Andrei Cherny’s ad attacking Doug Ducey has the ex-Cold Stone CEO playing defense My head’s been so buried in statistics for an upcoming feature that I missed a news conference last week for former Clinton advisor and Democratic contender for Arizona State Treasurer Andrei Cherny. In it, the Cherny camp…
I don’t want to get my hopes up, but do you think the mainstream media’s finally beginning to “get it” when it comes to our corrupt top constable, Sheriff Joe Arpaio? CNN didn’t exactly lead last night with the above piece on the federal grand jury inquiry into Arpaio, his former fellow…
Feathered Bastard will go dark for about a week as I work on a larger project that requires my undivided attention.Unless something pops up that I absolutely must blog, there will likely be no new blogs on FB until Monday, October 11. Sources are still free to contact me with info,…
Some of what Sanchez said that sunk his dinghyCNN’s firing of Rick Sanchez over some controversial comments made on a satellite radio show is asinine, short-sighted and hypocritical in the extreme.Yeah, he called The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart a “bigot,” but then he withdrew the comment later during the same…
The Phoenix Police Department has finally issued a press release in the racially-motivated shooting of Kelly Jaeger, a Caucasian woman who was walking late at night in Phoenix’s Palma Park when she and her African-American friend Jeffery Wellmaker were reportedly accosted by a bald, white tattooed man. The man challenged…
I’ve blogged till I’m blue in the face about the endless stream of whoppers concerning illegal immigration flowing from the pie-hole of racist state Senator Russell Pearce, the main sponsor of Arizona’s “breathing while brown law” SB 1070. One of Pearce’s favorite falsehoods, a phony stat he’s sputtered on numerous occasions, like he…
SKINHEADS IN STIR There’s a weird rumor going around that the Phoenix Police Department canceled a press conference planned for September 23 because of my Feathered Bastard blog post the day before. In that post (“Vinlanders Vanquished,” September 22), I detailed how the PPD’s Career Criminal Squad had decimated the Arizona…
Watching the footage of Nogales Mayor Octavio Garcia-Von Borstel and his father Octavio Garcia Suarez dragged before a judge in shackles and prison stripes after their arrests on charges of bribery, theft, fraud and money laundering, raises a few interesting questions regarding Maricopa County’s crotchety top constable, Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The indictments of…
In my Monday blog concerning just who will pay for the cost of Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s administrative investigation into the Munnell memo alleging corruption in the command staff of the MCSO, I reported that Babeu’s flack Tim Gaffney had told me that both the MCSO and the Maricopa County…
I’m on deadline today, so I won’t have time to suss this out till later, but this CNN video of peace activist Liz Hourican being tackled by law enforcement is disturbing for a couple of reasons.The first is that, based on what’s in the video, there was no need for…
You guys call this a mosh? I’ve seen old ladies do betterSand Land continues to serve as the spot to be for neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and plain ol’ racist nativists to party down. Just check out the above video for the 2009 Oi Fest, held yearly in Tonopah, Arizona, and sponsored…
[jump] A photo of a younger Nelson Omar. The boy is now thirteen. Whether the coyote’s tale is true or not, Nelson is missing, and there is a decomposed body of a young boy at the Pima County Medical Examiner’s Office that could be him. The coroner needs photos of the boy…
Who will pick up the tab for Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s investigation into the allegations made in MCSO Deputy Chief Frank Munnell’s memo? And should Maricopa County pay for any of it, particularly considering the PCSO’s past record concerning internal investigations, specifically the mysterious “wounding” of PCSO Deputy Louie…
If you read today’s Arizona Republic or watched Fox News last night, you might be under the mistaken impression that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s vast incarceration complex has undergone an audit from the U.S. Marshals Service and earned gold stars and smiley faces all around. Um, not exactly. Despite the hoo-ha Arpaio’s made over…
One misconception out there is that the inquiry into MCSO Deputy Chief Frank Munnell’s memo by Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu could result in criminal charges being filed against those Sheriff Joe loyalists now suspended with pay: Chief Deputy David Hendershott, Director Larry Black, and Captain Joel Fox. Though Munnell alleges criminal activity…
INDICTMENT TIME I have a simple question for U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke and Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard: Where are the ever-lovin’ indictments? Indeed, you can be sure of one thing in the wake of MCSO Deputy Chief Frank Munnell’s 63-page memo outlining the corruption and alleged criminal…
Want more proof that Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a cross between Tricky Dick Nixon and Vincent “the Chin” Gigante? Take a gander at the Bobby Wetherell affidavit. Much of the local media continues, bass-like, to be impaled on the hook of Deputy Chief Frank Munnell’s loving memo to Sheriff Joe,…
According to records on file with the Maricopa County Superior Court, the investigators of the Phoenix Police Department’s elite Career Criminal Squad, with the assistance of the local Anti-Defamation League, have crushed the Arizona contingent of the Vinlanders Social Club, one of the most violent and feared racist skinhead organizations in America…
I stopped by DREAM Army headquarters last night to watch Michael Nazario put his wannabe-U.S. troops through the paces.See, Nazario and other members of the Arizona DREAM Act Coalition have been camped out since last week near U.S. Senator John McCain’s Phoenix office, at the corner of 16th Street and…
Gilman dogs Arpaio at a Joe show on the west sideHere’s the latest from the people’s videographer, Dennis Gilman: An account of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s September 16 appearance at a block watch meeting at Manzanita Elementary School on Phoenix’s west side.As you can see from the video, the neighborhood didn’t…
Many of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s ex-aides and critics agree on one thing: Despite Deputy Chief Frank Munnell’s recent memo portraying Arpaio as a hapless figurehead (a memo you can read, here) it’s the sheriff who rules the MCSO. As I discussed in a blog item earlier today, this narrative depicting Chief…
If the feds cannot find some indictments out of the mess that is Maricopa County, they should pack their Samsonites and head to Rio to sell real estate.The latest news in the wake of the release of Deputy Chief Frank Munnell’s memo outlining the many alleged misdeeds of Chief Deputy…
