I knew Gilbert massacre shooter J.T. Ready was from Polk County, Florida, and I had contacted some relatives of his over the weekend seeking comment. (No luck, alas.) But until today, I could find no mention of him in his hometown newspaper, The Ledger, located in Lakeland, Florida.Thankfully, Ledger reporter…

Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready could be quite lucid and genial. Sometimes, he came off as an autodidact, widely read if not highly educated. That impression would last only so long, however. Inevitably, he would make some anti-Semitic or racist comment, or go off on some related tangent involving eugenics or the supposed superiority…

Why is it that some lies are so difficult to rebut? One reason: eviscerating untruths is made infinitely harder when the media is complicit in perpetuating them.For many years, I’ve written about the ties between ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce (who believes it’s the Legislature’s “duty” to “reimburse” him $260,000…

J.T. Ready, Arizona’s most prominent neo-Nazi and the one-time political protege of recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce, reportedly is dead by his own hand in what’s described as a multiple murder-suicide in Gilbert that left four others slain, including a 2-year- old. A one-time member of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement,…

Multiple sources at the state Legislature are informing me that former state Senate President Russell Pearce’s $260,000 “reimbursement” will be added as an amendment to Senate Bill 1449, which I’m told will be in Conference Committee today at 4 p.m. in the State Senate Building.The bill could go to both…

The Capitol Times’ Luigi del Puerto is reporting that the plot to cut a $260,000 check to recalled, disgraced former state Senate President Russell Pearce remains alive at the state Legislature.I’ve heard the votes are not there in the Senate, but, hell, ya never know. Also, it’s not in the budget,…

Eat your heart out, Russ, if you can stand the taste of coalHere’s an incredibly positive new video from the camp of entrepreneur Bob Worsley, candidate for state Senate in Legislative District 25, who is destined to triumph over Mesa’s hillbilly hatemonger, recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce.Love the theme…

Gilman televises the revolution, or part of it…Lordy, I’ve had enough of neo-Nazi hugger, 12-point loser, and ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce’s gorilla mug. No doubt many of you have as well. But until the wingnuts and Tea Party idgits in this state run screaming at the sight of him,…

“The Governor has not proposed any such reimbursement, and it is not currently in the budget that she and legislative leaders have agreed upon.”Of course, that’s not a commitment to oppose it, should an amendment be tacked on.In any case, Pearce clearly believes he deserves the cash. Last night, Pearce was…

Remember when I informed you of the trial balloon being floated by toadies of recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce, lickspittles who long to give their lord and master more than $260,000 of taxpayer funds because he had to endure a recall election, one he lost by a humiliating 12…

While recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce was away in D.C. (likely on Judicial Watch’s dime) preparing for his big day before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and, later, to hear oral arguments on Senate Bill 1070 before the U.S. Supreme Court, a different court here in Sand Land was…

There’s one general conclusion I have after reading and re-reading the transcript of Wednesday’s oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court over Senate Bill 1070: Latinos and their allies cannot rely on the federal government or the courts for a long term solution to the overt bigotry that spawned SB…

It’s like 2010 all over again, with the Phoenix-based civil rights group Puente leading an anti-SB 1070 protest with a “march route [that] exposes collaborators in Arpaio’s human rights crisis.”As you can see on the map, the demonstration begins at 3 p.m. at Phoenix’s Civic Space Park, 424 North Central…

Pearce confronts DREAM Act students in 2010I’ll have more to say soon about recalled former state Senate President Russell Pearce’s Tuesday appearance at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Senate Bill 1070. There was some good stuff in the nearly two hour donnybrook, especially from U.S. Senator from Illinois…

File this one under “outrage du jour”: Dennis Wilenchik, the former special prosecutor whose runaway investigation of New Times resulted in the wrongful arrests of Village Voice Media Editor Michael Lacey and VVM CEO Jim Larkin, has been appointed by Governor Jan Brewer to sit on Arizona’s Real Estate Advisory…

Of all the trial balloons in the history of politics, this one most deserves to be shot down, stomped, incinerated, and spat on, with the remains dumped in the nearest landfill to rot.Seems there’s a cadre of hardcore Russell Pearce-worshippers in the state legislature that want to give the recalled…

Just when I thought it couldn’t get any better than screw-loose GOP state Senator Sylvia Allen suddenly finding the Navajo County Board of Supervisors a more attractive sphere of influence than the lege’s upper house, along comes this beautiful news from a recent edition of the Capitol Times’ Yellow Sheet.Dam…

This week Attorney General Tom Horne paid a visit to recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce’s Ban Amnesty Now radio show, where he regaled Pearce’s tens of listeners with his heroic legal work of late, despite Pearce’s incessant efforts to turn the conversation back to his ridiculous “buy-cott” (read, “boycott”)…