New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer sent a letter to Governor Jan Brewer last week, asking her to give testimony before his Senate Subcommittee on Immigration about Senate Bill 1070. Schumer’s office said the point of Brewer’s testimony would be “to hear whether she still believes the law to be…
Steve Nash fared far better during Thursday night’s game then he did in his five minutes of meager court time in last weekend’s All-Star Game. The 38-year-old Suns captain (who’s reportedly being sought by the Dallas Mavericks and two other teams per the latest trade scuttlebutt) earned a double-double with…
As you may have heard, it’s 2012, and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio actually thinks the President of the United States got into the White House using a forged birth certificate.It’s the latest entry in a long line of publicity stunts for Arpaio, and this one just so happened to…
Humiliated 12-point loser and ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce figures the rules don’t apply to him. That’s been a life-long pattern, from the shenanigans that got him fired from his post as head of the Arizona Department of Motor Vehicles to the sham candidacy of Olivia Cortes in last year’s recall…
Conservative writer Andrew Breitbart died early this morning at the age of 43, and according to Jerome Corsi, Breitbart’s last interview could have been with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Corsi, however, is a conspiracy-theorist extraordinaire who doesn’t always tell the truth.If he is to be believed (at least on this…
We actually looked at the report given out today during Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s announcement that he believes President Obama’s birth certificate is a forgery, and there is a grand total of zero new information in it.In fact, the report prepared by Mara Zebest — who was at the…
There you have it — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio actually thinks the President of the United States got into the White House using a forged birth certificate.Yes, the year is 2012, and yes, New Times and several dozen other media outlets just listened to more than two hours of…
Nativist extremist and documented anti-Semite Glenn Spencer spoke today at the state Senate Border Security, Federalism, and States’ Rights Committee, a seriously loony legislative panel chaired by crackpot Republican state Senator Sylvia Allen.Democratic state Senators Steve Gallardo and Robert Meza walked out of the committee in protest as soon as…
Sex offender Devon Anderson allegedly told police he “fights the urge” to molest kids by meditation.He apparently forgets to meditate quite often, as Phoenix police say he molested two 4-year-old girls at a public library — his third and fourth alleged molestation victims.According to court documents obtained by New Times,…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s playing Santa Claus for the “birther” crowd today, as he’s delivering the “preliminary findings” of his Cold Case Posse’s “investigation” into President Obama’s eligibility.MCSO spokesman Jeff Sprong says it’s unknown how many media members will be in attendance for the announcement, “but we are expecting…
Robert Moorman, who sat on Arizona’s death row for nearly three decades, was executed yesterday for chopping up his adoptive mother.Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne responded by saying there was “no rational reason” for it to take that long.”We have been working hard to help reform a system in which…
Aunqué soy Boricua, mi corazón está al lado del pueblo mejicano, aquí en Arizona. ¿Porqué no hablas contra “La Bruja Mala del Oeste” Gobernadora Jan Brewer, “El Leon Cobarde” Ex-Senador Russell Pearce, “El Hombre Hecho de Lata” Alguacil del Condado Maricopa Joe Arpairo, “El Hombre Hecho de Paja” Abogado General Tom…
BABEU’S BAD DAY No one to blame but himself: [Pinal County Sheriff] Paul Babeu has only himself to blame for all this (“Firestorm” and “Investigations Loom Into Paul Babeu’s Mexican Lover’s Allegations,” Monica Alonzo, February 17 and 23). He posed on raunchy websites and let his boyfriend run his campaign…
Despite public pleas for pity, Sheriff Paul Babeu dwells now in a hell entirely of his own making, licked by self-stoked flames of hypocrisy and deceit. To hear him tell it, you’d think Babeu was a martyr for gay liberation, wrongly outed as a homosexual by my colleague Monica Alonzo’s…
When you’ve turned nothing into something once already, you tend to feel you can do it again. There’s faith your luck will turn. Perhaps it’s delusion. But for a professional poker player, self-confidence is essential. So it is for Walter Wright, who now finds himself in Costa Rica. He left…
Eleven members of Vagos, a rival motorcycle gang of the Hells Angels, were arrested today by an Arizona Department of Public Safety gang task force in connection with several violent crimes around Bullhead City.Six of the 11 arrested during “Operation Catch 22” are repeat customers to the DPS task force,…
Dave Hendershott, the disgraced former chief deputy under Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, will invoke his right against self-incrimination if asked to testify in the job appeal hearing for fired deputy Joel Fox.Barry Markson, Hendershott’s lawyer, told Judge Robert Sparks in the appeal hearing today that his client intended to…
We stumbled upon this little nugget on the Daily Kos, which is much more interesting given Paul Babeu’s latest attacks on his sister, Lucy. David Nir of the Daily Kos wrote that “Sheriff Paul Babeu originally tried to blame website comments on mentally ill sister.” The entire Daily Kos blog…
With oral arguments scheduled to take place April 25 before the U.S. Supreme Court on Arizona’s breathing-while-brown statute Senate Bill 1070, Arizona District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton today enjoined two sections of the law she had not previously put on hold in 2010, when she stymied the most egregious parts…
An assault rifle with loaded magazines and 40 pounds of marijuana are just some of the objects found during a clean-up of federal lands near the smuggling corridor of Interstate 8.Dennis Godfrey, spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, says he’ll try to find out exactly what type of…
Phoenix cops have been working since Saturday to find Juan Garcia — who’s accused of killing his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son late Friday night — and police say the leads have been scarce as of yet.”We’re going to track him down — it’s just a matter of when,” Phoenix Sergeant Trent…
Attorney General Tom Horne acknowledges “[j]ustice was carried out” today against Brian Moorman, who was executed this morning for chopping up his adoptive mother.He’s also wondering why exactly it took until 2012 to execute a guy who hacked up mom in 1984.As we’ve previously noted, Arizona spent an estimated $586,000…
