Question: What is the only place on earth that has provided an Elvis impersonator, ice cream and cake, women throwing panties, coloring contests, a large Christmas tree, and an old man who likes to dress men in pink underwear?Answer: The jails of self-proclaimed tough-guy Sheriff Joe Arpaio. In fact, the…
For Terry Goddard, it must be tough going from Mayor of Phoenix to state Attorney General to gubernatorial candidate to, um, Central Arizona Water Conservation District board member. To be accurate, Terry Goddard has run for governor three times, hoping to emulate his pop Sam Pearson Goddard, Jr., who served…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s corruption is blatant, in your face, unrepentant. Yet, given the machinations of Horne’s lawyers, who are battling both Horne’s misdemeanor fender-bender charge with the City of Phoenix, and the civil, campaign finance law complaint brought by Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, I suspect he will…
Jan Brewer cannot run for governor again. There is no wiggle room in the Arizona Constitution. And if she tries, she is guaranteed to kiss the canvas with her plastic-surgery-gone-wrong gob, slapped down by the Arizona Supreme Court. See also: -Jan Brewer’s Sniveling New Memoir Laughably Paints Her as a…
Just like many of you, I’ve been transfixed this weekend watching the TV news coverage of the slaughter of the innocents at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. And like a bad case of acid reflux, the national debate has begun — for the umpteenth time — over…
What would it be like, I wonder, if Maricopa County had a sheriff who just kept his head down and did his job, rather than what we currently have, a corrupt gasbag who only cares about getting his corpse-like mug on the boob tube? See also: -Joe Arpaio’s Lawyers Fail…
Lawyers for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio have failed in their attempt to get the Justice Department’s racial-discrimination lawsuit tossed.Chief U.S. District Judge Roslyn Silver made a ruling this week on the June motion to throw out the suit against Arpaio, the Sheriff’s Office, and the county. Only MCSO is…
DA Morales of Three Sonorans fame channels Isaiah (beard and all), and gives the TUSD board an Old Testament-style tongue-lashing Will the anti-Mexican machinations of Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne and state schools Superintendent John Huppenthal be thwarted, at long last, by a federal judge? They certainly could be, given…
After a review of MCSO’s hiring practices, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has issued a press release to assure the public that not everyone working for the Sheriff’s Office is a white-skinned American.See also:-Joe Arpaio’s Office Commits Worst Racial Profiling in U.S. History, Concludes DOJ-Joe Arpaio Looks Like Tired, Old Racist on…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio now wants to be called America’s “oldest” sheriff, instead of the title (he gave himself) of America’s “toughest” sheriff…
See also: -Arizona Organix Steps Out as the State’s First Authorized Medical-Marijuana Dispensary This is near-heresy to say in my current position as a scribe for an alternative publication, but when Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts writes that our state’s medical marijuana program is a “charade,” I kinda agree with…
I wish I’d been at the November 29 meeting of Legislative District 25 Republicans for the election of new officers and state committee-persons. All the haters were there, and the haters had their asses handed to them when their pro-hater slate, for the most part, went down in flames. Which…
Our comrades in the Bay Area, S.F. Weekly, found Sheriff Joe Arpaio at a restaurant in San Francisco’s Union Square last night, (unintentionally) having dinner with folks who call themselves an “order of queer nuns.”See also:-Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Crash Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Dinner in Union Square…
See also: -Arizona AG Tom Horne’s Sex Scandal Scuttles Gubernatorial Bid So Arizona Attorney General Tom “Hit-and-Run” Horne’s got a Cuban cougar on the taxpayer’s payroll with whom he can enjoy a little afternoon delight, if he so desires. He rocks a gold Jag, and allegedly breaks campaign finance laws…
Irish wolfhound Tom Ryan lets the Pearces have it, and Judge Pearce nearly scraps with Dennis Gilman (@ 3:32) in this classic video from 2011 Add another scalp to the lodge wall. Recalled, disgraced former state Senate President Russell Pearce’s brother, ex-supervisor’s candidate and one-time Justice of the Pearce Lester…
Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell and Elections Director Karen Osborne presented the official 2012 canvass to the Board of Supervisors today, and the BOS approved it after a discussion of the controversy over the late vote count. Overall, turnout was slightly down this year compared with 2008, with 76.51 percent…
Gilman’s report from the front lines Wobblies, Unitarians, Occupy folks, and assorted concerned citizens converged on at least two Walmart locations in the Valley on Black Friday to protest the way the mega-corp treats its workers, and local videographer Dennis Gilman was on hand to capture some of the action,…
Maricopa County Democratic Party Chair Ann Wallack will not be running for re-election this year when county Dems meet on Saturday, December 8 to elect new officers. Wallack, who has served as MCDP chair for four years, said she had been thinking about stepping aside for a while. But it…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne’s initial court date for his hit-and-run charge today was delayed till December 17 after his attorney Michael Kimerer asked for more time to prepare Horne’s defense. Horne has already pleaded not-guilty to the fender-bender, which took place in an apartment complex parking lot at the…
Forget about the settlement approved by the county this week that sends $3.25 million to the family of a woman who died in one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s jails, the Sheriff is more concerned with bitching about the extra nickel it’s going to cost to feed the inmates tomorrow.The latest…
No nice way to say this, but Maricopa County Supervisor Andy Kunasek is a vindictive dick. See, Tuesday, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors convened to do the right thing in approving a $3.25 million settlement in a lawsuit brought by the family of Deborah Braillard, the diabetic mom who…
Arizona’s vote count is over, and (news flash) Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio still beat Democrat Paul Penzone by 6.02 points, or 80,639 votes. ARPAIO 679,967 50.7 PENZONE 599,328 44.68 STAUFFER 61,973 4.62 That’s Joe’s closest election in recent memory. The entire anti-Joe vote together equals 49.3 percent of those…
