Eight congressmen and congresswomen from the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, will be in Arizona this week as part of a delegation to study immigration and security issues. The delegation will be traveling to the U.S.-Mexico border, naturally, but will also meet on Thursday evening in Phoenix with business leaders, government officials…
Conservative pollster Scott Rasmussen has released his latest poll on the Arizona governor’s race and Democratic candidate Terry Goddard has gained a little (very little) ground.Rasmussen loves two things: push polls and seeing his name in the paper, so we take his polls with a healthy serving of salt.That said,…
U.S. Senate hopeful Rodney Glassman, as well as several other Democrats running for office this year, were at the University of Arizona yesterday for a rally. It didn’t go well.It went so bad, in fact, that the university’s newspaper, The Daily Wildcat, wrote a scathing editorial with the headline “AZ…
UPDATE: Here’s a short clip from Cornel West’s address on Saturday, October 2: We’re not the only ones to have noticed that progressives, Democrats, and their ilk don’t currently have a central charismatic leader whose every utterance is sociopolitical Gospel, the way Glenn Beck seems to affect many right-wing Tea…
A few weeks ago, we had a chance to ask Democratic Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd if he was actually a Republic trying to pass himself off as a Democrat. He insisted he was in fact a Democrat residing under the Democratic Party’s “very big tent.”We weren’t entirely convinced and our…
Democratic Senate candidate Rodney Glassman doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell at beating Senator John McCain in this year’s general election. That isn’t stopping the McCain campaign from kicking poor Rodney while he’s down, though, and its latest jab comes in the form of a new Web ad explaining…
The same day Ben Quayle’s Democratic opponent in the District Three Congressional race, Jon Hulburd, rolled out his latest Dirty.com-centered attack ad, Quayle’s released an ad of his own.It’s not likely to make as much noise in the blogosphere as his last corny ad, where he called Barack Obama “the…
Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd continues to beat the Dirty drum in his campaign’s first TV ad.News of Hulburd’s opponent Ben Quayle’s ties to the sleazy Web site “The Dirty” was revealed nearly two months ago and Hulburd has made it the focal point of his campaign — probably better than…
The shooting of Pinal County Sheriff’s Deputy Louie Puroll has inspired some interesting satire. Yesterday, we showed you a strange-but-entertaining video that’s making the rounds on Youtube. Today, the Arizona Republic is mocking the incident with a cartoon Sheriff Paul Babeu probably isn’t liking..The cartoon is titled “Babeu Shoots Himself,”…
Aside from having a law degree, U.S. Senate candidate Rodney Glassman has a Ph.D. in arid-land-resource sciences.The subject of arid-land-resource science may bore you to tears, but his dissertation on the subject is somewhat entertaining. That’s because it seems some of it was written by someone else and not properly…
Our holy-shit-ometer kicked in around 8:30 last night when we got an e-mail from the Reverend Jarrett Maupin, an African-American civil-rights leader here in Phoenix (he’s basically a young version of Al Sharpton — check the hair and our cover story from 2005). Maupin leads the Inner-City Democracy Empowerment Agency and…
If you want to accuse someone of lying, it helps to tell the truth yourself.That said, Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd may want to reconsider some wording used in his latest radio ad.In an ad Hulburd released today called “Maturity,” he claims his opponent in the District 3 Congressional race, Ben Quayle,…
Most people convicted of a hit-and-run DUI in Arizona have a tough time getting a job at McDonald’s. One man, however, has overcome the limitations of a DUI conviction and landed himself a pretty sweet gig: driving around Carl Paladino, the Republican candidate for governor of New York.Rus Thompson is…
When Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu agreed to go on Fox 10 News last night to answer questions about the shooting of Deputy Louie Puroll — raised in the current issue of New Times — he probably thought something similar to what we thought: TV news will throw a few softballs that’ll be…
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…
