Subject: Nickel Bag Joe

• Nancy Grace smooches Joe Arpaio's bum on air, while Arpaio salivates for Paris Hilton

  May 18, 2007

• Former County Attorney Rick Romley slams Andrew Thomas, Joe Arpaio, Dennis Wilenchik, and the new “McCarthyism” over illegal immigration.

  October 10, 2007

• Sheriff Joe's racist clown cars? You be the judge...

  November 19, 2007

• Buckeye Police Chief Dan Saban announces retirement to take on Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

  January 29, 2008

• Et tu, Eddie? Faux Dem Eddie Basha donates to Joe Arpaio, along with other Joe suckups.

  February 1, 2008

• ACES AND EIGHTS: Appeals court deals Joe Arpaio a losing hand in New Times lawsuit over public docs.

  February 6, 2008

• Governor Janet Napolitano's photo shoot with Joe Arpaio, David Hendershott, and Honduran cops.

  February 28, 2008

• KTAR's Darrell Ankarlo kisses Sheriff Joe Arpaio's can again (sigh), on the Honduran escapade.

  February 29, 2008

• The Goldwater Institute takes aim at Sheriff Joe Arpaio; MCSO flack Paul Chagolla spars with KPNX.

  April 2, 2008

• New York Times slams Sheriff Joe Arpaio, demands Congress hold hearings, subpoena Joe.

  April 9, 2008

• Columbus D-Day: Activists crash Joe Arpaio fete at Italian Club; Joe and Andy Thomas hang with redneck bikers.

  May 13, 2008

• Another citizen makes Joe Arpaio's enemies list. His crime? Asking questions at a Barnes and Noble booksigning.

  May 28, 2008

• Racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio slams the Suns' Shaquille O'Neal in lame publicity-grab.

  June 24, 2008

• Sheriff Joe Arpaio wusses out, stays in Phoenix, far away from Mesa Police Chief George Gascon.

  June 27, 2008

• Tucson radio wing nut "Jon Justice" gets panties in twist over Joe Arpaio pinata.

  July 16, 2008

• Hot Links: Janet Napolitano, D.L. Hughley, Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, Julia Child, Joe Arpaio, and more.

  August 14, 2008

• Letters From the Issue of Thursday, January 18, 2007

  January 18, 2007

• Collar-Crazy

  The cracked cockatoo defends the ACLU�s Dan Pochoda, wings by Pruitt�s for the day-laborer donnybrook, and searches for a tranny�s package

  November 15, 2007

• The Bird tackles AZ's new immigration czar, Matthew Allen, while Guadalupe revolts against the MCSO's iron grip

  April 10, 2008

• Joe Arpaio's Circus Comes to Buckeye: Assault Rifles, Body Armor, Ski Masks and Traffic Stops

  "Every life is precious," Joe kept saying of murder victims. Who is he tryin' to kid?The citizens of Buckeye and Avondale can rest easy tonight knowing that sheriff's deputies with assault rifles, body armor, and ski masks are busy pulling over old ladies and Hispanics with expired tags. This was all part of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's latest "crime suppression and human smuggling operation." Or in other words, his most recent dragnet for undocumented Hispanics.OK, maybe not all of MCSO's finest were o

  January 9, 2009

• Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, March 26, 2009

  March 26, 2009

• The Bird Documents Randy Pullen’s Smear of Lisa James and Hobnobs with Democrats and Republicans

  January 29, 2009

• ICE’s Matthew Allen and Dennis DeConcini Get Ripped Apart by the Taloned Terror

  November 6, 2008

• The Bird joins the anti-Arpaio siege at Wells Fargo, postmortems the Pearce- Gibbons race, and knocks Napolitano for defending Sarah Palin

  September 11, 2008

• The Bird shelters Pima County Legal Defender Isabel Garcia from the flak she’s received for hoisting an Arpaio piñata head

  July 24, 2008

• The Bird revels in Sheriff Joe's decline, slams Mark Spencer's false hysteria, and explains why "illegals" ain't criminals

  July 3, 2008

• The Bird poops on a crowd of 9/11 deniers and reports on the latest symbolic protest of Joe Arpaio

  June 5, 2008

• The Bird covers the waterfront on Sheriff Arpaio’s racial profiling patrols and demands freedom for First Friday bohos

  April 3, 2008

• The Bird exposes Sheriff Joe's racist ties, delves into the Israel Correa madness, and reveals Napolitano as the real Judas

  March 27, 2008

• Head on a skewer: Joe Arpaio was so obsessed with getting a hard-charging New Times writer prosecuted that he badgered Andy Thomas into making a fool of himself

  March 20, 2008

• The Bird catches Darrell Ankarlo butt-smoochin' Sheriff Joe again, relates the latest on the MCSO's Honduran scandal and introduces candidates vying for Candy Thomas' job

  March 6, 2008

• The Bird wonders why Sheriff Joe Arpaio put a U.S. citizen behind bars for simply appearing Mexican

  January 31, 2008

• The Bird wonders just what Joe Arpaio's top dog is doing down in Honduras

  January 24, 2008

• Math-challenged Sheriff Joe Arpaio can’t account for the $41 million he’s cost taxpayers

  January 10, 2008

• Enemies List

  November 29, 2007

• Letters From the Issue of Thursday, November 22, 2007

  November 22, 2007

• Letters From the Issue of Thursday, November 1, 2007

  November 1, 2007

• Do Svidanya, Joe

  The vexed vulture swoops down on mean ol' Sheriff Joe, then sides with a nativist (for a change) against the mothers of MADD

  October 18, 2007

• Useful Idiots

  The pissed-off puffin paddles fellow journalists, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and an FBI monkey-spanker at U of A

  May 31, 2007

• WHAT PART OF A HORSE'S ANATOMY IS JOE ARPAIO?

  November 24, 1993

• Joe's Spies

  Campaign worker of Arpaio political foe targeted in surveillance

  March 25, 1999

• Barack Obama's Shame: Joe Arpaio Wrecks Families, Wounds a Business, Makes a Little Girl Cry, All with Federal Authority

  Dennis Gilman's account of Joe Arpaio's car wash raid, and an interview with one of Arpaio's littlest victims. This Saturday, while real cops were out hunting down murderers, rapists, burglars, and so on, Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- true to his nickname, "Nickel Bag Joe" -- was at Lindstrom Family Auto Wash in Phoenix as his thugs with badges chased down immigrants and non-immigrants working there, corralled them like animals, and sifted through them until they had those they wan

  June 15, 2009

• Mayor Phil Gordon Torpedoes Arpaio Over the Sheriff’s Neo-Nazi and Nativist Pals, and One More Reason the Democrats Need to Take Boxing Lessons

  June 18, 2009

• Joe Arpaio Hosted in Houston by Two Nativist Extremist Groups

  photo by Liana Lopez Arpaio wows the old fogies in Houston... I don't know about the devil goin' down to Georgia, but Sheriff Joe did go down to Houston this weekend to pimp the pack of bogus yarns in his 2008 tome Joe's Law. You know, the one wherein he claims credit for busting the French Connection, says he pulled over Elvis, spins his nickname "Nickel Bag Joe" as a positive thing (though it's not), insists the Mexican mafia along with Phoenix immigration activist Elias Bermu

  September 14, 2009

• Joe Arpaio Stumps Southern California for Conservative Sheriff Wannabes Jay LaSuer and Bill Hunt

  from sheriffjay.org The happy couple: Arpayaso and San Diego Sheriff hopeful Jay LeSuer... Sheriff Joe Arpaio's political stock isn't exactly at an all-time high here in Maricopa County, what with ongoing probes by the U.S. Department of Justice -- and reportedly the F.B.I. as well --into his department, a big racial profiling lawsuit being pursued against him in federal court, and the backlash from local political elites over the arrest and re-arrest of county su

  October 2, 2009