Kudos to Channel 12’s Brahm Resnik for this story about state Senate President Russell Pearce landing in scalding H2O with his own Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I was at the same recent Republican Legislative District 18 meeting, and when I learned about the footage of it available online…
According to minutes from the infamous September 15 GOP Legislative District 19 meeting, where an effort by supporters of state Senate President Russell Pearce to place sham candidate Olivia Cortes on the LD 18 recall ballot was exposed, Justice of the Peace Lester Pearce stumped for his brother and opposed…
If you want to hear Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office detectives describe the “blatant” corruption they saw under the leadership of Joe Arpaio, tune in now to the State Bar’s disciplinary hearing for former County Attorney Andrew Thomas. (If that direct link doesn’t work, click here and then click on the…
Pearce’s smear of Lewis is one big bag of bullDo self-described “patriots” have a problem with the truth? They do when they’re working for state Senate President Russell Pearce.This attack ad from the group “Patriots for Pearce,” run by Jesse Hernandez, a staffer for Republican Arizona Congressman David Schweikert, picks…
The first thing you need to know about Greg Patterson of the right-wing Espresso Pundit blog is that he is a lobbyist. According to the Arizona Secretary of State’s website, he has been a registered lobbyist since 1997. To be fair, he doesn’t hide this fact in his online bio. Still, it…
Notwithstanding the delusional devotion of my lefty friends for Arizona’s Clean Elections system, I will be happy when the final nail is driven into its coin-filled coffin.Why? Constantin Querard, for starters. Far right political hacks such as Querard have cleverly gamed Clean Elections for the advancement of newbie wingnut politicos,…
God, I love Republicans. Especially the crazy ones. They’re just way too easy. In fact, whether or nor state Senate President Russell Pearce survives the Legislative District 18 recall race, I’ll be heartbroken, as right now, every day is a day of Thanksgiving for me.Take this fake Web page by…
State Senate President Russell Pearce and his political hatchet-bearer Constantin Querard must have Tom Ryan dolls they push pins into at night. Attorney Ryan, who brought the lawsuit that forced sham candidate Olivia Cortes out of the recall race in Legislative District 18, is coming after Pearce and Querard like…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio met with leaders from the Methodist Border Mission Network at his Phoenix office this afternoon to discuss — amongst other things — some issues the group has with the sheriff’s policies towards illegal immigration.But that’s not the big news — the big news is that…
Remember that line from M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense, “I see dead people”? Well, if you’re familiar with the residents of Mesa, you’ll see some deceased individuals on state Senate President Russell Pearce’s campaign Web site, as part of his lengthy “Friends of Russell” list.You’ll also see some names…
Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle Painful Rectal Itch, you are the proud winner of this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest (and you gave us an excuse to use the term “painful rectal itch” in a headline). On Friday, we asked readers…
Eye of the tiger, indeed…State Senate hopeful Jerry Lewis, the man seeking to topple the most powerful politician in Arizona, landed several verbal blows both during and after his debate in Mesa Thursday with state Senate President Russell Pearce, as you can see in this latest video from my colleague…
The last time Under Siege star Steven Seagal was in town, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office took some heat when it used a tank to apprehend a suspected cockfighter. The criticism went further when allegations surfaced that Seagal murdered a puppy.The allegations that Seagal killed a puppy haven’t been proven,…
Facebook calls it a glitch, but a Scottsdale woman and her Phoenix lawyer want to be compensated for the social media site’s surreptitious tracking of Web browsing history.Former state Attorney General Grant Woods filed the federal complaint on Friday for his client, Sharon Beatty of Scottsdale. But Woods is asking…
Last week, we asked our readers to offer suggestions for an appropriate caption for the above photo of Maricopa County Joe Arpaio’s aging goon squad for this week’s New Times’ You Write the Caption contest..We had 80 responses in the comment section of the post, which you can see by…
Speaking of Ed Moriarity, the Montana lawyer recently helped a local boxer and boxing trainer file a lawsuit against Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox, Janet Napolitano, and a raft of other defendants.Boxer Luis “Yori Boy” Campas and promoter Joe Diaz filed a $43 million claim against the county back…
Dennis Gilman’s video of Ryan’s press conference yesterdayAttorney Tom Ryan was in rare form Thursday afternoon as he faced the media with his client, Mary Lou Boettcher, the plaintiff in the lawsuit against sham candidate Olivia Cortes, and his co-counsel H. Micheal Wright. The scene was Mesa’s Wright House, owned…
At 11 a.m. today, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, and nine other Arizona sheriffs, will hold a press conference at the Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza at the State Capitol to discuss the federal government’s bungled gun trafficking sting, “Operation Fast and Furious.”Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio will not be in…
In honor of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s 20th “crime suppression” sweep, we’ve chosen the above photo of the sheriff’s youthfully challenged goon squad we snapped yesterday as the sheriff announced his raid on southwest Phoenix.To be fair, not all of the henchmen Arpaio picked for his sweep were of…
When asked this afternoon why he spends so much time putzin’ around Maricopa County in search of illegal immigrants and petty criminals during his “crime suppression sweeps,” as opposed to focusing the resources of the sheriff’s office on more dangerous criminal activity, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the following:”I’m…
Hours before she was to appear at a candidates’ forum in Mesa and one day before a second, scheduled evidentiary hearing in Maricopa County Superior Court over her sham campaign, Olivia Cortes this morning officially withdrew her candidacy for state Senate at the Arizona Secretary of State’s Office. SOS spokesman…
I am forever amazed that otherwise seemingly sane politicians seek and accept the endorsement of the grab bag of certifiable nuts, conspiracy theorists, and bigots that make up the Tea Party. Though I know I shouldn’t be.After all, politicians are shameless and at one time in American history, the Ku…
