The evidence shows that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s top men ran an illegal campaign-finance scheme to benefit their boss’ 2008 race, say newly released investigation documents. The internal affairs probe of the so-called SCA scandal concluded earlier this year and resulted in the termination of two of Arpaio’s closest aides, Chief Deputy Dave…
Arizona senators Jon Kyl and John McCain today issued a joint statement saying they are “concerned” with the the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s bungling of several hundred sex-crime investigations.”Concerned” is as far as the senators would go, though, and rather than calling for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s head — as several…
One unfortunate aspect of the occupation of the Salt River Project’s Tempe headquarters last week was that the activists involved were not able to pull off a similar action at the Westin Kierland Resort, where corporate interests and GOP legislators were engaged in a veritable orgy of legislative cross-pollination during…
Congressman Ed Pastor of Arizona’s 4th District has joined the ranks of Sand Land politicians calling for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s resignation over the MCSO’s mishandling of more than 400 sex crimes cases in El Mirage, many involving child victims.Today, Pastor’s office released the following statement endorsing plans by some on…
As the outrage over Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s mishandling of several hundred sex crimes continues to spread, the sheriff’s crusade to prove that President Barack Obama is a Kenyan version of the Manchurian Candidate wages on.Arpaio, as we’ve reported, agreed to investigate the president’s citizenship at the request of…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio seems to think Democratic politicians are using his office’s bungling of more than 400 sex crime investigations as a reason to call for his resignation — not because of his incompetence, but because they don’t like his policies on immigration.He also seems to think other…
Newly released records show a top Arpaio official was convinced her superiors had bugged her office.County observers may recall that Arpaio and his go-to guy, former Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott, wanted County Supervisor Andy Kunasek prosecuted for sweeping county offices for listening devices, claiming Kunasek had wasted taxapayer money.Yet these…
See any “screaming kids” chained to the state Capitol? Obviously, there’s limited room in New Times’ print edition to attack all the lies, myths, falsehoods, and half-truths promulgated by Governor Jan Brewer in her ghost-written memoir Scorpions for Breakfast. So there was no way for me to catalog and rebut them…
First Lady Michelle Obama apparently is in a “panic” over Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s probe into whether her husband, President Barack Obama, is a U.S. citizen — if you believe the supermarket tabloid The Globe’s “inside” White House sources, that is.Arpaio, who applauds supermarket tabloids as having “the best…
Maricopa County Sheriff is again under fire over hundreds of admittedly botched investigations into sex crimes over a three-year period ending in 2007.One of his biggest critics: Congressman Raul Grijalva, who is calling for Arpaio to resign over the bungled investigations.See our story on Arpaio’s oopsies here.Grijalva, whose Congressional district…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio apologized today to the victims of El Mirage sex-crimes cases that went uninvestigated due to incompetent police work under his watch.”Sometimes these kinds of things occur in big departments like (the Maricopa sheriff’s office),” Arpaio said during a press conference today, as tweeted by Arizona…
You may be having a better Monday morning than Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who was slammed yesterday in a damning story about how his agency bungled hundreds of sex-crime cases.The Associated Press story by Jacques Billeaud presented news that’s familiar to local observers of the five-term sheriff of Maricopa County –…
Usually, Arpaio loves a good probe. The list of questionable investigations the five-term sheriff has launched against his political foes includes county Supervisors, judges, bureaucrats, lawyers, journalists and political activists. (See “Enemies List,”, “Joe Knew,” for starters.) But he won’t investigate his deputy chief’s alleged threat against a reporter and…
If there were Black Hole of Calcutta for bad sheriffs, is there any doubt that Joe Arpaio would be in it? Arpaio, the biggest un-indicted criminal in Arizona, is responsible for so much malfeasance, illegal activity and human misery, that his Teflon Don persona continues to amaze, even as the nearly…
Rick Perry’s presidential campaign is on life support at the moment, and according to a group of Hispanic Republicans, Joe Arpaio’s recent endorsement of Perry could be the final nail in the Texas Governor’s coffin.”We believe the Arpaio endorsement is a colossal blunder from which Rick Perry will never recover,…
I kept waiting for her nose to start sprouting. Because when you tell whoppers like Governor Jan Brewer did at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s opening luncheon at the Westin Kierland Resort and Spa Wednesday, there really should be some Pinocchio-esque “tell” for those who don’t know better.Brewer’s self-aggrandizing arrogance…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has officially picked his horse in the GOP presidential primary, Texas Governor Rick Perry, which came as a bit of shock to those familiar with America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff.”Arpaio, as you probably know, is the poster-boy for bootin’ brown folks back across the border. Perry,…
There are some messages so loud and clear that even someone as dense as Arizona’s grammatically-challenged chief executive gets the message.Less than a week after the release of a poll showing Governor Jan Brewer’s disapproval rating at 49 percent, with 32 percent of Sand Land voters willing to recall her…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio today ended months of speculation about who he’d support in the GOP presidential primary by officially throwing his weight behind Texas Governor Rick Perry.Arpaio is currently in New Hampshire campaigning with Perry, which is where he gave his official nod. “I’m endorsing Rick Perry because…
As you’ve probably heard, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will be in New Hampshire today where he’s expected to endorse Texas Governor Rick Perry in the Republican presidential primary.Arpaio’s nod could be a double-edged sword for Perry, though, who many far-right-wingers — a.k.a. the people who typically vote in Republican…
Should anyone be surprised that Governor Jan Brewer will be one of the keynote speakers at the American Legislative Exchange Council’s big wingding in Scottsdale this week at the Westin Kierland Resort and Spa?I’m sure not. Even before ALEC posted the announcement to its website and the governor’s office noted…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a man who’s made a career out of bootin’ brown folks back across the border, is reportedly going to endorse Rick Perry as the Republican nominee for president — which is more than a little surprising (if it’s true, that is), when you consider some…
