Judicial Watch, the Washington, D.C.-based conservative think-tank that went after Phoenix to force them to release logs maintained by Mayor Phil Gordon’s security detail, is pleased with a recent court decision ordering their disclosure.”Judicial Watch is excited by the ruling because it creates more transparency within government,” says Greg Collins,…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, who only has about a week left in office, may be forced to release security-detail logs that track two years’ worth of his movements.The Arizona Court of Appeals reversed a ruling by a Maricopa County Superior Court Judge John Rea that protected those logs from being…
The Center for Responsive Politics recently released its list of the net worth of every member of Congress, and we’ve learned a few things about Arizona’s Congressional delegation.For starters, Arizona’s 10-member delegation is worth a collective $60,806,459, with fagala-phobic Congressman Trent Franks’ $33,925,002 making up more than half of the…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery announced yesterday that no criminal charges will be filed against any of the more than two dozen state legislators who accepted questionable gifts from the scandal-plagued Fiesta Bowl organization while it was headed by former CEO John Junker.The gist of Montgomery’s explanation as to why…
No politicians will be charged with crimes for accepting gifts from the scandal-plagued Fiesta Bowl organization under the leadership of former CEO John Junker — but that doesn’t necessarily mean they didn’t do anything wrong (just look at ousted former state Senate President Russell Pearce, who accepted nearly $40,000 in gifts from the…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery is holding a press conference this morning to announce the findings of an eight-month investigation into elected officials who received gifts from the allegedly corrupt Fiesta Bowl organization.It’s unclear what Montgomery will announce — the Arizona Republic reports he’ll propose a plan to ban lawmakers…
As you probably know by now, North Korea’s communist dictator, Kim Jong Il, is dead. In addition to being dead, the “Dear Leader” is also in a “warm corner of hell” with the likes of Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden.That’s according to Arizona Senator John McCain, who reacted to…
Just five months after signing into law the nations “toughest” anti-immigration law, Alabama lawmakers are having “second thoughts amid a backlash from big business, fueled by the embarrassing traffic stops of two foreign employees tied to the state’s prized Honda and Mercedes plants.”The backpedaling involves the state’s Republican attorney general…
Four alleged human smugglers were arrested last night when the Department of Public Safety busted up a drop house in Avondale.Also found inside the home was weed, cash, and 19 illegal immigrants — many of whom have been arrested before for crimes like drug possession, weapons misconduct, child abuse, crimes…
Mary Giovagnoli, the director of the Immigration Policy Center, posted a new blog about the “dramatic reversal in the definition” of the term “anchor baby.”In their initial definition, executives for American Heritage Dictionary didn’t include any notation that the phrase was offensive or disparaging. But they have since corrected their…
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will be in the Valley tomorrow, where he’s likely to announce that former Vice President Dan Quayle is endorsing his bid for the presidency.Romney, as you may recall, is one of several GOPers who planted his lips on the arse of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe…
Arizona Congressman Trent Franks — best known for his fear of homosexuals, his belief that black people were better off under slavery, and tackling the non-existent problem of race/gender-based abortions — has endorsed his Congressional colleague Michele Bachmann in the GOP presidential primary. Additionally, Franks will serve as the Congressional…
Natalie Wisneski, the former chief operating officer for the Fiesta Bowl, was in a Phoenix U.S. District Court this morning where she pleaded not guilty to multiple charges that she was involved in a scam to make illegal campaign contributions to several federal, state, and local political candidates.Wisneski is the…
Arizona Congressman Trent Franks yesterday reintroduced a bill into Congress that would make it a crime to have an abortion based on the gender or race of the fetus.While abortions based on race or gender have been a problem in countries like India and China, there’s no evidence to suggest…
Question: What’s Herman Cain’s favorite pizza topping?Answer: pussy, duh!That’s one of several jokes currently making the rounds on the Internet about the embattled GOP presidential candidate/former Godfather’s Pizza CEO, who is currently reconsidering his run for the presidency amidst multiple allegations of sexual harassment made by several women.Also giving us…
Fagala-fearing Arizona Congressman Trent Franks has reintroduced legislation that would place a federal ban on race/gender-based abortions — which would be fantastic news if either were actually a problem in the United States.Franks today once again introduced his “Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act,” which outlaws abortions based on the race or gender…
The Red Mountain Tea Party bills itself as the largest weekly Tea Party meeting in America, and organizers were proud to get Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to speak tonight.Arpaio blew the teabaggers off, though, because the sheriff had “an emergency that came up in his schedule that he could…
A Democrat hasn’t held a U.S. Senate seat in Arizona since 1995, but a recent poll suggests that the seat getting vacated by retiring Senator Jon Kyl is within reach for Arizona lefties.According to the pollsters at the left-leaning Public Policy Polling, Republican Congressman Jeff Flake — the presumed GOP…
She’s been shot in the butt.Criticized for questionable deals.Indicted twice by a grand jury — only to see her charges dropped and her accuser face potential disbarment.But Mary Rose Wilcox, one of five members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors since being elected in 1992, isn’t giving up her…
As Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio stands by his hawkish approach to solving the illegal immigration problem, Scottsdale Lieutenant Mike Stauffer, the man who hopes to put an end to Arpaio’s reign, has come out in favor of a more moderate approach to immigration reform.Stauffer, a life-long Republican who’s running…
Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle Bnbk, you are the proud winner of this week’s New Times You Write the Caption contest.On Friday, we asked readers to provide what they think would be an appropriate caption for the above photo of presidential candidate Herman Cain…
Last week, we asked our readers to offer suggestions for an appropriate caption for the above photo of presidential candidate Herman Cain in the midst of a rather epic brain-fart for this week’s New Times’ You Write the Caption contest.If you missed Cain’s cranial flatulence, click here to watch the…
