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…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has endorsed so many candidates in this year’s election that he can’t keep them all straight (dementia must be setting in) — which might be the reason he claims he mistakenly endorsed two candidates who are running against each other.On the Sonoran Alliance Web site today, Arpaio claims…
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,…
Yesterday, we told you about a dude who was so fed up with Mariopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “clown convention” that he had the sheriff’s best kissy-face tattooed on his ass. We can’t help but love the hilarity of 23-year-old Jeff Jacobson’s posterior protest because — having to look at a grown…
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…
Should Sheriff Joe Arpaio, former County Attorney Andrew Thomas, and former Special Prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik be held accountable for their investigation into this newspaper — and the jailing of its owners?That question is now in the hands of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. A three-judge panel…
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…
With the amount of attention Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has brought to his 78th birthday, you might think he’s a 16-year-old girl.First he “tweeted” that he needed ideas on how to celebrate his birthday. Then he claimed his special day was “ruined” because a blind-advocacy group uninvited him to…
I called Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada Thursday about a report I’d read on the Website of NBC affiliate KVOA Tucson concerning four border crossers fired upon by two men wearing camouflage and bearing assault rifles.One man was injured with a gunshot wound to the left forearm, the rest…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio had his birthday “ruined” last weekend, and we found out yesterday that Joe’s blaming his birthday tears on the wrong blind-advocacy group. On Monday, Arpaio issued a press release whining that his invitation to speak at a convention for guide-dog users was withdrawn because the group…
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office has dropped charges of disorderly conduct against the nine protesters who chained themselves to the Arizona state Capitol on April 20, in an act of civil disobedience over SB 1070. (Note: Governor Jan Brewer signed the “papers, please” legislation just days later on April 23.) Attorneys working pro…
