Pinal County Supervisor Pete Rios has been calling for embattled Sheriff Paul Babeu to step down from his post as the county’s top cop. In the past few weeks, several individuals have lodged allegations against Babeu that he abused his power, was complicit in the abusive conditions at the DeSisto…
An unsigned opinion article in the conservative magazine National Review today states that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio doesn’t deserve to win re-election.The magazine has previously run articles that defended Arpaio, but the sheriff’s recent “birther” madness pushed it over the edge.That’s understandable, because the National Review has already debunked…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio wrote to Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster a year ago about two guys — one of whom was an elementary school music teacher — who were surfing the website trying to find a dog to have sex with.Buckmaster apparently doesn’t want to be pen-pals with Arpaio,…
Did Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu employ another law enforcement officer to pressure Jose Orozco, the sheriff’s ex-boyfriend, to keep quiet about his relationship with the sheriff? Orozco believes so, and he revealed that detail in a $1 million claim his attorneys filed on March 2 against Pinal County and…
As far as lawsuits go, the Maricopa County Superior Court case of Alice and George Kaplan v. Chandler was anything but monumental. Heck, all it concerned was a broken water pipe at an unoccupied building that the couple own in the East Valley city. The Kaplans claimed that the city…
It’s been a while since I first wrote about Attorney General Tom Horne’s close friend Carmen Chenal’s problems with the State Bar of Arizona and her being hired by the Arizona Attorney General’s Office as an attorney in the criminal division, at a salary of $108,000.Chenal is one of many cronies…
For the low price of $9.99, you can obtain your own copy of an e-book that’s billed as “a law enforcement investigation” into President Obama’s birth certificate.The authors happen to be Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Cold Case Posse “lead investigator” Mike Zullo and notorious “birther” Jerome Corsi.The forward, unsurprisingly, is…
Tea Party princess Michelle Ugenti has a mouth on her, that’s for sure. The Republican state House Representative and former real-estate peddler was elected to represent District 8 voters in 2010, largely with the assistance of Clean Elections funding and the campaign hackery of Clean Elections-parasite Constantin Querard.And what has Clean…
Tony Diaz, dropping some knowledge with the Libro-Traficante caravanArizona’s ethnic studies ban has resulted in the eradication of the successful and popular Mexican American Studies program in the Tucson Unified School District, and a backward edict banning certain supposedly “dangerous” books by Latino authors from Tucson classrooms.This peculiar mix of…
As much as the late Andrew Breitbart was reviled by the left, I always found him to be an entertaining, if often inflammatory, media presence. Breitbart died Thursday of natural causes at the way-too-young age of 43, giving liberals everywhere less reason to assault their TV screens in apoplectic rage.Breitbart’s…
As you may have heard, it’s 2012, and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio actually thinks the President of the United States got into the White House using a forged birth certificate.It’s the latest entry in a long line of publicity stunts for Arpaio, and this one just so happened to…
Humiliated 12-point loser and ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce figures the rules don’t apply to him. That’s been a life-long pattern, from the shenanigans that got him fired from his post as head of the Arizona Department of Motor Vehicles to the sham candidacy of Olivia Cortes in last year’s recall…
Conservative writer Andrew Breitbart died early this morning at the age of 43, and according to Jerome Corsi, Breitbart’s last interview could have been with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.Corsi, however, is a conspiracy-theorist extraordinaire who doesn’t always tell the truth.If he is to be believed (at least on this…
We actually looked at the report given out today during Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s announcement that he believes President Obama’s birth certificate is a forgery, and there is a grand total of zero new information in it.In fact, the report prepared by Mara Zebest — who was at the…
There you have it — Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio actually thinks the President of the United States got into the White House using a forged birth certificate.Yes, the year is 2012, and yes, New Times and several dozen other media outlets just listened to more than two hours of…
Nativist extremist and documented anti-Semite Glenn Spencer spoke today at the state Senate Border Security, Federalism, and States’ Rights Committee, a seriously loony legislative panel chaired by crackpot Republican state Senator Sylvia Allen.Democratic state Senators Steve Gallardo and Robert Meza walked out of the committee in protest as soon as…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s playing Santa Claus for the “birther” crowd today, as he’s delivering the “preliminary findings” of his Cold Case Posse’s “investigation” into President Obama’s eligibility.MCSO spokesman Jeff Sprong says it’s unknown how many media members will be in attendance for the announcement, “but we are expecting…
Dave Hendershott, the disgraced former chief deputy under Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, will invoke his right against self-incrimination if asked to testify in the job appeal hearing for fired deputy Joel Fox.Barry Markson, Hendershott’s lawyer, told Judge Robert Sparks in the appeal hearing today that his client intended to…
We stumbled upon this little nugget on the Daily Kos, which is much more interesting given Paul Babeu’s latest attacks on his sister, Lucy. David Nir of the Daily Kos wrote that “Sheriff Paul Babeu originally tried to blame website comments on mentally ill sister.” The entire Daily Kos blog…
With oral arguments scheduled to take place April 25 before the U.S. Supreme Court on Arizona’s breathing-while-brown statute Senate Bill 1070, Arizona District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton today enjoined two sections of the law she had not previously put on hold in 2010, when she stymied the most egregious parts…
A judge wants to know whether a criminal investigation is open on Joel Fox, the fired Maricopa Sheriff’s Office captain at the heart of the infamous “SCA” campaign-financing scandal. Which is great, because so do we. Fox has been fighting to get his job back in a lengthy appeal proceeding…
Paul Babeu is on the defensive — again. This time the embattled Pinal County sheriff has hired the Rose Law Group to defend him from a second round of allegations from his sister, Lucy, that he engaged in a sexual relationship with one of the students from DeSisto School in…
