Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery took it on the chin Monday, as about 120 demonstrators protesting Monty’s discriminatory policies toward undocumented workers marched more than 3.5 miles from Steele Indian School Park to Montgomery’s offices in the county administration building in downtown Phoenix. See also: -Bill Montgomery Blasted By Hispanic…
Here’s yet another sign worshippers at the font of all things Sheriff Joe know that their boy is doomed by the current recall effort: Their willingness to resort to futile, unconstitutional trickery to keep Arpaio’s career on life support. See also: -Russell Pearce-Inspired Recall Bill Unconstitutional, Say Experts -In the…
The pressure is building on Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery to end his apartheid policies when it comes to the over-charging of undocumented workers, resulting in moms and dads being held nonbondable under Prop 100 and ultimately deported. See also: -Bill Montgomery and ICE, Partners in Crime, To Be Protested…
Rebecca Jimenez’s campaign video, produced by Dennis Gilman Sheriff Joe Arpaio may have one foot in the grave (we hope) due to his “broken arm,” but one of his enemies from not too long ago is alive and well and running for mayor of the unique little town of Guadalupe…
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery and his partners at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will feel the heat of Latino and pro-immigrant rage this Monday when the Phoenix human rights group Puente spearheads a march demanding an end to the deportations of individuals whose only real “crime” is working for…
This is what stands for progress in Arizona: The mere fact that Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery feels the need to rationalize the way his office prosecutes undocumented workers, hitting them with multiple forgery counts, thus ensuring that they will be denied bond and eventually deported. Disgraced, disbarred ex-County Attorney…
It’s not every day that an elected law enforcement official, who has sworn an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States, confesses that he or she is enforcing an unconstitutional law. See also: -The MCAO Follows ICE’s Blueprint for Separating Immigrant Families Yet, that’s just what Maricopa County…
With Sheriff Joe Arpaio still out of commission from his “broken arm,” and with Respect Arizona’s announcement today that they have 120,000 valid signatures demanding his recall, Arpaio’s best career move at this point would be to resign from office for health reasons. See also: -Why Sheriff Joe Actually Is…
Suffer the little children, and forbid them not to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 19:14 Watching Dennis Gilman’s new video of Wednesday’s protest against Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery’s systemic over-charging of undocumented workers, one is struck not only with the injustice of…
The cattle call began a little after 8:30 a.m. Wednesday for the unfortunates arrested in the MCSO’s Sportex Apparel raid in Tempe the first week of February. See also: -Bill Montgomery Is No Immigration Moderate -Bill Montgomery Fails to Convict an Innocent Man -S.A.N.E. Immigration Initiative Undercut by Bill Montgomery’s…
If you’re political-sleaze maestro Constantin Querard, the Arizona Legislature practically is your own personal Downton Abbey. Querard’s team of taxpayer-funded butlers, bootblacks, and maids is extensive — at least 20, by his own claim — in both the upper and lower chamber. On February 21, before the state House Reform…
The sky is falling, the sky is falling! Wanna stop the sky from falling? Then give and give generously to Arizona Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema’s re-election fund. Yep, that’s the appeal from Sinema as the U.S. government heads straight for sequestration and tens of thousands of Arizona jobs supposedly face the…
If you’re political sleaze maestro Constantin Querard, the Arizona Legislature is practically your own personal Downton Abbey. Querard’s team of taxpayer-funded butlers, bootblacks, and maids is extensive — at least 20, by his own claim — in the both the upper and lower chambers. And on February 21, before the…
Arizona prisons are notorious reservoirs of criminal behavior, and apparently that’s just the staff. No joke. Arizona Department of Corrections Director Charles Ryan admits as much in a recent post to his “Director’s Desk” blog, wherein he states that “in the past four and a half years, there have been…
Willems pumps up the alter kockers with his doomsday scenario, talk of spies in the other camp, and a plan to “block” voters from signing the recall petition As promised in this week’s column, above is the audio of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s campaign guru Chad Willems speaking to the pro-Joe…
Gilman’s latest rakes Nowakowski over the coals for his parley with El Diablo Which side are you on? The recall effort is underway, and even Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s campaign guru Chad Willems has acknowledged that if the recall committee Respect Arizona scores the needed signatures for the ballot, then, “Joe…
My general rule when it comes to drinking is that I do mine at home. Life is so much simpler that way. It’s a bit of wisdom two of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s boys in beige might profit from: MCSO Lieutenant Aaron Brown and sex crimes detective Stephen Palmer, both of…
One of the many lessons of the 2011 recall of former state Senate President Russell Pearce is that Arizona’s reporters, pundits, and TV know-it-alls are far from omniscient. In fact, they have a learning curve as long as the coastline of Africa. Well, at least most of them. Just as…
The Maricopa County Attorney’s Office and Arizona-based attorneys for United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement are engaged in a partnership to ensure the deportation of undocumented aliens who otherwise would benefit from President Obama’s proposed comprehensive immigration reform, despite statements from both agencies to the contrary. As I documented in…
Sounds like forgery is rampant in Tempe. Will Bill Montgomery respond? Are all truly equal before the law? When it comes to forgery in Maricopa County, the answer is a decided, “Hell, no.” Yesterday, the Tempe Police Department issued statistics showing that last year they had confiscated “1,761 fictitiously used…
The most emotional day of Rafael Lavallade Gonzalez’s recent weeklong trial in Maricopa County Superior Court occurred when Gonzalez took the stand in his own defense. Thin and frail, with a lion’s mane of white hair and dark-rimmed glasses, Gonzalez, a 70-year-old diabetic, stood charged with four counts related to…
Despite protests and calls for him to apologize, Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski defended himself on Tuesday for brokering a meeting between scores of Latino pastors and Sheriff Joe Arpaio just days before Arpaio’s anti-immigrant raid on a Tempe apparel company, his 71st such operation to date. See also: -Joe…
