Kyrsten Sinema

Atheist State Lawmaker Quotes Carl Sagan Instead of Doing Prayer Before House Session

An atheist state lawmaker tasked with delivering the opening prayer for this afternoon's session of the House of Representatives asked that people not bow their heads.Democratic Representative Juan Mendez, of Tempe, instead spoke about his "secular humanist tradition" and even quoted author Carl Sag ... More >>

The Amy's Baking Company Carnival: The Reverend Jarrett Maupin Joins the Sideshow

The Amy's Baking Company shit show is drawing out Phoenix's cast of characters like moths to the flame. It's probably only a matter of time until Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Russell Pearce get involved. After the ABC Kitchen Nightmares disaster (or could it actually be a blessing in disguise?), Valley ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Chili Cooked by Kyrsten Sinema, Randy Parraz, and Andrew Sherwood

I'm heartened to see local Democrats unabashedly supporting the effort to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio, which is spearheaded by Respect Arizona, and assisted by Citizens for a Better Arizona, headed by everyone's favorite kick-ass activist Randy Parraz. See also: -Joe Arpaio Recall Boasts 169,283 Vali ... More >>

Andrew Walter, Former ASU Quarterback, Wants Kyrsten Sinema's Spot in Congress

Former Arizona State University quarterback Andrew Walter wants to be a congressman.Walter, a Republican, would have to beat out the rest of the Republican field, then presumably defeat Democratic Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema to do so.See also:-Marc Victor Planning to Run Against Sinema, Expects Hel ... More >>

Ann Kirkpatrick: Sequester Is Bad; Also, Got a Few Bucks for Re-Election?

Democratic Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick seems to be concerned about the possibility of "devastating sequestration cuts."She also seems concerned about the fact that she's gonna need some cash for the 2014 election, so if you could create and equal concern for the sequester and the re-election effor ... More >>

Marc Victor Already Planning to Run Against Kyrsten Sinema, Expects Help From Ron Paul

Democratic Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema has been in Congress for a little more than six weeks now, but libertarian-minded attorney Marc Victor is already planning to defeat her in 2014.We've heard from his campaign that Victor, who ran as the Libertarian option against Richard Carmona and then-Congr ... More >>

After Election Day, AZ's Far Right Now Has a Fight on Its Hands

Ken Bennett Says 192,337 Ballots Left, Democrat Mary Rose Wilcox Defends County Elections

There's light at the end of the tunnel, my friends. And I hope there's a beer with my name on it when we get to it. Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett has released his latest update on the ballot count. Currently, there are 192,337 ballots left to be counted statewide, 28,550 of them early ball ... More >>

Election 2012: Arizona's Full Election Breakdown (Update)

Arizona election results are 99 percent reported this morning, and still the differences between candidates in some key races remain razor thin, including the battle between Democrat Kyrsten Sinema and Republican Vernon Parker for CD 9. Sinema is holding on to about a 1,500 vote lead. The race betwe ... More >>

Election Day 2012: Did Any of the Results Genuinely Surprise You?

While it appeared that many of New Times' readers were favoring a big upset in Arizona in one race or another, none of them appeared to have happened.A few of the congressional races still need to be ironed out, but Mitt Romney took Arizona, Congressman Jeff Flake's moving on to the U.S. Senate, She ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Triumphant and More Wreckage from Election Night

Last night was 2008 all over again: Obama wins, while those of us who must live in still deeply red Maricopa County lose. That is, those who want justice, racial and ethnic harmony, and competent, effective law enforcement. As in 2008, we are in the minority. Though percentage-wise, we may have g ... More >>

Vernon Parker Tattles on Kyrsten Sinema to ASU President for "Party School" Reference

Republican Congressional candidate Vernon Parker claims he actually sent a letter to Arizona State University President Michael Crow to tattle on his opponent, Kyrsten Sinema, for calling ASU a "party school."Parker also tells Crow that Sinema must think the students are "stupid" in the most uninten ... More >>

Pearce Could be Toast, Sinema on Top, Schweikert Leads Quayle in Unofficial Primary Results

Russell Pearce's political career could be dead in the water with Bob Worsley maintaining a more than 10 percentage point lead over the former, recalled state senator in unofficial results from Tuesday's primary election. Kyrsten Sinema also was fending off challengers David Schapir ... More >>

Vernon Parker Leads Republicans in CD9, According to Vernon Parker's Poll

Paradise Valley Town Councilman Vernon Parker is leading the Republican field in the state's Ninth Congressional District, according to a poll commissioned by Vernon Parker.It's pretty much impossible to tell how legitimate the poll is, as one anonymous person on the Internet says it sounded a lot l ... More >>

CD9 Gets Another One: Republican Leah Campos Schandlbauer, Ex-CIA Officer

​Republican Leah Campos Schandlbauer has become the ninth person to announce a candidacy for Arizona's newly formed Ninth Congressional District.According to her campaign announcement, Schandlbauer's a Scottsdale resident, Hispanic Republican, and a former CIA operations officer. Her campaign says ... More >>

Wendy Rogers Becomes Seventh Person to Announce Run for Congress in CD9

​Republican Wendy Rogers -- who lost her bid for a State Senate seat in 2010 -- made it official today that she's joining the Congressional race in Arizona's newly formed Ninth District.Rogers joins what's becoming an increasingly populated field of candidates, which already includes Republicans D ... More >>

Don Stapley, Maricopa County Supervisor Who's Suing County, Files to Run for Congress in New CD9 District

​Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley has filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for Congress in the newly created CD9 District.The County Supervisor has served as one of five members of the Board of Supervisors since 1996, and is currently suing the county for $15 million due to his ... More >>

Russell Pearce-Inspired Recall Bill Unconstitutional, Say Experts

A proposed legislative remedy to the successful recall of ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce is unconstitutional, according to experts in election and constitutional law.Senate Bill 1449, sponsored by state Senator Steve Smith, recently moved through the Senate judiciary committee with a do-pa ... More >>

Andrei Cherny Commits to CD9 Race, Will Step Down as Party Chair (w/Update)

It 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 Assistant Attorney General and policy adviser to th ... 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 >>

State Senator David Schapira Jumps Into District 9 Congressional Race

​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.Schapira's announcement isn ... 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 >>

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 >>

Activist Randy Parraz Led an Army of Non-Partisan Warriors to Take Down Russell Pearce

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 >>

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 >>

Race-Based Abortion Bill Passes in State Senate. Non-Existent Problem (Almost) Solved

​(Gulp) Good news, Arizona -- we're one step closer to solving a problem that doesn't actually exist in the Grand Canyon State: gender and race-based abortions.The Arizona Senate -- which apparently thinks its oversight extends to regions of China, where these types of abortions are actually a pro ... 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 >>

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 >>

Salvador Reza Arrested at Arizona State Senate

Reza, in a picture from his false arrest last year by the sheriff's officeWelcome to Muammar Gaddafi's Lybia. Details are sketchy, but civil rights activists Salvador Reza and Anayanse Garza of the group Puente were arrested inside the Arizona state Senate building today, apparently for the bogus c ... More >>

Russell Pearce's "Hate Humanity Tuesday" Targets AHCCCS, ABOR, and the Undocumented (Natch)

Beelzebubba Pearce's Day of Hate, on its way...To twist a line from the Bible's Book of Amos, "Let the hatred roll down like water, and stupidity like a mighty stream." This, because "justice" and "righteousness" are sorely absent in Sand Land.So shall it be in the state Senate Appropriations Commit ... 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 >>

"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 >>

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 >>

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

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 >>

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 >>

Arizona Democratic Party's Wacky Mailer for Nick Coons

Dems supporting Libertarians? How about helping fellow Dems for a change?I agree with Espresso Pundit's Greg Patterson about as often as I agree with state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce, which is, almost never. But he exposed an ugly little problem with the Arizona Democrats recently th ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Worst Nightmare: A Democrat Willing To Fight Like Hell

The man who shot Liberty Valance? Close. The man who's taking on Pearce in LD18I'll have more to say about Democrat Andrew Sherwood later this week, but here's a preview.Sherwood's going toe-to-toe with neo-Nazi-hugging, Republican state Senator Russell Pearce in Legislative District 18. That is, he ... More >>

Georgia Gubernatorial Candidate Welcomes Jan Brewer's Endorsement. Is Jan Becoming Sarah Palin-Cool?

​If you'd told us three months ago that a candidate for any office in any galaxy in the universe would want Arizona Governor Jan Brewer's endorsement, we'd have said that the candidate was trying to lose the election.Things have changed for Jan (who earlier this year was one of the m ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

"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 >>

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

The Bird wonders why Nazi-huggers get a free pass in Arizona and reveals yet another piece of the Russell Pearce puzzle

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

Andrea Dworkin's ghost haunts the Maricopa County Republican Party.

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, March 23, 2006