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Arizona's Top 10 Appearances on the Colbert Report

The joke's on Arizona so much that we had to separate the state's best appearances on Comedy Central "news" shows into two lists.Last week, we brought you some of the best Arizona-themed segments from the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Now, we've gone through the Colbert Report's archives, to bring yo ... More >>

Jan Brewer "Isn't Interested" in Politics After Mark Kelly Slams Her Comments on Shooting

Yesterday, we reprinted the entire statement prepared by Mark Kelly, husband of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, which he read at the sentencing of Tucson shooter Jared Loughner.It was a damn good statement that included a pointed remark about Governor Jan Brewer's comments after the shootin ... More >>

Best Arizona Political Ad of 2012?

Yesterday, our colleague Stephen Lemons put together his list of the top 10 Arizona political ads of 2012.If you've turned on a television set over the past several month, then you've probably seen several of these -- over, and over, and over again, if you gaze into the TV often.See also:-Top Ten Ar ... More >>

Top Ten Arizona Political Ads of 2012 (So Far)

I don't think anyone will bemoan the end of the 2012 election cycle, except perhaps the TV execs and political consultants who're making a killing off the political ads bombarding us through the boob tube. Still, quite a few are memorable, and there is nothing more American than reducing your oppo ... More >>

Kirsten Sinema, Vernon Parker and Why Top-Two Was and Is a Dumb Idea

What's interesting about the result of the primary races in the newly drawn Ninth Congressional District is not that Republican Vernon Parker and Democrat Kirsten Sinema won their respective primaries. Rather it's that taken together, those primaries offer a textbook example of why the so-called Top ... More >>

Paul Gosar Beats Lawmaker-With-a-Shotgun Ron Gould

Republican state Senator Ron Gould will not be bringing his flat-top haircut, cowboy mustache, or his shotgun to Congress -- because he's not going.Freshman Congressman Paul Gosar will win the race fairly easily, especially since ebmattled Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu opted not to continue his ru ... More >>

Rolling Stone Recaps the "Really Crazy Stuff" Going on in Arizona Politics

Rolling Stone did a wrap up about Arizona's "really crazy" political climate -- not that we needed a reminder. But, yeah, this is why the rest of the country is laughing at us. Bennett the Birther? Gould the Gunman? Kelly and his M-16s? Yee-ha! Read the Rolling Stone recap below:

Ron Gould Blasts "Obamacare" With a Shotgun... 'Merica

Now that embattled Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu isn't running for Congress in Arizona's Fourth Congressional District, the race is down to two Republicans -- Congressman Paul Gosar, and state Senator Ron Gould.

Paul Babeu Turns Distortion of Truth Into an Art Form

SB 1070 Oral Arguments Wrap Up in Supreme Court; Some Believe Court May Uphold Part of the Controversial Law

Just as oral arguments wrapped up at the U.S. Supreme Court over SB 1070, Arizona's controversial immigration-enforcement law that essentially criminalizes an undocumented immigrant's presence in Arizona, Congressman Paul Gosar made an appearance on MSNBC. Gosar is running for a seat in Arizona's c ... More >>

Paul Babeu's Congressional Campaign Contributions Collapse in Weeks Following Allegations He Abused His Power, Threatened His Gay, Mexican Lover with Deportation

Contributions to congressional hopeful Paul Babeu barely trickled in during March, with the once-popular lawman pocketing a mere $6,700 in the wake of multiple scandals enveloping him, his agency, and his campaign.   By comparison, Congressman Paul Gosar, also running for a seat in A ... More >>

Babeu's Reckless and Threatening Behavior Have Enmeshed Him in a Career-Ending Scandal

Paul Gosar: It's "Incomprehensible" That Paul Babeu's Trying to Play the Victim

After releasing two not-so-scathing statements through his campaign last week about Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu's Mexican ex-lover problems, Congressman Paul Gosar now sounds pretty peeved off with Babeu (he is one of his Republican primary opponents in the congressional race, after all).Instead ... More >>

Demands Grow for Full Investigation into Allegations Against Sheriff Paul Babeu

Paul Babeu Supports Gay Marriage and Gays in the Military

Dennis Gilman's raw footage of Babeu's Saturday presserIn addition to Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu's admission to being a gay man during a Saturday press conference, wherein he denied allegations published in my colleague Monica Alonzo's expose concerning deportation threats against his ex-lover, ... More >>

Paul Gosar Upset With Paul Babeu (Over Press Conferences and Collectible Coins)

​Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar released two statements over the weekend in response to the New Times story of Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu's ex-boyfriend claiming he was threatened with deportation.Gosar's not exactly complaining about the accusations from Babeu's ex-boyfriend -- he's more con ... 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 >>

Paul Babeu, the Suddenly Openly Gay Pinal County Sheriff, Vows to Continue Congressional Run, Serve Out Remaining Term as Sheriff -- Despite Mexican Ex-Lover's Insistence That Sheriff's Camp Threatened Him With Deportation

​Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu turned a nearly hour-long press conference to address allegations of threats that he and his attorney made to Babeu's ex-boyfriend into a parade of people defending his right to be gay. He asked a slew of own employees and friends to the microphone to offer him t ... More >>

Paul Babeu's Mexican Ex-Lover Says Sheriff's Attorney Threatened Him With Deportation

Russell Pearce Nabs First Vice Chair, Ron Paul Dominates Straw Poll at State GOP Meeting

Ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce began slithering back into relevancy this Saturday during the Arizona GOP's winter meeting, held at Phoenix's Church for the Nations, where he was elected to the party's First Vice Chair position.Despite an embarrassing 12-point loss to fellow Republican Jerr ... More >>

State Senator Ron Gould (and His Mustache) Enters District Four Congressional Race

​Just days after Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu announced he's running for Congress in Arizona's fourth district, Republican state Senator Ron Gould announced that he, too, is entering the race. "After talking to residents of Arizona's Fourth Congressional District during my exploratory phase, on ... More >>

Sheriff Paul Babeu: "It's Time For a New Sheriff in Washington." Announces He'll Run For Congress

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu: proud member of the "build the dang fence" club.​It seemed like only a matter of time, but Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu announced this morning that he'll run for Congress in Arizona's Fourth Congressional District."The American people are sounding a giant 911 ca ... More >>

Scott Bundgaard Files Ethics Complaint Against Ethics Committee Members

Jeez, hurry up and resign already...State Senator Scott Bundgaard, facing an ethics complaint and possible expulsion from the Senate for his roadside fracas with his now former girlfriend and his invocation of legislative immunity,  has filed an ethics complaint against three members of the sta ... More >>

Morning Poll: Should State Senator Scott Bundgaard Resign Over Freeway Brouhaha

State Senator Scott Bundgaard's been asked to resign. ​The black eye state Senate Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard allegedly suffered as the result of a right hook from his now-ex-girlfriend, Aubry "Highway Heavyweight Champion" Ballard, is probably the least of the senator's concerns this morning. ... More >>

More Tales of State Senator Scott Bundgaard's Checkered Past Surface as Majority Leader Faces Ethics probe

azleg.gov​State Senator Scott Bundgaard's roadside domestic violence debacle on February 25 continues to dust up the many blemishes in the majority leader's past. And today, the tale of another jilted love affair involving Bundgaard and a woman are making headlines. The skeletons in the Peoria Re ... More >>

Scott Bundgaard Avoids Ouster From Leadership Role in Senate. Still Faces Likely Ethics Probe

With friends like these...​State Senate Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard will remain the second-most powerful person in the Senate following a closed-door meeting with members of the Republican caucus this morning, at which GOP lawmakers discussed the senator's February domestic violence incident.S ... More >>

Scott Bundgaard Avoids Ouster From Leadership Role in Senate. Still Faces Likely Ethics Probe

With friends like these...​State Senate Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard will remain the second-most powerful person in the Senate following a closed-door meeting with members of the Republican caucus this morning, at which GOP lawmakers discussed the senator's February domestic violence incident, ... 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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

Russell Pearce, Baby-Basher, on Blast Monday with "Thousand Baby Chain"

Does this man hate your baby? Um, only if it's not white...State Senate President Russell Pearce's baby-bashin', anti-14th Amendment legislation will get a hearing Monday, February 7, in the Senate Judiciary Committee, chaired by Pearce's ally, state Senator Ron Gould. Fortunately, the pro-immigrant ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Fantasy Dictatorship, and John Kavanagh as Josephine

Cute couple, eh?Jared Lee Loughner should run for the Arizona state Legislature. He'd feel right at home, particularly amongst the Russell Pearce Republicans, who are so delusional and high on their own supply right now that I'm half expecting to see state Senate President Pearce dressed up as Napol ... More >>

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

Arizona Lawmakers Move to Strip Governor Jan Brewer of Commutation Power

http://azjusticeproject.org​A group of state representatives has introduced a bill that would strip the governor of the power to commute prison sentences and hand it over to the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency. The legislation, formally titled HCR 2025: the Arizona Commutation Reform Act, is ... More >>

Arizona's Lax Gun Laws Helped Make Tucson's Jared Lee Loughner Possible

Fourteenth Amendment Challenged by Racist Wackjobs in D.C.

Pity poor state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce.He couldn't be there for all the fun today in D.C. as a passel of his moonhowlin' racist buds -- including nativist poster-boy Kris Kobach, now Secretary of State from Kansas, Pearce's primary flunky Arizona Representative John Kavanagh, and fell ... More >>

One Stinkin' Republican Vote Seperates Arizona From a State Budget

www.cama.com​At this point, there are three reasons Arizona still has a $3.4 billion budget gap: state senators Pamela Gorman, Ron Gould, and Carolyn Allen.Senate Republicans are one vote away from the 16 they need to pass a plan that would bridge the budget gap, and the ... More >>

State Senator Steve Pierce to Serve as Acting Senate Majority Whip Until the Rest of GOP Can Mosey on Home to Vote

www.arizonacattlemansassoc.org Senator Steve Pierce​If the Arizona Senate could vote on a budget as quickly as members vote on leadership positions, we might not still have a $3.4-billion budget gap.Senate Republicans named Steve Pierce acting majority whip Tuesday, just hours aft ... More >>

Senate Majority Whip Pam Gorman Resigns Post 'Cause of Republican Infighting

Arizona State Senator Pamela Gorman​If you can't beat em', quit. That's what one Arizona lawmaker chose to do today as the state budget battle wages on.Senate Majority Whip Pamela Gorman resigned her post in the Republican leadership in response to the party's support of a 1-cent-sales-tax i ... More >>

Send in the Clowns

Don't bother, they're here. After a decade of voter-mandated reform, the Arizona Legislature is as out of touch as ever