Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne has entered a plea of “not guilty” in Phoenix Municipal Court for his March fender-bender at the love nest of his state-financed mistress Carmen Chenal. That’s the accident witnessed by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who had been dogging Horne over his alleged…

There should be some law of the political jungle that says if you call someone a liar, you at least have to say what the lie is. See also: -Liberal Democrats Tar Republican Jerry Lewis, Borrowing a Page From Extremists They Claim to Loathe -Russell Pearce’s Vanquisher Jerry Lewis Slimed…

How often do you see a politician pimping the website of his or her opponent? Well, if all candidates had a diversionary third-party in their race, intended to drain votes from their main competitor, stooge-pimping of the kind seen in the mailer above from Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s camp would be…

As I mentioned in a blog item Monday, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s initial court date for the March fender-bender that took place at his presumed mistress Camen Chenal’s abode is this Friday morning. The Phoenix Police Department just released its report on the incident, along with these pics of…

I’ll say one thing for living in Sand Land, it’s never boring. This Friday at 9:30 a.m., in Phoenix Municipal Court, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne could be arraigned on the charge of hit-and-run on an unattended vehicle, a class 3 misdemeanor. I say “could be” because Don Taylor a…

I don’t think anyone will bemoan the end of the 2012 election cycle, except perhaps the TV execs and political consultants who’re making a killing off the political ads bombarding us through the boob tube. Still, quite a few are memorable, and there is nothing more American than reducing your…

Word is, Sheriff Joe is freaking out. Republicans who have supported him for years are jumping ship to back his Democratic rival Paul Penzone. As a result, his poll numbers are consistently in the doldrums, under 50 percent. He’s been forced to buy up a load of local TV time…

Here’s proof positive that Democrats can be just as scummy as Republicans. I mean this hit piece mailed out to folks in Legislative District 26, declaring that state Senator Jerry Lewis, the man who took on former state Senate President Russell Pearce, the biggest bigot in this state, and defeated…

Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell issued a clarifying statement Tuesday regarding an erroneous report on early ballots by CBS 5/KPHO’s Donna Rossi last week. That report misquoted Purcell as saying that having an early ballot in one’s possession is a Class 5 felony. After I wrote a blog item pointing…

The family of U.S. Army veteran Marty Atencio is filing suit today in Maricopa County Superior Court over his brutal death late last year in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Fourth Avenue Jail. Atencio, who suffered from mental illness, was off his meds and wandering the streets in a daze on December…

Sadly, confusion still reigns after CBS 5’s recent report on early ballots and the volunteers from different groups picking them up, in which this legal, and very common activity was labeled, wrongly, as illegal. CBS 5 reporter Donna Rossi incorrectly paraphrased the remarks of Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell as…

So why can’t a man be prettier than a woman? Look at Brad Pitt. Leonardo DiCaprio. Johnny Depp. David Beckham. And, um, Congressman Jeff Flake. Not that Channel 12’s Brahm Resnik is in their league. I mean, he’s no Joe Dana. If you ask me, you folks who were outraged…

Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s financial disclosure forms for his re-election campaign show an ocean of greenbacks flowing into the coffers of Summit Consulting, the firm owned by local Republican consultant Chad Willems. Willems is one of the political geniuses who ran former state Senate President Russell Pearce’s disastrous 2011 recall election…

Elected on pink boxers? This ain’t 2008, Joe. The independent expenditure committee Citizens for Professional Law Enforcement has a couple of killer new anti-Sheriff Joe Arpaio ads running on local cable and broadcast Television. See also: -Penzone Benefits from Arpaio’s Latest Attack Ad -Paul Penzone Can Beat Arpaio, If He…

CBS 5 – KPHO ***Please see update below*** In an odd segment that aired last night on CBS 5/KPHO, reporter Donna Rossi told viewers that Maricopa County’s elections department had received complaints regarding door-knockers representing themselves as county workers, offering to pick up folks’ early ballots. Rossi reported that the…

ABC 15 and star reporter Dave Biscobing have the scoop again on the civil trial in Pinal County regarding the 2005 wrongful death of diabetic mom Deborah Braillard, who was denied medical treatment while in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s gulags and later died because of that lack of treatment. Earlier this…

Paul Penzone’s secret weapon, one not captured by Republican pollsters: Adios Arpaio Before you review the results of two new GOP polls that have Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the lead against his Democratic challenger Paul Penzone, ask yourself this question: Is Arpaio acting like a front-runner way ahead of his…

What do you do when you’re Sheriff Joe Arpaio and your name is practically a byword for the neglect of sex crime cases involving women and children? You use your political fundraising machine to shill for a national nonprofit that benefits abused kids, sort of like a petroleum company donating…

Sadly, I am away till Monday on a trip planned long ago, and will not be able to blog regularly till I’m back in town. For continuing coverage of Paul Penzone’s bid to replace our octogenarian autocrat, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, please consult my colleague Matt Hendley’s reports on New Times’…