Olivia Cortes, the sham candidate the Tea Party fronted in order to dilute the vote in the 2011 recall of ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce, will face no fines or orders to comply in regards to the work done on her behalf by signature-gathering company Petition Pros.Gila County Attorney Daisy…
Why are non-loony Republicans always on the outs in the county and state GOP, with the insaniac Mexican-haters firmly in control?In her blog on Sunday, moderate Republican Paula Pennypacker described one of the main tactics of GOP county chairman Rob Haney’s nativist cult: The gaming of the proxy system, which…
When I saw the headline in the Arizona Republic, “Democrats plan to introduce legislation to repeal SB 1070,” let’s just say I smelled a fish, and fresh it was not.The only Democrat I know of down at the state Legislature with the huevos to do something so bold as to…
If you’re dumb enough to fork over cash to a scalawag like Sheriff Joe Arpaio, you’re dumb enough to buy any line of bull the most-sued sheriff in the country wants to sell you.Like the malarkey that the recent U.S. Department of Justice report on Arpaio’s racial-profiling ways is “unsubstantiated”…
Former state Senator Kyrsten Sinema longs to be the Democratic nominee from newly formed Congressional District 9. However, she suffers from a terrible affliction that threatens to undermine her ambition: a predilection for lodging a Prada pump in her esophagus. Sinema’s knack for the self-inflicted wound and the political tin…
This morning, over the complaints of some Democrats and Latinos, former House Democratic Minority Leader David Lujan was appointed unanimously to fill the open state Senate seat in Legislative District 15 by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors.The LD 15 spot opened up when Kyrsten Sinema stepped down to run…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s disgraced former enforcer David Hendershott may no longer be the sheriff’s chief deputy, he may stand accused of all manner of misconduct and ill-deeds during his tenure at the MCSO, but he was still able to score a license to be a private investigator from the Arizona…
Tuesday afternoon, the Phoenix Police Department released its arrest report on Ernest “Marty” Atencio, the Army vet brutalized and Tased till brain-dead in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jails.The report details two police encounters with Atencio on the evening of December 15. The second, which resulted in Atencio’s arrest, involved the 44 year-old…
The effort to block former state House Minority Leader David Lujan from sliding into ex-state Senator Kyrsten Sinema’s still-warm legislative seat is firing up, with former state House Representative Ken Clark adding his name to the list of wannabes.Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox says she’s received calls of interest…
Today, state Schools Superintendent John Huppenthal ordered that 10 percent of the budget for the Tucson Unified School District be withheld until TUSD eradicates its Mexican American Studies program.The cut is punitive and retroactive to August 15, 2011.No great drama there. Huppenthal announced the school out of compliance with an…
File this one under, “Something wicked this way comes.” The non-crazy GOP blog Politico Mafioso is reporting that disgraced nativist standard bearer, recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce is seeking the position of First Vice Chair of the Arizona Republican Party, where he’d be carrying water for AZ GOP chair…
Is the fix in for former state House Minority Leader David Lujan’s becoming the replacement for ex-state Senator Kyrsten Sinema, who recently announced her bid for U.S. Congress?Or will his infamous no-show for the Senate Bill 1070 vote in 2010 deny him a return to the state Legislature, and can…
I’m sitting in a restaurant in Peoria on Monday with the family of Ernest “Marty” Atencio, who was laid to rest today with full military honors. Next to me is his 29-year-old brother, Eric, a solid, muscular guy who works with his elder brother, Mike, in the family real estate…
Family, friends and those touched by the tragedy of Ernest “Marty” Atencio, the Army vet Tased and brutalized till brain dead in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jails, gathered at Peoria’s Heritage Funeral Chapel for his funeral service today.Atencio, who was 44 at the time he was removed from life support on…
Horne’s office threw a pricey bone to law firm Burch & Cracchiolo in the MAS affairAs reported in a previous blog, Administrative Law Judge Lewis Kowal recently upheld Arizona Schools’ Superintendent John Huppenthal’s finding that Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies program violates the state’s anti-ethnic studies statute, one…
Los Tigres del Norte, apparently not to Judge Kowal’s liking…Is there any doubt save in the most muddled of noggins that Arizona’s Latino population continues to dwell beneath the bootheel of a hostile political class made up almost entirely of Anglos?Yes, the successful recall of the state’s top bigot, former…
The Atencio family has released the following obituary and schedule of funeral services for their late family member Marty. The public can send flowers and cards in care of the address below for Heritage Funeral Chapel.Heritage Funeral Chapel 6830 W Thunderbird Road Peoria, AZ 85381-5025 (623) 974-3671 Obituary…
Video of Atencio being stripped and left naked in a cell, taken from MCSO footage by Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman. Note: Gilman obscured parts of Atencio’s body to maintain the dignity of the victim. As with the first video, there is no sound.Above is more disturbing raw footage culled from…
Video of the Atencio tragedy, taken by videographer Dennis Gilman from hours of MCSO footage. Please note: There is no sound. Last week, Marty Atencio’s brother Mike told me that he and his family believe Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s detention officers “murdered” his brother, leaving the 44 year-old Army vet dead…
Jack MacIntyre is paid more than $120,000 a year to justify and rationalize the ill deeds for which his boss, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, ultimately is culpable. These include the wrongful deaths that take place regularly in Arpaio’s jails, the persecution of Arpaio’s enemies by his underlings, the Sheriff’s Office’s rampant…
Living in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Maricopa County is like living in a medieval version of the movie Groundhog Day, where each morning one awakens with further reminders that we do not live in the civilized world.Two years ago, I first told you about Miriam Mendiola-Martinez, whose son Angel was born…
Yesterday, the family of Ernest “Marty” Atencio, who was brutally Tased in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Fourth Avenue Jail last week, removed their loved one from life support. According to the family’s attorney, Mike Manning, Atencio died Tuesday afternoon. Plans for services have not yet been made. Atencio, 44, was found unresponsive…
