Nickel Bag Joe

Joe Arpaio Defeats Paul Penzone With Ease, and the Sheriff's Reign Continues

Last night at the Hyatt Regency in Phoenix, 80-year-old Sheriff Joe Arpaio recycled the same ol' Joe speech he gives all the time -- a speech that apparently resonates with the voters who opted for Arpaio over his opponent, Paul Penzone, by a healthy margin.All we could really do was stand in front ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Takes Credit for Creating Five Jobs at Mexican Restaurant (By Having Deputies Arrest Current Employees)

Fellow Americans, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has announced that he is taking steps to fix this nation's unemployment crisis, by arresting workers in high-wage fields such as Mexican restaurant dish-washing to create brand-new jobs -- or so the Sheriff's logic goes.Or, for the rest of us, that means Arpaio j ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Owned by the Infamous Duke St. Rollins

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's the Rodney Dangerfield of Sand Land politics these days. He just don't get no respect. Thing is, in his case, he deserves no respect, whereas Dangerfield's self-pity was a shtick. People actually liked him. They despise Joe. At least those with half a brain or more.Because ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Latest Bogus Death Threat

Sheriff Joe never met a fake death threat he didn't like All it takes is a cell phone text and bit of garbled audio to get Sheriff Joe Arpaio running around like a chicken sans head. "America's toughest sheriff"? Puh-lease.  As was reported by Fox 10 back on July 29, and is now ... More >>

Phoenix Students Schooled on How Sheriff Joe Arpaio Came to Be Wonder... How Much Longer Can He Last?

We spoke last week to a north Phoenix high-school class about our "experiences in journalism." ​It was early in the day, and the majority of the students were, shall we say, less than engaged in the, um, dialogue. But the class of about 25 boys and girls gat ... More >>

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& ... More >>

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 C ... More >>

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

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 Li ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, March 26, 2009

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

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 al ... More >>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Math-Challenged Sheriff Joe Arpaio Can't Account for the $41 Million He's Cost Taxpayers

Enemies List

Paranoia aside, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas just may be targeting you

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, November 22, 2007

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

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

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, 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

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

Useful Idiots

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

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

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, January 18, 2007

Joe's Spies

Campaign worker of Arpaio political foe targeted in surveillance

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