Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, we learned earlier this week, is rumored to be planning to base her hypothetical presidential campaign in Scottsdale, but GOP sources tell New Times the one-time darling of the Conservative movement might be coming to the Grand Canyon State for a different reason: to run…
Local lawyer Mark Goldman’s alleged actions in the investigation of Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley have become evidence against former County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Thomas’ political go-to girl, Lisa Aubuchon. Goldman also helped Aubuchon fight her State Bar complaint. Now bad-boyfriend and state senator Scott Bundgaard is counting on…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s most memorable quote isn’t a quote at all — it’s about 12 seconds of painfully uncomfortable silence, which the governor recreated Wednesday night in Mesa.Jan was discussing economic development and education when it happened…again.”As we limit the growth of the public sector and restrain unnecessary regulation,…
Pinal County Assessor Paul Larkin had a .11 blood alcohol level the night he was arrested on suspicion of DUI last month. The elected official was arrested February 7 following a tip to a Pinal County Web site that he often hits a bar after work and drives home “inebriated,”…
Embattled state Senate Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard had a interesting yarn for his GOP colleagues in the Senate on Tuesday: he now claims that in addition to giving him a black eye during last month’s scuffle on the side of a highway, his now-ex-gal-pal Iron Aubry Ballard pulled out a…
State Senate Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard may have staved off being ousted from his leadership position when he met with Senate Republicans yesterday to explain his involvement in last month’s alleged domestic-violence incident, but sources tell New Times that the chances of Bundgaard remaining majority leader after his colleagues revisit…
Fresh from the rumor mill: if Sarah Palin runs for president, she will base her campaign out of Scottsdale, continuing the Palin family’s invasion of Arizona.As you know, Palin’s daughter Bristol recently/inexplicably bought a home in Maricopa. Then a job as an on-air personality at a local radio station just…
Embattled state Senate Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard reportedly told Senate Republicans that his now-ex-girlfriend, Aubry Ballard, pulled out a gun during a roadside brouhaha last month that left the senator with a black eye and Ballard in the hoosegow.Bundgaard met with Senate Republicans yesterday to discuss the February 25, incident,…
Well, they actually did it…The Arizona Senate yesterday approved a bill that puts the Grand Canyon State one step closer to becoming the first state in the entire union to have its own official state gun (Arizona’s currently in a race with Utah for that, ahem, honor).The Senate voted 18-12…
State Senate Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard will remain the second-most powerful person in the Senate following a closed-door meeting with members of the Republican caucus this morning, at which GOP lawmakers discussed the senator’s February domestic violence incident, and reportedly have decided to take no action to remove him from…
State Senator Scott Bundgaard’s roadside domestic violence debacle on February 25 continues to dust up the many blemishes in the majority leader’s past. And today, the tale of another jilted love affair involving Bundgaard and a woman are making headlines. The skeletons in the Peoria Republican’s closet are enough to…
The black eye state Senate Majority Leader Scott Bundgaard allegedly suffered as the result of a right hook from his now-ex-girlfriend, Aubry “Highway Heavyweight Champion” Ballard, is probably the least of the senator’s concerns this morning.See New Times’ story on the Rumble Next to the Carpool Lane here.Yesterday, Senate Democrats…
We regret to inform you that we nearly let Governor Jan Brewer get away with one.Since our earlier post about the governor’s vacation to Alaska, which she claims is her “first vacation in over two years as Governor,” we were reminded of a story we published last May. That story,…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer’s in Alaska at the moment, and the only bad news is that she’s not staying…forever.For what she claims is the first time in more than two years as Arizona’s governor, Brewer is taking a vacation.The gaffe-prone gov announced via-Twitter last week that she would be in “Alaska…
Illegal immigrants about to step over the line back into Mexico are increasingly pulled back for a short time so they can be arrested and tagged by U.S. authorities. “We don’t wave them through anymore,” Brian Levin, an Arizona spokesman for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, tells New Times…
Republicans in the Arizona state Senate pissed away their time and your tax dollars last week when they passed a resolution backing Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker in his budget battle with labor unions and his efforts to put restrictions on collective bargaining for public employees.Say what you will about what’s…
As you’re probably well aware, Senator Jon Kyl will not be running for re-election in 2012 — and that means the who’s who of Arizona’s GOP are all rumored to be considering a run, including fagala-phobic Congressman Trent Franks, who made it clear this weekend that the rumors are true.Franks…
Remember last year when Arizona Governor Jan Brewer crowed about all the headless bodies littering the Arizona desert?”Law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded,” the gaffe-prone governor squawked.Then, Brewer had to backtrack because there weren’t actually headless…
Last weekend, GOP Congressman Trent Franks spouted off about how President Barack Obama’s decision to no longer defend the Defense of Marriage Act was an impeachable offense — and that’s apparently all it takes to win the heart of nut-job Maricopa County GOP Chairman Rob Haney.Just hours after we posted our…
In response to allegations that his department inflated border-related kidnapping statistics to secure federal grants, Phoenix Public Safety Manager (a.k.a. double-dipping police chief) Jack Harris on Wednesday said the following: “Anyone that wants these stars can come and get them. But I’ve got news for you — I’m not giving them…
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon tweets this from his iPhone: “The truth about the kidnapping stats? There was no fraud. I’m confident the audit will show that.”And Gordon, who has thrown his confidence and support behind Phoenix Public Safety Manager Jack Harris, who was stripped of his duties as police chief…
Democratic Congressman Raul Grijalva made himself a target for Republicans when he called for a boycott of all things Arizona last year, but he held on to his seat by a much narrower margin than he’s used to. GOPers, it seems, still see him as vulnerable, and now, less than…
