Here is the long awaited second video from my colleague, Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman, culled from the shenanigans that took place at a recent GOP Legislative District 19 meeting in Mesa. For an intro to the players and what’s going on, read my initial blog on this meeting, here, and…

State Senator Scott Bundgaard, facing an ethics complaint and possible expulsion from the Senate for his roadside fracas with his now former girlfriend and his invocation of legislative immunity,  has filed an ethics complaint against three members of the state Senate Ethics Committee, which is currently set to hold hearings…

Since my recent column about well-known Phoenix mitigation specialist “Jameson Johnson,” aka, Jimmy Carroll Johnson, and his criminal record for armed robbery, a lot of folks have rushed to Johnson’s defense, arguing that his wrongdoing was all in the past, and since he had been doing good deeds locally, we…

Below is a letter e-mailed today from Democratic precinct committeeman Robert McDonald to Arizona Elections Director Amy Bjelland requesting an investigation into the ongoing scandal surrounding apparent shill candidate Olivia Cortes, who is “running,” if you can call it that, in Legislative District 18 recall of state Senate President Russell…

In a bizarre new stab at courting conspiracy nuts who believe President Barack Obama is a Kenyan, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has empowered a “birther posse” to look into claims by wackadoodles such as World Net Daily’s Jerome Corsi that Obama’s birth certificate from Hawaii is a forgery.Yes, I know, it’s…

This is part one of a video report on the shenanigans taking place at a recent Legislative District 19 GOP meeting in Mesa, which I blogged about yesterday. My colleague, videographer Dennis Gilman, will follow up with a part two, containing even juicier clips.Can anyone now doubt that Olivia Cortes…

On Thursday, while state Senate President Russell Pearce was in one part of Mesa, denying that he knows or has ever met Olivia Cortes, the candidate meant to “dilute” the vote in the upcoming Legislative District 18 recall election, I was in another area of Mesa, at a Republican meeting…

If you’re wondering why you haven’t seen media hog Mark Spencer flapping his lips on TV in a while, it’s because Spencer is no longer president of the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, the union that represents rank and file Phoenix cops.His second term expired September 1. That’s when longtime PLEA hack…

I missed ex-Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard’s recent appearance on Horizon, wherein he criticized current AG Tom Horne’s investigation of the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, particularly Horne’s grandstanding statements to the media about the probe. Oddly, I caught it as I was checking out the far right Sonoran Alliance Web site,…

What I love about so-called “conservatives” who regularly rail about entitlement programs is that these same limited-government types are often the first ones to turn around and take a handout at taxpayer expense when the need arises.Case in point: disgraced ex-Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and his former henchwomen, ex-deputy…

I’m on deadline for my column this week, but I wanted to share this news, fresh from the Arizona Supreme Court.The Supremes just issued the following order, affirming Superior Court Judge Hugh Hegyi’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the petitions that have forced a recall of state Senate President…

Franklin Bruce Ross, the man who is listed as the plaintiff in the lawsuit challenging the recall petitions submitted by Citizens for a Better Arizona, a man his attorney Lisa Hauser has described as a longtime pal of state Senate President Russell Pearce, solicited signatures to put the name of…

My compatriot Dennis Gilman put together the video above of our forays in search of the elusive Olivia Cortes, wannabe contender in the upcoming November 8 recall of state Senate President Russell Pearce in Legislative District 18.Cortes’s nomination signatures were submitted to the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office on Friday…

Friday evening, I received the letter below signed by Janet Murguria of the National Council of La Raza, essentially declaring that the boycott of Arizona over Senate Bill 1070 is finito.Granted, the letter does point out that the boycott that developed in response to state Senate President Russell Pearce’s nativist…

Like you needed more proof that Olivia Cortes’ candidacy in the November 8 recall election in Legislative District 18 is all about “diluting” the vote and helping state Senate Russell Pearce beat challenger Jerry Lewis, East Valley Tea Party Chairman Greg Western submitted 1,177 signatures on behalf of Cortes today,…

I’ve written extensively about the Phoenix Police Department’s elite Career Criminal Squad and the vital work they do targeting criminal street gangs, such as various neo-Nazi skinhead groups, as well as working murder-for-hire cases. But other than the squad’s creator, former PPD Lieutenant Heston Silbert, now an Assistant Chief with the…

Stealth recall candidate Olivia Cortes may not want to answer her phone or come to her door, but on Thursday there were paid petition circulators soliciting signatures for her at the main branch of the Mesa public library. These individuals are informing skeptical pro-Russell Pearce signers that getting Cortes in the…

A trailer for the Postville documentary which you can see free tonight at ASUThe infamous 2008 raid in a on a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa, carried out by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is of symbolic and historic significance along the lines of the 1917 Bisbee deportation and the…

He’s swiped $100 million from taxpayer-protected funds to use for his own pet programs, engaged in high-profile shenanigans with former fellow Sith Lord and ex-County Attorney Andrew Thomas — monkeyshines rivaling Watergate in corruption, and still can’t do his job and serve tens of thousands of outstanding warrants.But he can…