Eat your heart out, Russ, if you can stand the taste of coalHere’s an incredibly positive new video from the camp of entrepreneur Bob Worsley, candidate for state Senate in Legislative District 25, who is destined to triumph over Mesa’s hillbilly hatemonger, recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce.Love the theme…
Gilman televises the revolution, or part of it…Lordy, I’ve had enough of neo-Nazi hugger, 12-point loser, and ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce’s gorilla mug. No doubt many of you have as well. But until the wingnuts and Tea Party idgits in this state run screaming at the sight of him,…
If the plot to give 12 point-loser and former state Senate President Russell Pearce $260,000 is squashed (and I’m not convinced that it has been), it will be because of the efforts of Randy Parraz and Citizens for a Better Arizona, the folks that made the Pearce recall a reality…
“The Governor has not proposed any such reimbursement, and it is not currently in the budget that she and legislative leaders have agreed upon.”Of course, that’s not a commitment to oppose it, should an amendment be tacked on.In any case, Pearce clearly believes he deserves the cash. Last night, Pearce was…
Remember when I informed you of the trial balloon being floated by toadies of recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce, lickspittles who long to give their lord and master more than $260,000 of taxpayer funds because he had to endure a recall election, one he lost by a humiliating 12…
While recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce was away in D.C. (likely on Judicial Watch’s dime) preparing for his big day before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and, later, to hear oral arguments on Senate Bill 1070 before the U.S. Supreme Court, a different court here in Sand Land was…
Paula Varela wanted to show me something. During a recent visit to her modest, well-kept South Phoenix home, the small, 79-year-old woman led me to a dining room next to the kitchen and turned on the light. Spread out on a table were at least 10 plaques featuring photos of…
There’s one general conclusion I have after reading and re-reading the transcript of Wednesday’s oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court over Senate Bill 1070: Latinos and their allies cannot rely on the federal government or the courts for a long term solution to the overt bigotry that spawned SB…
It’s like 2010 all over again, with the Phoenix-based civil rights group Puente leading an anti-SB 1070 protest with a “march route [that] exposes collaborators in Arpaio’s human rights crisis.”As you can see on the map, the demonstration begins at 3 p.m. at Phoenix’s Civic Space Park, 424 North Central…
Pearce confronts DREAM Act students in 2010I’ll have more to say soon about recalled former state Senate President Russell Pearce’s Tuesday appearance at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Senate Bill 1070. There was some good stuff in the nearly two hour donnybrook, especially from U.S. Senator from Illinois…
File this one under “outrage du jour”: Dennis Wilenchik, the former special prosecutor whose runaway investigation of New Times resulted in the wrongful arrests of Village Voice Media Editor Michael Lacey and VVM CEO Jim Larkin, has been appointed by Governor Jan Brewer to sit on Arizona’s Real Estate Advisory…
Of all the trial balloons in the history of politics, this one most deserves to be shot down, stomped, incinerated, and spat on, with the remains dumped in the nearest landfill to rot.Seems there’s a cadre of hardcore Russell Pearce-worshippers in the state legislature that want to give the recalled…
Just when I thought it couldn’t get any better than screw-loose GOP state Senator Sylvia Allen suddenly finding the Navajo County Board of Supervisors a more attractive sphere of influence than the lege’s upper house, along comes this beautiful news from a recent edition of the Capitol Times’ Yellow Sheet.Dam…
This week Attorney General Tom Horne paid a visit to recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce’s Ban Amnesty Now radio show, where he regaled Pearce’s tens of listeners with his heroic legal work of late, despite Pearce’s incessant efforts to turn the conversation back to his ridiculous “buy-cott” (read, “boycott”)…
If anyone requires a dose of his own medieval medicine, it’s disbarred, disgraced former County Attorney Andrew Peyton Thomas. By that, I mean that the onetime tough-on-crime prosecutor turned purported criminal needs some serious, old-fashioned humiliation, the kind the Harvard Law School grad advocated in his 1994 tome Crime and…
When recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce’s Ban Amnesty Now announced a “buy-cott” of New Times’ advertisers, I quipped that it was like being boycotted by the Ku Klux Klan. An exaggeration, to be sure, but not by as much as you might think.Take for example the comments of BAN…
Score a triumph for redistricting a little more than a half-year ahead of the November elections. The Payson Roundup reports that Republican state Senator Sylvia Allen has turned yellower than an egg-sucking cur at the prospect of running in the newly formed Legislative District 6, where a recent poll showed…
Sinema’s statement on Iran starts 2:48 in, her comments on health care at around 6:03The flap over center-left talking head Hilary Rosen and her perceived insult of Mitt Romney’s wife Ann offers a perfect example of how mere verbal flubs can offer ammunition to right-wingers in the highly-charged partisan discourse…
Recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce has just taken the bait proffered by Bob Worsley, his opponent in the Legislative District 25 Republican primary for state Senate. And in doing so, Pearce may have further endangered the 501(c)4 status of the organization he currently fronts, Ban Amnesty Now. Pearce did…
Ex-Phoenix Police Sergeant Paul Penzone, the man running as a Democrat against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, recently announced a slew of new endorsements via his campaign website, the most prominent of which comes from former U.S. Attorney for Arizona Paul Charlton, a Republican and stalwart critic of Sheriff Joe.Other…
When I heard Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery tell the federal government recently to “put up or shut up” in its wide-ranging allegations against Sheriff Joe Arpaio of racial profiling, systemic abuse of Latinos, and retaliation against Joe’s critics, I was bewildered — for a second. Montgomery’s Clint Eastwood moment…
Disbarred, disgraced and unrepentant, former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas compared himself to such men of conscience as Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as he addressed reporters this morning in downtown Phoenix, one day after being stripped of his license to practice law by a three-man disciplinary…
