 has picked up on the story of Katherine Figueroa, the nine year-old girl robbed of her parents by the MCSO during its raid on Phoenix's Lindstrom Family Auto Wash last Saturday. Her tearful testimony pleading ... More >>

Joe Arpaio, Andy Thomas Lose Again: Arizona ACORN Protesters Beat the Rap on Bogus MCSO Trespassing Charges

photo by Dennis Gilman Arizona ACORN Head Organizer Monica Sandschafer, ecstatic after Friday's win To cop a line from Scarface's Tony Montana, every canine has its day. Every kitty cat, too. I've been busier than blue tick hound with a briar patch full of brer rabbits, so I didn't get to blo ... More >>

Huffington Post, Amy Goodman Cover Joe Arpaio's Misdeeds; and Don't Forget, Desert Politics is Back on 1190 AM Tomorrow

photo by Adolfo Maldonado and Dennis Gilman.The classic Arpaio snarl, patented in 25 countries, including the Emirate of Kuwait ...Both the Huffington Post's Dawn Teo and Amy Goodman of Democracy Now have produced long pieces in the past week covering Joe Arpaio's recent outrages against those with ... More >>

“Baby Man” William Windsor Found Dead in Home

The Bird Dogs Joe Arpaio About Conan O’Brien and His Actions in the West Valley

Masked MCSO Deputy Takes Away Children's Mother During West Valley Sweep (w/2 UPDATES)

(NOTE: Please see below for update and mugshot of the mother.)This disturbing video was taken last night by Phoenix civil rights activist Sal Reza during Sheriff Joe Arpaio's latest anti-immigrant sweep in the West Valley, which is ongoing as I type. Reza witnessed two MCSO deputies, at least one of ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, November 27, 2008

The Video of Joe Arpaio Running From Questions About Debating Dan Saban Isn't a Campaign Ad

Russell Pearce applauds already outed neo-Nazi, and a new Dennis Gilman video.

Anna Gaines, leader of recall drive against Mayor Gordon, arrested at Sheriff Joe book signing, and more...

The Bird on Mayor Phil and why the Fonz can't tell the world, "Fuck the police"

Letters from the issue of Thursday, March 27, 2008