The Wing-nut from Wasilla, reporting as unfit for duty. Anyone who hasn’t watched the Sarah Palin interviews by ABC News’ Charlie Gibson should log onto YouTube or the ABC News web site and tremble in fear. That’s what I did after missing the initial broadcasts, as I was out both…
By Stephen Lemons Arizona’s in a recession, and business moves to Mexico due to employer sanctions law. Still think it was a good idea? UNLV Rebs surprise Sun Devils in overtime. Cards devour Dolphins. D-Backs done in by Reds. Bill Heard Chevrolet shuttered. Bomb explodes at Scottsdale restaurant Dickie’s Dogs…
The gang was all there, and then some, to hear Ventura speak in Mesa. You’ll have to await next week’s Bird column for a full accounting of Jesse Ventura’s appearance at the Mesa Convention Center Thursday night. As you can see from the photo above, the Peter Boyle-lookalike packed the…
Since I reported yesterday on the fact that Sheriff Joe was losing his own fake poll on his own Web site, all kinds of shenanigans have been goin’ down at the loony lawdog’s campaign site sheriffjoe.org. First they take the poll down, then they put it back up. And now…
By Stephen Lemons Arpaio probed by three federal agencies. Jesse “The Bonehead” Ventura spews 9/11 nuttiness at memorial. Teacher quits over porn projection. Fire marshal resigns over lap dance flap. Woman accused of stabbing boyfriend 27 times gabs on-air, proclaims innocence. Under Sarah Palin, rape victims paid for own exam…
Hey, you know it’s bad when nearly 70 percent of those responding to an online poll on your own reelection site say they’re not going to vote for you. That’s the case with Nickel Bag Joe Arpaio, who has a poll on his campaign site sheriffjoe.org,*** which asks the question,…
By Stephen Lemons First corn vendors, then landscapers, now Arpaio goes after candle makers. Real tough guy, our sheriff. Sgt. Lovejoy sues Joe over doggie demise. ICE to audit Arpaio over 287g agreement. (Finally.) McCain and Obama commemorate 9/11. Tempe brings back “Healing Field” of flags. High school teacher projects…
FORTRESS ARPAIO More like Don Quixote than César Chávez, pro-immigrant activist Salvador Reza is laying siege to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s downtown Phoenix fortress. This plumed pecker means the Wells Fargo building at 100 West Washington Street, where Nickel Bag Joe surveys his kingdom from his upscale digs, high above us…
What’s fair for John Edwards should also be fair for Sarah Palin… Glenn Beck just can’t leave poor ol’ John Edwards alone. Seems like every time I tune into the wing-nut lip-flapper, he’s pummeling the Edwards stallion like the story of the pol’s infidelity broke yesterday, bewailing how the MSM…
By Stephen Lemons Obama campaign opens Arizona digs. The ACLU’s Dan Pochoda beats bogus trespass charge. (Congrats, Dan!) Backyard wrestling ring busted by po-po. Speed camera van driver popped for DUI. Giants crush D-Backs. Mercury not swift enough for Shock. SNL’s Franken wins Minnesota Senate primary. Let the Al Franken…
Dennis Gilman’s latest on the protests at Wells Fargo… The anti-Arpaio protests at the Wells Fargo bank building in downtown Phoenix are in their second week, and so much is happening on a daily basis that I think the organizers of the action should have their own blog just to…
By Stephen Lemons Geezer McCain’s got more bounce than Obama? That’ll teach the whippersnapper. “Reformer” Sarah Palin billed Alaska for time spent at home. (It’s the hypocrisy, stupid.) McCain speech heckler was a Phoenix gal. (You go, girl.) Pro-immigrant firebrand Isabel Garcia cleared in Arpaio pinata controversy. Phoenix Mercury best…
By Stephen Lemons Nik Richie posts john names (he says) in Desert Divas bust. You won’t believe who’s listed. (Update: Richie’s taken them down. Was the story bogus, Nik?) Old Man McCain takes lead over Obama in new poll. (Yikes!) Arizona tax revenues in the dumps. Cards clobber the 49ers…
C’mon, Jesse, rock the boa, for old times’ sake… Do the reporters who pen the Political Insider column for the Arizona Republic know how to use Google? Does their editor? I wonder this after reading this Sunday’s edition of the Insider. The column talks up the fact that the former…
More effective than a bucketful of Sominex… A colossal yawn. That’s what a CSPAN cameraman caught one of the GOP delegates in the middle of last night during John McCain’s speech, and it pretty much summed up my experience watching it. A real snoozer. I could barely keep from flipping…
By Stephen Lemons Who da man? Nik Richie is drunk driver Hooman Karamian. McCain gives his big speech. Faithful roar, the rest of us snooze. Heart fires off cease and desist letter to McCain/Palin over Barracuda rip-off. Arizona bishops pray for passage of gay marriage ban. Pima’s Popes of Pot…
Since Huffington Post published the story a couple of days ago of McCain’s Veep choice Sarah Palin’s association with the Assemblies of God church in Wasilla, Alaska, nearly 750,000 people have read the item, and presumably watched the video of Palin at the church she attended for many years, giving…
Does the Guv secretly heart Sarah Palin, or does she just have hoof-in-mouth disease? What the hell is wrong with Janet Napolitano? The woman has a cushy job where she doesn’t have to lift a pinky, and for nearly six years, she’s mostly maintained a stunning record of boredom and…
By Stephen Lemons Sarah “Peyton Place” Palin blasts Obama, trumpets her small town roots. Mayor Mary Manross refuses to concede in Scottsdale, runoff in the offing. CD5 Republicans still waiting to see who takes on Harry Mitchell. D-Backs slice up St. Lou. Previews of Stanford at ASU, Cards at San…
Watch it and weep, Mesa Republicans ignored this info about Pearce and so much more. Nearly 70 percent of Republican primary voters in LD18 were unconcerned with Russell Pearce playing patty-cake with a neo-Nazi. Indeed, that neo-Nazi, the now infamous J.T. Ready, told me he voted for Pearce and still…
By Stephen Lemons Mesa GOPers grant victory to neo-Nazi-hugger Russell Pearce. Maybe J.T. Ready should run for something. Tim Nelson gets Dem nod for County Attorney contest against Candy Thomas. (Go get him, Tim.) Hay and Kirkpatrick will duke it out for Rick Renzi’s Congressional seat. Mayor Gordon breaks his…
The racist sticker is in the middle of the “o” in “Tony.” Campaign signs for Tony Bouie, an African-American candidate in the LD6 GOP primary for state House, were hit primary day with a crude, racist sticker showing a nude black man in silhouette with target sights around his body…
