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Grant Woods

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Facebook Lawsuit Plaintiff Sharon Beatty is Lawyer Grant Woods' Secretary

    Grant Woods, a Valley lawyer and former state Attorney General, filed a federal complaint against Facebook this week on behalf of plaintiff Sharon Beatty -- who happens to be his secretary.​"Hey, Sharon, want to file a lawsuit against Facebook?"We imagine that a conversation that included th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2011

    Facebook Sued by Scottsdale Woman, Sharon Beatty, Over Site's Tracking of Web Browsing History While Logged Off; Class Action Ruling Sought

    Facebook calls it a glitch, but a Scottsdale woman and her Phoenix lawyer want to be compensated for the social media site's surreptitious tracking of Web browsing history.Former state Attorney General Grant Woods filed the federal complaint on Friday for his client, Sharon Beatty of Scottsdale. But ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    Grant Woods: "Twitter Account Hacked. Anthony Weiner Told Me This Could Happen."

    Grant Woods: the New Times-declared Mayor of Twitter-town.​It appears the Twitter account of former Arizona Attorney General/Current Mayor of Twitter-town Grant Woods has been hacked.Woods currently holds New Times'' coveted "Best Twitterer" award, so, of course, he took the hacking in stride."Sor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    How to Avoid a Weinergate; Some Suggestions From the Mayor of Twitter-Town/Former AG Grant Woods

    www.yahoo.comPoliticos: Listen to Grant Woods if you want to avoid headlines like these.​As "Weinergate 2011" enters day 11, there are now bipartisan calls for New York Congressman Anthony Weiner to resign. Given the congressman's current conundrum, former Arizona Attorney General/New Times-declar ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    Grant Woods is Way Better at Twitter Than Congressman Anthony Weiner

    Former Attorney General Grant Woods has a "PRIVATE" photo waiting for you on his Twitter page.​Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods could teach New York Congressman -- and star of "Weiner-gate 2011" -- Anthony Weiner a thing or two about Twitter and other venues for social media.For starter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2011

    After Re-Living Fatso Cream-Cheese "Tweet," Grant Woods Says He'll "Look at" Running for Senate

    Senator Grant Woods?​Announcing that you're considering running for U.S. Senate after telling a story about fatsos and their love of cream cheese is an interesting campaign tactic -- and it's one Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods pulled out this morning on live TV.Woods, a.k.a. the best ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2011

    Grant Woods Advocates Politics That Are Not Personal, Vindictive or Mean, Clearly Forgetting That That's His Style

    Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods co-authored a column in the Arizona Republic about the lessons that should be learned in the wake of an assassination attempt of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords:"It has spurred a national teaching moment, a pause in the war of charged vocabulary, and a di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    Conley Wolfswinkel, Smeared by Andrew Thomas in Stapley Investigation, Files Notice of Claim with Maricopa County

    Andrew Thomas' attempts to humiliate an East Valley developer could cost taxpayers $10 million. ​Saying that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former County Attorney Andrew Thomas illegally searched their offices and otherwise targeted them in an attempt to "retaliate against and humili ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 29, 2010

    Grant Woods Running for Phoenix Mayor -- Maybe

    Grant Woods​Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods confirmed today in a phone interview with New Times that he is seriously contemplating a run for mayor of Phoenix.Woods, a Republican who served two terms as attorney general from 1991 to 1999, refused to put odds on the likelihood of his run ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Grant Woods Fuels J.D. Hayworth "Dracula-Gate" With Awesome Twitter Post

    Grant Woods seems hell-bent on sticking things in J.D. Hayworth.​Former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods wants to put an end to the latest dose of J.D. Hayworth buffoonery, but he may just be adding fuel to J.D.s paranoid fire.In an interview with Newsweek earlier this week, Woods joked: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    J.D. Hayworth Interprets Grant Woods Vampire Quip as Death Threat

    Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth​What do you call a vampire who's running for the U.S. Senate? Don't bother asking Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth because the guy's apparently humorless, can't take a joke.Hayworth seems to think that a vampire quip made by former Arizona Attorney General ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2009

    Fishy Fundraiser: Wealthy Donors Claim Top Sheriff's Official Pitched for SCA on Alaska Trip

    Back in July, Captain Joel Fox, frontman for the SCA fund, wrote the following comment on our blog: There has never been a "meeting" of SCA donors. How you figure you could get all the people on that list into one room is beyond me. I can hardly get in contact with most of them, let alone get them ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 14, 2009

    Hendershott Still Won't Talk About the SCA

    ​ We interviewed Maricopa County Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott (pictured) today about this computer-takeover business and his possible trip to jail next week, so naturally we asked him about his involvement in the SCA, too.He didn't bite. "You'll have to talk to the lawyers about that," he tel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2009

    Prediction: Grant Woods Won't Ask Mayor K.J. About "Summer of '95"

    We've always enjoyed a good relationship with former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods, except when he got pissy with us for a long while over the infamous "hot dog vendor" spoof back in the day.   Woods is a savvy and funny guy, something in fairly short supply among the lega ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    Former AZ Attorney General Grant Woods: Howard Stern for the Age of the Podcast?

      Add former Arizona Attorney General Grant Woods to the list of old-school guys giving new media a try. We hear through the grapevine that Woods is launching a new Web site, www.grantwoods.com. It's apparently still in the preview stage -- the home page currently includes a ... More >>

  • News

    January 18, 2007

    Sheriff Gangbanger

    This sardonic sapsucker scratches out the truth on Sheriff Joe's gang-friendly gulags, an ICE spokesman's DUI stint, and the Arizona Repugnant's reportorial fumbles

  • Best of Phoenix

    September 20, 2001

    Best Politician

    Grant Woods

  • News

    March 1, 2001

    O Children, Where Art Thou?

    Museum peace unlikely as a proposed family center in Phoenix fights critics over right to life.

  • News

    May 4, 2000

    Flashes 05-04-2000

    Museum peace unlikely as a proposed family center in Phoenix fights critics over right to life.

  • News

    March 2, 2000

    Babbitt's Secret Growth-Control Plan

    While the state and the Sierra Club jockey to curb urban expansion, the Secretary of the Interior is quietly pushing his own proposal. We've got the maps.

  • News

    December 2, 1999

    Snafu 2000

    Phoenix officials told volunteers planning an expensive millennial downtown bash to think big. It seems as though nobody was thinking at all.

  • News

    August 5, 1999

    Growing Complicated

    Already, the state's grand plan for halting urban sprawl appears doomed

  • News

    October 22, 1998

    Tom and Janet's Excellent AG Venture

    Tom McGovern and Janet Napolitano are running close in a cordial race for attorney general. But somebody has to win.

  • News

    August 27, 1998

    The Clash of '98

    John Kaites and Tom McGovern — John McCain's and Grant Woods' hand-picked candidates for attorney general — are duking it out like schoolboys, while the Dems' Janet Napolitano goes to school on them

  • News

    July 16, 1998

    Flashes

    John Kaites and Tom McGovern — John McCain's and Grant Woods' hand-picked candidates for attorney general — are duking it out like schoolboys, while the Dems' Janet Napolitano goes to school on them

  • News

    August 14, 1997

    Flashes

    John Kaites and Tom McGovern — John McCain's and Grant Woods' hand-picked candidates for attorney general — are duking it out like schoolboys, while the Dems' Janet Napolitano goes to school on them

  • News

    August 14, 1997

    The Fifester, the Wifester, the Mother and the Prosecutor

    John Kaites and Tom McGovern — John McCain's and Grant Woods' hand-picked candidates for attorney general — are duking it out like schoolboys, while the Dems' Janet Napolitano goes to school on them

  • News

    June 26, 1997

    Flashes

    John Kaites and Tom McGovern — John McCain's and Grant Woods' hand-picked candidates for attorney general — are duking it out like schoolboys, while the Dems' Janet Napolitano goes to school on them

  • News

    June 5, 1997

    Flashes

    John Kaites and Tom McGovern — John McCain's and Grant Woods' hand-picked candidates for attorney general — are duking it out like schoolboys, while the Dems' Janet Napolitano goes to school on them

  • News

    July 11, 1996

    Flashes

    John Kaites and Tom McGovern — John McCain's and Grant Woods' hand-picked candidates for attorney general — are duking it out like schoolboys, while the Dems' Janet Napolitano goes to school on them

  • News

    May 30, 1996

    Flashes

    John Kaites and Tom McGovern — John McCain's and Grant Woods' hand-picked candidates for attorney general — are duking it out like schoolboys, while the Dems' Janet Napolitano goes to school on them

  • News

    May 2, 1996

    Flashes

    John Kaites and Tom McGovern — John McCain's and Grant Woods' hand-picked candidates for attorney general — are duking it out like schoolboys, while the Dems' Janet Napolitano goes to school on them

  • News

    March 21, 1996

    Flashes

    John Kaites and Tom McGovern — John McCain's and Grant Woods' hand-picked candidates for attorney general — are duking it out like schoolboys, while the Dems' Janet Napolitano goes to school on them

  • News

    March 14, 1996

    End of a Smear

    County Attorney Richard Romley thought he had parlayed a trivial investigation into the resignation of one of his chief political rivals. But Attorney General Grant Woods decided that his top assistant would not be sacrificed to prosecutorial overreaching

  • News

    March 7, 1996

    Trial By Media (Part I)

    For month after month, Phoenix news reporters repeated a disgruntled secretary's half-baked charges, helping County Attorney Richard Romley discredit a rival in the Attorney General's Office. The same media horde made scarcely a whimper when Romley cover

  • News

    March 7, 1996

    Trial By Media (Part II)

    For month after month, Phoenix news reporters repeated a disgruntled secretary's half-baked charges, helping County Attorney Richard Romley discredit a rival in the Attorney General's Office. The same media horde made scarcely a whimper when Romley cover

  • News

    February 29, 1996

    A Secretary's Revenge

    Deborah Vasquez, a secretary in the Attorney General's Office, overstepped her authority to help a kidnaped child. After being upbraided, she spread fantasy and half-truth that have been used to discredit the attorney general's top assistant, Rob Carey.

  • News

    February 22, 1996

    Deep Fix

    Maricopa County Attorney Richard Romley went very, veryeasy on Governor Fife Symington and his cronies inthe Project SLIM bid-rigging case. After first assistant attorney general Rob Carey showed that the county attorney's investigation had been a sham, R

  • News

    November 9, 1995

    Flashes

    Maricopa County Attorney Richard Romley went very, veryeasy on Governor Fife Symington and his cronies inthe Project SLIM bid-rigging case. After first assistant attorney general Rob Carey showed that the county attorney's investigation had been a sham, R

  • News

    July 27, 1995

    Flashes

    From the Week of July 27, 1995

  • News

    July 20, 1995

    ANALYSIS:SLIM PICKINGS AG'S PROJECT SLIM PROBE HASN'T TARGETED SYMINGTON, DESPITE EVIDENCE OF HIS INVOLVEMENT

    From the Week of July 27, 1995

  • News

    May 4, 1995

    STATE SECRETS

    WOODS AND SYMINGTON HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON, AFTER ALL: BOTH DISCOURAGE OPEN GOVERNMENT

  • News

    May 4, 1995

    JUDICIAL INDESCRETIONSCONSERVATIVES PROPOSING NEW LAWS TO STEM FLOOD OF LAWSUITS BY INMATES

    WOODS AND SYMINGTON HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON, AFTER ALL: BOTH DISCOURAGE OPEN GOVERNMENT

  • News

    March 30, 1995

    FLASHES

    WOODS AND SYMINGTON HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON, AFTER ALL: BOTH DISCOURAGE OPEN GOVERNMENT

  • News

    March 23, 1994

    Statesman or Henchman?

    He's already the state's GOP power broker. He'll soon be Arizona's senior senator. Will the volatile John McCain Rule by fear or respect?

  • News

    July 28, 1993

    "THE JACKASSES OF ARIZONA"

    He's already the state's GOP power broker. He'll soon be Arizona's senior senator. Will the volatile John McCain Rule by fear or respect?

  • News

    July 21, 1993

    IN PURSUIT OF PUBLICITY ATTORNEY GENERAL POSES WITH ESCAPED CONVICTFELON FLEES CUSTODY, THEN SELLS HOT DOGS IN FRONT OF JAIL ONVICT

    He's already the state's GOP power broker. He'll soon be Arizona's senior senator. Will the volatile John McCain Rule by fear or respect?

  • News

    June 30, 1993

    THE LEADING MAN

    IN HIS SCREEN DEBUT, WOODS GIVES PERFORMANCE OF A LIFETIME-AT $640 A HEAD

  • News

    February 24, 1993

    THE CAMPAIGN-FINANCE STEEPLECHASEWHEN IT COMES TO RUNNING DOWN VIOLATORS, PROSECUTORS ARE NOT EVEN FOLLOWING THE PAC

    IN HIS SCREEN DEBUT, WOODS GIVES PERFORMANCE OF A LIFETIME-AT $640 A HEAD

  • News

    February 10, 1993

    A GOOD ADVERTISEMENT FOR CALLER IDAG AIDE PULLS A FAST ONE ON FIFE

    IN HIS SCREEN DEBUT, WOODS GIVES PERFORMANCE OF A LIFETIME-AT $640 A HEAD

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