Maricopa County’s corrupt top cop felt the need yesterday to announce to the world that he’ll be trotting out his female chain gang to clean up garbage in the name of DUI awareness. Alerting the media to a played-out practice of archaic punishment — which he’s been using for nearly…
In his June 22 editorial on the effort to recall state Senate President Russell Pearce, Don Sorchych, publisher and editor of the right-wing Cave Creek pub Sonoran News, erroneously referred to Mesa resident and petition-signer Benita Lantigua as “a Mexican woman,” who is “likely an illegal.”Today, Lantigua showed up to a…
The eyes of the baseball world will soon be on the Valley when the MLB All-Star Game comes to town next month — which, of course, means it’s time for America’s self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” to smile for the cameras and entertain the out-of-towners with some fruitcake, wild west sheriffin’.Yee-ha!Sheriff Joe…
On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee held its first DREAM Act hearing since the legislation was first proposed a decade ago. Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat, announced the hearing last week. Durbin was looking to convince Senate Republicans to support the proposed legislation, which would create a pathway to…
The officer at the Arizona Department of Public Safety’s media line sounded pretty hangdog when I called about the latest hacker attack on DPS’s computer system, this time by a LulzSec spin-off calling itself “Hackers Without Borders.”He told me someone will get back to me later once DPS figures out…
If you’re a washed up, ex-celebrity, and you spend even a second with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, expect the media to be there, too. Just ask Steven Seagal.The latest has-been to get some air time compliments of the sheriff: the “Motor City Madman” himself, Ted Nugent.Nugent’s been rolled out…
As of Monday morning, Maricopa County Elections Director Karen Osborne said the county had validated 10,356 signatures from petitions seeking the recall of state Senate President Russell Pearce. That’s 2,600 more than the 7,756 signatures required by statute from Pearce’s Legislative District 18.But if a recall election is now inevitable, so…
They say the marshal always gets his man, but there’s no guaranteeing the condition the fugitive will be in when nabbed.Take infomercial huckster Don Lapre, who made the not-so smooth move of failing to appear for his arraignment in federal court on 41 counts of fraud-related charges. After his no-show on Wednesday,…
On Thursday, New Times filed a challenge to a recent 2-1 decision by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Lacey v. Arpaio, the lawsuit seeking damages for the wrongful 2007 arrests of Village Voice Media Executive Editor Michael Lacey and VVM CEO Jim Larkin by Maricopa County sheriff’s…
Even though Angelica Hernandez graduated as valedictorian from Arizona State University’s mechanical engineering school this past May, she won’t be rewarded with a career or a good job. This, because she is an undocumented immigrant. However, she will be recognized in U.S. Congress for her hard work.Hernandez, along with another member of the…
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10cAliens vs. Senatorwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical Humor & Satire BlogThe Daily Show on FacebookAs I suspected, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart couldn’t resist slapping U.S. Senator from Arizona John McCain around for his ignorant, hillbilly-esque statements blaming Sand Land’s…
Extraditions performed by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office were “inexplicably exorbitant” but not a criminal misuse of public funds, U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke has decided. At the request of County Manager David Smith (see below), Burke’s office conducted a review of how Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s employees brought suspects to the Valley from locations all…
Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve Harrison has just confirmed that DPS computers have been hacked by the Internet pirates and keyboard anarchists of LulzSec.(Currently, AZDPS.gov is down.)LulzSec, which stands for “Lulz Security” (Lulz being a slang version of LOL, “Laughng Out Loud,” or doing something just for kicks), posted…
Filmmakers Valeria Fernandez and Dan DeVivo talk about Two AmericansWant to help tell the world what a sadistic, bigoted power-mad nut Sheriff Joe Arpaio is? Well, here’s your chance, by ponying up the dough to help local journalists/filmmakers Valeria Fernandez and Dan DeVivo complete their documentary Two Americans.The film has…
The United States Senate is at it again with immigration reform legislation, but Republicans are still unwilling to join the effort.Today, Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, introduced legislation that would create a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in this country.DeeDee Blase, founder…
Guess I’ve heard the last from U.S. Senator John McCain’s haughty, over-paid flack Brooke Buchanan.Yesterday, in the midst of a PR meltdown that’s turned McCain (once again) into a political laughingstock, his office issued a statement claiming that an unnamed U.S. Forest Service official had given the Senator info prompting…
For anyone in need of a good laugh, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio issued a press release this morning with the headline “Sheriff Arpaio Says His Office Enjoying Exceptional Times.”We’ll say…2011 has proven to be quite “exceptional” for the MCSO — it’s not often a sheriff’s office costs TAXPAYERS nearly…
As the saying goes, you have to spend money to make money. In Maricopa County’s case, it has to spend money just to make sure Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio spends taxpayer cash properly.The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors adopted a $2.3 billion budget yesterday, $1.65 million of which isn’t…
When white nationalist websites and racist minutemen with erstwhile ties to child killers are championing your cause, you know you’ve made a serious error. Particularly when you’re a failed presidential candidate still desperate for the world to take you seriously.Such is the case with U.S. Senator from Arizona John McCain,…
Last week United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement honcho John Morton announced a series of “improvements” meant to keep ICE’s focus on deporting aliens with serious criminal records.In spite of these highly touted policy changes, ICE today deported a Phoenix high school cross-country coach who had done a lot of…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office can keep large portions of the Babeu report hidden until Captain Joel Fox’s disciplinary process is complete, a judge told the Arizona Republic and Channel 12 News (KPNX) today.The newspaper and TV station had sued the MCSO to force an immediate and complete disclosure of…
The effort to recall state Senate President Russell Pearce has passed another milestone: This morning, Maricopa County Elections Director Karen Osborne confirmed that the county has validated 10,089 signatures of the 16,949 forwarded to her office by the Arizona Secretary of State.Of the 16,836 signatures examined so far, 6,747 have been…
