As the Arizona Republic was bleeding ink for Governor Jan Brewer’s allegedly “kinder, gentler tone” on immigration over the weekend, what was Janbo up to? See also: -Jan Brewer on Blast by DREAMers and CBA in Protest: 3 Arrested -Arizona Deserves No Peace From Pro-Immigrant Forces Raising cash for her…
Gilman chats up the gun nuts, take one… Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman covered the gun nut rally at the Arizona State Capitol this past Saturday, and caught some interesting footage of the local pro-2nd Amendment crowd, which seems mainly to have consisted of angry white dudes who’re afraid that the…
The Arizona Republican Party is the gift that keeps on giving. Last week, the Maricopa County GOP picked raging aggro gay-hater A.J. LaFaro as its chairman, a choice Dems are giddy over because it leaves the local Republican Party in the complete control of wigged-out moonhowlers, further alienating anyone with…
The human rights activists of Tonatierra and the Barrio Defense Committees will do the annual PF Chang’s 13.1 mile marathon one better this Saturday by holding a 13.4 mile march for human rights and dignity, beginning at Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s notorious Fourth Avenue Jail and ending at Glendale Police Headquarters…
NMD video from a hidden camera dated January 8 When U.S. Border Patrol Agents are not shooting each other or unarmed teenagers, they like to destroy water jugs and steal supplies left in the desert for crossing migrants. That’s the charge of the Tucson-based group No More Deaths, which has…
Nativism as a force is on the defensive in Arizona and elsewhere. Nowhere is this so telling as in the push for comprehensive immigration reform in Washington, D.C. The New York Times reported recently that Republicans, including Arizona U.S. senators John McCain and Jeff Flake, are taking part in meetings…
Making good on her June 7, notice of claim for $10 million against Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, veteran AG investigator Meg Hinchey filed suit Wednesday in Maricopa County Superior Court, alleging that Horne and his underlings are engaged in an ongoing campaign to ruin Hinchey’s law enforcement career. See…
Talk about a broken record. The U.S. Marshals Service has once more done Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s job for him, this time by nabbing an escapee from Joe’s jails, who basically exchanged identities with another inmate, and walked out. See also: -Joe Arpaio Won’t Do His Job, So Marshal David Gonzales…
Kudos to Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman for his latest video, which captures the drama of yesterday’s demonstration at the state Capitol. There, as Governor Jan Brewer gave her state of the state speech to members of the Legislature, a coalition of activists protested Brewer’s executive order denying driver’s licenses to…
As Governor Jan Brewer addressed the Arizona Legislature in her state of the state speech Monday, protesters took over the state House lobby, demanding that Brewer rescind an executive order denying driver’s licenses to Arizona DREAMers who qualify for President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Led by Citizens…
It’s amazing, the amount of influence I have over the Maricopa County Republican Committee. Hate to brag, but my endorsement this week of right-wing human PayDay bar A.J. LaFaro and the rest of his “crazytown” slate of candidates for MCRC leadership positions worked its evil magic at Saturday’s county GOP’s…
Andiola’s tearful account of the arrest of her mom and brother Nationally-known Arizona DREAM Activist Erika Andiola has reported that her mother and brother were arrested last night at their home by agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Above is Andiola’s tearful recounting of the raid on her dwelling…
Arpaio, howlin’ at the moon in his appearance on the Thom Hartmann radio show: The fun begins about 16:18 in Hat tip to Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman for letting me know about Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s appearance Thursday on the uber-lefty Thom Hartmann radio show, where he howled at the moon,…
Times are a bit tight in my world. No, I ain’t talkin’ about my post-holidays pants size. In 2012, I lost some of my favorite whippin’ boys. In May, neo-Nazi J.T. Ready pulled an Adolf and blew his brains out after he’d killed four innocent people. Former Maricopa County Attorney…
Kudos to Sheriff Joe Arpaio for successfully monopolizing the paranoia surrounding the mass killings in Sandy Hook by sending his army of Depends-wearin’, gun-totin’ grumpy geezers out to patrol the perimeters of some schools in the Valley. See also: -Would You Want One of Joe Arpaio’s Armed Posse-People at Your…
Followers of disgraced, recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce practically begged for amnesty Wednesday night in Mesa from their blood-rivals, the moderate GOPers they derisively refer to as RiNOs (Republicans in Name Only). And more than two hours into a tense, divided meeting of Republican Legislative District 25 precinct committee…
Kudos to former Scottsdale mayoral candidate John Washington for calling out both the Arizona Republic and state Representative Michelle Ugenti on his Scottsdale Trails blog, and for introducing me to the hilarious and currently inactive parody Twitter site RubbingUGently, a wicked send-up of the Snottsdale sexpot-turned-Teabagger from Legislative District 23…
Disgraced, recalled two-time loser, ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce, has endorsed businessman Robert Graham for chair of the Arizona Republican Party, according to notices in both the SonoranAlliance and SeeingRedAZ blogs. See also: -Russell Pearce’s “Wee Man” Rob Haney Crushed Like a Bug -Russell Pearce’s Mad Elf Rob Haney: Sued…
All in all, 2012 hasn’t been that bad of a year. Some good stuff transpired, and some of it happened because New Times’ scribes made it happen. Usually to some very deserving recipients. The great H.L. Mencken said it long ago, and it still holds true today: “Journalism is to…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio thinks it’s an honor to be called KKK, remember? So why is anyone surprised that in 2011 he accepted the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ J. Edgar Hoover Law and Order Award, apparently for all that hard work he did in ignoring hundreds of sex crimes cases around…
You could say Russell Pearce beat the lawsuit (for now), but lost his career. Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Frederick J. Martone sided with recalled, disgraced ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce, finding that Pearce did not violate the constitutional rights of Phoenix activist Sal Reza when Pearce banned him from…
Outgoing Maricopa County Republican Party Chair Rob Haney, slavish BFF to recalled, disgraced ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce, has had his wrinkled, leprechaun fanny handed to him by the non-Pearce-worshipping faction of the Legislative District 25 Republicans. I informed you yesterday about the federal lawsuit against Haney and his cretinous…
