The roller-coaster campaign to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio took another dive today. With just two weeks left before the recall’s May 30 deadline, the on-again, off-again paid effort to gather signatures is off again. See also: -Joe Arpaio Recall: 14 Days Left, a New Dennis Gilman Video -Joe Arpaio Recall…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu has been catching some serious heat over the way his office handled the search for missing hiker Christopher Hensley. The PCSO’s own search crew combed the Superstition Mountains for days. But it was Superstition Search and Rescue, a private, all-volunteer team ousted by the sheriff…
Citizens for a Better Arizona president Randy Parraz makes two very important points in this new video from Dennis Gilman. The first has to do with what is possible. See also: -Joe Arpaio Shill Chad Willems’ Bogus Pro-Joe “Petition” (w/Update) -Joe Arpaio’s Chad Willems Talks to the Shadow Army about…
Note: Please see update below. Think Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s been doin’ a bang-up job lately, and not just on that broken arm of his? See also: -Don’t Tread On Me, I’m DON SHOOTER!: Senator Allegedly Assaults Teacher I mean, we hardly see “America’s toughest sheriff” these days after…
Nativist Nimrod and birther nutbar John Philip Sousa IV slays me with his whole, “Guess who my great-grandpappy was?” song and dance, which he uses to sell his lame book about the original John Philip Sousa, shill for racist organizations like the Federation for American Immigration Reform, and pimp for…
The Arizona Republic’s editorial board must be patting themselves on the back right now. Why, they scored an editorial on the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill from none other than recalled, disgraced two-time loser Russell Pearce, Sand Land’s high satrap of hate. See also: -Russell Pearce, Ol’ Buds with Killer…
With 22 days remaining, the effort to boot Sheriff Joe Arpaio from office has re-started the paid petition-gathering campaign it discontinued back on March 18. See also: -Joe Arpaio Fans Look a Little Desperate With Billboards Urging People Not to Sign Recall -Joe Arpaio Recall: Give Joe the Pink Slip…
Steve Carpenter has resigned as a deputy from the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office following accusations that he helped another deputy in a plan to assault a North Dakota man. No allegation ever surfaced that Carpenter helped former deputy Tim Abrahamson pummel West Fargo resident Jason Swart, who’d had an affair…
Tim Abrahamson, a former Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office deputy, pleaded guilty today to assaulting his wife’s lover in North Dakota. He faces up to five years in prison when he’s sentenced on June 27th, says Cass County prosecutor Tristan Van de Streek. Meanwhile, Deputy Steve Carpenter, Abrahamson’s apparent accomplice in…
Lisa Allen certainly knows the answer to the question she posed in a letter to the editor published in Saturday’s Arizona Republic. Click here to read Lisa Allen’s letter to the editor. In the letter, the longtime spokeswoman for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio congratulates the Phoenix Police Department for…
Not that Sheriff Joe Arpaio and friends haven’t looked desperate to avoid a recall election throughout this entire process, but these Phoenix billboards definitely have the distinct scent of desperation.It was just a couple of weeks ago that Feathered Bastard wrote about Arpaio apologist John Philip Sousa IV and his…
Monty’s head nearly explodes as he’s challenged by Carlos Garcia of Puente Kudos to Carlos Garcia and his fellow activists at Puente for again confronting Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery on his policy of overcharging undocumented workers so as to make them ineligible for bail, coercing a guilty plea that…
I’m beginning to think Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery should enroll in some remedial law classes. That’s because now a superior court judge has agreed with an administrative law judge that Montgomery’s office messed up the campaign finance case against Attorney General Tom Horne and his outreach director Kathleen Winn…
Bill Montgomery’s victims speak… Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery must feel really proud of himself. After more than three months in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s dirty, dangerous and sometimes deadly jails, 14 of the 23 undocumented workers being prosecuted in the MCSO’s February 8 raid of Sportex Apparel cut plea deals…
Watch A clip from The Undocumented on PBS. See more from Independent Lens. Please see update below. I have very little to go on with the press release below from U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement concerning the “apparent suicide” at the Eloy Detention Center by a 24 year-old Guatemalan woman…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s friends, birther attorney Larry Klayman and ex-lawmaker David Burnell Smith, are doing Arpaio a solid favor in their bogus lawsuit against Respect Arizona, the group trying to recall the elderly sheriff.Respect Arizona’s legal counsel already told New Times last week that the motion to dismiss the case…
During the uproar over the 2010 shooting death of South Phoenix resident Danny Rodriguez by former Phoenix Police Officer Richard Chrisman, I often wondered why two Phoenix cops could not subdue one unarmed man without resorting to lethal force. See also: -Richard Chrisman Report Released by Phoenix Police Department: Read…
I’ve been thinking about sending Sheriff Joe Arpaio a note expressing my deep concern for his health, and suggesting that he resign before the MCSO ends up being Phoenix’s version of Weekend at Bernie’s, with Joe in the starring role. See also: -Joe Arpaio Recall Claims 200,359 Valid Signatures with…
Steven Seagal actually won’t be taking part in the latest episode of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s months-long exploitation of the school-shooting tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut.Seagal, putting out a statement through the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office — which, honestly, doesn’t even sound strange at all at this point — says he has…
Stop us if you’ve heard this before, but an attorney is alleging that notorious birther and Sheriff Joe Arpaio-fan Larry Klayman has filed a lawsuit without any legal merit.In fact, Chris Ford — legal counsel for Respect Arizona — told New Times yesterday that he’s also seeking sanctions against the…
It’s a requirement in Arizona, more than in any other state in the Union, that politicians be shameless hypocrites. And Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery is no piker in this regard. See also: -DPS Officer’s Pursuit of DREAMer Lands Woman in Stir for Six Months -Bill Montgomery’s Deaf Victim Diana…
If you need an illustration of Arizona’s diseased “attrition through enforcement” mentality, look no further than the case of Solaguahire Zenil, a local DREAMer, who is currently in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. See also: -The MCAO Follows ICE’s Blueprint for Separating Immigrant Families According to her…
