Russell Pearce’s Son Joshua: Bench Warrant Issued

According to a recent minute entry by Maricopa County Superior Court Commissioner Steven K. Holding, a bench warrant has been issued for state Senate President Russell Pearce’s son Joshua Trent Pearce.Holding’s minute entry states that Joshua, 30, was supposed to be present in court on January 26 for a “review…

Russell Pearce Recall, Part Two, Drops Monday

More bad news for state Senate President Russell Pearce.There’s another group that’s going to file paperwork to recall Pearce on Monday: Citizens for a Better Arizona, led in part by former Democratic U.S. Senate Candidate and pro-immigrant firebrand Randy Parraz.According to CBA’s Facebook page, the group claims to have gotten…

Russell Pearce Recall Paperwork Filed by Anti-Pearce Group

On the day that state Senator Russell Pearce’s insidious, anti-American, and unconstitutional plot to undermine the birthright citizenship provision of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment was being submitted in the state legislature by his cronies, a group calling itself Arizonans for Better Government filed recall paperwork against Pearce in Legislative District 18.Chaired…

Democratic Party Chairman Andrei Cherny Wants His Party to Champion Immigrants as a Strength, Not Consider Them a Weakness

The Arizona Democratic Party’s reorganization meeting on January 22 at the Wyndham Hotel in downtown Phoenix was tailor-made to bolster that oft-repeated Will Rogers saw: “I don’t belong to any organized political party, I’m a Democrat.” Ultimately, former state treasurer candidate Andrei Cherny beat out last year’s Democratic U.S. Senate…

Russell Pearce’s Son: KPHO Follows Joshua Pearce Story (w/Update)

Kudos to KPHO/Channel 5 for reporting on allegations of child abuse involving state Senate president Russell Pearce’s son Joshua Pearce, which I first reported on a month ago.Reporter Jason Barry dogged Pearce at the state Capitol, seeking a quote from Mr. Rule of Law, himself.A clearly uncomfortable Pearce declined comment,…

Russell Pearce’s Son Joshua Pearce, and His Other Run-Ins with the Law

The Mesa Police Department has released more reports on its run-ins with state Senator Russell Pearce’s son Joshua. A report I blogged about earlier today dealt with allegations concerning possible child abuse in a December 10, 2010 incident involving Joshua Pearce’s infant daughter.You can read that report, here. I’ve also…

Russell Pearce’s Son Joshua Pearce: The Mesa Police Report

The Mesa Police Department has released its full report of the investigation into an incident involving the infant daughter of Joshua Pearce, son of state Senate president Russell Pearce.As I reported first on this blog, and later in a January 6 Bird column, the Mesa PD responded to a call…

Rodney Glassman Used Gabby Giffords’ Shooting To Campaign For Chair

Like you needed more proof that erstwhile Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Rodney Glassman is a charlatan, take a look at this mass e-mail, sent out by Glassman on January 10, two days after the Tucson massacre, which severely wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and felled Chief U.S. District Judge John RollThe…

Joe Arpaio’s Tale of Deputy Self-Defense Disputed by Eyewitness

Last night CBS 5/KPHO reported that an eyewitness to a January 14 fatal shooting in Mesa by a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office deputy has disputed Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s account of the incident.Miguel Hernandez, a neighbor of victim Felipe Ramirez Castellanos, told KPHO that he did not see Castellanos point a…

Russell Pearce Scores Partial Win in Bid To Rig Redistricting

The Arizona Supreme Court today handed state Senate President Russell Pearce a partial win in his bid to rig the redistricting process that will affect Sand Land politics for the next 10 years.In an order just issued by Vice Chief Justice Andrew Hurwitz, the court agreed with Pearce and state…

Jared Lee Loughner’s Second Amendment Rights and Ray Stern

It seems I’ve introduced my dear colleague Ray Stern to the fascinating world of facts, statistics and sources, as he finally breaks down and uses a few in his latest pro-gun nut diatribe, “The Anti-Gun Culture…”In it, Ray returns once again to his us-versus-them, all-or-nothing theme, calling out those who want…

Joe Arpaio Laughs as a Little Girl Cries

You remember Sheriff Joe Arpaio, our bete noir before Russell Pearce ascended to the state Senate presidency?Well, Sand Land’s smarmy, strutting, pseudo-lawman takes top bill along with little Katherine Figueroa in a recently-released teaser for the documentary Two Americans, which is currently in post-production.Filmmakers Dan DeVivo and Valeria Fernandez contrast Figueroa’s activism…