Sadly, I wasn’t able to make Anna Gaines’ arraignment today down at the Arcadia Biltmore Justice Court before Judge Steve Sarkis. But a clerk for the judge told me that the little Hobbit lady known far and wide as the “anti-Hispanic Hispanic” for her activities with the Valley’s nativist population,…
As you may have read elsewhere, Arizona Department of Corrections Director Dora Schriro has announced her resignation, and by the end of the week will have vacated her offices to follow ex-Governor Janet Napolitano to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Yet, what exactly she’ll be doing there remains a…
Do you need another reminder that you live in a police state controlled by Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his brown-shirted goons? If so, just take a trip on the Valley Metro Light Rail, which our clownish top constable says he’ll be using to transport inmates downtown, assuming this is not…
There are very few film critics I can read without getting at least mildly peeved at their gasbaggery. But the critics’ pool on the geek-fan site RottenTomatoes.com really ticks me off, particularly in regards to the Biggie Smalls biopic Notorious, which I caught over the weekend.If you’re a fan of…
A dental student’s worst nightmare. That’s what you can expect come August in Glendale as a snaggle-toothed horde of trailer park refugees descends on the Jobing.com Arena for Freedom Concert ’09, a benefit show sponsored by Fox News wing-nut poster boy Sean Hannity and Phoenix’s official Republiloon radio station KFYI…
Today saw a stunning political upset of an incumbent state party chair. And no it wasn’t AZ GOP Chairman Randy Pullen, who handily defeated rival Lisa James, 521 to 474 at the Republican reorganization meeting that took place at Camelback High School. Rather, the revolution occurred in the tony ballroom…
You may recall the Bird item I did a few weeks back that involved a process server who dressed up like a UPS delivery guy to serve a Redflex ticket. The situation brought to mind Seth Rogen’s stoner/process-server character in the film Pineapple Express who dons all kinds of disguises…
Wonder if Ankarlo’s new “speed camera mask” matches his ‘tarded helmet?Look, life is short. Too short to pay any more attention than necessary to wing-nut saliva jockey Darrell Ankkkarlo on KTAR 92.3 FM, winner of this year’s Best of Phoenix “Best Bigot” award. This wannabe Archie Bunker gets off on…
Jabba the Hendershott, shortly after devouring Honduras.Will we ever find out for certain what Joe Arpaio’s Chief Deputy David Hendershott and his MCSO flunkies were doing down in Honduras in 2007 and 2008 training that country’s police force? And will there be any consequences for that boondoggle? If you’ll recall,…
Does he always look like he needs a Pepcid?Talk about your coinkydinks.I just get finished writing a lil’ ditty about Barack Obama, FOIAs, and how MCSO flacks have a history of dragging their jackboots complying with Arizona Public Records Law, and suddenly, like magic in my in-box, I get a…
B-Rock, friend to FOIA and the First Amendment, able to leap tall buildings, and hopefully one day soon will be kickin’ Arpaio’s ass.I was in a special kind of hell this morning, in a waiting room at a garage, biding my time as my car got worked on. But at…
Fresh and forward looking Lisa James (top), or whithered old nativist prune-face Randy Pullen? AZ GOPers will soon get to decide… I’ll say one thing for Arizona Republicans, when they want someone gone, they get their long knives sharpened and start digging holes in the desert, Mafia style. Sheesh,…
The nativists can howl at the moon in victory. As of today, Immigration and Customs Enforcement took custody of Ciria Lopez-Pacheco, the mother torn from her children January 9 by a ski-masked MCSO deputy as part of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s latest anti-immigrant sweep. ICE spokesman Vinnie Picard confirmed this for me…
So far, this is still our fave way to fight Redflex’s robotic photo enforcement sentinels. Aussie photo enforcement firm Redflex is crowing like a stud rooster today, issuing a press release from Redflex flack Shoba Vaitheeswaran, announcing that its Scottsdale-based rival, American Traffic Solutions, has voluntary withdrawn its administrative challenge…
Already, Lopez-Pacheco looks a few pounds lighter than in this January 9, MCSO mugshot.Ciria Lopez-Pacheco looks longingly at children in the Estrella Jail visitation room who have been brought in to see their mothers. The activist I’m with, Lydia Guzman of the human rights organization Respect/Respeto, speaks Spanish to Lopez-Pacheco,…
When, I wonder, will Ciria Lopez-Pacheco finally be reunited with her children? The extremely well-read site Huffington Post just picked up on the plight of undocumented mom Ciria Lopez-Pacheco, who was torn from her children the evening of January 9, during Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s anti-immigrant sweep in the west…
This tagger ain’t no Basquiat, but then again, it’s only a tag… As was recently mentioned in a report by my colleague Ray Stern, the Phoenix PD has released images of some of the first graffiti ever on the Phoenix Metro Light Rail. And for this historic occasion, wherein the PMLR gets…
Embedded video from CNN Video What’s the difference between neo-Nazi hugger, and forwarder of white supremacist e-mail, state Senator Russell Pearce and Gov. Janet Napolitano on immigration? Well, to judge by this CNN excerpt from Nappy’s DHS confirmation hearings yesterday, I’d say, not much. A lot’s being made in the…
Seems like Michelle D. just can’t stay away from the fray.Could it be? Is she back? And if so, will she finally let me paint her toenails as we debate the finer points of U.S. immigration policy? I’m talking about the former head of the now defunct Mothers Against Illegal…
The latest Dennis Gilman video is a doozy. It covers the MCSO sweep in the west Valley, and shows some of the ski-masked deputies involved. Having MCSO deputies pulling over cars for traffic stops in black masks like this is reminiscent of some South American dictatorship. It’s meant to terrorize…
“Frankie the Snitch” groveling before the Board of Supervisors in September. I had a funny feeling the MCSO might block yours truly if I headed down to the love-in between Guadalupe Mayor Frankie Montiel and Joe Arpaio today at the Wells Fargo Building, where Joe has his high-rent offices. But, hey,…
I really hate being right in this town. But here in a brief e-mail announcement from the MCSO is the outcome of what I wrote about on January 7 in the blog post “Something Wicked This Way Comes,” and in last week’s Bird item “Frankie the Snitch.” Specifically, both articles…
