If there never had been a monitor appointed by Judge G. Murray Snow in the ACLU’s big civil rights case, Melendres v. Arpaio, it’s unlikely that we would know as much as we do about late MCSO Detective Ramon Charley Armendariz. And yet, Armendariz, who the Sheriff’s Office says took…
So what do you do when you have the FBI breathing down your neck (again), you’ve been ordered to give back $400,000 in illegal campaign contributions (again), and allegations of your using the Arizona Attorney General’s Office as your re-election headquarters have been so well documented that both conservative U.S…
As Tom Horne’s zombie-like re-election campaign staggers forth, a question remains: Who will chop off its head? Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s bizarre relationship with women is best described by ex-AG staffer Sarah Beattie, the 26-year-old who has deluged both state and federal authorities with physical evidence demonstrating that Horne…
As Tom Horne’s zombie-like re-election campaign staggers forth, a question remains: Who will chop off its head? Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s bizarre relationship with women is best described by ex-AG staffer Sarah Beattie, the 26-year-old who has deluged both state and federal authorities with physical evidence demonstrating that Horne…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne and his surrogates have been doing their darnedest to drag former AG staffer Sarah Beattie through the mud, in an obvious attempt to deflect attention from the mountain of evidence provided by Beattie, showing that Horne has been running his re-election campaign from the AG’s…
Guess who’s having the worst week ever? Add to Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s many woes — including dueling scandals, local and federal law enforcement probes, and a $400K ad buy by a conservative group demanding his resignation — a poll of likely GOP voters, showing Horne trailing his primary…
Spare the rod, spoil the Horne-dog. Arizona Public Integrity Alliance, the conservative group Horne unsuccessfully SLAPP-sued for defamation, is giving Attorney General Tom Horne the first of many birchings he’ll no doubt be receiving this year, in this new ad recounting his vehicular hit and run back in 2012, with…
Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk has rejected the findings of an administrative law judge in the campaign finance case against Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, and reinstated her original order, demanding that Horne and AG outreach director Kathleen Winn reimburse donors $400,000. In a decision filed Wednesday afternoon, Polk concluded…
Sitting across from me in the office of her attorney, Tom Ryan, Sarah Beattie relates the details of her work for Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne in “constituent services,” which really amounted to working on the AG’s re-election campaign, creating documents, and, most importantly, raising money. In fact, according to…
So there were zero protesters outside the University Club in Phoenix Tuesday night for Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s fundraiser, featuring Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, author of Sand Land’s anti-immigrant Senate Bill 1070. Which surprised me. I mean, recalled, disgraced former state Senator Russell…
Sitting across from me in the office of her attorney, Tom Ryan, Sarah Beattie relates the details of her work for Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne in “constituent services,” which really amounted to working on the AG’s re-election campaign, creating documents, and, most importantly, raising money. In fact, according to…
Denials can be telling. Certainly, this is the case with Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s denial of wrongdoing, in the wake of attorney Tom Ryan’s dropping his bunker buster of a complaint on Horne’s office. The document, which Ryan filed dramatically on Monday with the Arizona Secretary of State, alleges…
Chandler attorney Tom Ryan has dropped his daisy cutter on Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s office, and there ain’t much left standing. Today, Ryan submitted to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office a 15-page sworn affidavit from his client, ex-AG staffer Sarah Beattie, describing extensive political work and campaign fundraising…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne is running his re-election effort from his state office, and using AG staff members to raise money, organize events and do other campaign-related work on state time. These are among the many serious allegations leveled against Horne by ex-staff member Sarah Beattie, who resigned April…
Describing Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s scandal-a-second administration, Horne’s Republican primary foe, former Arizona Department of Gaming director Mark Brnovich recently referenced the ’60s bard born Robert Zimmerman. “If you’ve ever listened to the song ‘Desolation Row’ by Bob Dylan, every day ‘the circus is in town’ when Tom Horne…
We now know it takes close to a month for the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office to send out a mass e-mail, and even then, only under the threat of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s being found in contempt of court by a federal judge. How close Arpaio got to having the cuffs…
Describing Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s scandal-a-second administration, Horne’s Republican primary foe, former Arizona Department of Gaming director Mark Brnovich recently referenced the ’60s bard born Robert Zimmerman. “If you’ve ever listened to the song ‘Desolation Row’ by Bob Dylan, every day ‘the circus is in town’ when Tom Horne…
Much of Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s executive office staff is involved in “substantial campaigning” for his 2014 re-election, “while on state time and utilizing State resources.” This, according to a litigation hold letter made public Monday by Chandler attorney Tom Ryan, who represents former AG employee and ex-Horne campaign…
***Please see updates at the end of the post*** The MCSO remains quiet on the name of the 40-year-old ex-MCSO deputy who apparently barricaded himself in his home late Sunday night until surrendering around 1:30 a.m. And the Phoenix Police Department is referring all questions to the MCSO. But reliable…
To paraphrase Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, at the end of the day, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne will always be the guy in the red hat who’s in a car with a woman who’s not his wife. Granted, I’m no fan of Monty. But the county attorney, who is…
So here’s a joke that was, until just recently, on the public Facebook page for Phoenix Police Officer Clint Brookins: “How many cops does it take to get a suspect downstairs?” “None, he fell.” The joke could be written off as dark humor, as could many of Brookins’ other posts…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s office has been in crisis mode this week over allegations that his staffers have been doing campaign work on the public dime. First, on Monday, the resignation note of AG staffer and Horne campaign volunteer Sarah Beattie was leaked to the Arizona Capitol Times. In…
