The pressure is building on Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery to end his apartheid policies when it comes to the over-charging of undocumented workers, resulting in moms and dads being held nonbondable under Prop 100 and ultimately deported. See also: -Bill Montgomery and ICE, Partners in Crime, To Be Protested…
Rebecca Jimenez’s campaign video, produced by Dennis Gilman Sheriff Joe Arpaio may have one foot in the grave (we hope) due to his “broken arm,” but one of his enemies from not too long ago is alive and well and running for mayor of the unique little town of Guadalupe…
The self-proclaimed “toughest” sheriff in America, Joe Arpaio, is now using his wife and his alleged broken arm to raise money to fight the recall effort against him.To sum it up in just a couple of words, this plea for money is completely pathetic…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery and his partners at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will feel the heat of Latino and pro-immigrant rage this Monday when the Phoenix human rights group Puente spearheads a march demanding an end to the deportations of individuals whose only real “crime” is working for…
It’s not every day that an elected law enforcement official, who has sworn an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States, confesses that he or she is enforcing an unconstitutional law. See also: -The MCAO Follows ICE’s Blueprint for Separating Immigrant Families Yet, that’s just what Maricopa County…
With Sheriff Joe Arpaio still out of commission from his “broken arm,” and with Respect Arizona’s announcement today that they have 120,000 valid signatures demanding his recall, Arpaio’s best career move at this point would be to resign from office for health reasons. See also: -Why Sheriff Joe Actually Is…
Oh, boy, you know things are bad for publicity-hound Sheriff Joe Arpaio when he’s not even well enough to appear on television.The public-relations team for the self-proclaimed “toughest” sheriff in America sent out a memo to media this morning, and it kind of reads like one of those melancholy Christmas…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed “toughest” sheriff in America, has now been hospitalized for more than 24 hours with a purported broken arm.Between the super-weird videos of the 80-year-old sheriff in his hospital bed and the fact that he stayed in that hospital overnight for a broken arm, it sounds…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is at it again — trying to gin up fear about immigrants running wild and ready to “commit crimes against the citizens in our state.” That’s what he claimed during an appearance on CNN. He’s echoing criticism by Republicans that comes in the wake of…
Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 19:14 Watching Dennis Gilman’s new video of Wednesday’s protest against Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery’s systemic over-charging of undocumented workers, one is struck not only with the injustice of…
Eighty-year-old Sheriff Joe Arpaio tripped, fell, and broke his arm on his way to lunch today…
The cattle call began a little after 8:30 a.m. Wednesday for the unfortunates arrested in the MCSO’s Sportex Apparel raid in Tempe the first week of February. See also: -Bill Montgomery Is No Immigration Moderate -Bill Montgomery Fails to Convict an Innocent Man -S.A.N.E. Immigration Initiative Undercut by Bill Montgomery’s…
There’s something that’s just so priceless about Sheriff Joe Arpaio having to thank the Mexican authorities for helping return an inmate who escaped from one of his jails months ago.From his general immigration-enforcement policies and the multiple racial-profiling lawsuits against him to specific comments, like the time he urged a…
You can sleep easy tonight, folks — one of the many, many people who has said mean things about Sheriff Joe Arpaio on the Internet was arrested on a misdemeanor charge.Specifically, MCSO says a man posted to the “People Against Sheriff Joe Arpaio” Facebook page that he’d kill Arpaio for…
The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Wanna stop the sky from falling? Then give and give generously to Arizona Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema’s re-election fund. Yep, that’s the appeal from Sinema as the U.S. government heads straight for sequestration and tens of thousands of Arizona jobs supposedly face the…
If you’re political sleaze maestro Constantin Querard, the Arizona Legislature is practically your own personal Downton Abbey. Querard’s team of taxpayer-funded butlers, bootblacks, and maids is extensive — at least 20, by his own claim — in the both the upper and lower chambers. And on February 21, before the…
Arizona prisons are notorious reservoirs of criminal behavior, and apparently that’s just the staff. No joke. Arizona Department of Corrections Director Charles Ryan admits as much in a recent post to his “Director’s Desk” blog, wherein he states that “in the past four and a half years, there have been…
Willems pumps up the alter kockers with his doomsday scenario, talk of spies in the other camp, and a plan to “block” voters from signing the recall petition As promised in this week’s column, above is the audio of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s campaign guru Chad Willems speaking to the pro-Joe…
What are the chances that a lawyer who was found by a court to have “inappropriately touched” children would try to stop the recall of a county sheriff whose agency failed to properly investigate more than 400 sex crimes?This is quite the, um, coincidence, as we stumbled across a judgment…
Gilman’s latest rakes Nowakowski over the coals for his parley with El Diablo Which side are you on? The recall effort is underway, and even Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s campaign guru Chad Willems has acknowledged that if the recall committee Respect Arizona scores the needed signatures for the ballot, then, “Joe…
Portions of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s 10,000-page sex-crimes internal investigation are now available online following a New Times records request. When the massive report was released to the news media and public on February 8, the agency at first refused New Times’ request to put it on a CD…
The people behind Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” investigation are now trying to tell the Arpaio recall effort that they’ll go to court to shut it down if they don’t do it themselves.Spoiler alert: Fat chance, for Arpaio’s friends.See also:-Why Sheriff Joe Actually Is Nervous About the Recall Effort Against Him-Joe…
