POLICE STATE Landscapers and lawyers. Cops and candle makers. Reporters and corn vendors. Undocumented immigrants and ordinary schmucks. You. What does everyone (The Bird included) have to fear in Maricopa County? Trumped-up charges. Getting arrested and having to cool your heels in stir. Bogus allegations costing thousands of dollars in…
MCSA’s Randy Parraz and Raquel Teran address reporters after the BOS lockout. It was a Magic Mountain-size roller coaster ride at the Board of Supervisors today, with the Maricopa Citizens for Safety and Accountability taking over the meeting from Supervisor and acting Chairman Max Wilson, and walking out when it…
By Stephen Lemons Supes ready to rip up Guadalupe contract today. Goddard sues Phoenix Country Club over gender discrimination. U.S. Citizen claims MCSO asked her for green card because of car’s Canadian flag. The Phoenix cop who collapsed after that charity boxing match is dead. Sheriff hopeful Dan Saban promises…
The kids ain’t the only ones who need to lay off the Snickers, Joe. While Democrat and sheriff’s office candidate Dan Saban was laying out a plan today to put more deputies on patrol and reduce response times from the 16 minutes it sometimes takes for the MCSO to get…
The anti-Arpaio protest at the Well Fargo building, that pricey pad Joe’s upper echelon calls home, continues into its third week amid a virtual media blackout. Well, save for in this blog and in the current Bird column. Last week there was reportedly a similar demonstration at a Wells Fargo…
By Stephen Lemons Stock market plummets. E.J. Montini bops Arpaio on unconstitutional raids. Arizona Secretary of State Jan Brewer says election day turnout could hit 80 percent. Car dealer blames employer sanctions law for closure. Phoenix police officer collapses following boxing match. D-Backs topple Giants. UA’s Coach Olson under investigation…
Dan Saban making his case before a Sun City crowd in August. So I’m watching a repeat of Friday’s KAET Horizon roundtable of local journos — mainly because I’d heard that they’d mentioned last week’s Joe Arpaio fake poll controversy (reported in this blog with the help of you the…
The Wing-nut from Wasilla, reporting as unfit for duty. Anyone who hasn’t watched the Sarah Palin interviews by ABC News’ Charlie Gibson should log onto YouTube or the ABC News web site and tremble in fear. That’s what I did after missing the initial broadcasts, as I was out both…
By Stephen Lemons Arizona’s in a recession, and business moves to Mexico due to employer sanctions law. Still think it was a good idea? UNLV Rebs surprise Sun Devils in overtime. Cards devour Dolphins. D-Backs done in by Reds. Bill Heard Chevrolet shuttered. Bomb explodes at Scottsdale restaurant Dickie’s Dogs…
The gang was all there, and then some, to hear Ventura speak in Mesa. You’ll have to await next week’s Bird column for a full accounting of Jesse Ventura’s appearance at the Mesa Convention Center Thursday night. As you can see from the photo above, the Peter Boyle-lookalike packed the…
Since I reported yesterday on the fact that Sheriff Joe was losing his own fake poll on his own Web site, all kinds of shenanigans have been goin’ down at the loony lawdog’s campaign site sheriffjoe.org. First they take the poll down, then they put it back up. And now…
By Stephen Lemons Arpaio probed by three federal agencies. Jesse “The Bonehead” Ventura spews 9/11 nuttiness at memorial. Teacher quits over porn projection. Fire marshal resigns over lap dance flap. Woman accused of stabbing boyfriend 27 times gabs on-air, proclaims innocence. Under Sarah Palin, rape victims paid for own exam…
Hey, you know it’s bad when nearly 70 percent of those responding to an online poll on your own reelection site say they’re not going to vote for you. That’s the case with Nickel Bag Joe Arpaio, who has a poll on his campaign site sheriffjoe.org,*** which asks the question,…
By Stephen Lemons First corn vendors, then landscapers, now Arpaio goes after candle makers. Real tough guy, our sheriff. Sgt. Lovejoy sues Joe over doggie demise. ICE to audit Arpaio over 287g agreement. (Finally.) McCain and Obama commemorate 9/11. Tempe brings back “Healing Field” of flags. High school teacher projects…
FORTRESS ARPAIO More like Don Quixote than César Chávez, pro-immigrant activist Salvador Reza is laying siege to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s downtown Phoenix fortress. This plumed pecker means the Wells Fargo building at 100 West Washington Street, where Nickel Bag Joe surveys his kingdom from his upscale digs, high above us…
What’s fair for John Edwards should also be fair for Sarah Palin… Glenn Beck just can’t leave poor ol’ John Edwards alone. Seems like every time I tune into the wing-nut lip-flapper, he’s pummeling the Edwards stallion like the story of the pol’s infidelity broke yesterday, bewailing how the MSM…
By Stephen Lemons Obama campaign opens Arizona digs. The ACLU’s Dan Pochoda beats bogus trespass charge. (Congrats, Dan!) Backyard wrestling ring busted by po-po. Speed camera van driver popped for DUI. Giants crush D-Backs. Mercury not swift enough for Shock. SNL’s Franken wins Minnesota Senate primary. Let the Al Franken…
Dennis Gilman’s latest on the protests at Wells Fargo… The anti-Arpaio protests at the Wells Fargo bank building in downtown Phoenix are in their second week, and so much is happening on a daily basis that I think the organizers of the action should have their own blog just to…
By Stephen Lemons Geezer McCain’s got more bounce than Obama? That’ll teach the whippersnapper. “Reformer” Sarah Palin billed Alaska for time spent at home. (It’s the hypocrisy, stupid.) McCain speech heckler was a Phoenix gal. (You go, girl.) Pro-immigrant firebrand Isabel Garcia cleared in Arpaio pinata controversy. Phoenix Mercury best…
By Stephen Lemons Nik Richie posts john names (he says) in Desert Divas bust. You won’t believe who’s listed. (Update: Richie’s taken them down. Was the story bogus, Nik?) Old Man McCain takes lead over Obama in new poll. (Yikes!) Arizona tax revenues in the dumps. Cards clobber the 49ers…
C’mon, Jesse, rock the boa, for old times’ sake… Do the reporters who pen the Political Insider column for the Arizona Republic know how to use Google? Does their editor? I wonder this after reading this Sunday’s edition of the Insider. The column talks up the fact that the former…
More effective than a bucketful of Sominex… A colossal yawn. That’s what a CSPAN cameraman caught one of the GOP delegates in the middle of last night during John McCain’s speech, and it pretty much summed up my experience watching it. A real snoozer. I could barely keep from flipping…
