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…
Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Univision may have inadvertently stumbled upon the next great reality show, one that should be filmed and produced right here in the Valley of the Sun. They should call it, “Barrio Bait Car,” a reference to the TruTV reality show of a similar…
Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell is reporting that, after today’s count of outstanding ballots, 34,450 remain, 34,000 of them provisionals, and 450 of them earlies. See also: -Arizona’s Vote Count vs. California’s, and Maricopa County Has 66,550 Ballots Left “We have completed the verification of all of the provisional ballots,”…
Please see additional updates and analysis at the end of this blog post. Maricopa County has 109,000 ballots remaining, according to the latest update from County Recorder Helen Purcell: 12,000 of those are early ballots, 97,000 are provisionals Statewide, there are 135,140 ballots left. Those not in Maricopa County are…
Maricopa County will need more time to count ballots, and Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett says they can have it. This, according to spokespersons for both Bennett and the Maricopa County Elections Office. “[County Recorder] Helen Purcell has indicated they’ll need more time,” SOS spokesman Matt Roberts told me…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio put out a press release today, in part explaining the reason that every MCSO deputy will be getting an automatic weapon.”More and more illegal aliens are attempting to escape which places my deputies in dangerous positions,” Arpaio’s press release says. “In the near future I will be…
There’s light at the end of the tunnel, my friends. And I hope there’s a beer with my name on it when we get to it. Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett has released his latest update on the ballot count. Currently, there are 192,337 ballots left to be counted…
For the second time, Sheriff Joe Arpaio had publicly attempted to invite himself to the White House and consume President Obama’s alcohol.We can’t remember the last time Arpaio actually succeeded in inviting himself to meet someone (examples: George Lopez, Puente, the Mayor of Columbus, the CEO of Craigslist, and a…
Maricopa County’s long march toward a final vote count slogs on, with county Recorder Helen Purcell announcing late Tuesday afternoon that 47,351 early ballots had been tabulated. Purcell’s statement noted that “approximately 46,000 early ballots still remain to be processed for tabulation.” The provisional vote count is still at 122,000…
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Steven Carpenter was put back on the street despite his role in helping another deputy commit an assault in North Dakota. Carpenter drove with Detective Tim Abrahamson on September 16 to North Dakota, and possibly all the way to the West Fargo home of Jason…
Like the Beatles once crooned, “It’s getting better all the time….” Both Maricopa County and the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office updated their elections results this afternoon, and the number of remaining ballots is declining at a steady pace. SOS Ken Bennett reported that statewide 342,936 early and provisional ballots…
An inmate in a a jail run by the self-proclaimed “toughest sheriff” in America, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, was free for nine hours yesterday, after using a method similar to that used in the 1979 movie Escape from Alcatraz, starring Clint Eastwood.The easiest part for Adan Orduno, who escaped…
See Saturday evening’s update from the county after the jump. So Sheriff Joe Arpaio wants to make nice with Latinos now? Pardon me while I laugh till I spit. Though Arpaio’s won re-election for an unprecedented sixth term in office, so far, as of Friday, his two opponents together garnered…
Please see updated numbers as of Sunday at the end of blog. As votes continue to be counted throughout Arizona, GOP candidate for U.S. Senate Jeff Flake’s lead over Democrat Rich Carmona narrowed ever-so slightly, while in Maricopa County, Republican incumbent Joe Arpaio continued to dominate Democrat Paul Penzone in…
Detective Tim Abrahamson, who played a lead role in some of the discredited MACE investigations that led to the disbarment of former County Attorney Andrew Thomas, drove to North Dakota in September and attacked his wife’s ex-lover, police say. Abrahamson created a ruse to get close to the man, then…
The Arizona Secretary of State is reporting that “as of Thursday afternoon, there are an estimated 631,274 early and provisional ballots” yet to be processed statewide. Seems some counties, like Mohave and Yavapai, didn’t report their numbers yesterday. Adding to the confusion is the fact that the SOS’s totals do not include…
