Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle Shadeaux14, you are the proud winner of this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest. On Friday, we asked readers to provide what they think would be an appropriate caption for the above photo of Minnesota Congresswoman Michele…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office confirmed to New Times yesterday that he’s assigned an “elite posse” to look into President Barack Obama’s “fake birth certificate” before allowing his name on the presidential ballot in Arizona next year.No…seriously…you’re not reading The Onion — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has assembled…
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…
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If you’re interested in doing your part to put an end to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s tyrannical reign over Maricopa County, here is your chance.Arpaio’s opponent in next year’s GOP primary for sheriff, Scottsdale Lieutenant Mike Stauffer, is holding a meeting tomorrow night for anyone who wants to lend their time…
If you’re in need of the skull of a human child, you’re in luck; one is currently for sale on Craigslist.According to the Craigslist post, the skull is “missin’ most teeth,” and likely is that of a 12 to 14-year-old child…
If you ask 37-year-old Tony Stromsness, people should be allowed to masturbate wherever they want, and in front of whomever they want — for example, on top of a picnic table in a busy public park, in front of children, which is where Stromsness was arrested yesterday afternoon.According to court…
Congressman Jeff Flake has picked his horse in the GOP presidential primary — and it’s not Michele Bachman.Former Massachusettes Governor Mitt Romney announced today that Flake — who is running for the Senate seat getting vacated by Senator Jon Kyl — has endorsed his candidacy. “This election will be an…
There’s good news and bad news following the Arizona Cardinals 22-21 loss to the Washington Redskins last night.The good news: after two games, Kevin Kolb seems like a legitimate quarterback. The bad news: the Cards’ defense is embarrassing.The Cardinals defense gave up 455 yards in the loss, bringing its total…
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…
Don’t panic, Arizona Diamondbacks fans! The D-Backs may have been beaten by the San Diego Padres twice over the weekend, but they aren’t anywhere close to staging a late-season collapse (ala the New York Mets) anytime soon. The D-Backs suffered back-to-back losses against San Diego on Friday and Saturday, which…
Last week, we asked our readers to offer suggestions for a caption for the above photo of Minnesota congresswoman/presidential candidate Michele Bachmann kissing Joe Arpaio’s ass as she begs like a dog for Arpaio to endorse her candidacy for this week’s New Times’ You Write the Caption contest.Once again, you…
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…
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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…
Phoenix police have identified the victim in a fatal shooting last night on the I-10 — which forced the highway to be closed until about 8:30 this morning — as 49-year-old Michael Arvallo.Phoenix Sergeant Steve Martos says the shooting happened about 10:30 p.m. yesterday as Arvallo was driving on the…
No good deed goes unpunished — for example, you could let a panhandler borrow your cell phone, only to have him stab your friend in the neck almost immediately afterwards, which is apparently what happened to a Phoenix man last weekend.According to court records obtained by New Times, a woman…
Getting stopped for DUI seems to be all the rage at the Pinal County Assessor’s Office these days — just seven months after County Assessor Paul Larkin got pinched for driving tipsy, Assistant County Assessor Jacqueline Minto was nabbed for extreme DUI.Last night, Minto was involved in a serious injury…
Wes Gullett’s has built his mayoral campaign on being an outsider, not part of the status quo and on not being beholden to “big labor” (um, unions).In fact, Camp Gullett put out a press release today knocking Greg Stanton for winning the endorsement of the firefighters’ union. One glaring omission…
Brian David Mitchell, the Utah street preacher convicted of kidnapping Elizabeth Smart, has begun serving his life sentence in an Arizona prison.Mitchell, who kidnapped Smart — who was then 14 — from her bedroom in 2002, was brought to a prison about 10 miles south of Tucson. The prison is…
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,…
