What did the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors know about the MCSO’s Honduras project and when did they know it? That’s still an open question as the BOS’s flack Deanne Poulos released documents Friday revealing the times that aid to Honduras was discussed before the Board of Supervisors. The first,…
Sheriff Joe can always count on ultra-conservative KTAR lip-flapper Darrell Ankarlo to wipe Arpaio’s fanny clean with his kisser, even when Joe’s been caught with his hand in the RICO cookie jar, as has been the case with the revelation of Arpaio’s Chief Deputy David Hendershott’s Honduran project. I heard…
The Guv gives Sheriff Joe, David Hendershott and members of their Honduran posse some love. (Click on pic for a slightly larger version.) Talk about a rogues gallery! Here’s Gov. Napolitano in her June 2007 photo op with Sheriff Joe, Chief Deputy David Hendershott and members of the Honduran National…
JABBA’S JUNKETEERS It’s a story “you’ll see only on 12 News,” crowed KPNX-TV anchor Mark Curtis, whose caterpillar mustache rivals that of Will Ferrell’s titular character in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Curtis was introducing a recent piece by 12 News reporter Joe Dana about Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s deputies…
I’m on the run, but I’ve just heard that KTAR has reported that Sheriff Joe’s suspending his Chief Deputy David Hendershott’s pet Honduran project — one that’s been financed by RICO funds to the tune of about $32K. According to KTAR’s Bob McClay, Arpaio told KTAR that, “As far as…
Paid for by your RICO dollars: Chief Deputy David Hendershott (left), the unchecked power behind Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s throne, in Honduras with Bay Islands Police Commissario Julio Benitez; retired MCSO Deputy Roger Marshall; and Captain Jim Miller. Remember my revelation last month that the upper echelon of the Maricopa County…
Sen. John McCain’s “Oh!” face. Supposedly, the ladies love it… Am I the only one who’s found Sen. John McCain’s denial of an improper relationship with Washington lobbyist Vicki Iseman to be as insincere as a late-night TV ad for a sex chat service? Right-wing radio, after skewering McCain for…
Who will Wilenchik blame the Lacey-Larkin arrests on next? Mr. Green Jeans? His manservant Cato? Col. Mustard in the kitchen with a wrench? In case you missed it, disgraced ex-special prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik has a little op-ed in the Arizona Republic today. In it, he woodenly attempts to rationalize his…
New Times submitted a formal Notice of Claim on Wednesday, February 20, against the public officials responsible for a fiasco in October that saw the attempted trampling of the First Amendment rights of this newspaper and its readers, and culminated in the jailing of its founders, Michael Lacey and Jim…
The following is a consumer alert reported by my colleague Ray Stern, following up on features he wrote last year concerning the local co. LifeLock. LifeLock, the ethics-challenged, Tempe-based company featured in two investigative New Times articles last year, has been slammed with a federal lawsuit that aims to deliver…
J.T. Ready, 2nd from right, proud Republican and anti-Semite, at a neo-Nazi rally in Omaha, NE last year. I’ve lived in several states over the years, but AZ takes the proverbial cake when it comes to the casual, ho-hum acceptance of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other dangerous political extremists as…
Courtney Bisbee’s supporters at the state capitol yesterday. Courtney’s mom Camille Tilley is in the center. The mothers of the disappeared. That’s the first thought that came to mind upon seeing the supporters of Courtney Bisbee on the lawn of the state capitol this Valentines Day. Though unlike those Argentine…
In a sign of United for a Sovereign America’s continued embrace of fanaticism and anti-immigrant extremism, U.S.A.’s Web site immigrationbuzz.com refers to iconic Arizona neo-Nazi Elton Hall as “Our Patriot,” and reports that his pelvis was broken in an accident Saturday near 25th Street and Bell Road in north Phoenix…
Elton Hall (left) at a neo-Nazi BBQ last year; note his pal’s affection for the neo-Nazi punk rock band Skrewdriver. Alter kocker anti-immigrant activist Elton Hall, 74, a persistent protester of the Macehualli Work Center and a fixture at other anti-immigrant protests, was struck and injured Saturday morning when two…
We fought the law, and we won. Again. Tuesday the Arizona Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s ruling, finding that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office “wrongfully denied New Times access to public records,” sending the case back to superior court “for a further determination on the issue of attorney’s…
McCain, ready to squeeze another one out… On the way back to the office from casting my ballot for Barack Obama, I had fun listening first to OxyContin-boy Rush Limbaugh, then to conservative gasbag Sean Hannity, as they each desperately tore Senator John McCain to shreds in favor of their…
Is it just me, or does ol’ prune-face here look like he needs some Gas-X? Here’s a reason to avoid the book stores in coming months, Maricopa County’s egomaniacal despot Sheriff Joe Arpaio has a new book coming out with co-hagiographer Len Sherman in May, titled, Joe’s Law: America’s Toughest…
Big Snoop Dogg inspects the troops. Snoop Dogg’s All-Stars came to Chandler’s Hamilton High to play, as they say in the sports pages, and they kicked much Arizona ass Saturday, dominating the pee-wee version of the AZ Cardinals, and concluding Snoop Bowl VI with an impressive 33-14 win. Too bad…
Eddie Basha supports Sheriff Joe. Wonder how the Valley’s Hispanics like them frijoles? The unions are gonna love this one. Financial statements are out for the 2008 Maricopa County Sheriff’s race, and guess who lent a smidgen of his largesse to the over $300,000 Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s raised so far…
NO HOLDS BARRED What ICE doesn’t know won’t hurt it. That’s the Sheriff’s Office policy regarding immigration “holds” placed on those the MCSO suspects of being illegal aliens, a category covering everyone in town darker than the average eggshell. Indeed, as part of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s recent posse-enhanced dragnet of…
The next President of the United States? I hope so… (photo by Jillian Sloan) Part rock concert. Part college pep rally. That’s what it felt like as Senator Barack Obama wowed a near-capacity crowd at PHX’s Veterans Memorial Coliseum Wednesday evening. The almost 14,000 in attendance had waited over two…
Dan the Man, heading into battle against Nickel Bag Joe. Just received the following news release on Dan Saban’s retirement as Buckeye Police Chief. It’ll be effective August 1, so he’ll have nothing slowing him down as he goes into full-court press against Sheriff Joe this fall. If we’re lucky,…
