A Phoenix dog-toy manufacturer who was once involved in a lawsuit with Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch over his dog toy called “Buttwiper” is now involved in a federal lawsuit with another brewer.This time, a lawsuit filed on behalf of Stephen Sacra’s Phoenix-based company, VIP Products, claims that an attorney for Heineken…
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office and Arizona-based attorneys for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement are engaged in a partnership to ensure the deportation of undocumented aliens who otherwise would benefit from President Obama’s proposed comprehensive immigration reform, despite statements from both agencies to the contrary. As I documented in…
Sounds like forgery is rampant in Tempe. Will Bill Montgomery respond? Are all truly equal before the law? When it comes to forgery in Maricopa County, the answer is a decided, “Hell, no.” Yesterday, the Tempe Police Department issued statistics showing that last year they had confiscated “1,761 fictitiously used…
Despite protests and calls for him to apologize, Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski defended himself on Tuesday for brokering a meeting between scores of Latino pastors and Sheriff Joe Arpaio just days before Arpaio’s anti-immigrant raid on a Tempe apparel company, his 71st such operation to date. See also: -Joe…
Secret footage obtained by New Times of the last Teabagger meet-up headed by A.J. LaFaro. With friends like these, how could Joe lose? Check out the email below, with a message purportedly from walking PayDay bar and newly-elected chair of the Maricopa County Republican Committee, A.J. “Wild Man” LaFaro. In…
Protecting the kids? Tell it to those who suffered because the MCSO botched hundreds of sex crime investigations Wanna find out how Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys in beige botched investigations into hundreds of sex crime cases in Maricopa County? It’ll cost ya. Five grand, to be exact. And make the…
Days prior to his agency’s immigration raid on a Tempe clothing company, Sheriff Joe Arpaio was meeting with scores of Latino pastors in a get-together brokered by Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski. See also: -Bill Montgomery Is No Immigration Moderate -Prensa Hispana Blows MCSO Deputy Chief Paul Chagolla in Print…
Since we first started getting details about the effort to recall Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, readers have asked us how they can sign the petition.Respect Arizona filled us in on a few ways to signing the petition, as the committee is attempting to gather more than 300,000 valid signatures…
Folks, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s school-patrol posse is so serious about school safety that posse members will be setting up a school-shooting simulation this weekend as a test.Have we mentioned yet that actor Steven Seagal will be supervising the festivities?See also:-Joe Arpaio’s School-Patrol Posse Gets a Glowing Review From the NRA-New…
At this point in time, it would be nearly impossible to convince us that there wasn’t a crystal meth smoke-a-thon at the Arizona Republic’s editorial board meeting on Sunday night.The Republic editorial board has declared that the Arpaio recall “should fail,” adding, “The recall is as much of an abuse…
While the National Rifle Association has proposed putting an armed guard inside every American school, the lobbying organization’s “news” arm ran a gushing endorsement of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s school-patrol posse, which puts an armed guard in zero schools.The public-relations piece for Arpaio aired on the TV show “NRA News Cam…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has issued what’s undoubtedly the world’s whiniest response to the recently announced recall effort against him.There’s a statement from his campaign manager Chad Willems, as well as an Arpaio fundraising e-mail, in which the Sheriff asks, “Why do they hate me so much?”See also:-Joe Arpaio…
A campaign to recall Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is under way, with the penning of the first of the 335,000 signatures needed for an election to take place in November. William James Fisher, a local attorney, is the chairman of Respect Arizona, a political action committee formed to oust…
The Pinal County Democrats aren’t happy with Sheriff Paul Babeu’s latest rhetoric about pushing for a law making it a crime for federal law enforcement officers to enforce President Barack Obama’s proposals to reduce gun violence. Yeah, he did say that. Babeu brought it up during an appearance on Fox…
UPDATE: Joe Arpaio Target of Recall — It’s Official — by Same Community Leaders Who Successfully Ousted Senator Russell PearceThe political committee that’s apparently going to try to recall Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio filed its registration paperwork with the county elections department this morning.It’s still not clear exactly who’s…
I’m waiting for a call back from Andrew Chavez, proprietor of Petition Partners, about a rather odd message on his company’s Twitter account, announcing that a recall of Sheriff Joe Arpaio is to commence this Thursday, and claiming that $1.3 million has been committed to the project. I say it’s…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio and posse member/action-movie actor Steven Seagal are off the hook in a lawsuit that claimed the Sheriff’s Office had raided his house just for getting publicity for Seagal’s reality show.According to federal court paperwork, a judge dismissed the lawsuit after plaintiff Jesus Llovera — who had previously…
Can Governor Jan Brewer read? The statement from her office on the immigration reform plan released today by U.S. Senator John McCain and his colleagues makes me think not. Though that’s no big surprise. See also: -Jan Brewer “Kinder, Gentler” on Immigration? Republic Dons Kneepads for Governor -John McCain, Fellow…
What a difference a couple of years makes. The same U.S. Senator John McCain who in 2010 snuggled up to illegal-immigrant-screwing (in more ways than one) Sheriff Paul Babeu, supported Sand Land’s racist Senate Bill 1070, and insisted that America “complete the danged fence” on the U.S.-Mexico border, is now…
It’s just about every day that Sheriff Joe Arpaio says something that’s guaranteed to make you shake your head.Today’s cry for attention actually took place on Friday night, as Arpaio complained that people were calling Vice President Joe Biden “Sheriff Joe.”See also:-Joe Arpaio: “I Don’t Use Computers” — as Posted…
Computing giant Microsoft is suing a Phoenix e-waste recycling firm in federal court, claiming that the company has been selling unauthorized copies of its software. Phoenix’s E-Waste Harvesters and its principal, Earl Campbell, have repeatedly advertised and sold refurbished computers that contain pirated copies of XP, the aging Windows operating…
We all know the Danish tale about the emperor whose men and subjects stroke him in admiration over his new clothes. Of course, as the story goes, the emperor actually is naked. Instead of questioning the obvious, everyone basks in a collective ignorance. Until a little boy in the crowd…
