See also Local Latino Activists Target Unlikely Politician See also Senator Robert Meza Files Election Complaint Against Team Awesome See also Tom Horne: Arizona Medical Marijuana Act Preempted by Federal Law, in Part; Cardholders OK, Dispensaries Could be Nixed by Court As unlikely as it is for liberal Latino student…
See also: Ben Quayle “Goes Both Ways,” According to David Schweikert Turns out, we weren’t the only ones who were wondering whether Congressman David Schweikert’s campaign was trying to claim his primary opponent, Congressman Ben Quayle, is bisexual.Senator Jon Kyl, who’s endorsed Quayle, has a thing or two to say…
El Mirage’s appointed and elected city officials are not releasing accident data for an intersection with a speed camera — until after the election. That, despite repeated requests by El Mirage City Councilman Jim McPhetres for those statistics…
Lando Voyles, a criminal prosecutor in the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office who is running for Pinal County Attorney, put out a press release today claiming that his opponent refuses to prosecute violent felons who attack prison and jail guards. Serious allegations, even in a heated political race. And a recent…
See also Local Latino Activists Target Unlikely Politician Senator Robert Meza is accused of being out of touch with the mostly Latino community that he represents. And he isn’t doing himself any favors with a complaint he filed with the Secretary of State on July 16 against a group of…
Former Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams — who’s facing off against fellow Republican Matt Salmon in Arizona’s Fifth Congressional District primary — got the stamp of approval from former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.A nod from Palin might scare the neighborhood liberals, but if history tells us anything, candidates endorsed by…
The House of Representatives slapped down another one of Congressman Trent Franks’ anti-abortion bills yesterday, and Franks has now successfully wasted more than one hour and 38 minutes of Congress’ time this year alone.Franks’ proposed ban on abortions past 20 weeks in Washington D.C.was short by 30 votes, as he…
Now here’s a campaign mailer worthy of the Daily Show’s “Moment of Zen.”…
See also: Conley Wolfswinkel, Smeared by Andrew Thomas in Stapley Investigation, Files Notice of Claim with Maricopa County Is Maricopa County responsible when the sheriff’s office or county attorney’s office fail to release documents to lawyers or the public? A federal judge believes so, but County Attorney Bill Montgomery has…
Turns out, we weren’t the only ones who found yesterday’s comments from Congressman Ben Quayle’s campaign a little…weird.In fact, the president of Citizens United — which is supporting Quayle’s primary opponent, David Schweikert — says Quayle’s campaign is doing stuff you’d expect from President Obama’s campaign.”It is always a telltale…
It happens all the time — a candidate for public office says he’s winning the race, based on a poll the candidate or his supporters paid for.Congressman David Schweikert did that today, saying he’s up 13 points — or 16. The credibility of that lies somewhere between of a well-respected…
See also: Rich Crandall Leaves a Somewhat Angry Voicemail for Fellow State Senator That didn’t take long: state Senator Brenda Barton’s ethics complaint against fellow Republican Senator Rich Crandall was thrown straight in the garbage (or possibly the recycle bin).Barton filed the complaint because Crandall left a mean voicemail on…
See also Cloaked Brutality: Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of ImmigrantsSee also Immigrant Abuses by Border Patrol Agents DocumentedSee also Mexican Smugglers Exploit the Corrupt Reputation of U.S. Border Officers When we traveled to Nogales, Mexico about two years ago, we found many individuals who reported getting abused while in Border…
Former Alaska Governor and Vice President runner-up Sarah Palin says Congressman Jeff Flake should be the next U.S. Senator from Arizona.The gaffe-prone ex-governor — who briefly wanted to “stand with our North Korean allies” and sparked concerns about the “Department of Law” — says Flake’s the kind of guy who…
See also: Congressional Candidate Matt Salmon Says Lobbyist Matt Salmon Never Lobbied for “Obamacare” Republican Congressman-turned-lobbyist-turned-congressional candidate Matt Salmon’s explanation of doing lobbying work on “Obamacare” bills — or not doing lobbying work on the bills — isn’t quite satisfying former Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams.Adams accused his primary opponent…
See also: ACLU Trying to Stop 20-Week Abortion Ban; Says “No Court Has Ever Upheld” Such a Law Bill Montgomery, Maricopa County Attorney, wants a lawyer for the unborn in a lawsuit targeting a state law that bans most late-term abortions. The Republican politician filed a motion in federal court…
Don Kenney, a former Arizona lawmaker and the “quarterback” of one of the state’s worst scandals, has been charged with five felonies related to his fraudulent California real estate license. In the infamous AzScam case, Kenney was among several lawmakers in 1990 who sold their votes to a man they…
Forget everything you learned about the Holocaust, kids, because Congressman Trent Franks is contemplating whether abortion is actually the “greatest genocide in world history.”There’s a reason we have a category of stories called “Trent Franks (Sigh)” and it’s for stuff like this — or when he said black people were…
If you really trust your local politicians (again, we’ll pause for laughter), then they’re really serious about hating on strippers.The lobbyists at the Center for Arizona Policy released more local candidates’ answers to their questionnaires for this year’s elections, including county and city offices, and Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery…
Republican Congressman Trent Franks apparently believes he’s trying to stop something worse than the Holocaust.Of course, it’s Franks talking about his bread-and-butter issue of abortion, which he’s currently considering as “the greatest genocide in world history.”Remember, according to Franks, abortion is the reason black people were better off under slavery…
Believe it or not, someone out there doesn’t believe Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse/birther club qualifies as a “charity.”A complaint to that effect was filed with the Internal Revenue Service a few weeks ago, which is referenced through the Fogbow’s extensive library of information on Arpaio’s “investigation” into President…
If you’re among the people who are still on the fence about President Obama’s birth certificate, or think that Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his birther gang are presenting anything remotely credible, this one’s for you.Just like Arpaio’s announcement on March 1 that he had evidence Obama’s using a phony birth…
