Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon ended the week down two staffers.Today was Debra Stark’s last day as Mayor’s Chief of Staff. On Monday, she moves into her new role as Executive Assistant to the City Manager. She will oversee Public Transit, among other city departments.(And, boy, did she luck out! All…
Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth released his latest John-McCain-amnesty ad this morning, and he’s pulled out the big guns to bash “The Maverick.”Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, and, of course, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio each make a cameo in the ad.Check it out after the jump…
All eyes were on Arizona — again — yesterday as protesters for and against Arizona’s controversial, new immigration law flooded the streets outside of the federal courthouse in downtown Phoenix.As seven people were arrested outside, inside a federal judge heard arguments about why she should or shouldn’t grant an injunction…
Seven activists were arrested by Phoenix police today during protests of SB 1070 outside of the federal courthouse, where hearings were under way on the law’s validity. The arrested were part of a protest involving about 50 people at the corner of 4th Avenue and Washington. Protesters banged drums, held…
J.D. Hayworth’s criticism of John McCain over a TV ad featuring Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu seems to have backfired.Since calling on McCain to pull the ad because Babeu called in to a white-supremacist radio show — apparently without knowing it was a show for racists — Hayworth’s now taking…
Back in May, an attorney for Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon sent Maricopa County officials a demand to preserve documents in anticipation of a legal claim. Gordon “intends to pursue all his legal options for the actions leading up to and arising out of the investigation, intimidation, and harassment..by members of…
The vicious GOP primary battle between John McCain and J.D. Hayworth goes on. The latest skirmish is over a McCain campaign ad featuring his number-one cheerleader in Arizona law enforcement, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu.Babeu recently called in to a Tennessee-based, white-supremacist radio show to talk about, what else, immigration…
Since our earlier post about Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth’s advice to Senator John McCain that he pull a campaign ad featuring Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, the McCain campaign got back to us and says it won’t be pulling the ad.”We know that Congressman Hayworth is desperate, but we never…
Ben Quayle, a candidate for the District 3 Congressional seat soon-to-be vacated by Congressman John Shadegg, has jumped head-first into the immigration debate, calling out Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for alleged disillusionment when it comes to the security of the U.S./Mexico border.”Secretary Janet Napolitano recently proclaimed Arizona’s border ‘is as secure…
If we were running for political office and our chief opponent was airing a TV ad featuring someone who’d appeared on a neo-Nazi radio show, we’d say “go for it, pal!”The logic being: It will only hurt the oppoient’s chances.But Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth, with the wording of his statement to the…
U.S. Senate candidate and former New Times columnist John Dougherty (pictured) discussed his plan for the infamous “War on Drugs” this morning at a debate near Yuma. Bottom line: End it. The “squares” have gotta love that.”The War on Drugs has been an abject failure. We need to move it…
In most political campaigns, the children of candidates are off-limits — at least they should be.Someone may want to explain that to supporters of Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth, who GOP Senate candidate Jim Deakin claims “accosted” his teenage daughters in parking lots, telling them Deakin better get out of the…
The Phoenix office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is on track to remove fewer illegal immigrants from Arizona in 2010, following what it says are two record-setting years for removals. As of July 19, the agency says it has removed 55,699 people from the state back to their countries of origin. Since ICE’s fiscal…
New info obtained by ICE shows that the Arizona’s border isn’t quite the revolving door some may think it is. Of the illegal immigrants “removed” from Arizona by the U.S. Immigration and Customs bureau in 2009, 4 percent of those individuals had also been removed in 2008. Most of the…
Congressional candidate Ben Quayle got a little love today from Arizona House Speaker Kirk Adams who announced he’ll be endorsing Quayle in the District 3 Congressional race.The political tip-of-the-cap from a high-ranking Republican is good news for Quayle who is currently engaged in one of the most crowded primary races…
[jump] “McCain gives fake-sounding closing mourning 4 someone who died due to illegal immigration crime. Insincere due to his amnesty bill,” Alexander “tweeted” following the debate.That “someone” who Alexander says died because of “illegal immigration crime” was 20-year-old Christopher Moon, a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division. He was killed…
Jim Deakin nearly crying in a Glenn Beck sort of way and John McCain quoting Bob Dole, there weren’t too many standout moments in The Maverick’s debates with J.D. Hayworth on Saturday. Check them out in their entirety after the jump…
Get out the tin-foil, Rachel Alexander needs a new hat.Alexander, the former leader of the Andrew Thomas cheer squad, seems to think there’s a conspiracy among Rocky Mountain pollsters who “doctored” the numbers in a recent poll to give John McCain a huge lead over his GOP Senate primary opponent…
Ben Quayle, son of former Vice President Dan Quayle, and congressional candidate in Arizona’s third district, announced last night that his campaign has exceeded its fund-raising goals this quarter.It may come as no shock to anyone, the dude’s got a shit-load of money…
Attorney General Terry Goddard, the one-time front-runner in the Arizona governor’s race, got some bad news yesterday: Governor Jan Brewer’s poll numbers are lookin’ pretty awesome. A poll released yesterday shows that Brewer holds a 20-point lead over Goddard in a head-to-head showdown for governor…
Five months ago, you could’ve sneaked up and hit us up-side the face with a two-by-four and we wouldn’t have been half as shocked as if you’d said Jan Brewer was leading the polls for governor.That was five months ago — meantime, Jan signed SB 1070, and needless to say, things changed.According…
The day has finally arrived, Arizona: The state’s much-loathed photo-radar speed-enforcement program comes to an end tonight. At 11:59 p.m. today, the plug will be pulled on all the state’s speed-cams, and anyone caught speeding past one will no longer have to fear a process server dropping off a nasty-gram…
