With the November 8 recall election advancing on him like an out-of-control semi, state Senate President Russell Pearce is attempting to morph himself into an honorable man, a practical politician and rehabilitator of Arizona’s economic fortunes, all in a lame attempt to spare himself from the wrath of the voters.This…
No settlement for now between Fox and Cox.The communications company and Captain Joel Fox of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office attended a settlement conference on Tuesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark E Aspey, but no resolution was made in Fox’s lawsuit over the release of his embarrassing “Zorro” e-mails. The…
The Arizona Supreme Court has granted a review of the legal challenge filed by attorney Lisa Hauser to the recall of state Senate President Russell Pearce, aka, Ross v. Bennett.Both sides in the case had petitioned for the Supremes to rule on the matter. Today the court issued the following…
If Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio hosted a fundraiser for everyone who doesn’t like him, doesn’t respect him, doesn’t think he’s “playing with a full deck,” and compares him to Mayberry’s bumbling lawman Barney Fife, he’d have no time for things like inmate coloring contests, or Elvis-themed panty parties at…
First off, I wish to commend Shane Wikfors of the Sonoran Alliance blog for removing an article by the Sonoran News’ Linda Bentley claiming “massive voter registration fraud” in the petitions recalling state Senate President Russell Pearce.I raised the issue with Wikfors during a back and forth in the comments…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, by his own assessment, is a pretty tech-savvy guy.How could a guy who boasts about not knowing how to use a computer be such a technological whiz? Well, you see, Arpaio says he’s “high-tech” because he was the first person who concocted the brilliant plan…
Though I try to avoid watching the PBS Horizon clown table for fear that I’ll pull an Elvis on my TV set, folks tip me off whenever smarmy local hack Howie Fischer says something dumb, which is nearly every week. So, sometimes I am forced to watch it online. (Sigh.)What kills me…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was in Kendall County, Illinois over the weekend and — as expected — got to talkin’ about the pink undies he provides to inmates in his jails.Arpaio told a crowd of GOP supporters that the inmates hate the pink skivvies, but he’s “sure in San…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office’s Human Smuggling Unit nabbed seven illegal immigrants during a traffic stop last night — which is precisely six more immigrants than were arrested during Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s latest illegal immigrant roundup.That’s right, during Wednesday’s highly publicized immigrant roundup at a hotel in downtown Phoenix, Arpaio’s…
It’s always amusing when wingnuts try to grow a conscience. Like a beard on an alligator, you know it’s fake from jump.That’s why I cracked a smile today while perusing far-right wing blog Sonoran Alliance, where moral relativist-in-charge Shane Wikfors is demanding an apology from Carolyn Cooper, a supporter of…
Most people wouldn’t see the fact that their mere presence in a state with nearly 13 million people inspires folks to give up their Saturday to head to a park to basically tell them “hey…I can’t stand you” as a good thing.Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio isn’t most people.Protesters are…
Olivia Cortes, who has filed to run as a candidate in the Legislative District 18 recall election apparently has campaign signs up in Mesa, possibly in violation of state law.This report comes in via Robert McDonald, Jr., a former contender for the LD 18 Senate seat, now held by state…
Arizona has earned itself the moniker of “the most racist state in the nation” for a reason. Not a day goes by that its public officials fail to concoct some new, bigoted outrage as manna for Sand Land’s wingnut masses.The outrage du jour? Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne is suing…
Amazing. According to Christine Zielonka, the Mesa official in charge of code compliance, the pro-Pearce group Citizens Who Oppose the Pearce Recall, is refusing to remove the illegal signs posted all over Mesa, despite a city order and the threat that city workers will collect them after Monday if they…
Stupid is as stupid does. Not only has Matt Tolman, the real-estate rocket scientist behind the scurrilous pro-Pearce signs all over Mesa (signs the city has ordered him to remove because they are unlawful), been dumb enough to post a photo of his daughter’s rear-end on his public Facebook page, now…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio conducted his 51st illegal immigrant roundup (under the guise of an “employer sanctions” operation. Per usual, no employers were arrested) this morning. It netted precisely one arrest.So, how many deputies did it take to bring this criminal to justice? Your guess is as good as…
Though I figured Matt Tolman’s dirty tricks eventually would backfire on the Pearce camp, I had no idea the blowback would come so quickly or from such an official source.Tolman is the chairman of Citizens Who Oppose the Pearce Recall, which recently posted signs in Legislative District 18 bearing false…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s ghost “tweeters” this morning posted a message on the sheriff’s Twitter page saying Arpaio’s “getting ready for a big operation today.”That “big operation,” a spokesman for the MCSO confirms to New Times, is a raid of a Days in in central Phoenix in search of…
In the interest of lambasting a dead horse till it’s tender enough to feed to a pigeon, I present the following e-mail string, unedited by me, save to put the electronic missives in order from first to last. As you’ll see, reader Michael Wells engaged in some participatory journalism by corresponding with wacky…
Mark today on your calendars, folks: the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office issued a press release this afternoon that was about actual law enforcement — not some fruitcake publicity stunt Sheriff Joe Arpaio has in store for inmates at his jails.Three illegal immigrants were arrested yesterday after they were busted selling…
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office Captain Joel Fox has lost his federal lawsuit against former Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, whom Fox accused of improperly allowing the release of embarrassing e-mails.Last month, U.S. District Judge Neil Wake had already dismissed the part of Fox’s complaint that targeted an investigator and supervisors…
So far, the Sonoran News’ editor/publisher Don Sorchych and his flunky scribe Linda “Wrong Way” Bentley continue to stonewall on correcting, retracting or apologizing for their misreporting and sinister insinuations concerning Mesa resident and American citizen Benita Lantigua.This would be simple to do, and it would be the right thing…
