C’mon, Jesse, rock the boa, for old times’ sake… Do the reporters who pen the Political Insider column for the Arizona Republic know how to use Google? Does their editor? I wonder this after reading this Sunday’s edition of the Insider. The column talks up the fact that the former…
More effective than a bucketful of Sominex… A colossal yawn. That’s what a CSPAN cameraman caught one of the GOP delegates in the middle of last night during John McCain’s speech, and it pretty much summed up my experience watching it. A real snoozer. I could barely keep from flipping…
Since Huffington Post published the story a couple of days ago of McCain’s Veep choice Sarah Palin’s association with the Assemblies of God church in Wasilla, Alaska, nearly 750,000 people have read the item, and presumably watched the video of Palin at the church she attended for many years, giving…
Does the Guv secretly heart Sarah Palin, or does she just have hoof-in-mouth disease? What the hell is wrong with Janet Napolitano? The woman has a cushy job where she doesn’t have to lift a pinky, and for nearly six years, she’s mostly maintained a stunning record of boredom and…
Watch it and weep, Mesa Republicans ignored this info about Pearce and so much more. Nearly 70 percent of Republican primary voters in LD18 were unconcerned with Russell Pearce playing patty-cake with a neo-Nazi. Indeed, that neo-Nazi, the now infamous J.T. Ready, told me he voted for Pearce and still…
The racist sticker is in the middle of the “o” in “Tony.” Campaign signs for Tony Bouie, an African-American candidate in the LD6 GOP primary for state House, were hit primary day with a crude, racist sticker showing a nude black man in silhouette with target sights around his body…
Letters to the editor don’t get into print for a whole lot of different reasons, but you’d think that one from the Arizona Anti-Defamation League weighing-in on the J.T. Ready flap in the local Republican Party would be a shoe-in for our paper of record’s editorial page. ADL associate director…
Beginning Tuesday, Sal Reza will be giving Wells Fargo the Pruitt’s treatment over mean ol’ Sheriff Joe. If you haven’t heard yet, you will soon. Beginning September 2, and continuing on a daily basis Monday though Friday, 11am to 1pm, protesters will begin to converge on the Well Fargo building…
I love this side of Sproul’s anti-Pearce MVD flier wherein Pearce gets bitch-slapped by Mary Peters. A tip of the chapeau to the Republican bloggers over at PolitcoMafioso, which bills itself as the “#1 John McCain blog in Arizona.” They’re the first I’ve seen to post this Nathan Sproul mailer…
Recall leader and crazy Hobbit lady Anna Gaines: Her effort against Mayor Phil failed today. As no doubt some of you are hearing on the radio and elsewhere, the recall effort by the nativist group American Citizens United of Mayor Phil Gordon has failed. Phoenix City Clerk Mario Paniagua told…
Holocaust-denier John Watson with state Rep. Russell Pearce. I was somewhat gratified to see the East Valley Tribune follow my blog item on Russell Pearce removing the name of alleged public urinator Buffalo Rick Galeener from his list of endorsers. Check out the story by Trib scribbler Sonu Munshi, here…
So what does Daddy Yankee’s reggaeton hit Gasolina really mean, and does John McCain approve? Who can blame withered geriatric John McCain for trying to broaden his appeal to Obama-aged voters and below by touting the endorsement of reggaeton superstar Daddy Yankee? And at Phoenix’s Central High no less. Daddy…
Arpaio-foe Dan Saban, on the stump, pummeling Joe every chance he gets, and out-raising him in the recent pre-primary report. Flying under the media radar last week was the fact that Sheriff Joe-foe Dan Saban quietly out-raised Arpaio in the latest report turned into the Maricopa County Elections Department, the…
Ready and Pearce in June 2007, when all was merry and bright. The incessant pounding is beginning to take its toll on the Russell Pearce for state Senate campaign. Not only has Pearce thrown his erstwhile protégé, white pride advocate J.T. Ready under the proverbial Greyhound (as is apparent from…
It took us a minute, but we finally got some clips of the surreptitiously taped meeting between Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock and local activists up on YouTube. The entire file is kinda long, so we picked the highlights, as we saw them. For background on what went down at…
Jeff Flake fires back on the county GOP’s neo-Nazi problem. In Thursday’s blog post on the local Republican Party’s J.T. Ready-problem, I included an excerpt from Maricopa County Republican Party Chairman Tom Husband’s letter to Congressman Jeff Flake, wherein Husband claims ignorance of Ready’s neo-Nazi affiliations. The conservative Sonoran Alliance…
Maricopa County Republican Chairman Tom Husband, from the MC GOP Web site. The Republic amuses me. Why is it when they finally get around to pulling themselves off the sofa to write about a story I’ve been whaling on for over a year, they act like they’ve just discovered Plymouth…
A flier for Tonopah’s upcoming Oi Fest!, one of many neo-Nazi/white power events scheduled for Arizona. As you might have read in the far right Sonoran Alliance blog this morning, three GOP Congressmen from Arizona — Jeff Flake, John Shadegg and Trent Franks have called on Tom Husband, Chairman of…
Rep. Kyrsten Sinema: Giving Connerly and Thomas a proper paddywhack on the rumpus. It was Ward “Money Bags” Connerly and Andy “Candy” Thomas who figured that this white bread-and-mayo state of ours needed less diversity, not more. And they reckoned their way of achieving this ass-backwards, bigoted goal was the…
Russell Pearce supporter and alleged public urinator Buffalo Rick Galeener. They say you judge a man by the company he keeps. If so, wannabe state Senator Russell Pearce gets no high marks for the gutter trash he associates with — neo-Nazi and Pearce pal J.T. Ready being a prime example…
Female trouble? A police report involving Pearce’s ex-wife raises new questions about his “violent temper.” As I mentioned at the end of this week’s Bird column, I recently obtained additional evidence backing up LuAnne Pearce’s 1980 contention that her husband, state Rep. Russell Pearce “is possessed of a violent temper.”…
Russell Pearce is in full-on denial mode in the face of the latest Nathan Sproul flier linking him to Mesa neo-Nazi J.T. Ready. In Saturday’s Republic, Pearce was paraphrased as saying the photo of he and Ready arm-in-arm “was one of dozens he posed for” during a June 2007 anti-immigration…
