As was anticipated, the U.S. Department of Justice filed suit today in federal district court against the state of Arizona and Governor Jan Brewer over Arizona’s new “papers, please” legislation, SB 1070.In the lawsuit, the United States government “seeks to declare invalid and preliminarily and permanently enjoin the enforcement of S.B…
Check out this link for a bit of common sense amidst all the anti-immigrant hysteria now swirling throughout Sand Land. It’s a videotaped interview with Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada by Eric Byler, co-director of the documentary 9500 Liberty, which chronicled the rise and fall of a measure similar…
Radio host Carlos Galindo recently paid a visit to the convenience store/restaurant Minute Liquor/Dora’s Kitchen on 16th Street in south Phoenix to talk to the owner, who happens to be GOP CorpCom candidate Barry Wong’s tenant.Though the man is not identified, there is a financing statement for the business on…
Talk about jumping the shark. Republican Corporation Commission candidate Barry Wong’s unsavory suggestion that undocumented immigrants be denied utilities in Arizona almost immediately received near-universal condemnation, after the Republic reported the story yesterday.Arizona Chamber of Commerce President Glenn Hamer called the proposal “a new low in our state’s immigration debate.” Various…
No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes, the humanitarian group that leaves water out for migrants crossing the Arizona desert, will be holding an art auction/fundraiser beginning this First Friday in Phoenix at Bragg’s Pie Factory. The details, taken from the Facebook page for the event, are below.I wrote about No More…
Did Zack de la Rocha, like, read my mind?Or maybe he just read my blog back in June about Los Lobos boycotting Arizona over SB 1070. There I suggested that de la Rocha and all the other great acts avoiding Sand Land like the plague get together and do an…
The only thing that stands between state Senator Pamela Gorman and Sarah Palin is a bikini and someone with a little spare time and photoshop.Don’t look at me to reprise it. But the video above for the conservanut Gorman’s congressional campaign is reminiscent of that famous faux pic of the Wackjob from Wasilla…
Okay, maybe U.S. Senator John McCain didn’t exactly say that Governor Jan Brewer’s a blithering idiot whose lifetime educational achievement is a certification as a radiological technologist. But he at least admitted on Sunday’s Meet the Press that Brewer had pulled another boner when host David Gregory asked him about…
Above is videographer Dennis Gilman’s latest on the neo-Nazi patrol of the Vekol Valley, which I wrote up recently for this blog. Gilman weaves in snippets from Governor Jan Brewer, state Senator Russell Pearce, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio to make the point that the rhetoric used by these politicians helps…
He may think he’s answerable to no one, but a Pima County judge has ruled that Sheriff Joe Arpaio cannot thumb his nose at the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors when they come calling for financial records and order him to attend a hearing to discuss same. Superior Court Judge…
For those of you who’ve been wondering whatever happened to those plans to kick Sheriff Joe Arpaio out of his pricey executive suites in downtown Phoenix’s Wells Fargo building, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has a plan to get Arpaio into a fixer-upper: an ex-IRS building at 210 East…
Compared to the verbal fisticuffs former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Arizona schools Superintendent Tom Horne laid on each other in their recent Horizon debate over the GOP primary nod for Arizona Attorney General, the Democratic AG debate Wednesday on Horizon was rather tame, save for a burst of sparring toward the…
Funnier than a “That 70’s Show” rerun? I’ll let you be the judge Sure, this YouTube cartoon of former Maricopa County Attorney Andy Thomas taking a dive out the window when the feds come-a-callin’ is classic political propaganda from the camp of Thomas’ deadly enemy and rival for the Republican…
At the risk of being labeled a sadomasochist, I checked out Sheriff Joe’s first Webcast today, which his PR apparatchiks say he’ll be doing every Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. for five or 10 minutes at a time. Those apparatchiks were on the show with Joe, flanking him on either side: Lieutenant Brian…
I’m not sure what good a “feel-good” boycott of Arizona over SB 1070 does, and that seems to be the kind of boycott the Los Angeles City Council wants.Back in May, during a peak of national outrage over Arizona’s new “papers, please” immigration law, L.A. city council members voted to ban future…
If you missed the “Clean Elections” Republican state Attorney General debate last night on Horizon between state schools superintendent Tom Horne and former Maricopa County Attorney Andy Thomas, it was a real cage fight. I’m surprised blood didn’t spatter the TV screen. Fortunately, if you enjoy mortal combat, you can watch…
Both the Anti-Defamation League and the nation of Mexico have filed separate amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs in the big anti-SB 1070 lawsuit that the ACLU, MALDEF, the NAACP and other groups filed in federal district court on May 17 against Arizona’s counties.The complaint, known as Friendly House,…
National Socialist Movement regional director Jeff Hall has filed an “after action report” on the NSM Web site with photos and video of the dead body that Mesa swastika-licker J.T. Ready said he and fellow brownshirts (and assorted fellow travelers) came across during their recent weekend warrior-ing in the Vekol…
The MCSO’s highly-paid PR apparatchiks have just sent out an announcement on the one guy who seems to get more publicity than neo-Nazi J.T. Ready these days.I’m talking, of course, about our own geriatric, Mr. Magoo-esque gendarme, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who will begin livebroadcasting his mug Big Brother style on www.ustream.tv/channel/JMA-tv1, every Wednesday…
It’s not every day that a well-known neo-Nazi offers to take you to a place called “the slaughterhouse.”But that’s what Mesa neo-Nazi J.T. Ready did on Saturday, leading a group of neo-Nazis, militia-types, and some seriously naive individuals to “secure” an abandoned building by that name on Vekol Road, off…
Rapper Chuck D, the MC who as a part of the rap group Public Enemy excoriated Arizona over the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day controversy with the song “By the Time I Get To Arizona,” is blasting Sand Land again, this time in the new joint “Tear Down That Wall.” The track is…
CNN is reporting that the Obama administration plans to file a legal challenge to Arizona’s new “papers, please” legislation SB 1070 within a month. The news channel cites an unnamed “senior administration official” as its source. The Justice Department itself will only go so far as to say it is still reviewing the…
