See anything interesting about this MCSO vehicle? Hmmm…maybe them deputies ain’t all bad… The battle of Bell Road ended abruptly last night, around 8:30 p.m., when the MCSO called it quits, bringing to an end the most contentious of the Sheriff’s anti-immigrant sweeps. The Sheriff told other reporters present that…
A small section of the crowd Thursday night. Events have been moving so rapidly since last night that I haven’t had time to report on the eruption of Latino/Hispanic outrage at Bell and Cave Creek Roads where Sheriff Joe has stationed his mobile command center for the weekend. From a…
The late Carol Gotbaum with her children. Just under the wire today, Phoenix attorney Mike Manning served a Notice of Claim to the City of Phoenix in the still-mysterious death of Carol Anne Gotbaum, asking for $8 million on behalf of the Gotbaum family. As you may recall, Gotbaum died…
No doubt about who’s the top, and who’s the bottom in Danny Hellman’s brilliant Bird illo. That Shaq is a shrewd fella. In a March 13 Bird item, I speculated that the Big Aristotle, now also known as the Big Cactus, might be tempted to do biz with Sheriff Joe,…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio (right) conversing with prejudiced pal Rusty Childress (left), ex-Kia peddler and leader of the most vicious anti-immigrant hate group in the Valley, United for a Sovereign America. It was a Good Friday for racists last week as our own Pontius Pilate, a.k.a., Sheriff Joe, defiled the day…
Tonight Sheriff Joe Arpaio joined the nativists and unrepentant bigots of Rusty Childress’ United for a Sovereign America, speaking before a group that accepts racists like Buffalo Rick Galeener into its fold, as well as neo-Nazis like J.T. Ready. It’s also an organization that praises old guard neo-Nazis such as…
A pic you’ll never see in the Capitol Times: Russell Pearce (right) and Mesa neo-Nazi J.T. Ready (left), at an anti-immigrant clambake in June of ’07. Does it ever strike you as odd that AZ politicians can pull the most outrageous, reactionary bullcrap? Stuff that in any civilized state in…
See, Buffalo, you’re famous…for allegedly urinating in public. A group of about six “aliens” invaded the nativist demonstration up at the Macehualli Work Center on Saturday — actually a troupe of arty open borders activists dressed as aliens and waving signs like “Save Our White Trash Heritage,” “Buffalo Rick’s Pissed…
In case you missed it, Channel 12’s Joe Dana rolled over a new stone in the Honduran scam last night, revealing that the MCSO had plans to install a high-tech facial recognition system in Honduras, which Arlie Thompson, Governor of the Bay Islands, said included, “…security systems and programs…at the…
Yesterday, Sheriff’s office flack Paul Chagolla coughed up the hourly rates on the ten MCSO employees who were part of the Honduran enterprise, and after crunching the numbers, and adding equipment purchases and RICO-funded reimbursements for travel expenses, the bill for this Central American hayride comes to approximately $157,000. That’s…
The new issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report is out, and it’s chocked full of more racist Sand Land nuts than a John Birch Society convention. The mag highlights several players in the local nativist movement, profiles notorious neo-Nazi and alleged murderer Sean Gaines, and pays a…
I’ll be honest, I would have appreciated a more critical appraisal of Sheriff Joe’s reign in Maricopa County than the one Ted Robbins offers today on NPR, “`America’s Toughest Sheriff’ Takes on Immigration.” In the segment, Robbins visits Tent City, but he never mentions those who have died in Sheriff…
Anti-immigrant activist Rick Galeener, accused of making water in public in front of a mother and her two-year-old kid. Virulent racist and noted Yosemite Sam impersonator “Buffalo” Rick Galeener got popped today for allegedly peeing into a plastic bottle nearby the Macehualli Work Center, where he and fellow members of…
Former MCSO honcho Tom Bearup with his wife Adele, from Brendan Joel Kelley’s feature on him in the Anchorage Press. From the mythical land of grizzly bears and sockeye salmon comes this gripping portrait of former Arpaio henchman turned Arpaio foe Tom Bearup, penned by ex-New Times writer Brendan Joel…
The two Dems scrappin’ to take on Candy: Gerald Richard (left) and Tim Nelson (right). As I mentioned briefly in this week’s Bird column, I made the spring meeting of the Maricopa County Dems this past Saturday, mainly because I wanted to size up the two guys looking to replace…
Like a slow drip-drip-drip, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office continues to release requested documents in the Honduran scandal, and I’ll share them with you whenever I can. Yesterday, MCSO flack Paul Chagolla let go of some correspondence between Sheriff Joe and some Honduran muck-a-mucks, a couple of honorary sheepskins, and…
What did the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors know about the MCSO’s Honduras project and when did they know it? That’s still an open question as the BOS’s flack Deanne Poulos released documents Friday revealing the times that aid to Honduras was discussed before the Board of Supervisors. The first,…
Sheriff Joe can always count on ultra-conservative KTAR lip-flapper Darrell Ankarlo to wipe Arpaio’s fanny clean with his kisser, even when Joe’s been caught with his hand in the RICO cookie jar, as has been the case with the revelation of Arpaio’s Chief Deputy David Hendershott’s Honduran project. I heard…
The Guv gives Sheriff Joe, David Hendershott and members of their Honduran posse some love. (Click on pic for a slightly larger version.) Talk about a rogues gallery! Here’s Gov. Napolitano in her June 2007 photo op with Sheriff Joe, Chief Deputy David Hendershott and members of the Honduran National…
I’m on the run, but I’ve just heard that KTAR has reported that Sheriff Joe’s suspending his Chief Deputy David Hendershott’s pet Honduran project — one that’s been financed by RICO funds to the tune of about $32K. According to KTAR’s Bob McClay, Arpaio told KTAR that, “As far as…
Paid for by your RICO dollars: Chief Deputy David Hendershott (left), the unchecked power behind Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s throne, in Honduras with Bay Islands Police Commissario Julio Benitez; retired MCSO Deputy Roger Marshall; and Captain Jim Miller. Remember my revelation last month that the upper echelon of the Maricopa County…
Sen. John McCain’s “Oh!” face. Supposedly, the ladies love it… Am I the only one who’s found Sen. John McCain’s denial of an improper relationship with Washington lobbyist Vicki Iseman to be as insincere as a late-night TV ad for a sex chat service? Right-wing radio, after skewering McCain for…
