Sean McCaffrey

Russell Pearce's Ban Amnesty Now's Haters, and PoliticoMafioso's Anti-Pearce Top Ten

When recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce's Ban Amnesty Now announced a "buy-cott" of New Times' advertisers, I quipped that it was like being boycotted by the Ku Klux Klan. An exaggeration, to be sure, but not by as much as you might think.Take for example the comments of BAN supporters t ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, April 12, 2012

Russell Pearce Just Like Raul Grijalva Says Pearce Opponent Bob Worsley

Republican candidate for state Senate Robert Worsley, a conservative Mesa entrepreneur with a track record of success in the private sector (unlike his government-mooching opponent in Legislative District 25, ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce, natch) is speaking out in opposition to Pearce's ... More >>

Russell Pearce -- Infamous Already for Assaulting Arizona's Economy -- and His Bigoted Ban Amnesty Now Attack Local Businesses With Boycott

Funny how some conservatives are always against boycotts affecting Arizona businesses, unless they're the ones doing the boycotting. I say this as the nativist hate group Ban Amnesty Now fires up its promised boycott of New Times' advertisers, with shrill messages on BAN's website and Facebook ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Ban Amnesty Now Announces Boycott of New Times

It's pretty easy for a scribbler in this town to know when you've drawn blood from local hypocrites: Those skewered squeal like hogs being boiled alive in Karo syrup.Recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce is no exception, despite his tough-guy pose. Make that double for his mini-me enable ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Radio Show and Its Potential Legal Problems

The most interesting item to drop from the lips of recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce at Mesa's Red Mountain Tea Party meeting on Monday was not the fact that he's running for state Senate in Legislative District 25. Rather, it was something Pearce said to me as I buttonholed him ju ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Ban Amnesty Now Shills Old Canards for Cash

Twelve-point loser, radio lip-flapper and second vice chair of the Arizona GOP Russell Pearce owes his entire political existence, such as it is, to illegal immigrants and the racist lies he spews about them on a regular basis.Former Arizona GOP executive director Sean McCaffrey has given the marble ... More >>

Russell Pearce Preaches Hate on Ban Amnesty Now Radio Show

The high-priest of Hispanic-hatin', now flapping his lips on the AM dial... Xenophobia, self-adulation and delusion are just some of the repulsive dishes offered at ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce's radio cafeteria of hate, which airs Tuesdays and Mondays at 7 p.m. on Phoenix's KFNX 1100 AM ... More >>

Russell Pearce Scores GOP Chairman Tom Morrissey's Endorsement for First Vice Chair

Unless you frequent right wing blogs such as Sonoran Alliance or SeeingRedAZ, you may have missed the tidbit that disgraced ex-state Senator Russell Pearce has won the endorsement of Arizona GOP Chair Tom Morrissey for the unpaid position Pearce is seeking: First Vice Chair of the Arizona Republican ... More >>

Russell Pearce Scores Paying Gig as "President" of Ban Amnesty Now

I've been staying up late nights worrying about disgraced former state Senate President Russell Pearce.I mean, what's a washed-up nativist hatemonger to do for cash? Sure, he's been busy running for First Vice Chair of the Arizona Republican Party, but that won't put fatback on the griddle, being th ... 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's Supporters' Claims of "Massive Voter Registration Fraud" Contradicted by Elections Officials

Will Linda Bentley's bogus allegations save this guy? Not a chance...As of Monday morning, Maricopa County Elections Director Karen Osborne said the county had validated 10,356 signatures from petitions seeking the recall of state Senate President Russell Pearce. That's 2,600 more than the 7,75 ... More >>

SCA Report Details Depth of Conspiracy Between Maricopa County Sheriff's Office and State GOP; Repubs Took Anti-Dan Saban Ad Material and Dirty Money From Arpaio's Buddies

Randy Pullen, former chairman of the state Republican Party, knew the SCA donation was illegally earmarked, sources told state and federal investigators​ Maricopa County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Lisa Allen was dismayed when she saw the super-sleazy TV ad against her boss' opponent, Da ... More >>

Jennifer Barber, Former Goodyear Council Candidate, Stands by Story About For-Sale Arpaio Endorsement

  Jennifer Barber, former Goodyear City Council candidate, says she was told by a state GOP staffer that she could get Sheriff Arpaio's endorsement if she paid $2,000 to a political consultant.​A former Goodyear City Council candidate is sticking to her story that a state Republic ... More >>

Russell Pearce and Other Illegal-Immigration Populists Rely on Misleading, Right-Wing Reports to Scapegoat Immigrants and to Terrify Penny-Pinched Americans

Joe Arpaio Kicks Ban Amnesty Now To the Curb Over E-Mail Flap

BAN too extreme for Arpaio? Gimme a break In a startling turn of events, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has cut ties with the local nativist organization Ban Amnesty Now over a controversial e-mail that many Latino and liberal groups assumed was a voter suppression effort. As I detailed in a blog pos ... More >>

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 >>

Joe Arpaio and Russell Pearce's Ban Amnesty Now Blasted by John Dougherty

Sheriff Joe's ball: Yours for $100Crusading U.S. Senate candidate and former New Times journalist John Dougherty has fired a salvo at what he refers to as "Arizona's axis of hysteria." That is, this odd fundraising venture on the part of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and neo-Nazi-hugging state Senator Russell ... More >>

Joel Fox Met with Chris Baker to Discuss SCA Donation -- GOP Consultant Now Linked to Scandal

​It's one mystery solved, a few more to go.Thanks to documents unsealed today in Pinal County Superior Court at New Times' behest, we now know the liaison between the Arizona Republican Party and Sheriff's Captain Joel Fox.It's a Republican campaign consultant, Chris Baker.Arizona Re ... More >>

The Bird Praises CameraFraud.com and Aerosol Art While Urging State Democrats to Grow a Pair

Dems Don Bivens, Maria Weeg Get Love from Sonoran Alliance; Sean McCaffrey Leaves AZ GOP

Maria Weeg, aka, "the Weeg-ster": Her resemblance to erstwhile Dukakis campaign aide Susan Estrich, is striking.It's gotta be cold comfort for Arizona Democratic Party Chairman "Dandy" Don Bivens and Executive Director Maria Weeg to be getting love from the ideological Cro-Magnons over at the Sonora ... More >>

Dec. 3 In Blogs: Cheap Trick, Free Subs, Don Bivens, The Arizona Republic and More

We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Valley Fever: Editors Take Big Hits in Arizona Republic Layoffs Free Hot Air Balloon ... More >>

The Dirty on Nik Richie, Post-it Note Ninjas, and SCA-Gate — All Within This Owl’s Talons

Arpaio's "Watergate": Yellow Sheet Finds MCSO's Prints on Anti-Saban Ad Money.

Gerald Richard Says Arpaio-Henchman David Hendershott Offered Up Damaging Info on Dan Saban (w/Update).

The Bird tsks at Phoenix Magazine, revisits Guadalupe’s recalls and takes one more swipe at Russell “White Pride” Pearce

Three Congressmen call for J.T. Ready's ouster, the Nationalist Coalition's PHX "family night," and Oi Fest! in Tonopah.

Two-ton turd-Reicher J.T. Ready distributes anti-Semitic and racist propaganda at County Republican meeting.

Janet "Manet" Napolitano: The PC Grinch Who's Afraid of Christmas.

Racist Daisy-Chain

The Wild Turkey calls the guv a coward, outs Republican white supremacists, and searches for Dennis Wilenchik’s lost subpoenas