The new issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report is out, and it’s chocked full of more racist Sand Land nuts than a John Birch Society convention. The mag highlights several players in the local nativist movement, profiles notorious neo-Nazi and alleged murderer Sean Gaines, and pays a…
I’ll be honest, I would have appreciated a more critical appraisal of Sheriff Joe’s reign in Maricopa County than the one Ted Robbins offers today on NPR, “`America’s Toughest Sheriff’ Takes on Immigration.” In the segment, Robbins visits Tent City, but he never mentions those who have died in Sheriff…
Anti-immigrant activist Rick Galeener, accused of making water in public in front of a mother and her two-year-old kid. Virulent racist and noted Yosemite Sam impersonator “Buffalo” Rick Galeener got popped today for allegedly peeing into a plastic bottle nearby the Macehualli Work Center, where he and fellow members of…
Former MCSO honcho Tom Bearup with his wife Adele, from Brendan Joel Kelley’s feature on him in the Anchorage Press. From the mythical land of grizzly bears and sockeye salmon comes this gripping portrait of former Arpaio henchman turned Arpaio foe Tom Bearup, penned by ex-New Times writer Brendan Joel…
EVIL WEED How does an administration as unhinged as Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s flourish? One reason is the acquiescence of other elected officials. Their unwillingness to question the sheriff allows his noxious weed to thrive in Maricopa County’s sandbox. Take the MCSO’s Honduras project, which has cost the county at least…
The two Dems scrappin’ to take on Candy: Gerald Richard (left) and Tim Nelson (right). As I mentioned briefly in this week’s Bird column, I made the spring meeting of the Maricopa County Dems this past Saturday, mainly because I wanted to size up the two guys looking to replace…
Like a slow drip-drip-drip, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office continues to release requested documents in the Honduran scandal, and I’ll share them with you whenever I can. Yesterday, MCSO flack Paul Chagolla let go of some correspondence between Sheriff Joe and some Honduran muck-a-mucks, a couple of honorary sheepskins, and…
What did the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors know about the MCSO’s Honduras project and when did they know it? That’s still an open question as the BOS’s flack Deanne Poulos released documents Friday revealing the times that aid to Honduras was discussed before the Board of Supervisors. The first,…
Sheriff Joe can always count on ultra-conservative KTAR lip-flapper Darrell Ankarlo to wipe Arpaio’s fanny clean with his kisser, even when Joe’s been caught with his hand in the RICO cookie jar, as has been the case with the revelation of Arpaio’s Chief Deputy David Hendershott’s Honduran project. I heard…
The Guv gives Sheriff Joe, David Hendershott and members of their Honduran posse some love. (Click on pic for a slightly larger version.) Talk about a rogues gallery! Here’s Gov. Napolitano in her June 2007 photo op with Sheriff Joe, Chief Deputy David Hendershott and members of the Honduran National…
JABBA’S JUNKETEERS It’s a story “you’ll see only on 12 News,” crowed KPNX-TV anchor Mark Curtis, whose caterpillar mustache rivals that of Will Ferrell’s titular character in Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy. Curtis was introducing a recent piece by 12 News reporter Joe Dana about Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s deputies…
I’m on the run, but I’ve just heard that KTAR has reported that Sheriff Joe’s suspending his Chief Deputy David Hendershott’s pet Honduran project — one that’s been financed by RICO funds to the tune of about $32K. According to KTAR’s Bob McClay, Arpaio told KTAR that, “As far as…
Paid for by your RICO dollars: Chief Deputy David Hendershott (left), the unchecked power behind Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s throne, in Honduras with Bay Islands Police Commissario Julio Benitez; retired MCSO Deputy Roger Marshall; and Captain Jim Miller. Remember my revelation last month that the upper echelon of the Maricopa County…
Sen. John McCain’s “Oh!” face. Supposedly, the ladies love it… Am I the only one who’s found Sen. John McCain’s denial of an improper relationship with Washington lobbyist Vicki Iseman to be as insincere as a late-night TV ad for a sex chat service? Right-wing radio, after skewering McCain for…
Who will Wilenchik blame the Lacey-Larkin arrests on next? Mr. Green Jeans? His manservant Cato? Col. Mustard in the kitchen with a wrench? In case you missed it, disgraced ex-special prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik has a little op-ed in the Arizona Republic today. In it, he woodenly attempts to rationalize his…
New Times submitted a formal Notice of Claim on Wednesday, February 20, against the public officials responsible for a fiasco in October that saw the attempted trampling of the First Amendment rights of this newspaper and its readers, and culminated in the jailing of its founders, Michael Lacey and Jim…
The following is a consumer alert reported by my colleague Ray Stern, following up on features he wrote last year concerning the local co. LifeLock. LifeLock, the ethics-challenged, Tempe-based company featured in two investigative New Times articles last year, has been slammed with a federal lawsuit that aims to deliver…
J.T. Ready, 2nd from right, proud Republican and anti-Semite, at a neo-Nazi rally in Omaha, NE last year. I’ve lived in several states over the years, but AZ takes the proverbial cake when it comes to the casual, ho-hum acceptance of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and other dangerous political extremists as…
Courtney Bisbee’s supporters at the state capitol yesterday. Courtney’s mom Camille Tilley is in the center. The mothers of the disappeared. That’s the first thought that came to mind upon seeing the supporters of Courtney Bisbee on the lawn of the state capitol this Valentines Day. Though unlike those Argentine…
In a sign of United for a Sovereign America’s continued embrace of fanaticism and anti-immigrant extremism, U.S.A.’s Web site immigrationbuzz.com refers to iconic Arizona neo-Nazi Elton Hall as “Our Patriot,” and reports that his pelvis was broken in an accident Saturday near 25th Street and Bell Road in north Phoenix…
Elton Hall (left) at a neo-Nazi BBQ last year; note his pal’s affection for the neo-Nazi punk rock band Skrewdriver. Alter kocker anti-immigrant activist Elton Hall, 74, a persistent protester of the Macehualli Work Center and a fixture at other anti-immigrant protests, was struck and injured Saturday morning when two…
We fought the law, and we won. Again. Tuesday the Arizona Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s ruling, finding that the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office “wrongfully denied New Times access to public records,” sending the case back to superior court “for a further determination on the issue of attorney’s…
