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Russell Pearce's Leprechaun Rob Haney Flips Out, Invalidates LD 25 Election, Calls the Coppers

I wish I'd been at the November 29 meeting of Legislative District 25 Republicans for the election of new officers and state committee-persons. All the haters were there, and the haters had their asses handed to them when their pro-hater slate, for the most part, went down in flames. Which is the m ... More >>

Helen Purcell Urged to End Confusion Over CBS 5 Early Ballot Report

Sadly, confusion still reigns after CBS 5's recent report on early ballots and the volunteers from different groups picking them up, in which this legal, and very common activity was labeled, wrongly, as illegal. CBS 5 reporter Donna Rossi incorrectly paraphrased the remarks of Maricopa County Reco ... More >>

Lord of the Ring

Reps for Strength

Paul Babeu's Conversation With Suddenly Former Pinal County Sheriff's Candidate Steve Henry: Best Guess for How That Went Down

The above video (posted by a reader) is our best, hilarious guess as to how the conversation went between Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu and Chief Deputy Steve Henry, as Babeu essentially had to let Henry know he was reducing his shot at becoming Pinal County Sheriff to zero. You know, for the ... More >>

Gossip Girl

Wonder-Wall

Joe Arpaio's Lawyer Grilled by Ninth Circuit About Why Sheriff Should Remain Exempt from New Times' False-Arrest Lawsuit

Sheriff Joe Arpaio​Editor's note: This post was written by Peter Jamison, who covered the hearing for us and our sister paper, the SF Weekly: An 11-member panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit had tough questions today for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's ... More >>

Video of Activists Protesting New Times -- Compliments of Dennis Gilman

Roughly 15 activists picketed in front of New Times' Phoenix offices this afternoon in protest of our parent company, Village Voice Media's, classified ad website Backpage.com.The activists feel the website facilitates sex trafficking -- although, they admit that getting rid of Backpage.com will not ... More >>

Lit Rocks

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 >>

Russell Pearce's Favorite Scribe Linda Bentley Repeats Smear of Mesa Woman

lindabentley.blogspot.comFor Bentley "responsible journalism" means sliming an innocent person, over and over againI'm getting pretty annoyed at having to berate Sonoran News' nutjob newshound Linda Bentley over her myriad stupidities, but I can't let this one go.As I noted in a recent column, neith ... More >>

Not Guilty?: A List of Five Songs Inspired by the Casey Anthony Trial Verdict

This woman is not a murderer, according to FloridaTuesday was dominated with the news of the not guilty verdict in the Casey Anthony murder trial, the latest trial to gain such massive media attention. Anthony was acquitted by an Orange County, Florida jury fn the murder of her 2-year-old daughter C ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Allies at Cave Creek's Sonoran News Slime an Innocent Woman in an Attempt to Besmirch the Effort Seeking His Recall

Russell Pearce Recall Sigs Scored, Most Pearce Donors from Outside LD18

Most of Pearce's 2010 donations were from outside LD18I plan to ride around town with a dead crow in my car, so the next time I see local hack Howie Fischer, he of the one-man "Capitol Media Services," I can carve him off a slice for his dinner.See, Fischer, like many of the rest of Arizona's status ... More >>

Susan Brock Sex Scandal: Chandler Police Recommended LDS Bishops be Charged Crimes for Failing to Report

This apparently applies to alerting authorities that a 49-year-old woman is sexually abusing a teenage boy.​A new report released by the Chandler Police Department shows that detectives investigating two bishops in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recommended that the two men ... More >>

Harmon Killebrew Dead at 74; 1960s Home Run King Loses Battle With Cancer

Harmon Killebrew: 1936-2011​Legendary Minnesota Twins third baseman Harmon Killebrew, who hit more home runs than any other player during the 1960s, died in his Scottsdale home this morning, ending his battle with esophageal cancer.Killebrew played 22 seasons in the Majors with the ... More >>

Arizona AG Tom Horne Turns Part of Fiesta Bowl Investigation Over to Maricopa County Attorney's Office; Admits Some Conflict of Interest

James King If you contributed to Attorney General Tom Horne's campaign, he has no problem prosecuting you if you break the law -- he says.​Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne announced today that he's turning over some of the investigation into the Fiesta Bowl fiasco to the Maricopa Cou ... More >>

Morning Poll: Is Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock's Political Career in Trouble?

Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock has a GOP challenger for his seat in 2012. ​The Arizona Republic reported yesterday that Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, whose prison-bound wife was recently convicted of having sex with the same teenage boy whom his adult daughter is accused of hav ... More >>

Jose Canseco's Latest Attempt to Stay Relevant: Managing/Playing for Yuma Scorpions

www.duelingcuches.com​So far, Jose Canseco's life after baseball has included the following: spilling the beans on the droves of other professional baseball players who used steroids, appearing on several reality TV shows like The Apprentice, The Surreal Life, and Stripper's Ball with porn l ... More >>

Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock's Handwriting Sample Obtained Through Chandler Police Search Warrant. Related to Daughter's Teen Sex Case, Cops Say

Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock's had a rough six months.​Once again, just when we though the uber-bizarre sex scandal involving both the wife and daughter of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock and a teenage boy couldn't possibly get any more bizarre, it did.The Chandler Police ... More >>

John Zidich, Arizona Republic Publisher and Member of Fiesta Bowl Executive Committee, in Glaring Conflict of Interest, Say Local Journos and Politicos

​On Tuesday, the Fiesta Bowl released an internal investigation of bowl employees, highlighting questionable spending of the organization's money and alleged illegal campaign contributions -- the second such internal investigation since The Arizona Republic started reporting on it in 2009. ... More >>

Morning Poll: Are Republicans to Blame for Fiesta Bowl Fiasco?

​Yesterday, Arizona Democratic Party Chairman Andrei Cherny issued a statement bashing Republicans for turning "the Fiesta Bowl into a front for funneling illegal campaign contributions to Republican politicians."Cherny failed to mention in his statement that several of those who benefited from th ... More >>

Fiesta Bowl Fiasco: Arizona Dems Make it Political -- Despite Some of Their Own Having Benefitted From John Junker's (Ahem) Generosity

​By now you probably know about the Fiesta Bowl's decision to ax CEO John Junker following an internal investigation into how he was spending the organization's money, but it's the alleged illegal contributions to the campaigns of Valley politicos that has Arizona Democrats fuming.Junker, the ... More >>

Andrew Thomas May End Up Disbarred, But He Really Belongs in a Prison Cell

Joe Arpaio Signs Off on Ban Amnesty Now's Voter Suppression Efforts?

Kris Kobach? That's some "impartial" source you got there, SeanThe paranoia has been reaching a fever-pitch both in and over an e-mail recently sent out by the local nativist organization Ban Amnesty Now, which claims that "illegals" are looking to steal the upcoming midterm elections. The e-ma ... More >>

Raising Sextuplets Parents Headed for Splitsville Following Arizona Spat

Bryan Masche​It appears that reality TV's claimed yet another marriage. Two more family-oriented reality TV stars are going the route of John and Kate: Bryan and Jenne Masche, stars of the reality TV show Raising Sextuplets,  reportedly are heading for splitsville.Last week, we tol ... More >>

9-1-1 Call: Raising Sextuplets Star Used Kids and Guns as "Leverage" Against Wife

Bryan Masche. Sweet grin for a guy charged with threatening domestic violence.​Bryan Masche is best known for his starring role in the family reality TV show Raising Sextuplets. Now he's also known for his starring role in a 9-1-1 call made to Camp Verde police released to the public today.Masche ... More >>

Arizona Diamondbacks Pitching Prospect Joel Matos Busted For Steroids; Suspended 50 Games

dailyspeculations.com​A pitching prospect for the Arizona Diamondbacks has been busted for using performance-enhancing drugs. Joel Matos, a right-handed pitcher in the Dominican Summer League, tested positive for metabolites of the drug Stanozolol, which is also known as Winstrol.In other words, ... More >>

J.D. Hayworth's Old Pal Jack Abramoff Leaves Prison for Halfway House

Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff is scheduled to be released from prison on December 4.​With the latest leg of the John McCain/J.D. Hayworth saga focusing on which of the two is more of a lobbyist, it seems only fitting that one of the most scandalous lobbyists in history just got  ... More >>

Skinhead Deep

Ex neo-Nazie writes his way to redemption

Chest in Show

It’s a tie-em-up-punch-him-in-the-face kind of movie

Curt Schilling Says Steroid Cheats Have No Place in Hall of Fame

www.deadspin.com Curt Schilling and his "bloody sock"​Former Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Curt Schilling says professional baseball players, who have admitted to using steroids, should be barred from the Baseball Hall of Fame.New York Yankees fans would say: So should a dirty sock with some ... More >>

Lil Wayne's Going to Jail -- Finally

Weezie​It's a sad day for the somewhat-literate Lil Wayne fans, who often comment on our blogs: Weezie is finally going to jail to begin a year-long jail sentence for gun charges in New York.Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, was initially supposed to turn himself into authorities on Februar ... More >>

Shutter Island: Stuck in the Asylum With Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio

Dean Martin

TV and film star returns to his mic-wielding roots

Found: Stray Cats

Quirky troupe is quite comfortable in non-flashy digs

Murder, He Wrote

A close-to-home account of an infamous Phoenix hit

Murder, She Wrote

Journalist Camille Kimball memorializes Phoenix’s year of fear

Insane Clown Posse, D12, Blaze Ya Dead Homie and More of Detroit's Scariest Rap Music

King Crismon

All hail the giallo godfather

Trial by Firing

Inside Dubya's Department of Injustice

S.O.B. Story

Controversial comic rides the mid-career rollercoaster

Those Crazy Artists

The plumed wonder on Roosevelt Row artists who hate crazies, Scottsdale's refunding of 1,964 camera tickets and the new Catholic homophobia