Subject: Eric Holder

• The Bird Marches with Zack de la Rocha and Laughs at the Latest Arpaio "Death Threat"

  March 5, 2009

• The Bird Defends a Hispanic Woman Whose Wing Was Clipped by the MCSO, and Knocks Guadalupe Mayor Frankie Montiel's Idea of Din-Din with Arpaio

  March 19, 2009

• Janet Napolitano Won't Be U.S. Attorney General; Obama Wants Lawyer Eric Holder for Job

  Republican Jan Brewer, now the secretary of state, would automatically become governor for the remainder of Napolitano's term -- until 2010 -- if Janet stepped down.

  November 18, 2008

• Hot Links: More on Janet Napolitano's Job Offer; New U.S. Attorney General "May" Scrutinize Arpaio; Meteor Blazes Over Canada

  People are settling into the idea that Janet Napolitano will leave the state to become the nation's Homeland Security boss -- it looks like a sure thing, as long as the FBI doesn't dig up anything too interesting about her during the intense vetting process. Local and regional media continue their ruminating on what it would mean to the state and to national border issues, and you'll find a smattering of recent offeringshere. In the same ballpark is a top story in the Arizona Republic today tha

  November 24, 2008

• Arpaio Vows Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Won't Stop His Immigrant Sweeps

  Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio told the Business Journal this afternoon that Barack Obama won't stop him from targeting illegal immigrants. Arpaio vowed to continue his sweeps and raids against illegal immigrants, despite expected pressure by Obama and his pick for U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder. And, he says, another sweep will be coming soon. Of course, it's easy to say this now, before the new president gets in office, and before Janet Napolitano -- who took budget mon

  December 18, 2008

• Rotting from the Head Down: Joe Arpaio's Barack Obama Dis and an MCSO Deputy's Wish for "the JFK Syndrome"

  Let's just hope the MCSO never has to help protect President-elect Obama. By now, many of you have already read about our corrupt top constable Sheriff Joe Arpaio's flipping the verbal bird to President-elect Barack Obama and his soon-to-be U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Concerning his ethnic profiling sweeps and raids, Arpaio told the Phoenix Business Journal that, "I'm not stopping," and if folks have complaints, they can, "take them to the FBI." That's straight from the gob

  December 18, 2008

• New York Times Editorial Blog Names Joe Arpaio, "America's Worst Sheriff"

  Mirror, mirror on the wall...who's the worst sheriff of them all? Snort.Though this will come as no shock to denizens of cactus country, The New York Times' editorial blog -- The Board -- today dubbed our corrupt top constable, "America's Worst Sheriff." Noting Joe Arpaio's recent foray in to trash TV with the new (and soon to be forgotten) Fox reality pilot, "Smile...You're Under Arrest!," our fellow scribblers at The Gray Lady went off on Maricopa County's Pennzoil-pated law man, bitch-slappin

  December 31, 2008

• Joe Arpaio Rubs Shoulders with Minuteman Chris Simcox, and Alleged Trespasser Anna Gaines

  Joe and the nativists, the love that never dies... You judge a man, sometimes, by the company he keeps. So what does it say of Sheriff Joe that he recently spoke at the Arizona American Italian Club to a group of notorious nativists, including minuteman honcho Chris Simcox, and alleged criminal trespasser Anna Gaines, better known to Phoenicians as "the anti-Hispanic Hispanic"? Gaines has a court date coming up this January 28 for an incident in July where she supposedly tried to solicit signat

  January 2, 2009

• Did Conan O'Brien Go Gay for Sheriff Joe Arpaio? Well, Not Exactly (Update: Video Link Added)

  Fortunately, things didn't get quite this bad. At least they kept their clothes on...UPDATE 1/9/09: If you missed it, and are a glutton for punishment, you can watch Arpaio's appearance on O'Brien's show, here. Arpaio's segment starts about 28:38 in, or if you hit the "Chapters" button below the video, you can click on Arpaio's mug (Chapter 4) to go directly to it. Last night on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Maricopa County's Sheriff Joe Arpaio looked worse than one of the petty criminals he su

  January 8, 2009

• Joe Arpaio Goes Medieval, While Barack Obama's America is a Million Miles Away

  Welcome to the 14th century... We live in two Americas: Joe Arpaio's medieval Maricopa County, where barbarism reigns, and our corrupt top cop parades hundreds of Hispanics through the streets in chains, like captives taken in some feudal conflict from faded memory. And then there's Barack Obama's America, one of enlightenment, and the rule of law, and education and justice. But for the time being at least, Obama's America ends at the borders of Maricopa County. Joe Arpaio is the King of M

  February 4, 2009

• Anti-Joe Arpaio Action Scheduled for This February 28 in Phoenix

  Time to get pissed by this clown, and to march... Looks like February will be going out like a lion, with a massive anti-Joe protest scheduled for the 28th demanding the termination of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's 287(g) agreement. Some 70 activist groups will march by the Arizona ICE office, the Wells Fargo Tower, where the MCSO has its executive offices, and the Phoenix Federal Building, according to local human rights activist Sal Reza. I'll be there to observe as a sympathetic party. But to t

  February 12, 2009

• Feb. 13 In Blogs: Porn Stars, Tom Morello, TeHaru 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: Mesa Teacher Accused of Molesting Junior High School Student Researcher Says Anti-Meth Ads Don't Work and Waste Taxpayer Funds Feathered Bastard: House Judiciary Committee Presses Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano to Investigate Sheriff Joe ArpaioPorn Star Stormy Daniels Tal

  February 13, 2009

• Janet Napolitano, Barack Obama's Token Nativist

  by Eduardo Barraza of Barriozona.comBarack Obama's token nativist, among other things...With every statement uttered from her perch as Homeland Security czar, in every action she takes each day her fanny remains in its cozy D.C. seat, ex-Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano reaffirms that she's Barack Obama's token nativist. Best to think of her as a chunky, skunk-haired version of the Child Catcher from the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. But Nappy's not just after kids, she's after undocumented Hi

  February 16, 2009

• Sheriff Joe Arpaio Targeted in Justice Department Probe, Finally...

  Dennis Gilman/Adolfo Maldonado Snarl all ya want, Joe, but the feds are comin' for ya...So much of the time, Joe Arpaio, with his speech punctuated with dese, dats, and dose, and his defiance of federal authority, sounds more like he's imitating Robert DeNiro's Al Capone in The Untouchables, than acting like a local sheriff. Now the feds are after Joe for real. If you haven't heard yet, feast your eyes on the letter from the Justice Department to Arpaio dated March 10, informin

  March 10, 2009

• Marinol Vs. Medical Marijuana: Millions Invested by Paradise Valley Man Trying to Create Stoner Oil

  The Arizona Republic took a sober look this morning at the issue of a marijuana-based drug and the Phoenix company trying to legally earn cartel-level salaries with it. The article covered the toils of wealthy entrepreneur John Kapoor, who has invested $40 million of his own stash in his company, Insys Therapeutics, to try to make generic Marinol.Left mostly unsaid, except for a couple of garbled quotes by Allen St. Pierre of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, is the qu

  March 26, 2009

• Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, March 12, 2009

  March 12, 2009

• The Bird Wants to Take a Blowtorch to 287(g) and Looks Forward to Saturday’s Anti-Arpaio March

  February 26, 2009

• Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, April 9, 2009

  April 9, 2009

• Roman Polanski Hires High-Powered Attorney Used by Former Congressman Rick Renzi

  The Renzi Family Former Congressman Rick Renzi and his stable of children.​ What does famed movie director and convicted pedophile Roman Polanski have in common with scandalous former Arizona Congressman Rick Renzi?No, Renzi's never been accused of having sex with a 13-year-old at Jack Nicholson's house. What the two have in common is that when they've faced intense legal heat, they've turned to the same attorney: Washington D.C.'s Reid Weingarten, whom Polanski added to

  October 1, 2009

• Diamondback Pitcher Clay Zavada Finalist for Mustache of the Year

  www.mustacheglory.com D-Backs reliever Clay Zavada and his notable handlebar mustache​If you think the mustache went out with the cheesy bass riffs in '70s porn, you may be wrong. Clay Zavada, the stache-clad relief pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks, has made it to the finals. No, we don't mean the baseball postseason (he's on the Diamondbacks, remember); Zavada has been named a finalist for the coveted Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year Award.

  October 6, 2009

• Joe Arpaio Can Stop You If "You Look Like You Just Came from Mexico," and KTAR Forgets Who Used to Be Guv

  God's gift to bloggers: Arpayaso! (FYI, payaso means "clown" in Spanish) Here's the latest walnut of wisdom from Maricopa County's tin-pot tyrant of a sheriff, courtesy of CBS 5/KPHO. It pretty much falls in line with many of the dumb as dirt statements Arpaio's made on Glenn Beck and elsewhere recently regarding how he will magically pinpoint illegal aliens during his anti-brown dragnets: "Certain criteria; no identification, look like you just came from Mexico, and they admit it, so that

  October 20, 2009

• Ex-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias on Joe Arpaio: "I Would Seek an Indictment" (w/Video)

  from CBS 5 KPHOFormer federal prosecutor David Iglesias said he would seek an indictment against Sheriff ArpaioCBS 5's nearly ten-minute segment on Sheriff Joe Arpaio's abuse of power last night did not disappoint. Essentially, reporter Morgan Loew and producer Gilbert Zermeno laid out all of the major cases of retaliation by the MCSO against the sheriff's political opponents: Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley, Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, ex-New Times staffer John Dougherty, Village Voice Me

  October 30, 2009

• D-Backs Zavada Wins Mustached American of the Year Award

  American Mustache InstituteD-Backs pitcher Clay Zavada receiving his Robert Goulet Mustached American of the Year Award in St. Louis Friday night​The votes are in and the winning whiskers of the coveted "Robert Goulet Mustached American of the Year Award" belong to Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Clay Zavada.

  November 2, 2009