***Please see the update at this blog’s end.*** Attorney General Tom Horne’s getting the band back together. Yep, with 2014 ’round the corner, the Man Who Knows No Shame, is relying on a little help from the same crowd who got him over the finish line in 2010, specifically, attorney…
The MCSO has released its report on an August 17 incident, during which Glendale resident Richard Malley allegedly pointed an AR-15 at one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s deputies in the desert near Gila Bend. Following his run-in with MCSO Deputy P. Arend, which could have easily ended in bloodshed, Malley,…
Operating on the assumption that not all MCSO deputies are as lame as their organization’s titular tyrant and his immediate underlings, I apologize in advance to those beige-shirts who, contrary to this blog’s header, can chew gum and drive at the same time. My title’s query is prompted by the…
Coddling copperheads never has been my thing. On the other hand, I don’t expect vipers to morph into poodles, which is why I’m bewildered by the outrage expressed by local scribblers over the Goldwater Institute’s suing Governor Jan Brewer on the subject of Medicaid expansion. The lawsuit argues that the…
Don’t know how many of you are familiar with British conspiracy theorist David Icke, the guy who believes a secret race of shape-shifting lizard people have populated the planet in the guise of our political and cultural leaders, but I’m beginning to believe Icke’s not spouting bunkum and has been…
As long as Joe Arpaio is sheriff, every day in Maricopa County is Groundhog Day. Despite federal Judge G. Murray Snow’s May finding that Arpaio and his immigration-obsessed office are guilty of racial profiling and that the MCSO’s prejudiced policing toward Latinos must cease, Tempe Police Chief Tom Ryff has…
Michelle Lynch has a suitcase full of disturbing stories to tell about accused child molester and former minuteman leader Chris Simcox. Some are really creepy, especially in hindsight. Simcox had “tons” of little girls in his apartment playing with his two young daughters, according to Lynch, who lived in the…
How dumb can the nativists get? On Friday, I blogged about an anti-amnesty rally being held at the state Capitol, sponsored in part by nativist extremist Rusty Childress’ new anti-immigrant group Remember 1986. To answer my own question, this is how dumb Basically, Remember 1986 is a rehash of Childress’…
I hate to admit this, but I actually do “Remember 1986,” as prejudiced playboy and former KIA dealer Rusty Childress’ new anti-immigrant organization is named. That moniker is a reference to the Reagan Amnesty, which ended up legalizing nearly 3 million persons. One of the few good things Ronnie Reagan…
Remember when Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery insisted that Debra Milke, the woman whose 1990 conviction for the murder of her son was overturned by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, would not be granted bail? “That’s not going to happen,” Montgomery told reporters in July, asserting that Milke…
Beginning today, Feathered Bastard is moving to Valley Fever. All previous Feathered Bastard content will appear in the Valley Fever blog, as soon as those responsible can get this done. FB’s new link will be the following: http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/feathered_bastard/…
Beginning today, Feathered Bastard is moving to Valley Fever. All previous Feathered Bastard content will appear in the Valley Fever blog, as soon as those responsible can get this done. FB’s new link will be the following: http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/feathered_bastard/…
Chris Simcox cleans up well. Long ago, he ditched his scraggly redneck look — worn jeans, American-flag baseball cap, unshaven face (sometimes with half a cigar in his mouth), a pistol tucked down the front of his pants — for business attire (or at least a clean, collared shirt). On…
The extent to which the media rolls over for Sheriff Joe Arpaio never ceases to astound. Take Joe’s recent comments following an August 17 incident in the desert, where Glendale resident and self-identifying “militia minuteman” Richard Malley allegedly pointed an AR-15 at an MCSO deputy. The incident is described in…
Would you hop into an elevator with Hannibal Lecter? Trust Julian Assange with your most intimate secrets? Allow Jared Loughner access to a gun range? Then, why would anyone ever let Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio give lip service to complying with federal Judge G. Murray Snow in the ACLU’s…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s legal Lhasa Apso Tim Casey is either a past master of logical paradoxes, or he has a tin ear for irony. At least that’s how his latest filing with the federal court in the ACLU’s big civil rights case Melendres v. Arpaio reads. Last Friday, the parties…
To alter a line from the great Gil Scott-Heron, the revolution will be UStreamed. In a demonstration Wednesday at the Phoenix Field Office for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, DREAMers, undocumented moms, and U.S. citizens laid siege to the facility, in one instance blocking a bus filled with ICE detainees…
At a pretrial conference Wednesday before Commissioner Virginia Richter, deputy county attorney Yigael Cohen signaled that the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office will be offering a plea deal in the case of former minuteman leader Chris Simcox. Simcox, 52, was arrested June 19, and is currently being held nonbondable on six…
Remember the fable about the frog who does a scorpion a solid by giving him ride on his back across a river? In it, the scorpion promises not to sting the frog, observing that they would both drown if he did. So when the scorpion stings the frog midway across…
In the scrum of reporters, lawyers and family members waiting to gain entry to federal Magistrate Michelle Burns’ courtroom Monday afternoon in downtown Phoenix, one question was bandied about above all others. Was Danny Hendon’s name listed in the indictment? Hendon is the owner of the Danny’s Family Car Wash…
PLEASE SEE UPDATES BELOW Saturday morning, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided 16 locations throughout the Valley associated with Danny’s Family Car Wash and the company’s staffing provider HR Betty. According a statement issued by ICE, members of the agency’s Homeland Security Investigations unit began serving warrants on both companies…
If a judge-appointed monitor is good enough to make the New York City Police Department reform its “stop and frisk” policy, then a monitor should do the trick for Maricopa County’s serial racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the ACLU’s big civil rights case Melendres v. Arpaio. In May, federal Judge…
