Senator John McCain is not pleased about boxing judges scoring a decision for Timothy Bradley over Manny Pacquiao in the welterweight title match earlier this month.That said, now might finally be the time his legislation to regulate boxing — which he’s tried over and over again — sees some success.McCain…
Last month, Congressman Ben Quayle was talking about an idea for immigration policy that was being floated around, calling it “something that’s intriguing, that we should be looking at.”Quayle was on 12News explaining the idea of a “blue card,” a way for people who were brought to the United States…
Folks at Tempe City Hall weren’t the only ones to meet with representatives of the apparently fake company believed to be set up by the FBI in its bust of state Representative/former Tempe Councilman Ben Arredondo.According to lobbyist filings with the Secretary of State’s office, Mike Williams met with four…
Former Tempe Mayor Neil Giuliano’s giving the tell-all (maybe the tell-most) story of his life in a book released this month, and the man’s got some stories to tell.Giuliano faced some tough times in his decade-long stint as mayor — from being openly gay to the unsuccessful recall election against…
In April, the U.S. Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a portion of Arizona’s voter-approved voter-ID law, intended to keep non-citizens from voting. Because of that ruling, Arizona was supposed to stop enforcing the law. But a new order by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy permits the law…
Governor Jan Brewer called for a press conference this morning shortly after news broke of the Obama administration’s plan to stop deporting young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the country when they were kids.Brewer apparently forgot that she’d actually have to articulate a response to the policy change, because…
President Obama announced today that his administration “will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children and have since led law-abiding lives.” From the Associated Press: The policy change, announced Friday by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, will affect…
At least Republican Jesse Kelly’s being honest about why he’s not going to try for a third shot at running for Congress — he wasn’t very close this time.Democrat Ron Barber beat Kelly by about 6.5 percentage points this week, in the special election to finish out the term of…
Talking Points Memo uncovered some details yesterday about the FBI allegedly using lobbyist Mike Williams as the middle-man between Tempe City Council members and a fake corporation in its bust of former city councilman and current state Representative Ben Arredondo.The question people may have is, “Who the f**k is Mike…
The theft of a first-edition Book of Mormon, we have discovered, is some serious shit.At least, it was to the eight law enforcement agencies investigating the matter.Jay Linford’s been pegged by Mesa police as the guy who lifted the 182-year-old Book of Mormon from the Rare and Out of Print…
It took help from the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI, but a first-edition Book of Mormon stolen from a Mesa bookstore has been located in Washington, D.C.The theft of the book did not make the Mormon community happy, as folks used to stop by Mesa’s Rare and Out of…
Ron Barber, a former aide to former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was elected yesterday to finish the remainder of Giffords’ term.Giffords resigned from Congress earlier this year to focus on her recovery after getting shot in the head during last year’s shooting rampage outside a Tucson grocery store. Barber also was…
It’s been a year since the American Civil Liberties Union demanded immigration officials fix the conditions in which immigrants are detained at the Pinal County Jail, and if you ask the ACLU, it’s no better today.The ACLU’s now asking that Department of Homeland Security officials remove immigrants from the jail, or actually…
State Representative Ben Arredondo’s lawyers say they just got so much information from the government about what the FBI’s been up to that they’re going to need almost two extra months to deal with the stuff.After Arredondo was indicted on charges of bribery, fraud, attempted extortion, and making false statements,…
Now that embattled Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu isn’t running for Congress in Arizona’s Fourth Congressional District, the race is down to two Republicans — Congressman Paul Gosar, and state Senator Ron Gould…
Well, right after we tell you about Congressman Ben Quayle not trash-talking President Obama for once, we opened an email from the Congressman’s campaign about his first TV ad for this election cycle.This advertisement features the whole Ben Quayle family, including wife Tiffany any baby Evie. (No, they’re still not…
President Barack Obama signed the Border Tunnel Prevention Act of 2012 into law yesterday, which raises the penalties for constructing tunnels from Mexico into the United States.Congressman Ben Quayle’s been pushing this bill for some time, and equally noteworthy, Quayle avoided talking smack on the president after he signed it.”I’m proud to…
A mostly online-based political-action committee is considering getting involved in Arizona’s Sixth Congressional District primary between Republican Congressmen Ben Quayle and David Schweikert.Test PAC loves the Internet. Quayle, several of the PAC’s members believe, does not.”Quayle co-sponsored [the Stop Online Piracy Act] before he withdrew his co-sponsorship,” Test PAC treasurer…
Former state Representative Richard Miranda is going to prison for a couple years for treating his charity to help out the impoverished as the Richard Miranda Wants More Money Fund.Miranda, a 55-year-old Democrat, won a 27-month trip to prison this morning for stealing from his charity, and then evading the…
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett officially has become that kid no one wanted to play with because he just made up the rules to games as he went along.Bennett, as you may recall, decided to play ball with the “birther” crowd, taking the “extra step” to verify President Barack Obama’s…
A federal judge is being asked for a second time to order that records in the criminal case of Arizona Legislator Ben Arredondo that refer to other investigations will be kept secret.This seems to be more proof that while the feds probably were happy to nail Arredondo for his alleged corrupt acts, the…
Yesterday, we told you about Scottsdale gun-law author Alan Korwin, who claims to believe the word “birther” is a derogatory term “equivalent of the ‘N’ word.”This claim somehow made it onto the websites of both the East Valley Tribune and Arizona Republic.”‘Birther,’ used by the media with impunity, is a…
