Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 19:14 Watching Dennis Gilman’s new video of Wednesday’s protest against Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery’s systemic over-charging of undocumented workers, one is struck not only with the injustice of…
The cattle call began a little after 8:30 a.m. Wednesday for the unfortunates arrested in the MCSO’s Sportex Apparel raid in Tempe the first week of February. See also: -Bill Montgomery Is No Immigration Moderate -Bill Montgomery Fails to Convict an Innocent Man -S.A.N.E. Immigration Initiative Undercut by Bill Montgomery’s…
If you’re political-sleaze maestro Constantin Querard, the Arizona Legislature practically is your own personal Downton Abbey. Querard’s team of taxpayer-funded butlers, bootblacks, and maids is extensive — at least 20, by his own claim — in both the upper and lower chamber. On February 21, before the state House Reform…
The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Wanna stop the sky from falling? Then give and give generously to Arizona Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema’s re-election fund. Yep, that’s the appeal from Sinema as the U.S. government heads straight for sequestration and tens of thousands of Arizona jobs supposedly face the…
If you’re political sleaze maestro Constantin Querard, the Arizona Legislature is practically your own personal Downton Abbey. Querard’s team of taxpayer-funded butlers, bootblacks, and maids is extensive — at least 20, by his own claim — in the both the upper and lower chambers. And on February 21, before the…
Arizona prisons are notorious reservoirs of criminal behavior, and apparently that’s just the staff. No joke. Arizona Department of Corrections Director Charles Ryan admits as much in a recent post to his “Director’s Desk” blog, wherein he states that “in the past four and a half years, there have been…
Willems pumps up the alter kockers with his doomsday scenario, talk of spies in the other camp, and a plan to “block” voters from signing the recall petition As promised in this week’s column, above is the audio of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s campaign guru Chad Willems speaking to the pro-Joe…
Gilman’s latest rakes Nowakowski over the coals for his parley with El Diablo Which side are you on? The recall effort is underway, and even Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s campaign guru Chad Willems has acknowledged that if the recall committee Respect Arizona scores the needed signatures for the ballot, then, “Joe…
My general rule when it comes to drinking is that I do mine at home. Life is so much simpler that way. It’s a bit of wisdom two of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys in beige might profit from: MCSO Lieutenant Aaron Brown and sex crimes detective Stephen Palmer, both of…
One of the many lessons of the 2011 recall of former state Senate President Russell Pearce is that Arizona’s reporters, pundits, and TV know-it-alls are far from omniscient. In fact, they have a learning curve as long as the coastline of Africa. Well, at least most of them. Just as…
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office and Arizona-based attorneys for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement are engaged in a partnership to ensure the deportation of undocumented aliens who otherwise would benefit from President Obama’s proposed comprehensive immigration reform, despite statements from both agencies to the contrary. As I documented in…
Sounds like forgery is rampant in Tempe. Will Bill Montgomery respond? Are all truly equal before the law? When it comes to forgery in Maricopa County, the answer is a decided, “Hell, no.” Yesterday, the Tempe Police Department issued statistics showing that last year they had confiscated “1,761 fictitiously used…
The most emotional day of Rafael Lavallade Gonzalez’s recent weeklong trial in Maricopa County Superior Court occurred when Gonzalez took the stand in his own defense. Thin and frail, with a lion’s mane of white hair and dark-rimmed glasses, Gonzalez, a 70-year-old diabetic, stood charged with four counts related to…
Despite protests and calls for him to apologize, Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski defended himself on Tuesday for brokering a meeting between scores of Latino pastors and Sheriff Joe Arpaio just days before Arpaio’s anti-immigrant raid on a Tempe apparel company, his 71st such operation to date. See also: -Joe…
Secret footage obtained by New Times of the last Teabagger meet-up headed by A.J. LaFaro. With friends like these, how could Joe lose? Check out the email below, with a message purportedly from walking PayDay bar and newly-elected chair of the Maricopa County Republican Committee, A.J. “Wild Man” LaFaro. In…
Protecting the kids? Tell it to those who suffered because the MCSO botched hundreds of sex crime investigations Wanna find out how Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys in beige botched investigations into hundreds of sex crime cases in Maricopa County? It’ll cost ya. Five grand, to be exact. And make the…
Days prior to his agency’s immigration raid on a Tempe clothing company, Sheriff Joe Arpaio was meeting with scores of Latino pastors in a get-together brokered by Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski. See also: -Bill Montgomery Is No Immigration Moderate -Prensa Hispana Blows MCSO Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla in Print…
Luz Edith Ruiz Rascon is weary of her life in Maricopa County’s Estrella Jail, where detention officers bark at her, the food is inedible, and every day is a day away from her two children, a 9-year-old daughter and an 18-year-old son who is battling leukemia. “It’s taking so long,”…
I’m waiting for a call back from Andrew Chavez, proprietor of Petition Partners, about a rather odd message on his company’s Twitter account, announcing that a recall of Sheriff Joe Arpaio is to commence this Thursday, and claiming that $1.3 million has been committed to the project. I say it’s…
Can Governor Jan Brewer read? The statement from her office on the immigration reform plan released today by U.S. Senator John McCain and his colleagues makes me think not. Though that’s no big surprise. See also: -Jan Brewer “Kinder, Gentler” on Immigration? Republic Dons Kneepads for Governor -John McCain, Fellow…
What a difference a couple of years makes. The same U.S. Senator John McCain who in 2010 snuggled up to illegal-immigrant-screwing (in more ways than one) Sheriff Paul Babeu, supported Sand Land’s racist Senate Bill 1070, and insisted that America “complete the danged fence” on the U.S.-Mexico border, is now…
Losers are pathetic enough, but losers who don’t know they’re losers should be given a pistol with one bullet and locked in a shed until they are duly inspired. Among these: sleaze-maestro Constantin Querard, state Representative Steve Smith, and two-time loser, ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce. See also: -Russell Pearce’s…
