The 29-year-old mayor of Nogales, and his 59-year-old father, were arrested this morning on multiple charges including bribery, theft, fraud and money laundering.Mayor Octavio Garcia Von Borstel was taken into custody at his office at the Nogales City Hall this morning.According to the Attorney General’s Office, the FBI began investigating…
A billboard displaying a Hispanic family with an out-of-context quote from Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu has been removed.Within days of the billboard going up, Babeu started campaigning to have it removed, even calling the consulate for the president of El Salvador — the country of origin of the family…
A Maricopa County judge said today he will rule as soon as possible on whether Phoenix has to release logs kept by members of Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon’s security detail.Attorneys for Phoenix and Judicial Watch questioned witnesses, including Ruben Gonzales, a former member of Gordon’s security detail; Paul Johnson, a former Phoenix…
Gubernatorial candidate Terry Goddard’s pulling out all the stops in trying to get Governor Jan Brewer back on stage for a debate, and Jan’s not havin’ it. Goddard’s accepted invitations to 10 debates or candidate forums and Brewer, apparently, won’t be at any of them. “Why is Jan Brewer hiding?”…
Phoenix city attorneys want to shut out the public from a court hearing on Monday that will help a judge decide whether to force the city to release logs kept by Mayor Phil Gordon’s publicly funded security detail.Monday’s hearing is the result of a lawsuit filed against Phoenix by Judicial…
U.S. Senate candidate Rodney Glassman released a new Web ad today and it might be fairly persuasive if we hadn’t seen an identical ad — literally identical — from J.D. Hayworth during the GOP primary.The ad, titled “McCain VS Arizona,” features McCain fumbling over his words when asked what he’s…
Last night, a friend e-mailed us a photo of a billboard showing a quote from Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu accompanied by what appears to be a Hispanic family lookin’ down in the dumps.The quote isn’t necessarily racist — neither is the photo — but when combined they give the…
There’s no love lost between Homeland Security Secretary and former Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano and Senator John McCain. The two went after each other during a heated back-and-forth at a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing this morning.The issue: border security.Check out some video after the jump…
Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, the Democratic candidate for governor, is beaming today after the results of a new poll were released showing he’s narrowed the gap in the polls separating him and his GOP opponent, Governor Jan Brewer.According to the latest poll, Brewer now only leads Goddard by seven…
At first glance it would appear there is a Republican and a Democrat running for Congress in Arizona’s Third District. However, every time the Democrat in the race, Jon Hulburd, opens his mouth he sounds more like a Democrat trying to get elected in a predominantly Republican district Republican.Hulburd’s economic…
Yesterday, we spoke with Michael Kielsky, the Libertarian candidate for Maricopa County Attorney.Kielsky has an interesting approach to law enforcement: using the County Attorney’s Office to go after crimes that have “real victims.”As Kielsky told us, prostitution and smoking weed don’t fall under his criteria of crimes with “real victims.”Kielsky…
Chris Deschene wants at least two things.First, the Democrat wants voters to elected him Secretary of State November 2. Second, he wants Ken Bennett, his political opponent and current Arizona Secretary of State, to turn over public records, including e-mails, to help determine Bennett’s role in the Green Party candidate sham…
While former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas would prosecute…well…just about anybody, a little-known candidate in this year’s election for Andy’s old office tells New Times he’d take a slightly different approach.Michael Kielsky, the Libertarian for Maricopa County Attorney, says he wouldn’t prosecute prostitutes, people who hire prostitutes, or people who smoke…
There’s a debate over debates waging in an Arizona Congressional race, and it just got ugly.If you’re unfamiliar with the term, a debate over debates is what happens when an underdog in a political race challenges the front-runner to a series of debates. The front runner doesn’t immediately respond to…
Big ups to Representative Ann Kirkpatrick, who reaffirmed her commitment to a Congressional pay cut today by writing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a letter demanding a floor vote on a resolution she introduced in March.The United States government is $13.5 trillion in the hole, unemployment looms around 10 percent, and even…
In the past week, two judges have ruled against the Green and Democratic parties’ requests to have several Green Party candidates removed from the November ballot.The two parties feel the candidates are “sham” candidates getting used by Republicans to lure liberal voters away from voting for Democrats.Some of those candidates reportedly…
Earlier this month, New Times ran a story about Jan Brewer’s criminally insane son, questioning why his criminal record was sealed just days before his mother was sworn in as governor.Jan’s opponent in the governor’s race, Attorney General Terry Goddard, pretended he didn’t like it.Within hours of the article’s publication,…
Steve May, a now-former Republican candidate for the Arizona House of Representatives — best known for recruiting homeless people to run as Green Party candidates in several local elections and driving down Interstate17 shitfaced — is calling it quits following the outing of his DUI conviction.May issued a press release…
There is no joy in Mudville — again — for Arizona’s Green and Democratic parties.For the second time in a week, a judge ruled today to allow several Green Party candidates, dubbed by the two parties as “sham” candidates, to remain on the November ballot.This morning, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Dean Fink ruled…
It seems some of Arizona’s Democratic members of Congress aren’t as vulnerable in their re-election bids as originally anticipated — at least the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee thinks they’re not.The DCCC reportedly is cutting the advertising budgets of Representatives Harry Mitchell, Ann Kirkpatrick, and Gabrielle Giffords because their opponents aren’t putting up as…
Governor Jan Brewer can rest easy knowing that the video of her epic brain fart during last week’s gubernatorial debate is no longer the most ridiculous video of a political candidate currently making the rounds on Youtube. That honor has been passed on to Phil Davidson, a candidate for county…
www.solarnavigator.com Green Party candidates — who the New York Times claims are “homeless” and who were dubbed by Arizona’s Green Party as “sham” candidates — can remain on the November ballot as the party’s nominees for several offices, a federal judge ruled. This despite complaints that they’re being used by Republicans to lure…
