Saint Joseph is traditionally the patron saint of workers and immigrants. The latter is because the father of Jesus was forced to flee to Egypt to save the Christ child from Herod the Great’s wrath. Once King Herod was dead, Joseph moved his family back to Israel, settling in Nazareth.There…
VotoLatino is sponsoring a talk with Javier Gonzalez of Sound Strike on Twitter today at 4 p.m. Pacific TimeThere continues to be a lot of kvetching from the local music “scene” here in Sand Land about Sound Strike, the ongoing boycott of Arizona by numerous acts over Senate Bill 1070.But…
They say that the cover-up can often be worse than the crime, and this appears true in the case of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and the SCA scandal. In yet another sign that someone working for Sheriff Joe Arpaio, or maybe the big guy himself, wants to erase fingerprints…
Gilman’s latest: Beyond 1070: The Tea Party’s War on ChildrenI’m sure glad I’m on local, lefty videographer Dennis Gilman’s good side. Otherwise, he might skewer me in a video like the one above, where Attorney General Tom Horne, state Senator Lori Klein, state Senate President Russell Pearce, Governor Jan Brewer and…
Larry Black, one of Sheriff Arpaio’s most trusted aides, is one of three people who almost certainly will be be fired based on the Munnell Memo findings, Channel 5 (KPHO-TV) reported today. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio doesn’t want the public to read an investigative report into the alleged crimes…
The long-awaited report on the so-called Munnell Memo investigation is complete, but public release of the findings will have to wait, the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office says. The PCSO feels that releasing the report immediately may be prohibited by law, said Sheriff Paul Babeu’s spokesman, Tim Gaffney, who’s…
Renowned commercial trial attorney Daryl M. Williams has no problem telling you exactly where he stands on the subject of illegal immigration and how it intersects with his faith in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. During the summation of his recent hour-long lecture on the topic before a…
As Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio crows this morning about how his agency busted a total of six illegal immigrants for using fake IDs so they could work at a Mesa dry cleaner, county budget officials unveiled the results of a six-month investigation into how his office is misspending your…
Imagine getting crushed by a giant Clif bar — now you’ve got an idea how a small, Tempe fitness firm must feel. Luna Fitness, on the corner of Elliot and Rural roads, has been sued in federal court by the national energy-bar powerhouse over alleged trademark infringement. The Tempe company’s name, crescent-moon design in its logo, and…
Governor Jan Brewer and Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne have issued a joint press release denouncing the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ 2-1 decision today upholding District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton’s injunction of four key parts of Arizona’s “breathing-while-brown-law,” Senate Bill 1070.You can read the entire release, here. However,…
State Senate President Russell Pearce, Governor Jan Brewer, and the forces of nativism here in Arizona and nationwide have suffered a crushing blow. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has today upheld District Court Judge Susan R. Bolton’s injunction of the most egregious parts of Senate Bill 1070.You’ll recall that…
To read recent accounts of state Senate President Russell Pearce’s lawbreaking son Joshua Pearce, you’d think he’d only caught six days in stir for violating terms of his probation on a 2007 aggravated DUI conviction.In reality, Pearce the Younger had already spent close to two months in Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s…
Cops and other attendees had to run the gauntlet today at a BBQ/fundraiser for fired, killer-cop Richard Chrisman, held in an underground enclosure at the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, the powerful police union that reps rank and file Phoenix police officers.About a dozen or so protesters, led by local radio…
For a hot-shot legal beagle, Craig Mehrens sure seems to have plenty of time to write op-eds for the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association.His latest ditty for the Phoenix police union’s Web site defends PLEA’s all-day BBQ/fundraiser today on behalf of his client, fired killer-cop Richard Chrisman. The former Phoenix police…
I have to wonder if the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association would be so supportive of fired killer-cop Richard Chrisman if his victim had been white instead of Latino.PLEA has gone all out to back Chrisman, who has kept his lips zipped about the October 5 shooting of unarmed south Phoenix…
Anyone recall the flap of about a year ago, when Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu went on a white supremacist radio show in Tennessee called “The Political Cesspool”?PCSO spokesman Tim Gaffney took the spear for not vetting that one for his boss. And I couldn’t help but recall that little…
An auto mechanic for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency in Tucson says in a lawsuit that the agency and fellow employees are discriminating against him because he’s a Christian. David Stanford, who’s worked for the CBP’s Tucson Sector Garage for about two years, says co-workers ridicule him and play “extraordinarily loud music” because…
Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Lisa Allen was dismayed when she saw the super-sleazy TV ad against her boss’ opponent, Dan Saban, air on September 30, 2008. She thought the ad, which stated that Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s opponent had masturbated on county time and had once been accused of raping his…
Joel Fox filed two federal lawsuits this week in apparent response to New Times’ publication of love letters between him and his boss at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, Larry Black. The first lawsuit targets former state Attorney General Terry Goddard and three employees of the AG’s office; the second,…
I’ve received a couple of calls from regular readers wondering about the paucity of posts this week in Feathered Bastard. And no, I’m not in rehab or dead. Yet.Rather, I’ve been hard at work on a special project for my editor, one commanding almost all of my time this week…
Among those disappointed by Republican Arizona Congressman Jeff Flake’s recent about face on immigration is Julie Erfle, the widow of slain Phoenix Police Officer Nick Erfle.You’ll recall that Officer Erfle was murdered in 2007 by an ex-con with an outstanding warrant who was in the country illegally. Erfle and his…
Last week, the much-anticipated SCA investigative report was released to the public (New Times staffers had a blast thumbing through some of the findings, which may or may not involve seducing a “live sheep.” Check it out here and here).The case involves the lies, corruption, and potential crimes committed by…
