Our colleague Monica Alonzo reported late last week that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu’s dropping his congressional bid, which might not exactly come as a surprise.What may come as a surprise is his explanation why he’s dropping out of the race, which happens to exclude anything about the abuse-of-power allegations…
The battle between supporters of Tempe mayoral candidates Mark Mitchell and Michael Monti over whether “your” public employees can endorse people in campaign signs seemed to end with City Manager Charlie Meyer’s ruling that it was all pretty much OK.That question apparently has not been completely answered, thanks to a…
Of some of the more controversial ideas tossed around the Arizona Legislature, the “birther” bill is the most popular to voters, according to a recent poll. The Morrison Institute for Public Policy quizzed Arizona voters on five of the more controversial bills brought up by the right-hand side of the…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery — who’s publicly endorsed Tempe mayoral candidate Michael Monti — transferred the case involving allegations against Monti’s opponent, Tempe Councilman Mark Mitchell, to Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk.The case, as we wrote about yesterday, involves a woman claims Mitchell engaged in some sexual activities with…
This week, folks not too fond of Tempe mayoral candidate Mark Mitchell have been pushing a report from the Phoenix Police Department, in which a woman claims Mitchell engaged in some sexual activities with her when she was a kid, and Mitchell was 13 or 14 years old.As we mentioned…
There are people out there who really, really don’t want Mark Mitchell to be the next mayor of Tempe.Recently, his opponent, Michael Monti, pulled out a police report involving an incident Mitchell was involved in with the cops in 1993 on Mill Avenue, when Mitchell was 24 years old.Mitchell said Monti…
Congressional candidate Vernon Parker, who once kind of ran for governor for a bit, now has the stamp of approval from his ex-boss, former President George H.W. Bush.Parker’s among the approximate truckload of candidates running for Congress in the newly formed Ninth Congressional District, which just had another addition –…
If about two-thirds of the signatures Mike Stauffer hands over to the county elections office tomorrow are legit, he’ll be on the ballot for Maricopa County Sheriff come November.Stauffer, a Scottsdale police lieutenant, is running as an Independent, which — as the Feathered Bastard previously pointed out — requires 19,410…
Abortion still seems to be a top priority for Governor Jan Brewer and the Legislature, as the governor announced the signing of yet another bill that’s not making Planned Parenthood happy at all.Late last week, the governor signed into law House Bill 2800, which, as described in the broadest sense…
Attorney General Tom Horne’s efforts to replace the police force in Colorado City with deputies from the Mohave County Sheriff’s Office was killed in the state House yesterday, which turned out to be the last day of the legislative session.Colorado City, for those joining late, is the city on the…
The feud between supporters of both Tempe mayoral candidates has pretty much come to an end, as no one’s going on campaign-sign-stealing escapade, and everyone gets to keep their signs with the endorsement of generic public employees.This all started with Legislative District 17 Republicans chairman A.J. LaFaro, a Monti supporter,…
Arizona’s House Bill 2549 — which was derailed after a critic’s view that it was a “bill to censor electronic speech” caught on — has been approved by some legislators after changes were made to address those concerns.There were a lot of misconceptions about this bill, especially from the Kremlin…
If the plot to give 12 point-loser and former state Senate President Russell Pearce $260,000 is squashed (and I’m not convinced that it has been), it will be because of the efforts of Randy Parraz and Citizens for a Better Arizona, the folks that made the Pearce recall a reality…
For those who are struggling to find differences between Congressmen David Schweikert and Ben Quayle in their impending primary election in CD6, House activity late last week brought another division between the two.Despite the popular belief, there actually are differences in the House records of Schweikert and Quayle, and the…
U.S. Senate candidate Wil Cardon is liked by thousands of people.Unfortunately, most of those people are in Bangladesh, according to the campaign of his primary opponent Jeff Flake, which is thinking Cardon’s the latest politician to fudge the numbers on a social media website in the name of popularity.Similar to…
Back in 1993, Mark Mitchell — who’s running for mayor of Tempe — was involved in an incident with police at a Mill Avenue bar.Mitchell’s opponent in the mayoral race, Michael Monti, is now making it a campaign issue (in 2012), claiming Mitchell’s “distort[ing] the truth” about what happened.It boils…
Governor Jan Brewer was in Washington this week to defend the controversial immigration law known as SB 1070 — or as Brewer called it, a trip to “defend our state against President Obama, Eric Holder and the Justice Department.”Brewer’s been taking full advantage of 1070’s date with the Supreme Court,…
Less than four hours after Congressman Ben Quayle let New Times know he’d be introducing an amendment to address privacy concerns in the latest controversial Internet-related bill, he did — and it passed less than an hour ago.Quayle’s amendment to address privacy concerns in the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection…
The picture above was an interesting sighting at the corner of Baseline and McClintock in Tempe today. As you can see, “your” cops apparently support Michael Monti for Tempe mayor.That’s interesting, seeing as it was just a few weeks ago that a Monti fan complained that “your” firefighters support Mark Mitchell…
After the bills known as “SOPA” and “PIPA” were shelved amid some mass protests from online communities, there’s a new bill in Congress that has the Internet riled up — the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or “CISPA.”The bill has been referred to numerous times as being “worse than…
SB 1070 got its (nth) day in court yesterday, with oral arguments being heard over the immigration law in the highest court of the land.Check out Stephen Lemons’ analysis on the fate of 1070.The last time we polled our readers about what the Supreme Court would do with the law,…
Just as oral arguments wrapped up at the U.S. Supreme Court over SB 1070, Arizona’s controversial immigration-enforcement law that essentially criminalizes an undocumented immigrant’s presence in Arizona, Congressman Paul Gosar made an appearance on MSNBC. Gosar is running for a seat in Arizona’s conservative Fourth Congressional District against embattled Pinal…
