Kyrsten Sinema

Dems, activists at state convention demand Gov. Janet Napolitano veto HB 2807. (w/UPDATE: GUV COMPLIES, VETOES BILL.)

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

Kyrsten Sinema: Helping to kick Ward Connerly's ass, and Andy Thomas' too.

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, March 23, 2006

Walloping Janet Napolitano for Her Prop 102 Stance, The Word-Wrangling Wren Looks to Harvey Milk for Inspiration

Kyrsten Sinema's Guide to Delusional Democratic Thought, In Bookstores Soon

Could this be a joke from the wags at Sonoran Alliance? Alas, no... Would you take financial advice from a homeless man? Lessons in humility from Simon Cowell? Follow Kirstie Alley's diet regimen? Look for WMD's with a map drawn by Dick Cheney? Or take an anger management class taught by Russe ... More >>

Howl of Sanity

Too bad it stands a snowball's chance in the Sonoran Desert of passing, because a bill banning armed Minutemen makes sense

Phoenix Symphony Plays the Blues, Arizona Department of Corrections Honcho Charles Ryan Attends Marcia Powell’s Memorial Service, and a Democratic Loser Writes a Book on How to Win

Too bad it stands a snowball's chance in the Sonoran Desert of passing, because a bill banning armed Minutemen makes sense

"Resign to Run" Law Being Scrutinized as Local Officials Seem to Flout It

Blogger and former Republican lawmaker Greg Patterson opened a tasty can of worms recently, pointing out that Attorney General Terry Goddard has apparently run afoul of the state's "resign-to-run" law. Goddard, a Democrat, recently told a crowd during a speech that "I intend to run fo ... More >>

The Losing Art of Battle

Arizona pol delivers the Tao of Pooh for local lefties

The Losing Art of Battle

Arizona pol delivers the Tao of Pooh for local lefties

Hot Links: Kyrsten Sinema, Casinos, and Child Care Protests

​Arizona State Representative Kyrsten Sinema is in Washington, D.C. today to attend a ceremony for the signing of a hate crimes bill that would add crimes committed against people because of sexual orientation, gender, and gender identity. Sinema has sponsored similar legislation in Arizona...Temp ... More >>

Jan Brewer Hides, as Kirk Adams Gets Cornered by Randy Parraz and Jen Allen Over Russell Pearce's Bigoted Bill

During this past Wednesday's rally against state Senator Russell Pearce's new apartheid-like bill SB 1070/HB 2632, I remained with the mass of the protesters, while a small contingent of demonstration leaders went into the Capitol's Executive Tower and up to the 9th Floor to try and meet with Govern ... More >>

Hot Links: Fiesta Bowl, Scorpion Stings, and Kyrsten Sinema

​The Fiesta Bowl wants a refund from the city of Glendale for at least $600,000 for overpayment of taxes on ticket sales. Fiesta Bowl officials say for the past three years, they've overpaid for taxes at University of Phoenix Stadium. Glendale would not confirm or deny the request, but city offici ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Police State Bill Passes MAPS Committee (Again); All Persons in Arizona Could Be Required To Prove They Are Not Illegal

www.PhotosByJoseMunoz.comState Sen. Russell Pearce, at the Capitol today...State Senator Russell Pearce's police state bill, SB 1070, passed the House Military Affairs and Public Safety committee again today, after a three hour session of testimony, with state Representative Kyrsten Sinema, the&nbs ... More >>

"Birther" Bill Advances in Arizona House; America Laughs its Ass Off

​In the Arizona legislature's latest attempt to make the Grand Canyon State the laughing stock of the entire country, legislators in the House of Representatives advanced HB 2441 yesterday, or, as it is more infamously known, the "birther bill."Legislators voted 31-22 to advance the bill, which wo ... More >>

AZ Lawmakers Expected to Pass a Law Prohibiting Picketing at Funerals; Aim to Halt Protests at Tucson Shooting Victims' Funerals

Senator Kyrsten Sinema​State lawmakers proposed emergency legislation Tuesday to head off picketing by a Topeka, Kansas, church at the funeral service for a 9-year-old girl who was among six people killed during Saturday's shooting in Tucson.The state Senate passed a bill, which is being con ... More >>

Arizona House Passes Bill Prohibiting Picketing at Funerals; Lawmakers Display Bipartisan Spirit

www.bipartisanbridge.org Arizona lawmakers engage in bipartisanship​After swiftly moving through the state Senate and the House of Representatives, a bill that makes it illegal to protest or picket within 300 feet of funerals is making its way to Governor Jan Brewer, who is expected to sign ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Church Unified Democrats and Republicans Over One Thing: Limiting Freedom of Speech

www.bipartisanbridge.org Arizona lawmakers engage in bipartisanship​After swiftly moving through the state Senate and the House of Representatives, a bill that makes it illegal to protest or picket within 300 feet of funerals is making its way to Governor Jan Brewer, who is expected to sign ... More >>

Terry Goddard, Raul Grijalva Call for Compromise, as Rodney Glassman Whips Up Rancor

Compromise? Apparently not, if Glassman gets his way...Fearing an acrimonious showdown this Saturday when Dems are scheduled to meet at the Wyndham Hotel downtown to pick a new Democratic Party chair, former Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard and Congressman Raul Grijalva are calling for a compr ... More >>

Kyrsten Sinema: "I Didn't Mistakenly Vote for S@#%!"

Image: Kyrsten Sinema's Facebook site Kyrsten Sinema says she was tricked, sort of, into voting for a Republican bill in the Rules Committee yesterday.​Kyrsten Sinema's pissed when she calls us back last night. "I didn't mistakenly vote for shit!" she fumes. "They explained what we were ... More >>

Kyrsten Sinema Wipes the Floor with John Kavanagh Re: Jan Brewer's Budget

I've been critical of uber-lefty state Senator Kyrsten Sinema on different issues, like the anti-Westboro Baptist Church legislation she recently sponsored in the legislature.And I think it's a big mistake to think that Dems can work across the aisle with crocodiles such as state Senate Presid ... More >>

Jan. 21 In Blogs: Rodney Glassman, Misha Renteria, Best Coast, Smashburger, and Jan Brewer

​​​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:

Kyrsten Sinema's Drop House Bill, and Steve Gallardo's Rebuttal

Gallardo's Facebook PageDemocrat Steve Gallardo gave fellow Dem Kyrsten Sinema hell in committee re: her drop-house legislationArizona's pro-immigrant community is ticked at one if its own: uber-lefty state Senator Kyrsten Sinema, who has in the past marched with the Reverend Al Sharpton in protest ... More >>

Feb. 4 In Blogs: Kyrsten Sinema, Spraygraphic, Nicki Minaj, Justin Bolotnik, and Abortion

​​​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:

Russell Pearce's "Anchor Baby" Bills, John Eastman's Homophobia, Adam Driggs' Political Courage

Pearce, foiled, but only for the moment, on his two 14th Amendment bigot bills...As you likely know by now, state Senate President Russell Pearce's unconstitutional, un-American, immoral, and illegal effort to undermine the birthright citizenship provision of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitut ... More >>

Russell Pearce for Congress, Kyrsten Sinema Hearts Russell

Sinema describes the love that dare not speak its nameNow that Congressman Jeff Flake has announced his intention to run for the seat of retiring Arizona U.S. Senator Jon Kyl, it's safe to assume that state Senate president Russell Pearce will go after Flake's sixth district seat in 2012.Actually, y ... More >>

"Birther Bill" Fails in Senate Judiciary Committee. Score One for Sanity

Arizona's "Birther Bill" has failed...again.​We are happy to report that the "Birther Bill" has failed in the state legislature -- yet again.Jeanette Tejeda de Gomez, spokeswoman for state Senate Democrats, confirms to New Times that the "Birther Bill," proposed by numb-Skull Valley Republican Jud ... More >>

Feb. 14 In Blogs: Kyrsten Sinema, Coronado, Calexico, CityScape, and Wade Ridley

​​​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:

Russell Pearce's "Anchor Baby" Bills Pulled from Agenda, but Don't Get Your Hopes Up

Don't kid yourselves. Pearce's anti-anchor-baby bills are alive and kickin'The bigoted bills state Senate president Russell Pearce has been pushing to undermine the birthright citizenship provision of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution -- SB 1308 and 1309 -- have been pulled from the agenda ... More >>

Jan Brewer's Medicaid Cuts Copacetic, Claim Feds

azgovernor.govThe Obama administration hands Brewer a victory Governor Jan Brewer seems to have scored a "win," if you can call it that, in her effort to cut hundreds of thousands of childless adults from the state's Medicaid program, otherwise known as the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment Syste ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Day of Bigotry, Barbarism and Triumph

Democratic Senator Olivia Cajero Bedford, calling out Pearce as a "dictator"In the end, they all passed out of the state Senate Appropriations Committee, all of state Senate President Russell Pearce's anti-immigrant bills, other hate-filled measures offered by his stooges, and cataclysmic proposed l ... More >>

Andy Biggs, the $10 Million Chairman, and His Tuesday Night Massacre

Senator Biggs: Thanking God every day for Ed McMahon It's apropos that state Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Andy Biggs, the man primarily responsible for a bill that will drive a Ryder Truck full of nitro through the state's Medicaid program, is himself a very wealthy man.He's not ric ... More >>

Russell Pearce, Bald-Faced Liar? You Decide

The Mad Cap'n of Sand Land's Ship of StateState Senate President Russell Pearce wants the public to believe there's not a list of folks who're persona non grata at the Arizona state Senate building. And in a bit of a contradiction, he also wants you to believe that part of him "banning" people from ... More >>

Russell Pearce Bans Public from Pressers, Kyrsten Sinema Blasts Move

Sinema: Pearce's police state move unnecessaryIn an effort to further curtail the rights of citizens to visit the state Senate, Senate President Russell Pearce has issued a dictate that the public will no longer be allowed to attend press conferences held inside the Senate building.Today, he sent a ... More >>

Senate Passes Legislation to End Distribution of Spanish-Language Election Material

Arizona SenateRookie senator, veteran boot-licker.​The Arizona Senate passed legislation yesterday that would eliminate Spanish translation of election materials in information booklets distributed by the Secretary of State. Russell Pearce acolyte -- or is it wannabe? -- Sen. Steve Smith, R-M ... More >>

Governor Jan Brewer Signs Race/Gender-Based Abortion Bill. Non-Existent Problem Solved

​Despite there being no evidence to support state Senator Nancy Barto's claim that "sex-selection abortions are happening in this country," Governor Jan Brewer signed a controversial bill into law banning race/gender-based abortions.The new law forces any doctor who performs an abortion to sign a ... More >>

Russell Pearce and JT Ready, Together Again on Fox 10

Russell Pearce: Pioneer Against Illegal Immigration or Racist?: MyFoxPHOENIX.comKudos to Fox 10 anchor John Hook and executive producer Rod Haberer for the best exposé I've seen another outlet do on the subject of state Senate President Russell Pearce and his relationship with Arizona neo-Nazi J.T. ... More >>

Jan Brewer's Special Session Adjourns Leaving 45,000 Arizonans in the Lurch

Brewer's "special session" was a major dudThe state Legislature recessed indefinitely today from its special session without making a minor change in state law that would allow some 45,000 jobless Arizonans to continue receiving unemployment checks.Around 15,000 out-of-work Sand Landers will receive ... More >>

Governor Jan Brewer Issues Order for November 8 Russell Pearce Recall Election

I like Sinema, but she flubbed a couple of facts on OlbermannThough it's mostly a formality, Governor Jan Brewer today officially called a November 8 recall election for state Senate President Russell Pearce.In a terse memo issued on her website, she stated:"Today, in accordance with state law, I is ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Resignation Drive Endorsed by Congressman Ed Pastor

America's "toughest" sheriff -- not so tough on child molesters...​Congressman Ed Pastor of Arizona's 4th District has joined the ranks of Sand Land politicians calling for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's resignation over the MCSO's mishandling of more than 400 sex crimes cases in El Mirage, many involving c ... More >>

Kyrsten Sinema Surprises Precisely No One With Announcement That She's Running For Congress

Facebook.comKyrsten Sinema's running for Congress in Arizona's new Congressional district. Expect a Democratic primary, folks.​In a move that doesn't come as much of a shock to anyone familiar with state politics in Arizona, Democratic state Senator Kyrsten Sinema announced today that she's resign ... More >>

David Lujan, George Diaz, and the Stop-Lujan Movement

Lujan calls his 1070 no-show "one of the biggest regrets of my elective career"Is the fix in for former state House Minority Leader David Lujan's becoming the replacement for ex-state Senator Kyrsten Sinema, who recently announced her bid for U.S. Congress?Or will his infamous no-show for the Senate ... More >>

Kyrsten Sinema's David Lujan, Can Ken Clark Stop Him?

Supervisor Wilcox says she's "not committed" to Lujan or anyone else as Sinema's replacementThe effort to block former state House Minority Leader David Lujan from sliding into ex-state Senator Kyrsten Sinema's still-warm legislative seat is firing up, with former state House Representative Ken Clar ... More >>

Kyrsten Sinema's David Lujan Weasels In To Open LD 15 Seat

SB 1070 vote-skipper David Lujan, LD 15's new state Senator This morning, over the complaints of some Democrats and Latinos, former House Democratic Minority Leader David Lujan was appointed unanimously to fill the open state Senate seat in Legislative District 15 by the Maricopa County Board of Sup ... More >>

Can Kyrsten Sinema Win in Congressional District 9?

SB 1070 vote-skipper David Lujan, LD 15's new state Senator This morning, over the complaints of some Democrats and Latinos, former House Democratic Minority Leader David Lujan was appointed unanimously to fill the open state Senate seat in Legislative District 15 by the Maricopa County Board of Sup ... More >>

State Senator David Schapira Jumps Into District 9 Congressional Race

Congressman David Schapira?​As predicted, former state Senator Kyrsten Sinema's not the only Democrat with her eye on Arizona's new Congressional seat -- this morning, state Senate Minority Leader David Schapira announced that he, too, will run in Arizona's newly formed 9th Congressional district. ... More >>

Best Democratic Candidate For District 9 Congressional Seat: Kyrsten Sinema, David Schapira, Or Andrei Cherny (Maybe)?

​State Senate Minority Leader David Schapira, a Democrat, announced yesterday that he's running for Congress in Arizona's newly formed District 9.Much to the minority leader's chagrin, we're sure, he's not the only lefty with his eye on the seat -- former state Senator Kyrsten Sinema also has anno ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 19th, 2011

​State Senate Minority Leader David Schapira, a Democrat, announced yesterday that he's running for Congress in Arizona's newly formed District 9.Much to the minority leader's chagrin, we're sure, he's not the only lefty with his eye on the seat -- former state Senator Kyrsten Sinema also has anno ... More >>

Andrei Cherny Commits to CD9 Race, Will Step Down as Party Chair

Cherny, stepping down as party chair to tackle CD9It will be official shortly, but Andrei Cherny, Chair of the Arizona Democratic Party, is stepping down today, in anticipation of a formal announcement of his candidacy for the Ninth Congressional District seat sometime next week.The former Arizona A ... More >>