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…
The call has come, from CNN and The New York Times to innumerable liberals, to “ramp down” the rhetoric and invective of politics in Arizona and the United States in general. The implication is that right-wing, extremist propaganda led to the massacre in Tucson on Saturday. Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik…
Normally, I do not post press releases in their entirety on this blog, but I think an exception is warranted in the case of this statement from the United States’ Ninth Circuit Court regarding Arizona’s Chief District Judge John Roll, who was killed in the massacre that also severely wounded Congresswoman…
Morning news flash: Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been shot, and is in critical condition. Five more are dead, including a child. The shooting occurred as the Congresswoman held a meet-and-greet with constituents in Tucson. So saith National Public Radio. Now Giffords is dead, according to CNN and FOX News, having…
Get a rope. Not only is a company from the Midwest pretending to make salsa, but according to a federal lawsuit filed yesterday, it swiped the name for its swill from an Arizona salsa product: The fiery “Spontaneous Combustion.” The first shot in this Salsa War was fired in 2003, when the Ohio-based Crazy…
Anti-Russell Pearce activists are set to protest both a Friday, January 7 fundraiser for the state Senate President-elect, and the opening day of business for the Arizona Legislature on Monday, January 10, when Pearce will take his seat as the Dark Lord of Sand Land.The Friday demonstration, which is reportedly…
