Sylvia Allen

Arizona's Nutty Republicans Star in Anti-Agenda 21 Hearing: The Highlight Reel

Members of the conspiracy-theory wing of the Republican Party in Arizona, sometimes referred to as the "Black Helicopter Caucus," gathered last week at the Capitol to discuss Agenda 21 and their fears of the plan that appears to have been adopted from Glenn Beck.Republican State Senator Judy Burges ... More >>

Arizona Ballot Propositions: How to Vote Against (or With) Russell Pearce and His Ilk

Here's the thing about the propositions on the ballot for tomorrow's election: for the most part, they're boring, and at the end of the day, you may not really give a damn.Thankfully, people like ousted state Senate President Russell Pearce, Governor Jan Brewer, and the lobbyists from Center for Ari ... More >>

Liberal Democrats Tar Republican Jerry Lewis, Borrowing a Page From Extremists They Claim to Loathe

Russell Pearce's Vanquisher Jerry Lewis Slimed by Democrats

Here's proof positive that Democrats can be just as scummy as Republicans. I mean this hit piece mailed out to folks in Legislative District 26, declaring that state Senator Jerry Lewis, the man who took on former state Senate President Russell Pearce, the biggest bigot in this state, and defeated ... More >>

Paul Babeu, Pinal County Sheriff, Tosses Armed Militia into the Mix of Poorly Training Border Patrol Agents With Use of Force Issues

A recipe for disaster: U.S Customs and Border Patrol's lax policies over the use of lethal force. Inadequately trained agents sent to patrol rough desert terrain blanketed with fear and tension that's fueled by potential danger. A border-hawk sheriff putting weapons in the hands of unpaid civilia ... More >>

Paul Babeu's Getting Armed Volunteers to (Supposedly) Help Fight Mexican Drug Cartels

Embattled Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu teamed up with state Senator/New Times' "Best Raving Loon" Sylvia Allen yesterday to announce that armed volunteers now be combating drug-smuggling in the county.Babeu's unpaid "Anti-Smuggling Posse" will be the junior-varsity squad for PCSO's SWAT team when ... More >>

Russell Pearce Fundraiser Scrapped by Macayo's, Oaxaca's...

Seems there's there's no room at the posada for former state Senate President Russell Pearce.Yesterday, I gave you a rundown of the nativist goons set to appear at Macayo's Mexican Restaurant on Central Avenue tonight for a fundraiser to benefit Pearce, a veritable who's who of anti-Mexican bigots i ... More >>

Russell Pearce Bigot Bash at Central High School Library CANCELED!!!

UPDATE 4:30 P.M.: Just received a call from Phoenix Union School District's community relations office. They tell me they've CANCELED Pearce's event, as they don't have the security to handle it. This just in...now (apparently) they're going to be having the event at a high-school that's 60 per ... More >>

Terri Proud, Tea Party Princess, Chickens Out of LD 9 Run

Just when I thought it couldn't get any better than screw-loose GOP state Senator Sylvia Allen suddenly finding the Navajo County Board of Supervisors a more attractive sphere of influence than the lege's upper house, along comes this beautiful news from a recent edition of the Capitol Times' Yellow ... More >>

Sylvia Allen, Uber-Wingnut, Chickens Out of LD 6 Run

Score a triumph for redistricting a little more than a half-year ahead of the November elections. The Payson Roundup reports that Republican state Senator Sylvia Allen has turned yellower than an egg-sucking cur at the prospect of running in the newly formed Legislative District 6, where a recent po ... More >>

Here's the List of Arizona State Senators Who Didn't Want to Ban Lawmakers From Getting Free Tickets to Special Events

Last year, people were creating a stink after it was discovered that some Arizona legislators got tickets and trips to sporting events thanks to the Fiesta Bowl.Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery explained in December that none of the politicos would face charges, saying prosecutors were ... More >>

Sylvia Allen, Wingnut Tinfoil Hat-Wearer, Ekes Out 22 Percent Approval Rating in Her New District

Know what the best part of this new poll released by Arizona Working Families is? The lowest ranked legislator of those mentioned in the survey was none other than crackpot Republican state Senator Sylvia Allen.Allen, who currently represents Legislative District 5, scored a measly 22 percent favora ... More >>

Glenn Spencer, Nativist Anti-Semite, Repped By John Munger, Ex-Gubernatorial Candidate

Right-wing attempts to legitimize nativist border wacko Glenn Spencer persist in the strangest fashion.Today, the conservative website Right Side News reported on a letter from former GOP gubernatorial candidate John Munger to Luis Heredia, Executive Director of the Arizona Democratic Party, de ... More >>

Glenn Spencer, Nativist Anti-Semite, Lectures State Senate Border Security Committee

Nativist extremist and documented anti-Semite Glenn Spencer spoke today at the state Senate Border Security, Federalism, and States' Rights Committee, a seriously loony legislative panel chaired by crackpot Republican state Senator Sylvia Allen.Democratic state Senators Steve Gallardo and Robert Mez ... More >>

Is Sylvia Allen's Plan For The "Arizona Guard" Really A Good Idea?

azresistance.wordpress.comLookin' fer Mexicans.​Republican State Senator Sylvia Allen is pushing her legislation to spend more than $1 million to form a civilian militia of folks to play Border Patrol agents down at the border.Allen has called the training these people would receive "comparabl ... More >>

Sylvia Allen Responds to Raul Grijalva's Dislike of "Arizona Guard" With Cartel Accusation

Wikimedia CommonsState Senator Sylvia Allen has an opinion.​Democratic Congressman Raul Grijalva released a statement about State Senator Sylvia Allen's bill to create a volunteer militia to guard the border, and as you can imagine, he's not too hip to the idea."This legislation is not just silly ... More >>

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 >>

Sylvia Allen's "Arizona Guard": Disaster in the Making

If you need an example of wigged-out, dysfunctional democracy verging on outright insanity, look no further than state Senator Sylvia Allen's Border Security, Federalism and States' Sovereignty Committee.Here, Chairwoman Allen and a cadre of right-wing loons hold sway. Rational questions and reasone ... More >>

Steve Gallardo Drops Repeal SB 1070 Bill, Nativists Counter-Rally

Down at the state Capitol today, it was like a little bit of 2010, all over again.Grizzled nativists toting "I love SB 1070 signs," with pistols on their hips. Pro-immigration activists in droves denouncing the two-year old breathing-while-brown statute. And Arizona Department of Public Safety offic ... More >>

Ethnic Studies at TUSD on the Ropes Till Federal Judge Rules

Los Tigres del Norte, apparently not to Judge Kowal's liking...Is there any doubt save in the most muddled of noggins that Arizona's Latino population continues to dwell beneath the bootheel of a hostile political class made up almost entirely of Anglos?Yes, the successful recall of the state's top ... More >>

Arizona Senate Votes Down Five Immigration Bills Sponsored By Russell Pearce and Dingleberry Right-Wingers

Arizona SenateIs your senator a Russell Pearce dingleberry, like Steve Smith?​Five anti-immigration bills sponsored by Senate President Russell Pearce and dingleberry right-wing senators went down in defeat yesterday as sanity prevailed in the Arizona legislature. The rejected measures were S ... More >>

Glenn Spencer, Nativist Anti-Semite, To Lecture Arizona Senate Committee

walkingthelinefilm.comWhat, me a raving racist anti-Semite? You would think that an old, Mexican-bashing coot like Glenn Spencer, the head of the nativist "organization" American Border Patrol, would be radioactive to any politician with a lick of sense, after all of the dumb, bigoted statements he' ... More >>

Jan Brewer's Personal Army? SB 1495 Paves the Way

Senator Allen: Pawn of the feds?Do you think Governor Jan Brewer, or any Arizona governor from this point on, should have a volunteer military force that she can call up and use for any purpose whatsoever?Well, that's what the governor would have if Senate Bill 1495 becomes law: A blank check t ... 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 >>

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 >>

John Birch Society Less Radical Than Arizona Legislature

Ron Paul RevolutionJim Pinkerman: John Bircher and voice of reason? Sca-ry.It's an odd day in the annals of the Arizona legislature when members of the far-right John Birch Society -- a conspiratorial-minded organization obsessed with the "New World Order," the Federal Reserve, and the gold standard ... More >>

Sylvia Allen, Elected State Senator, Makes Even Jan Brewer Seem Compassionate

We're guessing that Sylvia Allen, a mother of five and grandmother of 18 who represents a rural eastern Arizona district at the State Senate, is known to her family and friends as a warm, caring individual. State Senator Sylvia Allen aka Madame Cold Heart​ We suspect that Allen proba ... More >>

Neo-Nazi Hugger Russell Pearce, the Ten Commandments, and Five Extra for Just Him

How good is Russell Pearce at following commandments? Let's find out...Just read the big news that neo-Nazi hugger and bigot Russell Pearce got his plan to erect the Ten Commandments outside the old state Capitol through committee. Yep, Arizona may not have enough dough to keep its rest stops or its ... More >>