Making good on her June 7, notice of claim for $10 million against Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, veteran AG investigator Meg Hinchey filed suit Wednesday in Maricopa County Superior Court, alleging that Horne and his underlings are engaged in an ongoing campaign to ruin Hinchey’s law enforcement career. See…
Lawyers for Sheriff Joe Arpaio filed a response to the Justice Department’s racial-discrimination lawsuit, which mostly just denies each of the 188 allegations in the DoJ’s suit.The denial also contains some very interesting claims from Arpaio, including repeated claims that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office does not conduct “sweeps” or…
Talk about a broken record. The U.S. Marshals Service has once more done Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s job for him, this time by nabbing an escapee from Joe’s jails, who basically exchanged identities with another inmate, and walked out. See also: -Joe Arpaio Won’t Do His Job, So Marshal David Gonzales…
Kudos to Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman for his latest video, which captures the drama of yesterday’s demonstration at the state Capitol. There, as Governor Jan Brewer gave her state of the state speech to members of the Legislature, a coalition of activists protested Brewer’s executive order denying driver’s licenses to…
As Governor Jan Brewer addressed the Arizona Legislature in her state of the state speech Monday, protesters took over the state House lobby, demanding that Brewer rescind an executive order denying driver’s licenses to Arizona DREAMers who qualify for President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Led by Citizens…
One of the inmates who called B.S. on Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s announcement that he was taking steps to keep Tent City inmates warm is still calling B.S. after spending the weekend in below-freezing temperatures.Arpaio issued the press release last week, saying he “would like families and friends of inmates incarcerated…
It’s amazing, the amount of influence I have over the Maricopa County Republican Committee. Hate to brag, but my endorsement this week of right-wing human PayDay bar A.J. LaFaro and the rest of his “crazytown” slate of candidates for MCRC leadership positions worked its evil magic at Saturday’s county GOP’s…
According to a Tent City inmate, Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s claim that his office is taking steps to keep the inmates warm in the jail is a “patent lie.”If you’ve been paying attention today, you’ll notice this is the second inmate in just a couple of hours to tell New Times…
Well, it’s said that there are two sides to every story, so here’s the other side to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s claim that the Sheriff’s Office is taking steps to keep the inmates warm in Tent City.Less than half an hour after we posted our blog, passing along the message from…
Despite claiming that his Tent City jail is a “concentration camp,” Sheriff Joe Arpaio sure seems accommodating.Not only do we get press releases from the Sheriff’s Office letting us know that Arpaio’s cooling off the inmates when it’s hot, but we now have a press release from MCSO letting us…
Andiola’s tearful account of the arrest of her mom and brother Nationally-known Arizona DREAM Activist Erika Andiola has reported that her mother and brother were arrested last night at their home by agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Above is Andiola’s tearful recounting of the raid on her dwelling…
Arpaio, howlin’ at the moon in his appearance on the Thom Hartmann radio show: The fun begins about 16:18 in Hat tip to Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman for letting me know about Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s appearance Thursday on the uber-lefty Thom Hartmann radio show, where he howled at the moon,…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio today released a list of schools that are going to be patrolled by armed, volunteer members of his posse — two days after those patrols started.Arpaio repeated a claim that the “only difference” between a sworn deputy and a posse member is that the posse…
Pinal County Sheriff’s Office Captain Jeffrey Karns, who retired today, lambasted Sheriff Paul Babeu in an e-mail he sent not only to Babeu, but to all PCSO staff. Karns’ scathing message — addressed to 661 employees — appears to be sparked by Babeu’s request before the Board of Supervisors to…
Kudos to Sheriff Joe Arpaio for successfully monopolizing the paranoia surrounding the mass killings in Sandy Hook by sending his army of Depends-wearin’, gun-totin’ grumpy geezers out to patrol the perimeters of some schools in the Valley. See also: -Would You Want One of Joe Arpaio’s Armed Posse-People at Your…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s program to put armed members of his posse on patrol of Valley schools started today, according to one of Arpaio’s spokesmen.In response to the Newtown, Connecticut elementary school massacre, Arpaio’s dispatching his volunteer deputies to schools on unincorporated county land, and although it’s already under way, the…
This may be incredibly hard to believe, but Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has planned a publicity stunt.Yes, the man who dresses inmates in pink underwear, has provided those inmates with an Elvis impersonator, has allowed female inmates to throw panties in the jail, holds inmate coloring contests, and props…
Followers of disgraced, recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce practically begged for amnesty Wednesday night in Mesa from their blood-rivals, the moderate GOPers they derisively refer to as RiNOs (Republicans in Name Only). And more than two hours into a tense, divided meeting of Republican Legislative District 25 precinct committee…
Kudos to former Scottsdale mayoral candidate John Washington for calling out both the Arizona Republic and state Representative Michelle Ugenti on his Scottsdale Trails blog, and for introducing me to the hilarious and currently inactive parody Twitter site RubbingUGently, a wicked send-up of the Snottsdale sexpot-turned-Teabagger from Legislative District 23…
A Pinal County judge dismissed a lawsuit against New Times, which had been filed over stories on this blog about a member of Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s command staff apparently trying to scrub an arrest record from a DPS database.PCSO Lieutenant Blake King filed the lawsuit, alleging New Times…
Disgraced, recalled two-time loser, ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce, has endorsed businessman Robert Graham for chair of the Arizona Republican Party, according to notices in both the SonoranAlliance and SeeingRedAZ blogs. See also: -Russell Pearce’s “Wee Man” Rob Haney Crushed Like a Bug -Russell Pearce’s Mad Elf Rob Haney: Sued…
All in all, 2012 hasn’t been that bad of a year. Some good stuff transpired, and some of it happened because New Times’ scribes made it happen. Usually to some very deserving recipients. The great H.L. Mencken said it long ago, and it still holds true today: “Journalism is to…
