Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s crusade to become the face of the fight against illegal immigration has paid off — the National Sheriff’s Association announced yesterday that he’s been named the 2011 Sheriff of the Year.The NSA cites Babeu’s strong stance against illegal immigration and his efforts to curb drug…
On the day that state Senator Russell Pearce’s insidious, anti-American, and unconstitutional plot to undermine the birthright citizenship provision of the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment was being submitted in the state legislature by his cronies, a group calling itself Arizonans for Better Government filed recall paperwork against Pearce in Legislative District 18.Chaired…
Like most death announcements from the Arizona Department of Corrections, the one for Brenda Todd, who died January 21 in custody at Goodyear’s Perryville Prison, is spare and unemotional.It relates that Todd, 44, was found unresponsive in her cell, that medical responders attempted to revive her, but were unsuccessful, and…
Kudos to KPHO/Channel 5 for reporting on allegations of child abuse involving state Senate president Russell Pearce’s son Joshua Pearce, which I first reported on a month ago.Reporter Jason Barry dogged Pearce at the state Capitol, seeking a quote from Mr. Rule of Law, himself.A clearly uncomfortable Pearce declined comment,…
The Mesa Police Department has released more reports on its run-ins with state Senator Russell Pearce’s son Joshua. A report I blogged about earlier today dealt with allegations concerning possible child abuse in a December 10, 2010 incident involving Joshua Pearce’s infant daughter.You can read that report, here. I’ve also…
The Mesa Police Department has released its full report of the investigation into an incident involving the infant daughter of Joshua Pearce, son of state Senate president Russell Pearce.As I reported first on this blog, and later in a January 6 Bird column, the Mesa PD responded to a call…
Someone has reposted the video that was jerked belowThe AZ Repugs new Tea Bagger chairman, Tom MorrisseyNote: See Updates below…It’s been a good day for the Democrats, in more ways than one.Ex-Democratic state treasurer candidate Andrei Cherny beat out failed U.S. Senate Candidate Rodney Glassman for the chairmanship of the…
A little reminder, for those SCs inclined to vote for RodneyRodney Glassman, reaching out to the Tea PartyDavid Abie Morales of Three Sonorans fame has written a hard-hitting opinion piece on how erstwhile U.S. Senate candidate and trust-fund baby Rodney Glassman is messing up the party of LBJ, JFK and…
I’ve been critical of uber-lefty state Senator Kyrsten Sinema on different issues, like the anti-Westboro Baptist Church legislation she recently sponsored in the legislature.And I think it’s a big mistake to think that Dems can work across the aisle with crocodiles such as state Senate President Russell Pearce. As my…
Like you needed more proof that erstwhile Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Rodney Glassman is a charlatan, take a look at this mass e-mail, sent out by Glassman on January 10, two days after the Tucson massacre, which severely wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and felled Chief U.S. District Judge John RollThe…
Fearing an acrimonious showdown this Saturday when Dems are scheduled to meet at the Wyndham Hotel downtown to pick a new Democratic Party chair, former Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard and Congressman Raul Grijalva are calling for a compromise. One that would leave Don Bivens as chair for at least…
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu has been elected to serve a second term as the president of the Arizona Sheriff’s Association.Babeu, an Iraq war veteran and former Chandler police officer, made a name for himself in recent years for his tough stance on immigration. Babeu’s reputation as the face of…
Last night CBS 5/KPHO reported that an eyewitness to a January 14 fatal shooting in Mesa by a Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office deputy has disputed Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s account of the incident.Miguel Hernandez, a neighbor of victim Felipe Ramirez Castellanos, told KPHO that he did not see Castellanos point a…
The Arizona Supreme Court today handed state Senate President Russell Pearce a partial win in his bid to rig the redistricting process that will affect Sand Land politics for the next 10 years.In an order just issued by Vice Chief Justice Andrew Hurwitz, the court agreed with Pearce and state…
If you thought the Tucson massacre was going to lead to a kinder, gentler, wiser state Legislature, think again, my pretties. The local Republinuts in the state House and Senate are continuing their campaign of insanity and hate via a passel of loony laws coming down the pike. And with…
A Mesa man who was shot by police after he pointed an AK-47 at a Maricopa County sheriff’s deputy on Friday has died, the Sheriff’s Office announced this afternoon.Felipe Ramirez Castellanos, 47, was shot by the deputy about 10:30 p.m. on Friday, after deputies responded to a shots fired call…
David Abie Morales, the bad-ass, lefty blogger of Three Sonorans fame, is calling out Tucson wingnut lip-flapper Jon Justice of 104.1 FM “The Truth,” and challenging the rightist moonhowler to a debate.But, um, on neutral ground, of course. Heck, I’ll even drive down to Tucson to moderate, if they want…
You remember Sheriff Joe Arpaio, our bete noir before Russell Pearce ascended to the state Senate presidency?Well, Sand Land’s smarmy, strutting, pseudo-lawman takes top bill along with little Katherine Figueroa in a recently-released teaser for the documentary Two Americans, which is currently in post-production.Filmmakers Dan DeVivo and Valeria Fernandez contrast Figueroa’s activism…
Ray, you ignorant…oh, never mind…I’ve posted my latest riposte to my colleague Ray Stern’s passionate defense of Second Amendment gun nuttery, here in Valley Fever.It’s a response to Ray’s response to my response to his original opinion piece, in which he casually used bogus straw man arguments to score points.This…
The boycott of Tucson’s right-wing shock jock Jon Justice of 104.1 FM is on like Donkey-Kong.Seems he ticked off talented and tireless Three Sonorans blogger David Abie Morales, who is leading a boycott effort against Justice online. According to Morales, he’s gotten one advertiser to bolt from Justice’s show already.The…
A note for friends and foes of the Feathered Bastard: For the time being, posts directly related to the Tucson massacre that I write will be posted in Valley Fever. For instance, I just posted one that responds to a pro-gun editorial by my colleague Ray Stern.The title of my…
Since Saturday’s massacre in Tucson, both the left and the right have parsed alleged killer Jared Lee Loughner’s YouTube videos, the statements of his supposed school chums, his favorite books (everything from To Kill a Mockingbird to Mein Kampf), and any other scraps of info out there on the guy.The…
