What two things do Maricopa County GOP Chairman Rob Haney and erstwhile Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong have in common? Each despises democracy, and each boasts a brain dipped in formaldehyde. See also: -Joe Arpaio’s Birther Bud Tom Morrissey Punks Out of GOP Chair Race; Russell Pearce Could Still…

If there were a law against keeping parents from their children for no good reason on Christmas, or any other day, then Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, and many of his functionaries, would be guilty as charged. Currently, neither the county attorney’s office nor the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office can…

It’s dang encouraging to learn that the National Rifle Association’s top propagandist Wayne LaPierre is practically on the same page as Maricopa, Arizona neo-Nazi Harry Hughes regarding what the nation should do in response to the massacre of the innocents in Newtown, Connecticut. More guns! As I noted in a…

Neo-Nazi Harry Hughes is like the National Socialist Movement’s version of the traveling gnome in those Travelocity.com commercials. See also: -Why Authorities Could’ve Prevented J.T. Ready’s Murder Spree The Maricopa, Arizona-based swastika-lover’s been photographed next to Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, demonstrating in support of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Maricopa…

GOP blogging badass Jeff Vath of PolitocoMafioso fame was the first to report the news that Arizona Republican Party Chair Tom Morrissey is punking out on his bid for re-election at the party’s January 26 state committee meeting, where new officers will be elected. Morrissey has since issued a statement…

For Terry Goddard, it must be tough going from Mayor of Phoenix to state Attorney General to gubernatorial candidate to, um, Central Arizona Water Conservation District board member. To be accurate, Terry Goddard has run for governor three times, hoping to emulate his pop Sam Pearson Goddard, Jr., who served…

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s corruption is blatant, in your face, unrepentant. Yet, given the machinations of Horne’s lawyers, who are battling both Horne’s misdemeanor fender-bender charge with the City of Phoenix, and the civil, campaign finance law complaint brought by Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, I suspect he will…

Jan Brewer cannot run for governor again. There is no wiggle room in the Arizona Constitution. And if she tries, she is guaranteed to kiss the canvas with her plastic-surgery-gone-wrong gob, slapped down by the Arizona Supreme Court. See also: -Jan Brewer’s Sniveling New Memoir Laughably Paints Her as a…

Just like many of you, I’ve been transfixed this weekend watching the TV news coverage of the slaughter of the innocents at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. And like a bad case of acid reflux, the national debate has begun — for the umpteenth time — over…

What would it be like, I wonder, if Maricopa County had a sheriff who just kept his head down and did his job, rather than what we currently have, a corrupt gasbag who only cares about getting his corpse-like mug on the boob tube? See also: -Joe Arpaio’s Lawyers Fail…

DA Morales of Three Sonorans fame channels Isaiah (beard and all), and gives the TUSD board an Old Testament-style tongue-lashing Will the anti-Mexican machinations of Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne and state schools Superintendent John Huppenthal be thwarted, at long last, by a federal judge? They certainly could be, given…

See also: -Arizona Organix Steps Out as the State’s First Authorized Medical-Marijuana Dispensary This is near-heresy to say in my current position as a scribe for an alternative publication, but when Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts writes that our state’s medical marijuana program is a “charade,” I kinda agree with…

I wish I’d been at the November 29 meeting of Legislative District 25 Republicans for the election of new officers and state committee-persons. All the haters were there, and the haters had their asses handed to them when their pro-hater slate, for the most part, went down in flames. Which…

See also: -Arizona AG Tom Horne’s Sex Scandal Scuttles Gubernatorial Bid So Arizona Attorney General Tom “Hit-and-Run” Horne’s got a Cuban cougar on the taxpayer’s payroll with whom he can enjoy a little afternoon delight, if he so desires. He rocks a gold Jag, and allegedly breaks campaign finance laws…

Irish wolfhound Tom Ryan lets the Pearces have it, and Judge Pearce nearly scraps with Dennis Gilman (@ 3:32) in this classic video from 2011 Add another scalp to the lodge wall. Recalled, disgraced former state Senate President Russell Pearce’s brother, ex-supervisor’s candidate and one-time Justice of the Pearce Lester…

Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell and Elections Director Karen Osborne presented the official 2012 canvass to the Board of Supervisors today, and the BOS approved it after a discussion of the controversy over the late vote count. Overall, turnout was slightly down this year compared with 2008, with 76.51 percent…

Gilman’s report from the front lines Wobblies, Unitarians, Occupy folks, and assorted concerned citizens converged on at least two Walmart locations in the Valley on Black Friday to protest the way the mega-corp treats its workers, and local videographer Dennis Gilman was on hand to capture some of the action,…

Maricopa County Democratic Party Chair Ann Wallack will not be running for re-election this year when county Dems meet on Saturday, December 8 to elect new officers. Wallack, who has served as MCDP chair for four years, said she had been thinking about stepping aside for a while. But it…

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s initial court date for his hit-and-run charge today was delayed till December 17 after his attorney Michael Kimerer asked for more time to prepare Horne’s defense. Horne has already pleaded not-guilty to the fender-bender, which took place in an apartment complex parking lot at the…