Since our earlier post about letters exchanged (and distributed to the media) between Congressional candidates Ben Quayle and Steve Moak, Moak’s campaign got back to us and answered some of the questions posed in Quayle’s letter.In case you missed it, Moak sent Quayle a letter bashing the 33-year-old candidate for…
jA week before he’ll learn his political fate, Senate hopeful, and former New Times columnist John Dougherty has unveiled his campaigns latest piece of political art.Dougherty’s been running political cartoons by Arizona cartoonist Tom Robertson in several Arizona newspapers, New Times included.In his latest ad, Dougherty, often billed as the…
It seems nearly every other day we get a press release from a Valley law enforcement agency asking for the public’s help in tracking down someone who robbed a bank. It’s rare that we hear any news of one of those robbers being caught or convicted.Today is one of the…
Congressional candidates Steve Moak and Ben Quayle have turned to snail mail for their latest round of mudslinging.In letters — yes, actual, physical letters — exchanged by the two candidates (and distributed throughout the media by their respective campaigns, of course) the two squabble over the thin line between Moak’s…
The Arizona Capitol Times’ assertion that Steve Moak is now the frontrunner in the crowded District 3 Congressional primary continues to gain steam in the more-mainstream media — and the mainstream media continues to swallow the bait.The latest Valley news outlet to do absolutely no research into the source of…
Most people go to baseball games to unwind and put the real world behind them for a few, brief hours. That’s proven to not be the case for protesters opposed to Arizona’s controversial, new immigration law. Those people tend to go to games to piss and moan about the law…
Rather than take their diplomas and put their teenage angst behind them, three recent grads of a Phoenix charter school decided to go back for one last hurrah — which included trashing the place and setting it on fire, Phoenix fire officials say.Phoenix Fire Investigations Director Jack Ballentine tells New…
The Arizona Capitol Times has declared a new frontrunner in the crowded District 3 Congressional primary.Businessman Steve Moak, the paper claims, has taken over for Ben Quayle as the leader in the 10-person race.Check out the Cap Times’ assessment of the race after the jump. …
They’re back.It’s that special time of year in Tempe again: when traffic near University and Mill Avenues becomes unbearable, lines — everywhere — get longer, and the stench of stale Milwaukee’s Best and overindulgent students fills the streets.Arizona State University students are coming back to town and the Tempe Police…
Congressional candidate Ben Quayle isn’t backing off his claim that Barack Obama is the worst president in history — as made public in one of the lamest political ads to come out of this election season.In the ad, Quayle opens by saying “Barack Obama is the worst president in history.”…
When convicted murderers escape from a prison thanks to a plan as simple as merely having someone throw cutting tools over a fence, heads are gonna roll — or people are gonna quit before they get the boot.That seems to be the case following last month’s escape of three Arizona…
The amount of hilarious nonsense that comes from the mouth of former Phoenix Suns big man Shaquille O’Neal is only rivaled by that of another former Suns star: Charles Barkley.Sir Charles is in the off-season from his gig as a TNT basketball commentator, so the general public hasn’t been blessed…
Former (if not already former, likely, soon-to-be former. Read about the confusion here) deputy county attorney Lisa Aubuchon filed a $10 million lawsuit against the county last weekThe suit is in response to County Attorney Rick Romley’s bombshell announcement that he was releasing documents, including transcripts of grand jury proceedings,…
The man charged in the 2008 beating death of two Phoenix boys was found incompetent to stand trial today and will be sent to a mental health facilityJoe Sauceda Gallegos, 38, was charged with two counts of first-degree murder after he allegedly beat two young boys to death with a…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio apparently forgot that he’s a politician during an appearance on Anderson Cooper 360 this afternoon, right before a brief “oh shit” moment when he realized that, well, he is a politician.Arpaio is a media whore and seems to like seeing his name in print even…
We like to laugh here at New Times, so we were excited to learn that the Chicago-based sketch-comedy troop Second City had released a parody of Ben Quayle’s uber-awful campaign ad, in which he claims “Barack Obama is the worst president in history.”The ad sucks. It’s tacky, lame, and concludes…
We’ll spare you a cliche lede about “getting caught with your pants down” — KPHO beat us to that — we’ll just say it: a Valley couple got caught doin’ it in a Scottsdale parking garage last week.The couple, a 38-year-old Scottsdale man and a 26-year-old Phoenix woman, were reportedly…
We’re not sure what’s more degrading: being called a meth-head, being called a drug mule, or being engaged to a convicted murderer who also happens to be your cousin.Casslyn Welch, the fiancee/ cousin of convicted murderer John McCluskey, has experienced each.The Mohave County Sheriff’s Office says prior to Welch helping…
If Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth was pissed off yesterday, he’s gotta be fuming today.In response to a comment Hayworth made that America is better off with Barack Obama as president than it would be with John McCain in the White House, the McCain campaign released a new campaign ad highlighting…
Since Andrew Thomas quit his gig as Maricopa County attorney to run for attorney general, his sinister smirk hasn’t been plastered all over the New Times Web site nearly as often as when he was launching baseless investigations into judges and his — and Joe Arpaio’s — other political rivals.With…
There’s a new addition to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s infamous posse: “The Motor City Madman” himself, Ted Nugent.Nugent was in town today for a special ceremony at which he was deputized by Arpaio. The two apparently had lunch, too. At least Arpaio claims they had lunch — the sheriff’s…
We just spent a few minutes chatting with Melissa Rein, the former director of public relations at Rose & Allyn Public Relations, the firm that likely planted the story about Congressional candidate Ben Quayle’s ties to The Dirty.If you’re unfamiliar with the saga, click here. She claims she’s not involved…
